NAB 2008 Pick Hit Awards 

Trevor Boyer

For the Pick Hits, our judges look for products that show significant technological innovation, while promising to have a positive, practical impact on the day-to-day professional lives of digital content producers, and the 2008 list certainly reflects that. ...

Know Your Formats, Part 2 

By Jan Ozer

This month, we’re tackling high-definition video formats. In the first segment, I discussed what aspect ratio is and why you care about it. In this issue, I’ll discuss the remaining items of the features table...

NAB 2008 Update 

By Jan Ozer

Welcome to the pre-NAB roundup, where I'll relay what I know about the products that video-editing and related companies will demonstrate at the 2008...

Creative Draw 

By Trevor Boyer

Philadelphia is the sixth-largest city in the United States, but, overshadowed by its neighbors, it's not even a regional capital. A two-hour drive to...

Distribute Review: Telestream Episode Pro 4.4.1  

Reviewer: Franklin McMahon

Franklin McMahon reviews the Telestream Episode Pro 4.4.1, an update which offers encoding for numerous parameters and non-standard formats....

Edit Review: Frontier Design Group AlphaTrack and PreSonus FaderPort  

Reviewer: Gary Eskow

The revolutionary aspect of the emergence, rise, and eventual domination of the digital audio work station is hard to exaggerate. From the days of Frank,...

Edit Review: AJA Video Systems Io HD  

Reviewer: D. W. Leitner

Mention video I/O for the Mac, and chances are Kona card will enter the conversation even among production people who know little about Mac-based editing...

Integrated Team Effort  

By Ellen Wolff

“Collegial” isn't usually the first word that springs to mind when describing the competition for Academy Awards, but in this year's visual-effects category, that...

Shoot Review: Sony PCM-D50  

Reviewer: Gary Eskow

Have you been hanging onto that old handheld stereo cassette player/recorder you used in the late 1980s to conduct interviews, just in case? If so, toss...

Mark In 

Adding new capabilities to camcorders via innovative software and leveraging the Internet looks to be a growing trend that will affect producers over...