Digital Content Producer April 2008
By Trevor Boyer
Philadelphia is the sixth-largest city in the United States, but, overshadowed by its neighbors, it's not even a regional capital. A two-hour drive to...
By Darroch Greer
Stock houses are not what they used to be in your father's day. They're not even what they were on your last birthday. If your production hasn't considered...
By Jan Ozer
Welcome to the pre-NAB roundup, where I'll relay what I know about the products that video-editing and related companies will demonstrate at the 2008...
By Cynthia Wisehart
Many of you already know about our ongoing virtual press conference called The Briefing Room. It's a daily compilation of industry press releases and...
By Barry Braverman
I admit I'm a shooter, born and raised. It's what I do like breathing. So after almost three decades of crashing a viewfinder to my face, I think I've...
By Dan Ochiva
The Panasonic AG-HMC150 camera shoots HD formats that include 1080/60i, 1080/30p, and 1080/24p. Sporting a Leica Dicomar zoom lens (it opens to a relatively wide 28mm equivalent—that’s in 35mm film terms), the HMC150 records 1080i and 720p at 13Mbps, which the company claims is comparable in quality to current HDV compression formats with bit rates of 25Mbps....
By Dan Ochiva
At the 2008 NAB Show, Maxell will be showing its version of the iVDR format with its Field Archive Media, configured for backup and archiving in the field....
By Dan Ochiva
The Panasonic AJ-P2C064 P2 card provides 64GB of storage....
By Dan Ochiva
The Focus Enhancements FS-5 hard-drive recorder is the company’s latest version of its Direct To Edit (DTE) model, which adds metadata capabilities, additional file-format support, and UDF disk formatting....
By Dan Ochiva
The BluFish 2 HD underwater housing from
Air Sea Land Gear, features include dome- and flat-port optics and a rotating collar with 1/4in. taps that allow the housing to be mounted to multiple grip arms and devices.
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By Dan Ochiva
The Hitachi SK-HD1000 HDTV studio and field-production camera was introduced last year, this updated version now employs a new generation of 2/3in., 2.2-million-pixel, progressive CCDs to deliver a sharp 1100-TVL resolution at a quiet 60dB....
Reviewer: Gary Eskow
The revolutionary aspect of the emergence, rise, and eventual domination of the digital audio work station is hard to exaggerate. From the days of Frank,...
By Dan Ochiva
Thomson Grass Valley Edius Broadcast version 4.6 moves towards open-standards-based editing by adding support for the JPEG2000 codec used in the Grass Valley Infinity digital media camcorder....
By Dan Ochiva
DX Studio DX Studio v2.3 features 2D and 3D layout editors, as well as full JavaScript control of everything—from changing the background to editing meshes in realtime...
By Dan Ochiva
Pixellexis Systems & Technologies Redbox employs 32 TigerShark DSP processors and specs out at 57.6gigaflops and I/O speeds claimed to reach 8GBps....
By Dan Ochiva
The new free V3 BasePack—the entry-level option to Antics’ product line—features increased functionality, improves users’ ability to import 3D content, and offers enhanced ease of use, according to Antics Technologies....
By Dan Ochiva
That’s put to good use in Boxx Technologies’ latest high-end workstation, the RTX 8400—which employs two of these quad-core CPUs. Designed with an eye for supplying realtime playback of everything from HDV and HD through to 4K files, the workstation chassis can house up to 24 hot-swappable data drives in addition to two system drives.
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By Dan Ochiva
Allegorithmic Substance streams two to four times more detailed texture data in realtime without using the GPU....
Reviewer: Franklin McMahon
Franklin McMahon reviews the Telestream Episode Pro 4.4.1, an update which offers encoding for numerous parameters and non-standard formats....
By Dan Ochiva
The Anthro eNook Pro uses zero floor space yet provides a secure desktop storage system....
By Dan Ochiva
The new BTX Technologies ProBlox multiconnector system provides a single connector for multiple signals. The system combines 16 coax and 26 audio/data/control contacts in one multiconnector....
By Dan Ochiva
If you need to pull together a permanent balanced-line analog or digital audio installation, new types of cabling are proving to be more efficient. Take the Belden Part No. 1353A AES/EBU Brilliance digital audio cable for example....
By Dan Ochiva
The Wohler Touch-it Digital multichannel video monitor offers a 3RU system that features dual 7in. high-res color LCD displays. Control comes via the left monitor, which is a touchscreen that displays four to 16 thumbnail images....
By Dan Ochiva
If you need to add or upgrade storage on a regular basis, you could be out of luck as many of the rack solutions on the market are proprietary to the type or brand of storage. Addonics offers one solution with its 4U Storage Rack, a rackmount storage chassis that is designed to fit into a standard computer rack....
By Dan Ochiva
Middle Atlantic Products helps to simplify installations by adding a numbered rack rail to its RLA Series aluminum two-post open-frame racks. The EIA/TIA-compliant racks are available in heights of 45RU and 51RU, and they feature 15in.-deep bases constructed of 1/4in.-thick aluminum....
By Kristinha M. Anding
When Katy Chevigny co-founded Big Mouth Productions in 1997, she knew that what kind of documentaries she wanted to produce: provocative works of art that transcend politics....
The world of online video distribution is heating up. Last month, after a long beta period, hulu.com the joint venture between NBC Universal and Fox debuted....
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