Most Popular
Below is a list of Digital Content Producer online articles read most often in the past six months.
By Michael Goldman
Director David Fincher insists he has deleted videotape from his professional life for good. I've hated tape for a long time all the nonsense that comes...
By Joshua Kolden, Crack Creative
Crack Creative provides visualization and production services to the feature film, commercial, and architectural markets. ...
By Barry Braverman
Look, fellow shooters, let's talk straight. Distribution on VHS is dead. ...
D.W. Leitner
At long last, Sony has extended 24p to a Handycam-style camcorder that requires neither shoulder nor tripod. And while the debut of this new affordable — $4,800 list — 24p HDV Sony camcorder is banner news to those of us who shoot and produce small-format video, 24p is but one of a clutch of innovations that distinguishes what will come to be known as “the V1.”...
By Ellen Wolff
The opening sequence for Hellgate London only looks like a scene from a CG feature; it is actually the cinematic introduction to a PC role-playing game...
Barry Braverman
The advent of the Panasonic HVX200 P2 camera introduces a new wrinkle in today’s preferred 24p workflow. This is because the HVX camera shoots in at least 81 different formats and modes, including multiple frame rates and resolutions;...
By D.W. Leitner
Information Technology, a tempest borne of the times we live in, is tearing roofs off traditional production practices, rattling foundations of postproduction...
Barry Braverman
The advent of small-format HD camcorders like the Sony HVR-Z1U, Canon XL H1, Panasonic HVX200 and JVC HD100u should by all indications be a blessing for DVD shooters and producers....
By Mark Falstad, director/cameraman
It sounded easy enough. Take three of Sony’s brand-new XDCAM HD PDW-F350 camcorders to Alaska to shoot a documentary on the 2006 Iditarod, The Last Great Race! First scene: four-time champion Martin Buser working his dogs one last time before the start. (Read about Falstad and other filmmakers and NAB-goers at NABlog) ...
Reviewer: Barry Braverman
It's a robust high-definition camcorder with enough horsepower to do the job, yet compact enough to fit in your coat pocket. It's under 3lbs. with battery,...
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Editor's Choice
Following are some of the choice picks from the editors of Digital Content Producer.
By Barry Braverman
I'll be blunt: I'm a seasoned pro with more than 25 years under my battery belt, and I don't like working with substandard gear. I feel this attitude...
By Barry Braverman
At NAB 2005, Panasonic security dutifully watched over a glass case that held The Camera. Such was the level of excitement and anticipation for clearly catered to dreamers and promised do it all, a true-high-definition modestly priced camcorder capable of shooting variable frame rates at 720p and 1080i resolutions — at 4:2:2, no less. The camera offered the tantalizing prospect of a $150,000 shooting package for a mere $6,000. ...
By Michael Goldman
Like many intense relationships, Martin Scorsese's love affair with what he fondly calls gangster pictures never quite ends. Occasionally, he moves into...
By S. D. Katz
Tore's law states that the density of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles about every 12 months, a prediction that has held up remarkably well...
By Jan Ozer
Intel and AMD have been spewing new CPU architectures at an alarming rate from hyper-threaded to multiprocessor to multiprocessor/hyper-threaded, and...
By Jan Ozer
The dual-core Dell Precision Workstation 390 can support the fastest Intel Core 2 Extreme processor available, cutting rendering times in some of our...
By Michael Goldman
Director Robert Altman, now 81 and fresh off receiving an honorary Academy Award for years of filmmaking excellence, says his primary reason for suddenly...
By Marsha Scarbrough
Most film production professionals have stories about working extreme hours. I personally tell tales of a rainy all-nighter in Texas where the crew went...
By Barry Braverman
It's no secret that today's shooter manages an ever-increasing glut of HD frame rates and resolutions....
By Dan Ochiva
When Autodesk completed the final paperwork this past January on its buyout of Alias, a new era began in the highly competitive animation and effects...
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