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Digital Anarchy Color Theory 1.5.3 for Windows

PC users now have a version of Digital Anarchy's Color Theory Pro, a digital color wheel system using RYB (red-yellow-blue) color space instead of RGB more »

Essential Gear

Hot technology picks by Tyler Knight, Broadcast IT Manager, Wexler Video, Burbank more »

Cameras & Lenses

HD is slowly gaining footholds in the rarefied feature film world, with high-profile, sky's-the-limit projects like Collateral and the Star Wars movies showing just what's possible with the new breed of more »

Three DPs/Three Cameras

Efficient workflow, great images, on budget: these are all magic words, not just for cost-conscious producers but for the cinematographers who paint and frame the images we see on television. With a choice of HD cameras, cinematographers can now more »

Audio: HD Audio to Go

The soft whirring of hard drives is now a common characteristic of film and video sets as production sound continues to make the transition to hard-drive systems. In a sense, the transition to hard drives is a more »

Q&A: Andrew Herwitz on DV, DI and film distribution

Andrew Herwitz left his position as head of the acquisitions department at Miramax Films in 2002 to form The Film Sales Company. more »

Cutting Down Multicamera Munchies on Reefer Madness

Ipostini, the Marina Del Rey post house that handles Showtime's original features, has been using Final Cut Pro for more than four years. But when it came time to cut the extravagant demon-weed musical more »

Giving 2D Toons That 3D Pop

Fred and Wilma Flintstone are lifted out of the world of the Hanna-Barbera '70s in a heavily composited 30-second spot for Post Cereal and agency Ogilvy & Mather. "King Cocoa" isn't just more »

Anime Texas-Style

New York agency Berlin Cameron initially wanted Japanese anime artists to create a Coca-Cola spot for airing during the Daytona 500. But, after extensive research on the Net, the shop's producers decided on more »

The Big Timers

FLASHBACK TO 1982: A young director named Russell Mulcahy telephoned a young cinematographer named Daniel Pearl to chat about an emerging art form called music videos. more »