Video Systems June 2004

Viewpoint

A/V Excellence

By Cynthia Wisehart, Editorial Director

Last night (June 8) at InfoComm, the ICIA held its first gala awards banquet and packed the house. This banquet combined several awards programs and presentation......


Coverstory

Motion Graphics for the Masses

By Audrey Doyle

Faster, better, cheaper. This mantra is all too familiar to video producers, who know that being able to create sophisticated, compelling content on increasingly tight schedules and budgets is crucial to remaining competitive. Over the years, software vendors such as Boris FX and Digital Anarchy, among others, have made major inroads in the motion graphics segment of this field by developing......


Pick Hits

NAB 2004 Pick Hit Awards

By Trevor Boyer

At NAB 2004, attendance took a turn for the better. Las Vegas Convention Center booths were packed; buyers were buying, and HD seemed to be in every booth....


Shoot

NAB Shoots for HD

By Steve Mullen

Those of you who have attended the last half-decade of NAB conventions know well that HD is the technology that has been promoted the most aggressively....


48 Hours or Bust

By Bill Miller

They descended on the farm a legion of volunteers equipped with Sony PD150s, rusting Omni lights, and backpacks full of enthusiasm. The orange extension......


Shoot Review — Final Draft 7.0

By Tom Patrick McAuliffe

Perhaps like many of you, I have a dream of one day writing a major motion picture or award-winning television movie. The Writers Guild of America, the......


Shoot Tools — Zaxcom

Zaxcom: Deva Fusion; Audio-Technica: AT898; Sanken: CUW-180; Schneider Optics': Digicon filter ...


Edit

Best of NAB

By Bob Turner

This was one of the best NABs I have attended in a long time! There were so many exciting products making debuts, high-definition alternatives, and more......


Edit Review — Ableton Live 3.0

By Gary Eskow

Although I mention it on a regular basis these days, the way many of today's audio applications put powerful sound design tools into the hands of creative......


Edit Tools — Boxx Technologies

Boxx Technologies: HDV Pro; Nvidia: Quadro FX 4000 SDI; Pinnacle Systems: Liquid HD; Adobe: After Effects 6.5 ...


Display

An Illuminating Technology

By Jeff Sauer

LCD desktop monitors have a definite allure among common business offices. Functionally, they save space on the desk, and emotionally, they just look... ...


Network News Face-Lift

By Beck Finley

Competition for ratings among news programs is fierce. The continued success of 24-hour cable news programs has broadcast news vying for viewers for their......


Display Tools — ViewCast

ViewCast: Niagara PowerStream; Daktronics: 5-Year Silver Service Plan; Panasonic: PT-LB10NTU, PT-LB10U, PT-LB10VU; BenQ: P211 and P992 ...


Integrate

Potent Storage

By Dan Ochiva

NAB marked a breakthrough for potent storage systems many of which handle HD that price high-end arrays at near entry-level pricing. Here's a good example......


Protect and Xserve

By Steve Mullen

The first computer I used that had a hard drive was a Digital Equipment (DEC) PDP-8/I. The hard drive a DEC DF32 was a microwave-oven-sized, very slow......


Integrate Review — Canopus ProCoder 2

By Jeff Sauer

When ProCoder made its debut a couple of years ago, Canopus billed it as something of a better mousetrap than the venerable media compression tool Cleaner....


Integrate Tools — Doremi Labs

Doremi Labs: ORCA; Broadcast Pix: Broadcast Pix Studio; Canopus: Imaginate version 2.0; All Video Technologies (AVT): Utouch ...


Dream Job

A Perfect Union

By Cody Holt

For nearly three decades, Chuck and Jewel Savadelis asked themselves the same question as they toasted each new year: What kind of business can we build......


Intelligence

June 2004 Intelligence

Compiled By Andrea Harden

A monthly assortment of fascinating market statistics....


Inbox

Great Tech Specs

Wow. I just read the article Uncompressed Digital Video in the March 2004 issue of Video Systems. No wonder I love this magazine. I'm not an engineer......


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