Apple iChat Theater Preview Collaboration By Jan Ozer
One of the most prominent new features in Apple Final Cut Pro 7 is iChat Theater Preview, or the ability to share the Viewer window via iChat...
Matrox CompressHD Test Drive: Mac By Jan Ozer
Psyched by the arrival of the outstanding liquid-cooled HP Z800 (Read about the Z800's liquid-cooling system), I has scheduled a review of Matrox’s hot, new H.264 co-processor board, CompressHD...
By Cynthia Wisehart
At Sundance this year, I sat in the Filmmaker Lodge with Davis Guggenheim flipping through his iPhone; it was filled with his photographs from his documentary It Might Get Loud, about guitar legends Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White...
Blu-ray Creation with the New Apple Final Cut Studio By Jan Ozer
This issue of Final Cut Pro Insider finds me—well, inside an Apple computer, appropriately enough, specifically to add a Blu-ray drive to a Mac Pro...
Q&A with John Montgomery, Visual-effects Executive Producer for Red Dwarf: Back to Earth By Craig Erpelding
John Montgomery is a visual-effects artist and a cofounder of fxguide.com, a website for high-end visual-effects professionals, and fxphd.com...
Liquid-cooled HP Z800 Workstation Test Drive By Jan Ozer
I produce a lot of screencams and other narration-type recordings, and workstation noise is a constant concern. I also have multiple computers around my office, most off testing some software program or rendering some project. While "cacophony" is definitely too big a word to apply, less noise is always good...
Digital Vision Dailies By Dan Ochiva
While telecines and computers have been around for quite a while now, a number of companies continue to attempt to figure out the best way to join the two technologies to offer a complete digital dailies solution...
Apple Final Cut Pro 7: First Look Review By Jan Ozer
By now you know that Apple has launched an update to Final Cut Studio. Here's a look at the newest features....
Beta Sight: Audio Production SAN from SAN Solutions By Steve Morris, director of engineering, Skywalker Sound
Built by a filmmaker for filmmakers, Skywalker Sound is one of the largest, most versatile full-service postproduction facilities in the world....
Test Drive: Apple Mac Pro Memory By Jan Ozer
In the first edition of this month’s Affordable HD enewsletter, we keep the focus on the Apple Mac Pro, specifically analyzing the optimal memory configurations for editing and encoding with Apple Final Cut Studio, Adobe Creative Suite 4, and Telestream Episode Engine...