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Mark In 

Follow the money is a term familiar to anyone reading detective novels. It won't come as much of a surprise that today the money is going online. According...

Beta Sight: Avid Media Composer 2.6.3  

By Sean Albertson
Fat Free Film

While working on a short-lived 2005 TV series called E-Ring, I invested in an Avid Xpress Pro system to have on my laptop. My plan was to carry a 250GB...

Editor's Notes 

By Cynthia Wisehart

Between last year's NAB and now, Intel has gone through one of its most productive periods in history, delivering the new Core 2 Duo chip and the new...

Step by Step: 300  

By Ellen Wolff

When Director Zack Snyder took on Warner Bros.' movie version of the graphic novel 300, he used wall-to-wall visual effects to create the film equivalent...

NAB 2007 

It's that time of year again time to check out new gear. The NAB show will draw 100,000 attendees to Las Vegas from April 14 to 19, and from cameramen...

Edit Review: Apple Shake 4.1 

Reviewer: Franklin McMahon

When a piece of software drops in price from $2,999 to $499, it’s big news. What’s the catch? ...

Strange Workflow 

By Craig Erpelding

Mike Belmont (pseudonym M dot Strange) used his self-invented process to create the fully animated Sundance feature, We Are the Strange. Belmont wrote,...

Test Drive: HP xw8400 

By Jan Ozer

There are (at least) two reasons to buy a really powerful multi-core computer: to accelerate the performance of one application, and to allow you to work...

Painterly Rotoscope 

By Michael Goldman

On his ultra low-budget Sundance feature, Year of the Fish, David Kaplan used rotoscoping techniques over live-action imagery shot with a Sony DSR-PD170...

Broadcast Pix Delivers Professional TV Production for Baptist Temple of Kansas City 

Baptist Temple of Kansas City has installed a Broadcast Pix 2000 switcher to streamline its video production workflow and improve the image quality for its broadcast television projects...