AMD Opteron By Dan Gregoire, Halon Entertainment
Halon Entertainment specializes in digital content creation. The company includes former senior staff members of JAK Films, a production company founded...
Shoot Review: Reviewer: Tom Patrick McAuliffe
GlobeCaster is based on technology first developed in the late 1990s by the now-defunct company Play for its Trinity all-in-one video production system....
Edit Expertise: Test Drive: HP xw4400 By Jan Ozer
Intel and AMD have been spewing new CPU architectures at an alarming rate from hyper-threaded to multiprocessor to multiprocessor/hyper-threaded, and...
Adventures in Repurposing By Dan Ochiva
Last month, National Geographic Digital Motion (NGDM), the stock footage service of the geographic society's Digital Media division, announced that it...
Shoot Review: Roland Edirol R-09 Reviewer: Gary Eskow
Don't you like really cool things that take advantage of contemporary technology and deliver great bang for the buck with a minimal learning curve? Last month, we took a look at the Zaxcom TRX900. A terrific — if somewhat pricey — product, the TRX900 is a thoroughly professional product...
Edit Review: Apple MacBook Pro Reviewer: Jan Ozer
Say what you want about Mac vs. Windows or Adobe Premiere Pro vs. Apple Final Cut Pro, but if you have a pulse, new Apple hardware almost always sends it racing...
Edit Review: FutureVideo MC-20PRO Reviewer: Tom Patrick McAuliffe
When I'm in the edit suite cutting video or audio projects together, I want control. The more I have, the easier it is to realize my vision and get it done efficiently...
Robert Altman: Filmic HD By Michael Goldman
Director Robert Altman, now 81 and fresh off receiving an honorary Academy Award for years of filmmaking excellence, says his primary reason for suddenly...
Steve Mullen
In this installment, we will look at the exact role that codec choice plays in a sequence preset. We are going to confront one of most fundamental debates in working with HDV — should we edit it “natively” or by using an “intermediate” codec?...
IBC 2006 By Dan Ochiva
Ready for more? For many traveling to the International Broadcasters Convention (IBC), the annual Amsterdam, Netherlands-based show remains one of the...