SD Endurance

Story and photos by Bill Miller

The year is 490 B.C. Television is several millenniums away, and little does the populace know, but the first-ever marathon is about to begin...

Art Imitates Life

By Cynthia Wisehart

The bald eagle needed a few minutes to practice; his handler asked for quiet from the gathering crowd...

NAB 2008 Wrap-up

By D. W. Leitner, Jan Ozer, and Dan Ochiva

Upstarts Red Digital Cinema, Iconix, and Vision Research were responsible for some of the most arresting developments in cameras...

Possibilities

By Cynthia Wisehart

One of the best things about NAB is the unexpected: when you see something that nails a market need on the head, models the near future, or hints that...

Shoot Review: Sound Devices 702T

Reviewer: Gary Eskow

Audio pros who capture sound in the field know that we're in the midst of a fertile period...

Shoot Tools: Sony

By Dan Ochiva

Sony made an interesting camcorder introduction by adding an interchangeable lens to its PMW-EX3...

Shoot Tools: Convergent Design

By Dan Ochiva

At NAB Show 2008, outboard camcorder recording systems using HDDs proliferated...

Shoot Tools: JVC

By Dan Ochiva

You've got to hand it to JVC. While the company has been going through ownership changes and having money problems over the past couple of years, it keeps...

Shoot Tools: Roland

By Dan Ochiva

For a company that has made its name in audio, adding the ability to record video in the field didn't seem much of a hassle, considering the advances...

Shoot Tools: Panasonic

By Dan Ochiva

Demo'd at the NAB with a built-in vectorscope and waveform monitor, Panasonic's latest handheld P2 HD camcorder is adding in that same clever capability...

Shoot Tools: Fast Forward Video

By Dan Ochiva

At NAB Show 2008, Fast Forward Video (FFV) became one of the first companies to deliver a camera-mounted DVR that records to the open-standard JPEG 2000...

Edit Review: Maxon Cinema 4D R10.5

Reviewer: Franklin McMahon

After 10 revisions, Maxon Cinema 4D has blossomed into nothing less than a state-of-the-art rendering and animation system...

Edit Review: Strata CX Suite

Reviewer: Franklin McMahon

Strata has created a suite of tools with some very simple missions. One is to make it easy and accessible for producers without prior 3D experience to...

Edit Tools: Blackmagic Design

By Dan Ochiva

Pity the small production facility that wants to grow beyond a messy set of patch panels to something more organized: Until recently, not much has been...

Edit Tools: Matrox

By Dan Ochiva

It's pricier, but it does do more: MXO2, Matrox's second-generation all-in-one monitoring, output, and scan-conversion device for the Mac, now does capturing....

Edit Tools: GridIron Software

By Dan Ochiva

While the coming of apps that employ metadata has long been heralded, few products have aimed at workflow management. Now, GridIron Software Flow shows...

Edit Tools: Telestream

By Dan Ochiva

Telestream moves beyond its traditional broadcast market into higher-end post by adding support to process 10-bit 4:4:4 signals for Red Digital Cinema,...

Edit Tools: Maximum Throughput

By Dan Ochiva

Investing in and maintaining an editing facility isn't cheap or easy. Maximum Throughput, best known for its Sledgehammer network-attached storage gear,...

Edit Tools: G-Tech

By Dan Ochiva

When I hefted it at an NAB demo, the tiny G-Tech G-RAID mini 2 drive felt as solidly built as the rest of the company's storage offerings. Because it...

Distribute Review: Microboards CX-1 Disc Publisher

Reviewer: Jan Ozer

My favorite products to review, at least initially, are camcorders and notebook computers. Every time I open a new one, it feels like Hanukkah morning....

HDMI-over-Cat-5 Distribution Amplifiers

By Dan Ochiva

One benefit of the increased use of HDMI as an interface for large monitors: The thinner wiring employed by HDMI makes for easier- and cheaper-to-route...

Distribute Tools: Clear-Com

By Dan Ochiva

Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology offers good benefits and value. One example: VoIP-based Internet telephony services such as Skype. At NAB...

Distribute Tools: Broadcast Pix

By Dan Ochiva

Slate 5000 Offering small but capable HD/SD video switchers for live presentations is becoming more attractive; even big players, such as Panasonic with...

Distribute Tools: Inlet Technologies

By Dan Ochiva

Calling your new product line a never-before-seen approach to encoding workflow management is a heady claim, but Inlet Technologies has developed a rep...

Distribute Tools: Sony

By Dan Ochiva

Sony doesn't seem to be pausing to dance on the grave of HD DVD; at NAB Show 2008, the company unveiled a pro-level encoding solution for Blu-ray Discs:...

Distribute Tools: Echolab

By Dan Ochiva

As computer technology gets more potent, even lower-cost production gear can offer a range of technology once only in six-figure broadcast gear. Echolab...

Dream Job: Corporate Heart

By Kristinha M. Anding

Adobe thinks locally, gives globally with youth media philanthropy initiative...

Mark In

Is 3D difficult or impossible to teach and learn, as one past Siggraph panel had it? While the panel specifically addressed 3D animation, the growing use of 3D for animation and graphics in games, TV, the Web, and feature films points to the next frontier of computer-based skills....