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Just to get you up to speed, let’s review. This article attempts to contrast and compare the video editing experience on an Apple MacBook Pro notebook computer and dual-processor, dual-core Mac Pro desktop. In the last installment, I detailed each computer’s specs, discussed the difference in screen size and disk capacity and the like...

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Panasonic announced it will begin deliveries this month of its new AJ-HPX3000, the industry’s first native 1080p one-piece camcorder to acquire mastering-quality high-definition video. ...

Shoot Expertise: First Look: XDCAM EX  

By D. W. Leitner

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Audio Podcast: MythBusters' DP Peter Heap  

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Test Drive: MacBook Pro vs. Mac Pro, Part 1 

By Jan Ozer

Although I’m more technology geek than journalist, I love a good scoop just as much as they do at The Washington Post or The New York Times. Sometimes, however, you pick a subject, do your research, and dog does, in fact, bite man and Goliath beats David in an early first-round knockout...

JVC GZ-HD7: World’s First 1920x1080 MPEG-2 Camcorder, Part 1 

By Steve Mullen

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Early Adopter  

By Michael Goldman

One the first Arriflex D-20 projects expected to hit the big screen is also the first movie ever produced, financed, and made in the nation of Jordan. GigaPix Studios (Chatsworth, Calif.) co-produced the Sundance-bound Captain Abu Raed, directed by Jordanian writer-director Amin Matalqa...

Wild Ride 

By Michael Goldman

When Sean Penn's long-held desire to make a movie of Jon Krakauer's novel about iconoclastic adventurer Chris McCandless finally came true, the question...

The Video Horizon 

By Tom Patrick McAuliffe

Look up in the sky. It's a spacecraft; it's an astronaut--it's a videographer? It's all three. As NASA continues to explore space and build the International...