Off the Line

By Trevor Boyer

A typical working day for Kevin Tierney involves standing around on a boat and watching guys fish. Of course, he's watching extremely closely — via the viewfinder of a Panasonic AG-HPX500, ready to press record if the professional angler he's watching gets a bite. (The 5-second prerecord cache on the camcorder certainly comes in handy...

Lucky You 2

By Cynthia Wisehart

The prize patrol is on the move, with continuing opportunities for aspiring content creators to get help and attention. In last month's millimeter...

First Look: Sony HVR Series

By D.W. Leitner

I typically do not describe new products by the batch, but what choice am I given when Sony simultaneously introduces three HDV camcorders and a deck, each with unprecedented attributes or capabilities? As if it were April in Las Vegas instead of November in New York...

Shoot Review: Sony HVR-HD1000U

Reviewer: Jan Ozer

Sony's HVR-HD1000U isn't the type of camcorder to woo you with subtle features. You either need a single-chip $1,900 shoulder-mount HDV camcorder with fairly Spartan controls or you don't. You'll probably know instantly if this camcorder is for you. Either way, the target market is likely broader than you think...

Shoot Tools: M-Audio

By Dan Ochiva

M-Audio’s popular MicroTrack, one of the first relatively cheap portable, handheld 24kHz/96kHz recorders, now has a second iteration with the MicroTrack II...

Shoot Tools: Sony

By Dan Ochiva

Camcorder users get even more choice as competition heats up throughout the major players’ product lines. Late last year, Sony introduced two new camcorders...

Shoot Tools: Sachtler

Experience counts. Take Sachtler for instance. The German company begins its 50th year this month, and its reputation for well-designed and -built camera support gear...

Shoot Tools: Manfrotto

By Dan Ochiva

With the plethora of small camcorders available, there always seems room for another stabilizer to check out...

Shoot Tools: 16x9

By Dan Ochiva

While it’s hard to find an excuse for use of a specialty lens beyond a specific shot or effects sequence, sometimes that’s the only thing that will do the trick...

Shoot Tools: JVC

By Dan Ochiva

Describing it as the fastest shoot/edit/broadcast workflow in the industry, JVC is touting upgrades of its DR-HD100 hard disk recorder and Apple Final Cut Pro to enable full native 60p editing support for the company’s ProHD camera users...

Edit Review: Digital Anarchy ToonIt

Reviewer: Franklin McMahon

When I initially heard about ToonIt — the software plug-in that simulates a cartoon feel similar to the effects seen in movies such as Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly — I couldn't help but feel slightly blasé...

Edit Review: Autodesk Combustion 2008

Review: Franklin McMahon

Autodesk Combustion is one of my favorite desktop compositing programs. In my experience, it's well built for realtime results, expertly using OpenGL to provide a fast and responsive creation environment...

Edit Tools: Panasonic

By Dan Ochiva

To save money, perhaps the next product you buy should do double duty. Panasonic presents its latest multiformat video switcher, the AV-HS400N, as ideal for live studio and mobile production systems...

Edit Tools: Enhance Technology

By Dan Ochiva

New, lower-cost generations of SAS and SATA I/II 3Gbps interface hard drives have been on the market for a while...

Edit Tools: Nvidia

By Dan Ochiva

At this month’s CES convention, Nvidia laid out a new approach to graphics that is due to come to market as soon as next month...

Edit Tools: Noise Industries

By Dan Ochiva

If you have to come up with lots of effects looks, it’s good to check out new packages. While Noise Industries might not be well known, the company is already releasing version 2 of FxFactory...

Edit Tools: Boris FX

By Dan Ochiva

The market for compositing and effects software is competitive, and it’s getting more so with new products from Adobe and Red Giant Software, among others...

Edit Tools: Fabrik

By Dan Ochiva

If you move back and forth between field production and the studio, the new generations of portable USB drives are pretty handy...

Distribute Tools: Polycom

By Dan Ochiva

Filling out its line of HD video-collaboration systems with a new midrange offering, Polycom’s HDX 8000 series also includes a newly released, patent-pending Lost Packet Recovery technology...

Distribute Tools: Wohler

By Dan Ochiva

With the move to HD, presentation and display systems need to be flexible as well as comply with new FCC requirements...

Distribute Tools: Christie Digital

By Dan Ochiva

Christie Digital has a long history in film and video projection, going back more than 77 years, but the company has just now released its first native HD single-chip DLP projector...

Distribute Tools: Tandberg

By Dan Ochiva

In the move toward wider acceptance of videoconferencing and mobile video, playing well with others is an increasing refrain...

Distribute Tools: VBrick Systems

By Dan Ochiva

Moving live video over wide area networks (WAN) for editing or further redistribution (or reflection, in industry parlance) can get complicated, but VBrick Systems addresses that with its new Reflector Appliance...

Distribute Tools: Quvis

By Dan Ochiva

While it’s still not part of many production scenarios, displaying stereoscopic video content is becoming more practical...

Dream Job: The Ocean Red

By Kristinha M. Anding

The Oceanic Preservation Society shoots Japan’s controversial dolphin slaughter as part of a larger environmental film...

Mark In

Solid-state recording for camcorders long heralded and championed by Panasonic is going wide, with developments across the broadcast and IT landscapes...