Display Review: Panasonic BT-LH2600W Reviewer: Jeff Sauer
LCDs have displaced CRTs on a lot of desktops over the last several years, but less often in places where image and color quality decisions are made....
Vanguard Awards 2006 By Trevor Boyer
As high-definition video pushes into the mainstream of professional production, our annual Vanguard Awards reflect its progress. Last year, the Vanguards...
Saving South Park By Craig Erpelding
For years, Comedy Central's South Park has been produced at Los Angeles-based South Park Studios. Today, the production team uses an Autodesk Maya-integrated...
Steve Mullen
In the SD world, the high-quality audio option is stereo audio. While many HD productions continue to employ stereo, the norm is rapidly becoming 5.1 surround sound. Currently, there are several ways to create a 5.1 mix....
XDCAM on High Seas By Craig Erpelding
To discuss one of the most grueling early field applications of Sony’s XDCAM HD PDW-F350 system, HD Focus recently sat down with digital filmmaker Robin D. Berg, president of Berg Entertainment International (BEI), to discuss his team’s workflow using the camera to capture adventure sequences for the Outdoor Channel series, Speargun Hunter....
In the last installment, we looked at Sony’s implementation of CMOS technology, which it calls 3ClearVid. In its implementation, each CMOS element is rotated 45 degrees....
Multiply Your Options By Barry Braverman
It's no secret that today's shooter manages an ever-increasing glut of HD frame rates and resolutions....
By Michael Goldman
As he began preparations to make back-to-back films about the historic World War II battle for Iwo JimaFlags of our Fathers and the upcoming Letters from Iwo Jimadirector Clint Eastwood reports that he seriously investigated using high-definition cameras to make the movies. Eastwood had DP Tom Stern’s camera team and HD camera operator Liz Radley conduct a series of tests to compare footage from various HD camera systems with 35mm film footage....
KWTV Outfits New Skynews9 HD ENG Helicopter with Fujinon HDTV ENG-style Zoom Lens
Griffin Communications’ Oklahoma City television station News 9 KWTV recently acquired a new state-of-the-art Bell 407 helicopter equipped with Fujinon’s HA42x13.5BERD HDTV ENG-Style zoom lens...
HD Adventure Down Under By Craig Erpelding
The Discovery Channel is continuing to lead the way in producing high-end HD-based documentaries for broadcast with its Discovery HD Theater strategy of premiering high-end documentary broadcast fare...