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. ...

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....

Distribute Expertise: Encoding Survival Kit  

By Jan Ozer

Suppose you've just encoded multiple Windows Media, Flash, or H.264 streaming files for a quality-conscious client. Call it 40 files, averaging 5 minutes...

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...

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,...

DNxHD Marvel  

By Michael Goldman

Although Iron Man arrives to cinemas largely stereotyped as another big-budget popcorn movie, the character affectionately known as Shell Head to comic-book...

Onsite Workflow 

By Jan Ozer

On Dec. 10, 2007, two people were killed and three seriously injured in a gas explosion on a main street in Fries, Va., which borders my adopted hometown...

Media Players 

By Cynthia Wisehart

As we go to press, Apple confirmed what was already in the wind: that it would not have a booth at NAB ...

Vanguard Awards 2007 

By Trevor Boyer

Every year, as the days get shorter, Digital Content Producer's editors and contributors get together and compose a list of the year's most groundbreaking new products for video-production professionals...

Format Wars: HDV Output, Part 2 

By Jan Ozer

This article describes the hardware and software options for authoring and producing Blu-ray Discs to recordable media. In our last installment, I discussed these options for HD DVD videos, and compared Blu-ray to HD DVD from the perspective of the HDV producer...