Workflow Evolution

By Dan Daley

Tracy Bush, director of audio at game developer NCsoft in Austin, Texas, has a trick he uses to get game audio its due, bandwidth-wise, early in the developmental...

Vanguard Awards 2007

By Trevor Boyer

Every year, as the days get shorter, Digital Content Producer's editors and contributors get together and compose a list of the year's most groundbreaking new products for video-production professionals...

Broadcast Thyself

By Cynthia Wisehart

No Avid at NAB. Others have made that same move before, although none so central to the modern NAB landscape as Avid...

Shoot Review: Korg MR-1

Reviewer: Gary Eskow

Whether you're a videographer working on a budget and needing to shoot his or her own audio in the field, or a dedicated audio specialist tasked with acquiring the highest-quality field audio possible, part of your job is to assess the tools being brought to market...

Shoot Tools: Panasonic

By Dan Ochiva

The AVCHD format spec, released last year, provides a way to record H.264-based HD signals to either 8cm. DVDs or solid-state memory...

Shoot Tools: Sony

By Dan Ochiva

If you need to collect location audio or want to create your own sound effects, some sort of portable audio recorder is key...

Shoot Tools: Goodman’s Guide

By Dan Ochiva

While manufacturers bundle in various manuals and CDs with a new camcorder, the reality is that they are rarely practical when you're out in the field...

Shoot Tools: Eye-Fi

By Dan Ochiva

While some of the latest still cameras now sport built-in Wi-Fi, most camera owners still have to rely on a USB cable or an SD card reader to move images to a computer...

Shoot Tools: Artbeats

By Dan Ochiva

Shooting quality HD footage takes expertise and time, which anyone in the business knows equals money...

Shoot Tools: Focus Enhancements

By Dan Ochiva

Any option to pack on extra record time when on location — whether you decide to carry more tapes in the case or put a larger hard drive in the camcorder — just makes sense...

Edit Expertise: Test Drive: HP xw4600

By Jan Ozer

The HP xw4600 workstation, configured with the new 3.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (quad-core) processor, hits a real sweet spot for Adobe and Sony video editing applications. For other digital content-creation tasks, performance depended upon both application and project type, but we'll get to that in a moment...

Edit Review: Autodesk 3ds Max 2008

Reviewer: Franklin McMahon

Autodesk continues to advance the 3D program 3ds Max, now 3ds Max 2008. This new version focuses less on amazing new features and much more on performance and workflow. If you've used Max, you know the power was already there to do just about anything...

Edit Review: Luxology modo 301

Reviewer: Franklin McMahon

Many years ago when I worked in cable television, I was producing some graphics with the NewTek Video Toaster and rendering (out to a rack-mounted NTSC monitor, no less) an animation using the included LightWave 3D...

Edit Review: Adobe Audition 3

Reviewer: Gary Eskow

The wall continues to crumble. As we have discussed in the past, the terror that once accompanied the capitalization of audio-post tools has evaporated...

Edit Tools: VideoHelper

By Dan Ochiva

Production music library VideoHelper has come up with a new term — “narrative sound design” — to describe its mix of sound effects and sound design for its Modules library sound disc...

Edit Tools: NewTek

By Dan Ochiva

Describing it as the largest upgrade in the product's history, NewTek recently started shipping VT[5], its do-it-all production tool...

Edit Tools: Digital Anarchy

By Dan Ochiva

The power of light is the essence, of course, of film and video, which is why visual designers will want to check out the recently released Knoll Light Factory version 3.0 plug-in for Adobe Photoshop...

Edit Tools: Corel

By Dan Ochiva

Corel, which purchased Ulead last year, delivered its own version of that company's popular VideoStudio editing app earlier this year...

Edit Tools: Enhance Technology

By Dan Ochiva

Massive high-speed storage arrays certified to work for HD editing, and at a fraction of the cost of only a few years ago — that sort of setup is no longer a fantasy...

Edit Tools: NEC and Matrox

By Dan Ochiva

If you're like many editors today, you like having any number of apps open at once on your desktop...

Display Tools: Sanyo

By Dan Ochiva

Hi-res projectors are dropping in price. The CEDIA Expo in September saw a number of 1080p-resolution projectors come in around the new sweet spot...

Display Tools: CodexNovus

By Dan Ochiva

With hard drives and server technology commodity items, even smaller players come up with interesting new products...

Display Tools: Intelix

By Dan Ochiva

Using a computer's standard DVI output for digital signage makes sense because it employs the computer's ability to create graphics, text, and video, as well as taking advantage of the high quality and low cost of today's digital graphics cards, but DVI signals are difficult to distribute...

Display Tools: Samsung

By Dan Ochiva

So you've read lots about how the future of HD on optical discs is just a modern-day replay of Betamax vs. VHS. Does that mean you have to wait until the dust settles? Not if you need to display the highest-quality material...

Display Tools: Renewed Vision

By Dan Ochiva

Anyone shopping for lyric-presentation systems for churches and other institutions soon discovers that most apps are designed for Windows-based gear, which of course are the most common ones out there. But if you're Mac-centric, check out version 3 of ProPresenter, completely rewritten to support OS X's universal binary, which works with older PowerPC systems as well as Intel-processor Macs. ...

Display Tools: For-A

By Dan Ochiva

If you're involved in location production, you know that Dolby E digital audio (5.1 surround sound) coding is increasingly common for live music and sports events...

Display Tools: Toshiba

By Dan Ochiva

If you travel with video and come up against non-traditional projection spaces, you know one of the most useful tools to have is a projector with a short-throw, widescreen capability...

Display Tools: GestureTek

By Dan Ochiva

Getting the attention of passersby in a media-clogged world is a challenge. With Screen Xtreme, GestureTek offers one way to make them look...

Display Tools: X2O Media

By Dan Ochiva

In November, X2O Media announced it had received a U.S. patent for its method of producing graphics for digital signage...

Display Tools: Stage Research

By Dan Ochiva

Working with more than a single CD player or mini-disc system for sound playback gets complicated, with lots of potential gotchas with all those cables snaking around. ...

Display Tools: Akamai Technologies

By Dan Ochiva

Just about any media file format you care to think about is getting chunkier — file sizes are bulking up due to enhanced functionality, improved graphics, and richer media content...

Display Tools: Epson

By Dan Ochiva

Epson takes claim to the title of the number-one-selling projector brand worldwide, so let's see the specs on the company's second-generation 1080p projector...

Dream Job: Eco Media

By Kristinha M. Anding

Environmentalism has been receiving a lot of media attention recently, but Maria Erades is in it for the long haul...

Mark In

What if you could color control your video project to get just about any result you desire — even while pulling off specialized work such as tracking, which would allow you to replace parts of an image with something entirely different just like a Hollywood feature...