Beyond HDV: Using AVCHD with Panasonic's AG-HSC1U By Jan Ozer
Beyond the implications of the AVCHD format, I was intrigued by the opportunity to test Panasonic's AG-HSC1U, because it stores all video and still images on SDHC cards....
Beyond HDV: AVCHD High-definition Compression By Jan Ozer
Although AVCHD first appeared in consumer camcorders, a variationAVC-Intrawill soon show up in broadcast cameras from Panasonic. Given that the MPEG-4 technology that fuels AVCHD is roughly twice as efficient as the MPEG-2 technology used in HDV, the new Sony-Panasonic standard will likely supplant HDV...
Edit Review: ViewCast Niagara GoStream Reviewer: Tom Patrick McAuliffe
Until recently, streaming media often entailed capturing footage, taking it to the edit suite, encoding it, and then sending it to a streaming-media service...
Edit Review: Apple Final Cut Studio 2 Reviewer: Jan Ozer
Apple Final Cut Studio 2 is like the proverbial elephant and the blind man your impression depends upon where you touch it. For this review, I'll touch...
NAB 2007 Pick Hit Awards By Trevor Boyer
Is there a Moore's Law equivalent for camcorders? Whatever it might be, NAB 2007 displayed its hypothetical fruits. We saw a working model of Red Digital...
NAB 2007 By D. W. Leitner, Jan Ozer, Dan Ochiva, and Jeff Sauer
This Year's NAB hosted 108,232 attendees from 141 countries around the world at the Las Vegas Convention Center between April 14 and April 19. With all...
NAB 2007 Pick Hit Awards
At NAB 2007, new digital cinema cameras ruled the show floor. Like everything else in the digital world, these high-res...
Edit Review: Primera Bravo SE Reviewer: Tom Patrick McAuliffe
Because of my lifestyle, work, and the ease of portability, I use laptops for the majority of my video and audio work. Before I got a disc duplicator,...
Mark In
Should your future production plans include video for the Web? The necessary high-speed connections will be there. According to recent Nielsen//NetRatings...
By Cynthia Wisehart
One of my favorite things I heard at NAB was the comment that Apple had, with the announcement of ProRes 422, legitimized compression. The implication...