Shooting for DVD: Reviewing the Fundamentals Barry Braverman
DVD is big business. In 2004, retail sales of DVD product exceeded $25 billion, which begs the question as a pro-level shooter of film and video if you’re doing enough to wrest the best possible quality images out of the five-inch discs. Because DVD-Video entails significant compromises with respect to compression... ...
MTI Control Dailies By Jim Hardy HTV
High Technology Video (HTV) specializes in feature film mastering, high-end standards conversions, duplication for the domestic and international markets...
Digital Vision Nucoda Film Master By Adam Hawkey iO Film
Although I'm a senior digital colorist at iO Film, I think it's important to have a lot of different production experience...
Step by Step: By Ellen Wolff
In the Warner Bros. release Syriana, writer-director Stephen Gaghan dramatizes Middle East energy politics by staging confrontations for maximum intrigue....
Dogged Effects By Michael Goldman
The visual effects chain for Disney's The Shaggy Dog a remake of the 1959 film about a man who turns into a dog relied heavily on techniques designed...
One-man Pipeline By Michael Goldman
While most of the attention paid to James Longley's documentary film Iraq in Fragments understandably revolves around the project's political nature and critical acclaim (the film won three Sundance Film Festival awards in the Independent Film and Documentary competitions), the technical hurdles the project grappled with are also significant. Longley directed, co-edited, co-produced, scored, shot, and recorded all audio for the documentary....
By Dan Ochiva
According to the Montreal-based company, with the turnkey Reality console, production staff will save editors untold hours by encoding for video proxies and logging content descriptions in realtime as the action unfolds....
Reviewer: Franklin McMahon
First let's discuss what Aperture is not. It's not a Photoshop killer and it's not a super-charged iPhoto for pros. What is it? Apple Aperture is a high-end...
By S. D. Katz
Adobe begins 2006 with the biggest makeover ever in its history. With the release of its highly integrated Production Studio Premium bundle this month, the San Jose, Calif.-based...
Step by Step: Aeon Flux By Ellen Wolff
Stylized settings abound in Aeon Flux, Paramount Pictures' sci-fi confection with MTV roots and Charlize Theron to boot. Designing the look of the film's futuristic environments required substantial give and take between The Orphanage in San Francisco and Digital Domain in Los Angeles. In one particularly revealing shot, The Orphanage's CG team pulls the camera back from a single apartment window to a POV high above the city where the story unfolds. The lengthy pullback shot ultimately resolves......
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