After reading last week’s Real World Video Compression article that compared four Mac compression tools, I suggested a more comparative test that took time to standardize encoding settings to level the playing field. In the initial shootout, default templates and encoding settings were used for the most part. That’s not to say that the initial […]
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Digital Disambiguation by Eleta Exline Digital Libraries In practice, digital libraries are often viewed as an extension of traditional library collections. They usually contain digitized materials from the library’s paper or analog collections, and are often drawn from rare books collections, special collections, archives, or otherwise highlight the particular strengths of a given library. Digital […]
As companies become more reliant on the variety of digital assets they develop to market their products, services and brand, the management of those very same assets is placing some companies at a competitive disadvantage. Whether an employee is frustrated because he has to spend too much time trying to find a particular piece of […]
For our next project spotlight, we’re going to look at a Fox Sports HD promo animated by Joost Korngold of Renascent. This spot fuses organic movement with the high-impact 3D Fox Sports is known for. Joost, as well as Fox Sports Creative Directors Josh Nichols and Mark Denyer-Simmons plus Senior Vice President and Creative Director […]
I use Apple’s Aperture to import, organize, and do simple processing on digital pix. I just updated to 2.1.1, and now the image import window won’t show raw images—only dashed rectangles (JPEGS still show up properly). The raw images’ metadata is shown correctly, except for the consistently goofball pixel size of 128×128. If I select […]
Some very smart folks in the University of Washington’s Computer Science department are cooking up some pretty amazing procedures that could well revolutionize the process of creating visual effects. First up is a process for interactively extracting a matte for an image – what’s so incredible about this is that the object being extracted is […]
CMS Watch offers healthy advice for those running headlong into SaaS systems …. Buyer Beware! Socialtext, SaaS, and upgrading enterprise wikis 25-Aug-2008 Noted wiki vendor Socialtext has been busy appearing at high-profile conferences to promote their concept of business social software. However, recent experience suggests the still-young company may remain a little too fascinated by […]
AppArt’s Digital Asset Management service: Our custom-designed, easy-to-use, no maintenance, hosted Digital Asset Management service puts you in control of your digital asset library—no matter how large or complicated. It lets you quickly and successfully centralize, organize, manage, archive and distribute digital brand, marketing and packaging assets. We can get your site up in record […]
Yesterday I shot a political spot with Simon Sommerfeld, a friend who saved the day after I pitched the concept for this no-budget spot to an agency that then said, “We’ll take it–make it as fast as you can for no money.” Simon is a DP who just shot a feature in P2 using his […]
The annual TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) conference is a place where Big Thinkers gather annually to inspire and be inspired. I’ve been going through their online archive of talks for my own amusement and education, and sharing with you ones I found to be particularly interesting. This week I’d like to share a talk […]
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