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Trial by Jury Puts New Law & Order in Post

The verdict is in. With the debut of Law & Order: Trial by Jury, the producers and post team on the show have been found guilty of more »

Laurie Anderson Uses Tiny Cameras To Get The Big Picture

Producer Cheryl Kaplan describes Hidden Inside Mountains, the HD project created by Laurie Anderson for the 2005 World EXPO, which starts later this month in Aichi, Japan, as "a nonlinear narrative more »

Three Strategies for the Film DP Shooting HD

Peter Klein is a Detroit native specializing in automotive cinematography. His credits include spots for GM, Ford, Chrysler, Audi, Volvo Mazda and Rolls Royce. His recent HD assignments include an more »

The New Facts of Life in Post

To gauge how post-production companies and their clients are adapting to change, we conducted two separate online surveys early this year (see "Our Methodology," page 44). About 500 pros responded more »

Discreet Combustion 4

The major new revision of Discreet's Combustion is replete with UI tweaks that make the program easier to use, but what's really impressive is the technology it lets users harness from high-end Discreet more »

Century Optics LCD Hood and Widescreen Magnifier for DVX100

Century's new $60 hood for the Panasonic DVX100 fits a 3.5-inch LCD screen for glare-free viewing. Even niftier, the more »

Tim Miller Gets Animated

Lured to Los Angeles by his buddy Jerome Chen, Tim Miller started off as a compositor and 3D artist at Action Video until he got a job as a character animator at Sony Pictures Imageworks. He saw his chance when more »

What I’m Using Now

Ciarin Quinn Art director/senior animator, Cinema Concepts, Atlanta, GA Favorite gear: BOXX workstations and render nodes List: Render BOXX (Opteron), $2,123; Render BOXX (Xeon), $2,252; 3DBOXX workstation more »

A Camera’s Eye View of the Sudan Crisis

Seth Doane, an intrepid and startlingly young anchor /correspondent with Channel One News (he's 26), has already seen more of suffering than many a jaded foreign correspondent. His job, gathering and more »

Serious Magic DV Rack

Serious Magic's DV Rack is an elegant software package that handles all the typical signal monitoring functions of studio test gear, while packing in a variety of handy production features. Using the more »