High (def) art

Cynthia Wisehart, Editorial Director

Bill Viola makes the kind of video that is the exact opposite of and often the antidote to the current conventions of video fashion. While the video language...

A Room with a View

By Ellen Wolff

The first thing you see is light pouring through an open door. This light marks the entrance to the new HD video installation Going Forth By Day, created by American artist Bill Viola for the Deutsche Guggenheim Museum in Berlin.

What's New at Infocomm 2002?

By Peter H. Putman, CTS

The location is familiar, the dates are the same, but this year's Infocomm will be markedly different. Infocomm 2002, ICIA's annual extravaganza of education and product demos, will run from June 12-14 in Las Vegas......

Location Wireless

By Philip De Lancie

Once exotic and remarkable, wireless audio has long been accepted into the standard toolbox of audio professionals. Used properly, today's wireless setups offer freedom and mobility while maintaining the fidelity of the captured sound.

The Freelancer's Survival Guide

By Bill Miller

My name is Bill Miller. I am 59 years old and I live in a suburb of Boston. I'm a Migrant Video Worker and have been for most of my 40 years in this profession. And I'm proud of it......

Products

Panasonic AJ-FRC27, Chyron Lyric for Avid AVX, Apple Cinema HD Display, Artbeats HD Collections, Brick House Video VTB-1D, and more....

Rock the kiosk

By Trevor Boyer

Retail chain stores with regularly changing video content have long been looking for ways to eliminate the human errors of their managers and other employees....

Spice up your layover

Trevor Boyer

Victor Alvarez wanted to increase the time patrons were spending in Andale, the restaurant and bar he manages in San Francisco Airport's international...

Ink at eleven

Ann Muder

You probably wouldn't expect to find a TV camera at a newspaper. But in Canada, 15 newspaper facilities now have remote-controlled television studios...

The Q generation

By Bob Turner

In the past, Quantel has been thought of as the Rolls-Royce of the post-production marketplace offering excellent quality, but also perceived as arrogant...

Nonlinear web authoring

By Frank McMahon

Getting video and multimedia content to the Web has always been a multistep process that usually involves several software packages. You shoot the video...

Making waves

By Gary Eskow

Over the last six months this column has focused on the democratic revolution that is taking place in the audio post industry. Digital audio workstations...

1 Apple Dual-1GHz Power Mac G4

BY FRANK McMAHON

Apple is on a roll with a new OS and a spankin' new machine, the dual-1GHz Power Mac G4. With features such as DVD recording and GeForce graphics, the...

2 Adobe After Effects 5.5

BY S. D. KATZ

After Effects 5.5, which began shipping in January, completes the effort to move this product into the area of dimensional design that started with version...

3 Discreet Combustion 2

BY FRANK McMAHON

Combustion 2 is the latest effort from Discreet to put the power of high-end compositing into the hands of desktop media artists. It allows resolution-independent...

4 Animation:Master 9.0

BY S. D. KATZ

Somewhere in a converted church in Portland, Ore., Martin Hash and his band of code writers are developing one of animation's most interesting products,...

Emotional appeal

By Cody Holt

Dear Mom and Dad, Every 15 minutes someone dies as the result of an alcohol-related collision. Today, I died, and I never got the chance to tell you All...

Riding the corporate stream

By Stephen Porter

Over the last decade, Joan Dollard-Spooner has seen her job at Ernst & Young go through a dramatic evolution. Ten years ago as a video producer, she was...

Daring but elusive

Very nice article on Joel Soler (The daring documentarian, February 2002, page 104). After you got us hooked, why didn't you tell us where to see, rent,...