Fast Forward Video Announces Portable, All-in-One HD Digital Video Recorder

Fast Forward Video (FFV) today announced the launch of its new HD3 digital video recorder (DVR). A highly versatile and compact all-in-one-system, the HD3 was designed specifically for on-set motion picture and television production. Jam-packed with state-of-the-art DVR and controller technology, the HD3 includes an integral HD monitor in a hard, portable case. The HD3 […]

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Zylight Z90 LED Light Goes Extreme Cave Diving

When DP Wes Skiles of Karst Productions was tasked with lighting reenactment sequences for the upcoming PBS/NOVA production “Extreme Cave Diving” he knew exactly what to use: Zylight’s intelligent LED lighting system. “When National Geographic/NOVA producer James Barrat asked me, the first thing that popped into my head was Zylight” said Wes. “With the small […]

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What is Content Management?

CMS Watch > Blog: What is Content Management?. There’s a question that keeps popping up around our industry: “What is Enterprise Content Management?” You’ll find no lack of answers. My colleague Alanargues persuasively that ECM is most useful as a term to describe the biggest platform vendor offerings. Industry associationAIIM defines ECM as “…strategies, methods […]

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Scribd goes mobile, adds sharing to iPhone, Kindle

Scribd goes mobile, adds sharing to iPhone, Kindle | Web Crawler – CNET News. Trip Adler, CEO of document-sharing serviceScribd.com, could be commended for having an unorthodox presentation style. At a time when companies big and small have gone to great lengths in trying to channel Steve Jobs, Adler is the one thinking different. On […]

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Autonomy and OpenText: Which Strategy Has Stronger Legs?

Autonomy and OpenText: Which Strategy Has Stronger Legs? : Beyond Search. Two companies in the search and content processing space pepper me with announcements of their acquisitions. I learned today, first via my Overflight service, and then from a gentle reader who sent me a link to the TechCrunch story “Open Text Buys Up Content […]

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The Social Panopticon And You

IEEE Spectrum: The Social Panopticon And You. POSTED BY: SALLY ADEE Over the past couple of weeks, Google has gotten repeated bloody noses from tech journalists over theBuzz debacle. Before Buzz, Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” philosophy was backed up by a lot of carefully thought-out and well-executed applications. By comparison, Buzz was so uncharacteristically tone-deaf […]

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Final Cut Pro’s achilles heel or how I hate the reconnection dance

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When you talk about media management in Final Cut Pro it’s often not a big issue to many as you digitize a few tapes or import some P2 media, add graphics, music and you’re done. FCP’s bad media management never rears its ugly head. But when you start working with many different clips across a […]

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Aperture 3.01 update released, update on my iPhoto ’09 migration

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Two things: 1.) Apple today released Aperture 3.0.1, addressing many of the issues I raised with version 3.0 2.) I’ve been busy on my iPhoto ’09 to Aperture 3.0 upgrade saga, but did something incredibly dumb, losing me hundreds of hours of effort. Details on both after the jump. Executive brief: Apple today released Aperture […]

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