Fields & Frames 

By Dan Ochiva

With millions of digital camcorders and mega-size screens now being sold to consumers, lots of low-cost NLE software hitting the marketplace, and Google's...

Sigma Electronics OctaStream 

By John Stevens, Encore Hollywood

Encore Hollywood is busy. We work on feature films, episodic and long-form television, music videos, and commercials. ...

MTI Control Dailies 

By Jim Hardy HTV

High Technology Video (HTV) specializes in feature film mastering, high-end standards conversions, duplication for the domestic and international markets...

Digital Vision Nucoda Film Master 

By Adam Hawkey iO Film

Although I'm a senior digital colorist at iO Film, I think it's important to have a lot of different production experience...

Products: Inlet Technologies 

The majority of hardware and software encoding products do a pretty good job of creating DVDs from today's standard video formats. But what about the high data rates needed for handling HD in formats such as Blu-ray and HD DVD, or encoding for uses such as video on demand?...

Products: D2 Software 

By Dan Ochiva

Keying out a particular subject is among the most common chores necessary to prep an image for compositing. But in working with the individual color channels to “pull” the key, traditional keyers use algorithms that lock the channels together. Tweak one channel to make a cleaner key......

Fields & Frames 

By Dan Ochiva

Got Flash? Well, Adobe does. Last month, the company finished its $3.4 billion acquisition of once archrival Macromedia, gaining access to that company's...

Products: Autodesk 

By Dan Ochiva

Improved Cleaner With a growing variety of formats brought about by new Internet, DVD, and even cell phone uses, your desktop encoding software better keep up to date. So check out the latest versions of Autodesk Cleaner: Autodesk Cleaner 6.5 for Macintosh......

Products: Lanterna Magica 

By Dan Ochiva

According to the Montreal-based company, with the turnkey Reality console, production staff will save editors untold hours by encoding for video proxies and logging content descriptions in realtime as the action unfolds....

Products: Disc Makers 

By Dan Ochiva

While cranking out a few CDs or DVDs at a time isn't a big deal, it becomes a time-consuming bore beyond those first 10 discs. Thankfully, Disc Makers has a solution that doesn't cost all that much. ...