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Hope's Approach
By Michael Goldman
To efficiently produce a non-profit, eight-minute, HD art film promoting a message of peace, called Hope, filmmakers at Luna Media, San Francisco, decided...
HD Focus
An archive of desktop post articles and other desktop post related news items that are more in depth, from millimeter magazine online....
Accelerating HD for Idol
An archive of desktop post articles and other desktop post related news items that are more in depth, from millimeter magazine online....
Step by Step: Extreme Decks
By Ellen Wolff
Matte World Digital, Novato, Calif., is well-known for creating synthetic environments, amassing a long credit list that includes Cats & Dogs, The Last...
Tools for FX and DI
By Robert Nederhorst, Digital Domain
By Michael Cioni, PlasterCITY Digital Post
Iridas: Making Effects Work Quick and Easy to Check Back in 2000, you couldn't find an app to do any type of professional, uncompressed frame playback...
Making Sahara Glow
By Michael Goldman
Paramount's Sahara, directed by Breck Eisner and starring Matthew McConaughey, is an old-fashioned adventure thriller in which heroic characters, lost and desperate under a brutal desert sun, manage to maintain ...
Is Realtime Real? Part 2
By S. D. Katz
A movie and a game from the same title are like Siamese twins. They may share some vital organs, but they're still two distinct personalities...
Compositing Choreography
By Michael Goldman
When Steele Inc., Santa Monica, Calif., took the job of filling a Mexican soccer stadium with 40,000 screaming fans for a Spanish-language :30 spot promoting...
The iPOD and HD
By S. D. Katz
Here's a stunt that sums up desktop video in 2005. Blackmagic Design, the I/O card manufacturer that's setting the bar in price/performance, was looking...
Breaking the Comfort Zone
By Michael Goldman
Marvin Rush points with pride to twin Apple Cinema HD Display monitors ablaze with colorful imagery from a scene he's directing for an upcoming episode of Star Trek: Enterprise. Rush, a longtime Star Trek franchise veteran, has served as the show's DP since its inception four years ago. Today, however, he's directing an episode titled “Through the Mirror Darkly, Part 2” while his A camera operator, Doug Knapp, takes over his DP duties....