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Step by Step: Anamorph  

By Ellen Wolff

Visual effects can be crucial in depicting a story's key idea, and IFC Films' Anamorph is a case in point...

NAB 2008 Update 

By Jan Ozer

Welcome to the pre-NAB roundup, where I'll relay what I know about the products that video-editing and related companies will demonstrate at the 2008...

Edit Review: Frontier Design Group AlphaTrack and PreSonus FaderPort  

Reviewer: Gary Eskow

The revolutionary aspect of the emergence, rise, and eventual domination of the digital audio work station is hard to exaggerate. From the days of Frank,...

Distribute Review: Telestream Episode Pro 4.4.1  

Reviewer: Franklin McMahon

Franklin McMahon reviews the Telestream Episode Pro 4.4.1, an update which offers encoding for numerous parameters and non-standard formats....

Audio Podcast: Cutting Iron Man in HD 

Editor Dan Lebental, A.C.E., recently chatted with millimeter about his recent work cutting the newest entry into the superhero feature-film sweepstakes—Marvel’s Iron Man...

Shoot Review: Sony PCM-D50  

Reviewer: Gary Eskow

Have you been hanging onto that old handheld stereo cassette player/recorder you used in the late 1980s to conduct interviews, just in case? If so, toss...

Edit Review: AJA Video Systems Io HD  

Reviewer: D. W. Leitner

Mention video I/O for the Mac, and chances are Kona card will enter the conversation even among production people who know little about Mac-based editing...

Rough Ride 

By Bill Miller

Their names are Tuffy, Turnbuckle, Double-D, and G-Rod. These aren't the bulls of the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) ...

Edit Expertise: Storage Shootout 

By Dan Ochiva

Solid-state storage drives (SSD) are generating a lot of noise as the putative next big thing, but spinning-hard-drive storage isn't going away any time...

Edit Review: iZotope RX 

Reviewer: Gary Eskow

During the post process, how often do you find problems with audio captured in the field? Frequently particularly if you're using the microphone that...