NAB 2008

By any measure, the past year has been an extremely fruitful period for professional video technology. a buzzword that fell out of fashion years ago,...


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Shoot Tools: Maxell

At the 2008 NAB Show, Maxell will be showing its version of the iVDR format with its Field Archive Media, configured for backup and archiving in the field....


Edit Tools: Boxx Technologies

That’s put to good use in Boxx Technologies’ latest high-end workstation, the RTX 8400—which employs two of these quad-core CPUs. Designed with an eye for supplying realtime playback of everything from HDV and HD through to 4K files, the workstation chassis can house up to 24 hot-swappable data drives in addition to two system drives. ...


Shoot Tools: Focus Enhancements

The Focus Enhancements FS-5 hard-drive recorder is the company’s latest version of its Direct To Edit (DTE) model, which adds metadata capabilities, additional file-format support, and UDF disk formatting....


Digital Asset Management Focus Page

Digital Content Producer articles and external resources on digital asset management...


Have You Hugged Your Metadata Today? Part 2

In the last segment, I extolled the virtues of Panasonic’s P2 cards and the Material eXchange Format (MXF) used thereon. In this segment I review Adobe’s P2 and MXF workflow. Just to change things up, I’ll write this segment as a FAQ, rather than a narrative, which will identify the questions I feel are key to any implementation of P2/MXF support...


Have You Hugged Your Metadata Today? Part 1

It’s going to be an exciting NAB Show for Panasonic. Not only will P2 cards be available at 32GB capacity (with 64GB on the horizon), the company will show AVC-Intra technology with full-raster 1920x1080 capture at 100Mbps--a great upgrade from the native 1280x1080 resolution used in DVCPRO HD 1080. Adobe also has a new bauble for the DVX crowd, specifically native MXF (Media eXchange Format)...


Special OPS

There's Something Very Mission: Impossible about the Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS), a Boulder, Colo.-based nonprofit that creates films about the decline of the Earth's oceans — and stops at virtually nothing to get a good shot...


Distribute Tools: Digital Rapids

Small studios that need to transcode a lot of files sometimes find that this mundane workload can become overwhelming...


Edit Tools: Telestream

Thomson Grass Valley Infinity disk-based cameras caused a stir upon their release: The next-generation camcorders employ relatively inexpensive, removable Rev Pro drives...


Products: Nirvanix

No, that's not a thought from last night's dream. Nirvanix has built a business around its Internet-mounted Storage Delivery Service, which delivers on this promise...


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