Special OPS

By Kristinha M. Anding

There's Something Very Mission: Impossible about the Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS), a Boulder, Colo.-based nonprofit that creates films about the decline of the Earth's oceans — and stops at virtually nothing to get a good shot...

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...

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...

Shoot Tools: Audio-Technica

By Dan Ochiva

While it's ideal to have an audio recorder with you on location, what do you do if you don't want that added expense for occasional field recording...

Shoot Tools: K-Tek

By Dan Ochiva

Thread-mounted adapters are pretty simple things, but you'll run into difficulties if you're on location without one...

Shoot Tools: Tiffen

By Dan Ochiva

Titanium seems to turn up everywhere these days; the high-strength metal offers rigidity to laptops and camera gear, even though it's thinner than comparable aluminum or other material...

Shoot Tools: Zaxcom

By Dan Ochiva

Carrying weight has always been a concern for location production...

Shoot Tools: Petrol

By Dan Ochiva

The Petrol Camlap Trolley Bag is specifically designed to hold a Sony HVR-AU1, Canon XH G1, Panasonic AG-HSC1, or other similarly sized camcorder...

Shoot Tools: Zacuto

By Dan Ochiva

Investing in support gear to hold matte boxes and other camera accessories presents a problem...

Edit Review: AJA Video Systems Io HD

Reviewer: D. W. Leitner

Mention video I/O for the Mac, and chances are Kona card will enter the conversation even among production people who know little about Mac-based editing...

Edit Tools: Panasonic

By Dan Ochiva

Panasonic says it had a real hit with its BT-LH1700W 17in. multiformat color production monitor, released at NAB 2007...

Edit Tools: CalDigit

By Dan Ochiva

The latest Mac and PC hardware and software deliver a lot of capability, including the option of building a software RAID...

Edit Tools: Sonnet Technologies

By Dan Ochiva

Until recently, taking a technology such as a RAID array on the road meant only one thing: big flight cases full of rack storage...

Edit Tools: Boris FX

By Dan Ochiva

For many producers, Adobe After Effects (AE) remains the most cost-effective compositing package around...

Edit Tools: NextComputing

By Dan Ochiva

Even as digital technology shrinks gear that would normally take up a chunk of a mobile van, more capability comes from incorporating multiple manufacturers' gear...

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...

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...

Distribute Tools: NEC

By Dan Ochiva

A typical problem with most LCD displays is that off-axis viewing — that is, anything around 45 degrees or more from dead center — severely degrades color images...

Distribute Tools: Silicon Optix

By Dan Ochiva

For the best quality playback, it's important to correctly set up HD monitors and projectors...

Distribute Tools: Christie Digital Systems

By Dan Ochiva

Setting up complex projector arrays can take time and the effort of a number of workers...

Distribute Tools: ikan

By Dan Ochiva

A lot of pro gear is rackmountable. For those working at a desktop...

Distribute Tools: Wohler Technologies

By Dan Ochiva

Flexibility helps when you have to take HD monitoring on the road...

Distribute Tools: Digital Rapids

By Dan Ochiva

Small studios that need to transcode a lot of files sometimes find that this mundane workload can become overwhelming...

Dream Job: Exchange Program

By Kristinha M. Anding

Jenny Richards found herself at a crossroads in the mid-1990s. The now-deputy director of the London-based Television Trust for the Environment (TVE)...

Mark In

Adding new capabilities to camcorders via innovative software and leveraging the Internet looks to be a growing trend that will affect producers over...