LaCie Announces Its Smallest Hard Disk Solution To Date

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LaCie introduced the most compact 2.5″ hard drive on the market – LaCie Rikiki, in metal. Measuring just a mere 110cm3, its sophisticated form factor holds up to 640GB of media that you won’t mind storing in a pocket or purse. Encased in brushed, sturdy aluminum, the LaCie Rikiki, which means “tiny” in French, represents […]

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Fast Forward Video Launches Micron HD Digital Video Recorder

Fast Forward Video (FFV) announced the release of its new Micron HD digital video recorder (DVR), a highly cost-effective yet powerful solution for recording and playout of broadcast-quality digital SD and HD video. The Micron HD offers many of the features of FFV’s industry-leading Omega HD DVR, in a single rack unit and at a […]

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DSC Laboratories announces CineZone, a remarkable new chart for capitalizing on lens performance.

After years of bringing standardized color calibration to professional video markets, DSC Labs introduces CineZone, a remarkable new resolution chart incorporating many test elements and a slate on one neat chart. Working with Hollywood engineers, CineZone was designed with today’s producers in mind. The ideal tool for cinematographers and engineers, the CineZone pattern incorporates a […]

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Eye Scream Factory DVD Menu Templates Included with MacUpdate Holiday Bundle

Eye Scream Factory, the Boston-based creative team providing time-saving design templates and royalty-free content for media hobbyists and professionals, today announced that the first 10,000 customers who purchase MacUpdate’s Holiday Bundle will receive Eye Scream Factory’s Holiday DVD Menu Template Super Bundle, a $105 USD value that is available exclusively from MacUpdate. Eye Scream Factory’s […]

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Quasar 3D Rig used on Dave Matthews Band Concert Feature “Larger Than Life in 3D”

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Element Technica, a leading designer and manufacturer of 3D rigs and associated equipment for motion picture and television 3D production, announces that its Quasar 3D rigs were used extensively in the production of “Larger Than Life in 3D” featuring Dave Matthews Band, Ben Harper and Relentless7, and Gogol Bordello. 3D rigs position the two camera […]

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Internet Archive: A Future for Books – BookServer

Internet Archive: A Future for Books — BookServer. The widespread success of digital reading devices has proven that the world is ready to read books on screens. As the audience for digital books grows, we can evolve from an environment of single devices connected to single sources into a distributed system where readers can find […]

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Edit suite etiquette and sharing your space

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If you’re a working editor out in the world, chances are you freelance or you are on staff at a post-production facility. No matter which of those two categories you might fall into you probably don’t work in a vacuum; that vacuum being one single edit suite that you and you yourself occupy without any […]

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Google’s DLF – Don’t Throw Out The Metadata With The Bathwater

Google’s DLF – Don’t Throw Out The Metadata With The Bathwater From Gunar. Great that Google is making their data more portable. However, they really need to ensure that the assets they deliver from the cloud contains the metadata – otherwise they are selling you short. Brian Fitzpatrick ofGoogle’s Data Liberation Front (DLF) was a […]

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When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail

Perhaps I am starting to suffer from“deformation professionelle”, but I am constantly surprised by how often I am still asked “Why do we need classification now we have free text search and Google?”. This post is designed to answer the question. If you are an info pro, it won’t tell you anything you don’t already […]

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