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Video Bellwethers 

Springtime for the broadcast and professional video worlds means only one thing: Another trip to Las Vegas to check out the manufacturers' latest technological...

Step by Step: 300  

By Ellen Wolff

When Director Zack Snyder took on Warner Bros.' movie version of the graphic novel 300, he used wall-to-wall visual effects to create the film equivalent...

Beta Sight: Avid Media Composer 2.6.3  

By Sean Albertson
Fat Free Film

While working on a short-lived 2005 TV series called E-Ring, I invested in an Avid Xpress Pro system to have on my laptop. My plan was to carry a 250GB...

Edit Review: Red Giant Magic Bullet Colorista  

Reviewer: S.D. Katz

A quick look at Magic Bullet Colorista, Red Giant Software's new color correction tool, may leave some people scratching their heads. Don't most NLEs...

Mark In 

Follow the money is a term familiar to anyone reading detective novels. It won't come as much of a surprise that today the money is going online. According...

Editor's Notes 

By Cynthia Wisehart

Between last year's NAB and now, Intel has gone through one of its most productive periods in history, delivering the new Core 2 Duo chip and the new...

NAB 2007 

It's that time of year again time to check out new gear. The NAB show will draw 100,000 attendees to Las Vegas from April 14 to 19, and from cameramen...

Edit Review: Apple Shake 4.1 

Reviewer: Franklin McMahon

When a piece of software drops in price from $2,999 to $499, it’s big news. What’s the catch? ...

Strange Workflow 

By Craig Erpelding

Mike Belmont (pseudonym M dot Strange) used his self-invented process to create the fully animated Sundance feature, We Are the Strange. Belmont wrote,...

Painterly Rotoscope 

By Michael Goldman

On his ultra low-budget Sundance feature, Year of the Fish, David Kaplan used rotoscoping techniques over live-action imagery shot with a Sony DSR-PD170...