Products: Quantel 

By Dan Ochiva

It's not a particularly flashy technology. But AAF (Advanced Authoring Format) is catching on as another metadata type — MXF, a subtype of AAF — gains acceptance in production...

Nvidia Quadro Family 

By Joshua Kolden, Crack Creative

Crack Creative provides visualization and production services to the feature film, commercial, and architectural markets. ...

Adobe Photoshop CS2 

By Glenn Campbell, Area 51

Area 51 is an independent visual effects firm with seven to 10 employees who all wear multiple hats. ...

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...