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Storing HD Uncompressed

If you thought HD video cost-effectively played out from networked servers had to be compressed, think again. more »

On the HD Set: Remote Productions Leverage the Roving Hot Spot

When the Sunningdale Country Club in Scarsdale, NY, welcomed the crew of The Sopranos for a location shoot this summer, a quiet revolution was taking place in the mobile dressing rooms outside. For the first time, The Sopranos had created a roving Wi-Fi hot spot for its company. more »

Issues: Projectors for All

I first started covering the portable projector industry back in 1991, which seems like a lifetime ago. It was big news when Epson and InFocus announced 640 x 480 front LCD projectors in late 1993 for about more »

Hot Topics at Fall Conferences

Some of the highlights of the Pro Conference circuit this Fall include offerings of both the Mobile TV and Film Production Consortium in Santa Monica (September 19-21) and the Audio Engineering Society's more »

In-Your-Face Animation

Eschewing subtlety, a technology preview by Avid Technology's Softimage division at July's SIGGRAPH conference in LA offered an "in-your-face" demonstation of its new facial animation technology more »

Flash 8 Gets a Big Video Tune-up

Macromedia has dramatically bolstered video quality in Flash Professional 8, leveraging On2's VP6 codec to embed cleaner, smaller video files in Flash 8 content. Macromedia claims 95 percent of PCs have more »

Taking Altman’s Sound Challenge

It's one thing to get up to speed on a typical feature film, but production sound mixer Drew Kunin had to ramp up in a hurry working on the Robert Altman -directed musical Prairie Home Companion, a project more »

AES Gets Ready for HDTV

With the 119th AES Convention arriving at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City next month, convention broadcast chair David Bialik reports that this year's show will offer the most more »

What I’m Using Now: Tascam FW-1884 and FW-1082 Interface and Control Surfaces

Albert Fox Composer/Sound Designer, Mutato Muzika, Los Angeles Favorite gear: Tascam's FW-1884 and FW-1082 Interface and Control Surfaces List: FW-1884 is $1,599 plus FE-8 Expanders ( $1,249ea); FW-1082 is more »

The Biz: Lost-and Found-in Translation

Every year hundreds if not thousands of new terms enter the English vocabulary. It's such a practical language for communicating complex ideas, in fact, that English has come to form the basis of a universal more »