Damages First Person Cory Melious, Rerecording Mixer/Sound Effects Editor, Sound Lounge
When Damages came to Sound Lounge with the prospect of providing postproduction for its third season, it presented an unusual challenge...
Encoding for the Apple iPad, Part 1 By Jan Ozer
If the Apple iPad had a tattoo, it would read, "Born to consume content." Love it or hate it, if you're a video producer on any platform, someone soon will be asking you to get your (and probably their) content onto the iPad. So that's what I'll cover over the next two issues of Final Cut Pro Insider...
HP 12-core Z800 Test Drive, Part 2 By Jan Ozer
Back with you reviewing the capabilities of HP's new 12-core Z800 workstation. In the last episode, I compared the editing performance of the new Z800 with an older-style version with eight cores...
Adobe Creative Suite 5 (CS5) By Dan Ochiva
As has been the case over the past few years, Adobe chose NAB to announce its latest Creative Suite, now in version 5 (CS5)...
Adobe Creative Suite 5 First Look By Jan Ozer
Today, Adobe revealed Creative Suite 5 (CS5). Like many members of the press, I've been working with beta software for about three months, and I am very familiar with the additions to Premiere Pro, OnLocation, Media Encoder, and a couple of ancillary programs...
Cisco Valet By Dan Ochiva
For all of us working out of our homes, working with networking technologies such as routers often turns out to be more complex than imagined. If you've ever suffered through the arcane setup routines that even so-called consumer routers offer, you'll be open to new approaches...
Navigating Apple Final Cut Pro's Speed Options, Part 2 By Jan Ozer
Last time around, we covered the Speed tool and Change Speed dialog in Apple Final Cut Pro...
XenData Beta Sight By Mark Lindey, senior engineer, systems administration, Modern VideoFilm
Modern VideoFilm delivers postproduction services and quality control to its partners such as Fox, Paramount, Warner Bros, Disney, NBC, and Universal...
StudioGPU MachStudio Pro 1.4 By Dan Ochiva
At last year's NAB, the partnership announced between StudioGPU and AMD put the chipmaker back into the running with arch rival Nvidia...
Green Zone Step by Step By Ellen Wolff
When Director Paul Greengrass took on Universal Pictures' Green Zone, a major challenge was capturing the look of wartime Iraq without being able to film there...