Video Systems July 2003ViewpointHigh-end/Low-endCynthia Wisehart, Editorial Director In this issue we complete a two-part look at how aspects of moving picture production touch the Video Systems world.... Cover StoryBig Brands, Small PricesBy Dan Ochiva Siggraph 2003 remains the premier event for the graphics and animation crowd, where Hollywood jostles with academia. But don't think that means the booths in the San Diego convention center will only hold the latest in high-end gear and software.... ShootLenses for the Digital EraBy D. W. Leitner If Zeiss' new DigiPrimes seem to be in a class by themselves, there's a history. That history goes back to the early days of lenses for film cameras and now shapes the primes that Zeiss builds for digital cameras.... A Word of Thanks to All of the TroopsBy Bill Miller The troops are returning from the Iraqi conflict, brave men and women with battle scars etched in their memories forever. We see pictures of the reunions on the nightly news. Returning also are the brave men and women who took the pictures, reported the stories, and gave us the memoirs that will be embedded in our memories for a lifetime.... Shoot Review — Sony DSR-DU1By Steve Mullen Attending NAB 2003, one could be forgiven for thinking that tape would soon be “dead.” Panasonic showed its solid-state pro camcorder.... Shoot Review — Panasonic AJ-SDX900By Barry Braverman Panasonic's AG-DVX100 camera was pretty much the digital video story of 2002 as it burst upon the scene with the force of a 20-ton bunker buster.... Shoot Tools — Formatt
Formatt: FM500; Century Optics: 8X Wide Angle Converter; VariZoom: FlowPod; Hitachi: Z-4000W... EditThe P WordBy Bob Turner I am weary of the overuse of the 'P' word, so I am going to discuss a radically changing pattern or model for our industry. I'm referring to the way we store acquired sounds and images and access them in postproduction.... Edit Review — Apple Final Cut Express 1.0.1By Steve Mullen Apple's release of Final Cut Express demonstrates that "business as usual" is truly gone from the NLE market. Apple, faced with a market need for a lower-cost editor, had a crucial choice to make.... Edit Review — Apple Final Cut Express 1.0.1By Tom Patrick McAuliffe Final Cut Express, Apple's new "prosumer" video editor, is based on Apple's decidedly professional Final Cut Pro 3 (but distinctly different from the new Final Cut Pro 4).... Edit Tools — EZQuest
EZQuest: Cobra FireWire 800/USB 2.0 drive; Ulead Systems: StudioQuartet; Canopus: ACEDVio; MOTU: 828kll... DisplayWhere's That Better Mousetrap?By Pete Putman, CTS By the time you read this, Infocomm will have come and gone. There wasn't too much in the way of real groundbreaking display technology seen at the show, other than some new, larger LCD monitors, next-generation plasma, and some cool video scaling devices. Right now, the main concern of the market seems to be finding out what combination of prices and features will stimulate a sluggish marketplace.... Nickelodeon's RideBy Beck Finley Ad buyers at Manhattan's Roseland Ballroom for Nickelodeon's Upfront, the preview of its upcoming lineup in programming, were treated to a show befitting the children's programming network.... Display Review — InFocus ScreenPlay 7200By Jeff Sauer When it comes to building projectors for top-quality video, InFocus may not be the first company that leaps to mind. After all, InFocus has a full range of business-oriented data projectors and has been a close partner with Texas Instruments in helping to drive the microportable market.... Display Tools — Vista Systems
Vista Systems: Montage; Epson: PowerLite S1; Kopin: Power Display 113K & 300M; Folsom Research: ScreenShaper VMS-100... IntegrateAlternative MethodsBy Steve Mullen At last winter's DV Expo in New York City, I attended a DVD Studio Pro 1.0 micro-training session given by Apple. After an hour, most of us had a working button or two. At that point, I decided two things: DVD Studio Pro 1.0 did not fit my concept of an Apple product, and I wanted a widescreen iMac like the one I used at the session.... Integrate Review — Wacom Cintiq 18sxBy Tom Patrick McAuliffe The folks at Wacom have been around a long time making digital tablets that artists use to interact with their computers. More recently, video and audio editors and 3D animators have embraced pen-tablet technology as a more sensitive and intimate alternative to the mouse.... Integrate Tools — Gefen
Gefen: Ex-tend-it ADC splitter; Kano Technologies: SureVault series; Boris FX: Red 3GL; Sorenson Media: Squeeze 3.1 Mac Squeeze 3.5 Windows... IntelligenceJuly 2003 IntelligenceCompiled by Andrea Harden A monthly assortment of fascinating market statistics.... MusingsVideos of ResistanceBy Kristinha M. Anding When Alexandra Halkin went to Chiapas, Mexico, in 1995 to make a documentary about the Zapatista movement, she found a plethora of video makers and press swarming the rural communities. She also found the indigenous people of Chiapas were interested in the video cameras and technologies the foreign producers were using.... InboxFormat Wars
I was just reading Bill Miller's column on the format wars ("Looking Over the Horizon," May 2003). I shoot for TV magazine shows, national and international news, large corporations, and satellite uplinks...... CorrectionCorrection
In last month's SIGGRAPH magazine, an image from NVIDIA's Electronic Theater short Dawn, was erroneously co-credited to Spellcraft Studios. Dawn is the... |
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