Noise is everywhere in Vegas. Slot machines are mostly just noise, and everywhere there is loud music – we heard U2 at the breakfast buffet, AC/DC in the hotel restroom, and even the popcorn street vendor on the corner aimed his radio at the crowds walking past while a live band played across the square […]
Day: April 23, 2009
NAB 2009 Video – Cinevate
Cinevate had a fantastic booth at NAB 2009, and were showing off a number of new products. They had their sliders (Linear Tracking Systems), cable-camera system, B4 relay, a monitor beta, dolly system, mattebox and remote follow focus. […]
Tip: Measure Drive Performance for Video on a Mac with HD Speed Test
If you’ve ever searched for downloadable tools to benchmark drive performance on your Mac, you have probably ended up downloading free applications from Aja and Blackmagic. You may have realized that these applications don’t offer an accurate portrait of how your drive will perform with your editing software, but until now they were the only […]
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Taxonomy is key to Effective ECM
Taxonomy is key to Effective ECM Jim Sweeney—April 22, 2009 – 1:32pm I recently attended a seminar on the10 Steps to Business Efficiency with Content, Collaboration and Processgiven by the good people at AIIM (http://aiim.org) all about ECM strategies and best practices. This was a free seminar, well organized and well attended by a broad […]
Time for a New Internet?
I’ve written a number of posts about security issues relating to the Internet and World Wide Web. We’re all at risk and it’s getting more difficult to keep up our defenses. According to the Ponemon Institute, a Tucson-based research firm, it costs a company over $200 to deal with each customer record that has been […]
Global Brain
Image via Wikipedia THE GLOBAL BRAIN: A DEFINITION There is no Oxford English dictionary definition for this conjunction of words yet. Within the microspheres of Silicon Valley and academia (notably neuroscience, experimental psychology and management sciences), it is generally accepted to be: The “Global Brain” (GB) is a metaphor for this emerging, collectively intelligent network […]
NAB 2009 Video – Canon DSLRs and Panasonic 3D
At Canon’s NAB booth we talked with them about user-requested firmware updates for the Canon 5D MKII, as well as the basic video featureset of the new Rebel T1i. We also got a quick look at a concept 3D stereoscopic camera design from Panasonic. […]
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NAB 2009 Video – Nexto DI and Rosco Litepads
We got a look at the Nexto DI unit, a portable handheld device that dumps all sorts of P2, SxS, SD and flash media to a 500GB drive, and can even allow you to review dailies via a built-in LCD screen. We also stopped by Rosco’s booth to check out their Litepad systems. […]
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