Off Screen 

By Cynthia Wisehart

Even as video rectangles proliferate across the vast Internet, in the more finite space of real life, video sometimes breaks free of the linear screen....

Vanguard Awards 2008 

By Trevor Boyer

When they consider the tools they use daily, professional video producers notice that their software tends to get more expansive and more complicated...

Distribute Expertise: Projection Roundtable  

By Jay Ankeney

For this year's survey of the projection industry, I turned to experts from 12 companies that routinely communicate important announcements to the industry...

Q&A with Cinematographer Dan Parsons 

By Craig Erpelding

Cinematographer Dan Parsons recently shot five shorts for the Global Short Film Network (GSFN): If God Had Wanted Us to Fly He Would Have Given Us Wings,...

Better Production Ideas 

By Dan Ochiva

It's that time of the year again when companies begin flooding the airwaves with items designed to draw out your credit card for holiday spending. While...

Business Intelligence: The Real Cost of Physical Media Distribution 

By Tony LaPolito, Vice President of Marketing, Signiant

At media and entertainment businesses, I often find myself walking through hallways and squeezing past boxes of blank video tapes. And when I do this,...

The Distribution Beat 

By Eric Melin

The Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) has a goal: to one day offer its users every movie and TV show in the database in its entirety. In addition to...

Skillset 

Avid Advanced Editing Tips & Techniques Nov. 10-12 and Nov. 17-19 Hollywood, $1,195 edu.moviola.com Designed for experienced Avid Media Composer, Xpress...

China Rising  

By S. D. Katz

The revenue potential of 1.3 billion prospective moviegoers gets any studio exec's pulse going and Western entertainment companies have been trying to...

Experimental Distribution 

By Eric Melin

At South by Southwest (SXSW) this year, there was an interesting dichotomy happening. Not only did the interactive panels outnumber the film-oriented ones by about three to one, but talk of digital distribution ...