Shoot Review: Sony PCM-D50 Reviewer: Gary Eskow
Have you been hanging onto that old handheld stereo cassette player/recorder you used in the late 1980s to conduct interviews, just in case? If so, toss...
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,...
Step by Step: Madame Tutli-Putli By Ellen Wolff
"Those eyes!" is a popular reaction to Madame Tutli-Putli, a stop-motion animated film featuring characters whose eyes appear to be alive. The reason Madame...
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...
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 Tools: Telestream By Dan Ochiva
Thomson Grass Valley Infinity disk-based cameras caused a stir upon their release: The next-generation camcorders employ relatively inexpensive, removable Rev Pro drives...
Step by Step: The Spiderwick Chronicles By Ellen Wolff
A signature moment in the Paramount/Nickelodeon release The Spiderwick Chronicles arrives when we meet an elfin creature amid the musty shelves of a spooky old house...
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...
Rough Ride By Bill Miller
Their names are Tuffy, Turnbuckle, Double-D, and G-Rod. These aren't the bulls of the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) ...
The Morris Microscope By Michael Goldman
In 1997, millimeter Senior Contributing Editor D. W. Leitner respectfully accused director Errol Morris of “transgressing the canons of documentary dogma” while writing about Morris’ then-new documentary Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control...