P2 Safari

By Cynthia Wisehart

National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Dereck Joubert shoots his latest film in Botswana with the Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 and Fujinon lenses. Because the project is slated for feature release, Joubert shot with Panasonic’s 10-bit, 4:2:2 AVC-Intra codec at 1080p....

Data World

By Cynthia Wisehart

My talk with wildlife filmmaker Dereck Joubert started off technically enough. He was, after all, shooting tapeless with the Panasonic AJ-HPX3000...

Shoot Expertise: Backing Up

By Barry Braverman

For wayward shooters operating primarily in the field, the occasional rushed offloading of a camera’s memory cards is inevitable. Having sufficient card capacity on hand can reduce the need for high-stress impromptu transfers....

Shoot Tools: Apogee Electronics

By Dan Ochiva

The Apogee Duet—a FireWire audio interface designed specifically for Mac computers—brings a quality, 2-channel, 24-bit/96kHz interface to a laptop or desktop. ...

Shoot Tools: Kodak

By Dan Ochiva

Kodak’s Zi6 HD pocket video¬camera shoots 720p video at 60fps with a 16:9 aspect ratio—although you won’t mistake the results as something from a Sony or Panasonic unit. ...

Shoot Tools: K-Tek

By Dan Ochiva

Soft-Touch collars are constructed of precisely engineered thermal composite, and they are UV- and rain-resistant....

Shoot Tools: DXG

By Dan Ochiva

DXG joins the party with its DXG-567V, which offers 1280x720 HD recording. It uses the H.264 codec to deliver 1280x720/30fps, 720x480/30fps, and 320x240 in the .mov file format....

Shoot Tools: Shure

By Dan Ochiva

For capturing actors’ voices, consider Shure’s UR1M wireless micro-body-pack transmitter. Weighing in at a minimal 3oz. with two AAA batteries, the unit is said to be half the size of most standard body packs. ...

Shoot Tools: DuetBreakout

By Dan Ochiva

A small company, DuetBreakout, built its own hand-crafted solution: Breakout. The box offers a more solid way to provide I/O for the Apogee Duet without the "rats' nest of cableage," as the company puts it. ...

Edit Expertise: Screencam Production

By Jan Ozer

TechSmith Camtasia Studio features one-source recording, editing, and encoding capabilities...

Edit Review: Media 100 Producer 12.6

Reviewer: Franklin McMahon

The Media 100 Producer 12.6 interface can start to get a little cluttered with multiple windows open. It would be nice to have a more streamlined workspace with everything contained in one window...

Edit Review: Audio Ease Speakerphone

Reviewer: Gary Eskow

Gary Eskow reviews Audio Ease Speakerphone, a powerful cross–platform post tool that places audio in almost any virtual space...

Edit Tools: AMCC

By Dan Ochiva

A growing number of storage and graphics products are making use of the latest, higher-speed generation PCI Express (PCIe) bus. The 3ware Sidecar from AMCC is one...

Edit Tools: Data Robotics

By Dan Ochiva

The second-generation Drobo from Data Robotics offers FireWire 800 connectivity and a faster ARM core processor to boot...

Edit Tools: Addonics Technologies

By Dan Ochiva

Addonics recently announced the Diamond Cipher Drive Cartridge system, model DCDCS256S, which allows users to turn any SATA hard drive into a 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) hardware-encrypted removable disk...

Edit Tools: Seagate

By Dan Ochiva

While some people feel the move to ever-larger disk drives might be more dangerous than welcome—the larger the drive, the more you’ll lose when it goes south—the trend continues. Leading disk manufacturer Seagate delivers the first 1.5TB drive this month...

Edit Tools: Matrox

By Dan Ochiva

The company has found a niche supplying cards that power multiple monitors, such as the DualHead2Go and TripleHead2Go products...

Edit Tools: Fast Forward Video

By Dan Ochiva

When you’re doing on-location production, keeping it simple is key to keeping things under control. Fast Forward Video (FFV) helps meet that goal with eClips, a simplified DVR pegged for live-broadcast production...

Distribute Tools: Vutec

By Dan Ochiva

Fitting two separate screens into one housing doesn’t seem to make much sense, but if one of them is much more than just another screen, you’ll have Vutec’s unique product: the Vu-Flex Pro Duplex...

Distribute Tools: Avocent

By Dan Ochiva

Something like a long-range video splitter without wires, the MPX1500T transmitter adds new capabilities for centrally managing the MPX extender and attached devices over the Internet—such as turning displays on or off...

Distribute Tools: Gepco International

By Dan Ochiva

Durable construction starts with the V-CON connectors, which feature an all-metal body, locking set-screw, and integrated cord grip—all in a weather-tight design...

Distribute Tools: Hitachi

By Dan Ochiva

Most whiteboards have been made for large venues, however. At InfoComm 08, Hitachi addressed that by offering a smaller, less expensive version—the 63in. StarBoard FX-63 Duo interactive whiteboard...

Distribute Tools: TV One

By Dan Ochiva

The C2-3000 series offer eight universal video inputs on HD15 connectors that can accommodate composite video, YC (S-Video), YUV/YPbPr component, RGBHV, RGBS, or RGsB formats...

Distribute Tools: Fiberplex

By Dan Ochiva

FiberPlex helps cut down on the complexity with its LightViper Shadow combined-media fiber-optic transport system. LightViper Shadow is designed for uses such as live-sound and broadcast production, fixed media installations, and remote-recording applications...

Dream Job: Raptor Rapture

By Kristinha M. Anding

A profile of Neil Rettig, a noted documentarian who specializes in films regarding birds. His latest raptor-focused documentary is set to air in the fall on PBS’ Nature...

Mark In

Now, workaday video editors have the chance to use some remarkable AI-based music-composing software that allows them to move beyond the usual options of original composition, commercial music, music loops, or library music...