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Break Out 

By Cynthia Wisehart

Mobility was the trend at Siggraph this year, and not just at the production end of the pipeline. Two technology categories that have become increasingly...

Edit Review: Apple Final Cut Studio 2  

Reviewer: Jan Ozer

Apple Final Cut Studio 2 is like the proverbial elephant and the blind man your impression depends upon where you touch it. For this review, I'll touch...

Edit Review: Apple Motion 3 

Reviewer: Franklin McMahon

In new version 2, Apple Final Cut Studio is an extremely powerful, even intimidating suite of professional video production applications. The effects/ compositing/motion-graphics...

Edit Review: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended 

Reviewer: Franklin McMahon

Introduced just before NAB among a flurry of new product announcements that includes Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe's new version of Photoshop has been buried...

NAB 2007 

By D. W. Leitner, Jan Ozer, Dan Ochiva, and Jeff Sauer

This Year's NAB hosted 108,232 attendees from 141 countries around the world at the Las Vegas Convention Center between April 14 and April 19. With all...

NAB 2007 Pick Hit Awards 

By Trevor Boyer

Is there a Moore's Law equivalent for camcorders? Whatever it might be, NAB 2007 displayed its hypothetical fruits. We saw a working model of Red Digital...

Digital Acrobatics 

By Michael Goldman

At Sony Pictures Imageworks in Culver City, Calif., as work on Spider-Man 3 winds down, many of the key players behind the film’s visual effects extravaganza (just less than 1,000 shots) are finally starting to contemplate life without the spider...

Post NAB 2007: After All the Gifts Have Been Opened 

In the days following NAB, I wind up with the same mixed feelings I had as a child on Christmas night. This year was no different....

Mark In 

Should your future production plans include video for the Web? The necessary high-speed connections will be there. According to recent Nielsen//NetRatings...

Edit Expertise: Compose Your Own 

By Gary Eskow

Back in the day, entry into the stock music business required a sizable investment for composers and studio costs, office space, advertising, and other...