desktop post: products

Edit Review: Autodesk Combustion 2008 

Review: Franklin McMahon

Autodesk Combustion is one of my favorite desktop compositing programs. In my experience, it's well built for realtime results, expertly using OpenGL to provide a fast and responsive creation environment...

Beta Sight: Autodesk Discreet-friendly Storage System  

By Phil Wortas, Director of IT, Creative Group

Driven by increasing demand for HD production for ESPN, we at Creative Group recently upgraded our storage infrastructure to keep up...

Edit Expertise: Test Drive: HP xw4600  

By Jan Ozer

The HP xw4600 workstation, configured with the new 3.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (quad-core) processor, hits a real sweet spot for Adobe and Sony video editing applications. For other digital content-creation tasks, performance depended upon both application and project type, but we'll get to that in a moment...

Edit Review: Autodesk 3ds Max 2008  

Reviewer: Franklin McMahon

Autodesk continues to advance the 3D program 3ds Max, now 3ds Max 2008. This new version focuses less on amazing new features and much more on performance and workflow. If you've used Max, you know the power was already there to do just about anything...

Workflow Evolution 

By Dan Daley

Tracy Bush, director of audio at game developer NCsoft in Austin, Texas, has a trick he uses to get game audio its due, bandwidth-wise, early in the developmental...

Vanguard Awards 2007 

By Trevor Boyer

Every year, as the days get shorter, Digital Content Producer's editors and contributors get together and compose a list of the year's most groundbreaking new products for video-production professionals...

Edit Review: Adobe Audition 3 

Reviewer: Gary Eskow

The wall continues to crumble. As we have discussed in the past, the terror that once accompanied the capitalization of audio-post tools has evaporated...

Dream Job: Eco Media 

By Kristinha M. Anding

Environmentalism has been receiving a lot of media attention recently, but Maria Erades is in it for the long haul...

Edit Review: Luxology modo 301  

Reviewer: Franklin McMahon

Many years ago when I worked in cable television, I was producing some graphics with the NewTek Video Toaster and rendering (out to a rack-mounted NTSC monitor, no less) an animation using the included LightWave 3D...

Mark In  

What if you could color control your video project to get just about any result you desire — even while pulling off specialized work such as tracking, which would allow you to replace parts of an image with something entirely different just like a Hollywood feature...