Saving South Park By Craig Erpelding
For years, Comedy Central's South Park has been produced at Los Angeles-based South Park Studios. Today, the production team uses an Autodesk Maya-integrated...
Mark In
In 1990, Jim Plant, now NewTek's CEO, said that in the future your favorite TV show will probably be made by someone you know....
Holographic Solution By Michael Goldman
As the broadcast industry's conversion to HD continues, the deployment of new, portable media storage solutions is also moving ahead specifically, the...
Have Server, Will Travel By Michael Goldman
Independent filmmaker Lance Weiler known as something of a self-styled technical iconoclast adopted a guerrilla approach to both making Head Trauma and...
Adventures in Repurposing By Dan Ochiva
Last month, National Geographic Digital Motion (NGDM), the stock footage service of the geographic society's Digital Media division, announced that it...
God in HD By Cynthia Wisehart
As church leaders understand the expanding role of AV in their ministries, they accumulate a list of skills from event producer to ENG newsgather to niche...
Going Tapeless 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...
Edit Expertise: Platform Shootout By Jan Ozer
Every once in a while, it's fun to bring in a range of computers and see how they compare performance-wise. Certainly, the cross-platform capability of...
Long-distance Relationship By Michael Goldman
Veterans of long-distance collaboration adventures for editing and general postproduction on major projects in recent years emphasize that the umbrella...
Mark In
Have you ever found yourself in the middle of a production when you suddenly realized that the amount of information hours of footage, audio, stills,...