An Industry Shifts, Part II

An Industry Shifts, Part II 1

Last time, we chatted with Michael Bravin of Band Pro Film & Digital about some of the major changes across the industry landscape as digital motion picture technology, the economy, and the industry generally shift and evolve. This time, From the Trenches touched base with Tom Fletcher, another industry veteran and VP of one of […]

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Justifying Taxonomy Projects

Justifying Taxonomy Projects: Taxonomy Boot Camp 2009. Transcript Justifying Taxonomy Projects Approaches for Calculating Return on Investment Getting the most from taxonomy, search and content processes Leveraging Information Asset Investments Typical investments in information assets include : Content management infrastructure Portals, technologies for integration Time and energy spent organizing information Taxonomies, metadata standards, information architecture How […]

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Timelapse Motion Control

Having made the move recently from California to New Mexico, loving to shoot both states (and points in between), and having recently bought a Canon 5D Mark II, I was happy to have recently encountered Timescapes.org, who is currently working on a film about the area – Southwest Light – which is being shot timelapse […]

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Digital Rapids’ StreamZHD Encoding and Streaming System Wins Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Award

Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids — the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film and web content to wider audiences — announced today that the StreamZHD multi-format, live and on-demand encoding system has won a 2009 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Award as the top high definition (HD) hardware encoder. The award was presented […]

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Final Frame Post Expands with DCP (Digital Cinema Package) Services

Final Frame, a New York City based post production service provider announced today that it has expanded their services for the Digital Cinema post production market. Final Frame’s new DCP (Digital Cinema Package) services provide a complete solution for the encoding, secure key embedding, encryption, storing, decoding, viewing, and packaging of digital cinema content for […]

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Sanyo’s VPC-HD2000A boldly goes where no consumer camcorder has ever gone before: 1080/59.94p

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At the dawn of affordable professional HD video camcorders, JVC first offered recording only to 720p, Sony first offered only 1080i recording, and Panasonic offered recording to either of the above (even though its original sensors had a native resolution of 960×540, so any HD recording was interpolated). Nowadays, many of the latest offerings from […]

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PRODAD EXPANDS ADORAGE PRODUCT LINE WITH EFFECTS PACKAGE 11 – HD GLOBAL TRAVEL & FLAGS FX

proDAD GmbH, a world-class maker of video effects products, today announced the latest addition to its popular Adorage product line – Adorage Effects Package 11 – HD Global Travel & Flags FX. As its name suggests, Adorage Effects Package 11 includes 5,000 global travel themed effects and transitions, including flags of the world, continents, images […]

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UC SAN DIEGO DEVELOPS 3D NEXCAVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT USING JVC GD-463D10U MONITORS

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JVC Professional Products, a division of JVC U.S.A., announced today that the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) is using JVC GD-463D10U 46-inch 3D HD LCD monitors as part of its next immersive visualization system. Short for new micropolarized panel-based cave automatic virtual environment, NexCAVE was prototyped in June at the University of […]

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WAVES RELEASES WNS WAVES NOISE SUPPRESSOR

The first in the new line of dedicated Waves Post Production tools, the Waves WNS Noise Suppressor, is a real-time multiband processor for fast and effective broadband noise suppression on dialog tracks. Suitable for both indoor and location dialog recordings containing constant or modulating environment noise, WNS delivers superior sound quality with minimal artifacts. Designed […]

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