Adobe CS4: The Next Tier, Part 2 

By Jan Ozer

In the last installment, I covered the top Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) features you probably didn’t hear about for Adobe Encore, Soundbooth, and Media Encoder. Here, I’ll describe the same types of features for Premiere Pro. Just for the record, the most ink-worthy new features in Premiere Pro CS4 include AVCHD support and the extension of Dynamic Link...

Adobe CS4: The Next Tier, Part 1 

By Jan Ozer

You’ve undoubtedly heard about Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4), and you probably are already familiar with many of the top new features. In this month’s Affordable HD, I wanted to introduce you to the next tier of features...

Common Goal 

Story and photos by Bill Miller

If the broadcast isn't going out to 20 million people, you haven't directed live television. So starts my interview with veteran television director Lawrence...

Edit Expertise: Suite News 

By Jan Ozer and Franklin McMahon

Like the proverbial blind men and the elephant, everyone who touches Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium (CS4) will experience a different product as...

Step By Step: Tropic Thunder  

By Ellen Wolff

Comic timing is a phrase usually associated with actor pratfalls rather than the effect of a CG helicopter crashing to the ground. But for the DreamWorks/Paramount...

Edit Review: IK Multimedia ARC  

Reviewer: Gary Eskow

Now that mixing audio in the project studio for music recordings, television and broadcast, and corporate events has become de rigueur, smart manufacturers...

Graphics Throwdown 

By Dan Ochiva

Siggraph 2008 was to be about ATI's comeback. The long-struggling graphics-card maker was back with two potent new OpenGL offerings, while the top offering...

Green Meets Red 

By Ellen Wolff

In the hallway of a former bicycle factory outside Vancouver, British Columbia, a bloody corpse lies on a gurney, swathed unceremoniously in plastic wrap....

BlogLive @ Siggraph 2008 Podcast: Pixar and Disney Animation Chief Ed Catmull 

As mentioned in this blog space Monday by Senior Editor Michael Goldman, Pixar and Disney Animation Chief Ed Catmull met with the press Monday to celebrate the 20th' anniversary of the debut of RenderMan and its subsequent impact on the computer graphics industry. ...

Edit Expertise: Screencam Production 

By Jan Ozer

TechSmith Camtasia Studio features one-source recording, editing, and encoding capabilities...