Nobody is Making Money Online from Susan Boyle Video (Yet) Written by Frederic Lardinois Unless you lived in an exceptionally dark cave in the last two weeks, you probably weren’t able to escape the Susan Boyle phenomenon. According to some metrics, over 100 million people have watched the immaculately edited video of the ‘frumpy’ 47-year-old’s […]
Month: April 2009
Not Web Content, Quality Web Content
Interesting research from the Aberdeen Groupon how web content management technology is transforming digital marketing. This is agated report, so you’ll have to sign up to get it…but there is some quality information in here about the evolution of web content. Portions of the report discuss the corporate goal of improving web content. Getting content […]
ViewCast Expands Products, Adds Asset Management
ViewCast Expands Products, Adds Asset Management April 22nd, 2009By Carl Lindemann ViewCast arrived at the NAB Show aiming high and low at the IP-video delivery market with two new streaming appliances, the entry-level Niagra 2100 and the high-definition Niagra 7500. In addition, the company comes to the show on the heels of acquiring Ancept Media […]
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Cinegy Delivers Enterprise Media Workflow and Management Solution
Cinegy Delivers Enterprise Media Workflow and Management Solution digital newsApril 23rd, 2009 LAS VEGAS–At the 2009 NAB Show, Cinegy announced that it will deliver workflow, digital asset management and archive solutions for the broadcast and media industry based on Microsoft technologies. Cinegy Workflow is an integrated, all-in-one solution for media workgroups. The PC-based platform consists […]
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Tip: Preview a Chapter of After Effects Studio Techniques, Gratis
After Effects CS4 Visual Effects & Compositing Studio Techniques is quite a mouthful for a book title, which may explain why I often use the shorthand above. The book stands out for a couple of reasons: one is that it deals explicitly with visual effects compositing, the process of fooling the eye into thinking disparate […]
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NAB 2009 – Wednesday RedUser Party
RED’s Ted Schilowitz introduces the demo reels. Wednesday evening, following a two-hour Scratch demo (about which I’ll have more to say in an NAB wrap-up article), I journeyed out to the Rio Hotel for the RedUser NAB party, organized by Steve Sherrick of Obscure Knowledge. I wasn’t sure what to expect; I worried that I […]
NAB Tuesday: Getting Plugged In
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 […]
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 […]
