60-Second Q&A: Entertainment Lawyer Michael C. Donaldson
03|24|2009 – By Bryant Frazer
Clearance & Copyright author Michael C. Donaldson says a few words about the fair use doctrine.... »
HD Video Conferencing Can Ease the High Cost of Fossil Fuel
07|08|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
The high cost of fossil fuel is impacting everyone, including video crews traveling to acquire interviews for television programs. Now, a Colorado company has announced an alternative to travel—high-definition video conferencing over its IP network.... »
HD Audience Grows; 71 Million Subscribers by 2012
07|08|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
Why the need for so much high-definition content? According to a new study, cable and satellite HDTV subscribers will penetrate 65.7 percent of multichannel households in the United States by 2012. That’s dramatically up from only 18.8 percent in 2007.... »
Q&A: Louis Bertini, sound editor/mixer
06|24|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
Bertini is a veteran sound editor/mixer of numerous high-profile television shows, including all six seasons of HBO’s Sex In The City and the CW Network’s Life Is Wild. His specialty is automated dialogue replacement (ADR) and creating original sound effects.... »
Angenieux’s “Rouge” Lens Delivery Set
06|24|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
Thales Angenieux’s highly anticipated new Optimo DP (digital production) Series Lens—nicknamed “Rouge”—is set for delivery in the fourth quarter, according to the company. Some DPs say it can’t arrive soon enough.... »
Avid Comes Out Swinging
06|24|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
Continuing its “New Thinking” (read “lower-cost”) strategy that pits it head-to-head with Apple, Avid Technology is now shipping the next generation HD editing systems and storage solutions that it showed at the NAB convention.... »
EditShare Offers Universal Media File Format
06|24|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
EditShare, a specialist in cross-platform editing and shared media storage, has introduced technology that creates a single media file that can be used in both Avid and Final Cut Pro editing environments.... »
Streaming the (Intimate) Moment in 5.1
06|24|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
Capturing the true essence of 5.1 surround sound is getting easier and less complex with each passing day. The demand for such recordings, to accompany HD music videos, is increasing as well, as virtually every home-theater receiver now enables viewers to hear the multichannel audio.... »
Q&A: Anton Strauss, editor
06|10|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
Strauss is now editing a number of high-definition videos, using a home-made PC with dual Intel Xeon (eight cores) processors. He uses the latest version (4.6) of Thomson Grass Valley Edius Broadcast editing software, with its real-time processing and JPEG 2000 codec.... »
Canon and Vinten Collaborate for HD Lens Users
06|10|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
Vinten’s Vector 950 Active pan-and-tilt head, which complements Canon Broadcast’s lens-stabilization Optical Shift Image Stabilizer (Shift-IS) technology, can now be used with most existing Canon HD field Shift-IS lenses.... »
Snakehead Stars in New Bond Film
06|10|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
A new gyroscopic POV camera mount is making its big-screen debut in the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace (set for release November 7). Called the Snakehead, the new camera system from SpaceCam Systems (Los Angeles), specialists in aerial and specialized gyro-stabilized cinematography, allows pilots to fly as aggressively as they dare without sacrificing the drama of the shot.... »
Red Giant Chroma Keyer Adds Support for Apple Software
06|10|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
Red Giant Software has released Primatte Keyer 4, a new version of its professional green-screen tool that adds support for Apple’s Final Cut Pro and Motion pro video applications.... »
Focus Enhancements Unveils 250 GB Recorder
06|10|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
Focus Enhancements has added a 250 GB model to its FS-100 line of portable Direct To Edit (DTE) recorders that offers attractive capacity-to-cost advantages to Panasonic DVCPRO HD P2 camera owners on long-format shoots.... »
Making the Connection Easier
06|10|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
Anyone who’s ever set up a remote HD production knows how time-intensive connecting and disconnecting cables can be. Several new options have become available to ease the coax connecting part, decreasing set-up and teardown time. The use of fiber-optic cabling—with its ability to carry multiple signals down a single fiber strand—has certainly helped in this area, but there’s still lots of coax cabling in use.... »
- Keisoku Giken Offers Uncompressed Recording in Stereo
- Panasonic Makes the HPX300 a Studio Camera
- The Foundry Releases RollingShutter Plug-in for CMOS Artifacts
- Envivio Knocks HD IPTV Bitrate Requirements Below 6 Mbps
- TPMGEnc Adds 1080p DivX Support
- NetBlender Adds AVC Encoding to Blu-ray Authoring Package
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