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Q&A: Camera op Jody Eldred on HDV vs. F900

Jody Eldred is one of those camera guys who likes to try everything - he's gone scuba diving with the PD-100, he covered the war in the Persian Gulf in 2003 with a PD-150 for ABC News, and he recently went airborne with the Sony Z1U more »

Promo House Airs ABC’s Dirty Laundry

Why did ABC tap a Hollywood promo house to create its hour-long special, Desperate Housewives: Sorting Out the Dirty Laundry? Because the show needed short-form storytelling experts who could boil complicated more »

Sin City‘s 4:4:4 Pipeline

Just like Dwight needed a hardtop with a decent engine and a big trunk in director Robert Rodriguez's visual comic book extravaganza Sin City, The Orphanage had some specific needs of its own to fit into the more »

Dalsa’s Mega-Def Camera Center Opens

When we spoke to John Coghill last month, the finishing touches had just been put on the Dalsa Digital Cinema Center, the exclusive rental source for the new Dalsa Origin camera. more »

Could it be Time for 3D Again?

Anyone suggesting that 3D is the way to make digital cinema a compelling and profitable experience for theater owners and filmmakers, knows he'll encounter a few skeptics: Cinema lovers who reason that no more »

Gotta Have It

The lore of filmmaking is full of great project financing stories-like the times when Orson Welles financed his movies virtually by the day in Europe or Spike Lee used his credit card to underwrite his debut movie She's Gotta Have It. more »

Gotta Have It!

The lore of filmmaking is full of great project financing stories-like the times when Orson Welles financed his movies virtually by the day in Europe or Spike Lee used his credit card to underwrite his debut movie She's Gotta Have It. more »

The Big Picture

Booth N5000, North Hall LVCC is of interest for at least one reason: The studio camera and transmission picture formats ' as well as some of the ENG cameras they'll use ' will be 720p/60, not 1080i/30. more »

Issues & Agendas:

The hot and heavy debate over the future HD video disc format has recently cooled after Sony's incoming president suggested the obvious: consumers don't want another format war over HD movies. Maybe, he suggested, there will be a compromise. more »

Apple Has HD to Burn In Amped-Up Final Cut Studio

Filling in the remaining gaps in its suite of post tools, Apple demoed Final Cut Studio running on the "Tiger�? or 10.4 version of its OS X at NAB. Upgrades in FCP, Motion and DVD Studio Pro are combined in the $1299 package, more »