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How to Get your Footage in the Stock Library Door

Want to sell your clips and tracks to stock houses? These tips from insiders will help you take your project shots to a much wider audience. more »

HOT HOUSE: AlphaDogs Brings Post Power to the People

WHAT'S THEIR GIG? A Kinko's for the post world? That's the idea behind the new Digital Service Station media transfer division of AlphaDogs, a post-production facility in Burbank, CA. "It saves time more »

The “I Know Who to Blame” HD Edit System

Veterans of the video wars know the drill too well. When it's time to build a new edit bay, they buy the edit controller from Vendor A, more »

Digital Dailies Online: Ultraviolet Uses Internet for Dailies Transfer

Whether the low-budget Ultraviolet - a Sony Screen Gems August release about a subculture of genetically modified humans-is a box office more »

Hard Data

Due to their lower cost and usually fast turnaround times, independent project studios are offering increasingly tough competition for editing and posting more »

HD Lenses

Lens manufacturers Canon and Fujinon are bringing the higher quality and performance of the 2/3-inch form factor to HD for electronic newsgathering more »

HD Stock Footage

Where do you go for that elusive video segment that could make a big difference in your production if you can't afford hefty royalty fees? more »

The Big Picture

Hidden in the seemingly endless stream of wannabe HDTV display technologies, the grating light valve (GLV) hasn’t gotten much media attention these days. First introduced in a white paper at the Society for Information Display show in 1998, it has … more »

Playing Hardball Post in Downtown Manhattan

Making the jump from mom-and-pop post shop to a 45,000-square foot operation didn't seem to faze Eitan Hakami, principal in Creative Mega Playground. Neither did changing his company's name (it used to be more »

Fox’s Broadband Marketing Plans

This summer, a new online initiative by 20th Century Fox may help prove whether high-bandwidth marketing on the Internet really helps put butts in seats. If it does, broadband channels may be the movie more »