Field Testing the Panasonic AG-HPX500 By Craig Erpelding
As previously reported and discussed by Panasonic at its NAB presentation this year, the company has been aggressively promoting the use of its P2 solid state memory cards and camcorders...
JVC Professional Products Company has announced an agreement with Scripps Television Station Group to provide ProHD cameras and accessories as part of Scripps’ plan to upgrade all of its television stations to HD. ?...
HDV Camcorders and Film Lens Adapters By Steve Mullen
Digital Content producer looks at the new film lens adapter option for JVC ProHD camcorders: the JVC HZ-CA13U. ...
Fade to Black: Mat Beck, Director/Visual Effects Supervisor By Michael Goldman
Mat Beck calls the opportunity to direct last month’s “Prototype” episode of the TV drama Smallville a logicalif uncommonevolution for a visual effects veteran....
Cosmic Creation By Trevor Boyer
How do you depict a phenomenon that absorbs and distorts every photon of light that comes near it? That would turn out to be the easy part, as the Denver...
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...
Video Empowerment By Kristinha M. Anding
Mimi Pickering knows what it's like to be given a chance. The documentarian got her first taste of filmmaking in the late 1960s at Appalshop, the multi-disciplinary...
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...
Dream Job: Keystone State By Kristinha M. Anding
To Margaret Chew Barringer a published poet and videographer and the founder and chairwoman of Narbeth, Penn.-based nonprofit American Insight Pennsylvania's...