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NAB 2007 

By D. W. Leitner, Jan Ozer, Dan Ochiva, and Jeff Sauer

This Year's NAB hosted 108,232 attendees from 141 countries around the world at the Las Vegas Convention Center between April 14 and April 19. With all...

NAB 2007 Pick Hit Awards 

By Trevor Boyer

Is there a Moore's Law equivalent for camcorders? Whatever it might be, NAB 2007 displayed its hypothetical fruits. We saw a working model of Red Digital...

Digital Acrobatics 

By Michael Goldman

At Sony Pictures Imageworks in Culver City, Calif., as work on Spider-Man 3 winds down, many of the key players behind the film’s visual effects extravaganza (just less than 1,000 shots) are finally starting to contemplate life without the spider...

Post NAB 2007: After All the Gifts Have Been Opened 

In the days following NAB, I wind up with the same mixed feelings I had as a child on Christmas night. This year was no different....

Beta Sight: Quantel Pablo  

By Dennis Ho, President and Founder, Digital Jungle

Digital Jungle Post Production is nearing its 16th anniversary, and in celebration, we've revolutionized our facility, adding a brand-new digital intermediate...

NAB 2007 Pick Hit Awards  

At NAB 2007, new digital cinema cameras ruled the show floor. Like everything else in the digital world, these high-res...

Step by Step: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 

By Ellen Wolff

Diseny's Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has been rightfully praised for dazzling character animation, but its CG cast isn't the only advanced animation...

Edit Expertise: Compose Your Own 

By Gary Eskow

Back in the day, entry into the stock music business required a sizable investment for composers and studio costs, office space, advertising, and other...

Edit Review: NewTek SpeedEdit  

Reviewer: Tom Patrick McAuliffe

Until recently, most NLE software applications have followed similar workflow protocols. Now a company that helped to invent this industry has come up...

Mark In 

Should your future production plans include video for the Web? The necessary high-speed connections will be there. According to recent Nielsen//NetRatings...