60-Second Q&A: Don Smith
07|28|2009 – By Bryant Frazer
Freelancer Don Smith recently set out to make his first new camera purchase since the days when Betacam was the only word a news shooter needed to know. After some experimentation with other solid-state solutions, Smith settled on the new JVC GY-HM700.... »
60-Second Q&A: DriveSavers on the Potential for Disaster
06|23|2009 – By Bryant Frazer
DriveSavers, a company well known for providing pricey but valuable options for recovering corrupted or otherwise lost data from a failing or failed hard disk, has begun offering data recovery from P2 media.... »
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.... »
60-Second Q&A: Blu-ray Guru Jim Taylor
01|27|2009 – By Bryant Frazer
When Jim Taylor first discovered an industrial laserdisc player, back in 1979, he realized its random-access capabilities were something special. Almost 20 years later, as the fledgling DVD format enjoyed a groundswell of popular support, Taylor became DVD Evangelist for Microsoft, moving later to positions at DVD-authoring software developers Daikin U.S. and Sonic Solutions.... »
60-Second Q&A: Jim Longeretta, CEO, Digital Vortechs
12|16|2008 – By Bryant Frazer
The editorial team on ABC’s Lost made a big move this year, bumping up the quality in the Avid suite from SD to HD. The show is currently editing for the first time using Avid’s DNxHD 36 codec for the season that premieres in January 2009.... »
60-Second Q&A: Bill Berner, DP, The Electric Company
10|21|2008 – By Bryant Frazer
DP Bill Berner is currently shooting the first 35-episode season of The Electric Company, a 2009 PBS series from nonprofit educational organization Sesame Workshop that will re-envision the 1970s show for a new young audience.... »
60-Second Q&A: David Thaler, DP/Engineer, Thaler Films
10|07|2008 – By Matt Armstrong
For the current season of John Edward Cross Country on WE tv, director of photography/engineer David Thaler was charged with devising a cost-effective solution to shoot live-to-tape in a studio and pick up ENG shots at the same time outside the studio.... »
60-Second Q&A: Ben Murray, DS Nitris Artist
09|23|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
Ben Murray has worked with some of the world's leading filmmakers on award-winning projects spanning all genres of feature films, as well as long-form music video projects and dramatic, comedic and reality television series.... »
60-Second Q&A: Stuart C. Deutsch, C.A.S./Sound Engineer, Brooklyn, NY
09|09|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
In terms of sound recording and mixing for film and HD video production, Emmy-nominated audio engineer Stu Deutsch has done it all. From operating a boom microphone for Pee Wee’s Playhouse on CBS in 1986 to mixing sound for Spike Lee's documentary When The Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Parts in 2006 to his most recent project, serving as recording supervisor for Nickelodeon’s latest hit show, The Naked Brothers Band, his goal is always the same: to acquire the best audio elements, often under the most difficult circumstances.... »
60-Second Q&A: Tom Curran, independent DP, Los Angeles, CA
08|26|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
Shooting TLC’s hit documentary series Little People, Big World—mostly handheld, for more than 12 hours a day—is no small feat. Director of Photography Tom Curran heads up a crew of four, two teams working in 12-hour shifts, who follow the Roloff family of six everywhere.... »
Q&A: Donald Bland, camera operator/DP
08|12|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
At the beginning of the year, Don Bland trekked to the Arctic Circle to shoot interviews at natural gas exploration sites and remote villages for the second season of the History Channel series Ice Road Truckers.... »
60-Second Q&A: Todd Ulman, Associate Producer, ABC Family Channel's Greek
07|22|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
Todd Ulman has served as Associate Producer on ABC Family Channel’s hit show Greek since its inaugural season. He’s responsible for designing the post workflow and making sure that it remains efficient. Interestingly, the teen drama is shot in Los Angeles on Super 16mm (Kodak’s Vision 2 stock), then transferred and mastered on HDCAM SR tape. Among his other production credits are: Observe and Report (Warner Bros. Pictures/Legendary Pictures/De Line Pictures), The Haunting of Molly Hartley (Liddell Entertainment/Fastlane Pictures) and Everwood (Warner Bros. Television/Berlanti Liddell Entertainment).... »
Q&A: Robert Hall, director/vfx artist
07|08|2008 – By Michael Grotticelli
An experienced horror-film professional, Robert Hall owns a special effects/makeup company called Almost Human, and recently shot his first digital feature (and second film project), called Laid to Rest. The full-length horror feature was shot in April in Annapolis, Md. and is being finished by Hall himself on a Final Cut Pro system.... »
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.... »
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.... »
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