HD Slow Mo with Phantom  

Cinematographer Jim Matlosz reports that ongoing developments with the Vision Research Camera are offering an attractive alternative to commercial and narrative TV clients looking for high-speed photography on a budget....

Distribute Expertise: Blu-ray Blues  

By Jan Ozer

Whenever Blu-ray comes up, there are questions about authoring. But equally daunting are the issues of distribution and the licensing costs associated...

Distribute Tools: MultiDyne 

By Dan Ochiva

While it requires considerable bandwidth, sending 1080p progressive HD video is the one standard that's currently touted as future proof. For anyone who...

Distribute Tools: Origin Digital 

By Dan Ochiva

Origin Digital's Odaptor service offers a price-competitive, turnkey approach to production for the Web. Even if you have a modest web-production budget,...

Mark In 

Anyone involved in production today can probably name any number of compression formats (codecs) and the vendors that support them think Panasonic DVCPRO...

Beta Sight: Frantic Films Software Deadline  

By Matt Estela Visual Effects Supervisor, Jackanory

Fans of the original BBC children's classic Jackanory, which aired from 1965 until going off the air in 1996, could catch the series during its highly...

NAB 2008 Wrap-up 

By D. W. Leitner, Jan Ozer, and Dan Ochiva

Upstarts Red Digital Cinema, Iconix, and Vision Research were responsible for some of the most arresting developments in cameras...

Tapeless on Steroids  

By Cynthia Wisehart

Shortly after the film had been in competition at Sundance, Mark Cuban bought Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (opening in theaters as we go to press)...

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,...

Featured Reel 

By Cynthia Wisehart

This month, we've rolled out a much-requested feature for Reel-Exchange (reel-exchange.com), our demo-reel community site. You can now search geographically...