How the BBC made one of those amazing plant growing shots

For those that aren’t on Twitter I wanted to post this amazing video that shows how the BBC series Life was able to achieve an amazing plant growing shots for the episode “Plants.” It involves multiple time-lapse tracking shots in the wild as well as the same shots recreated on blue-screen in the studio. All […]

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The New Kid on the Block: CMIS

WCM Field Notes: The Skinny on JCR, CMIS and OSGi The Content Management Interoperability Specification (CMIS) is an OASIS project started in 2008 and driven by a number of medium and large content management vendors (i.e., Alfresco, Day, EMC, Fatwire, IBM, Microsoft, Open Text and others). At this point I'm assuming that most readers have […]

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Search is increasingly about classification

Remember meta tags? They were an early attempt to establish a taxonomy for web pages. These are the keywords… this is the author… this is the date… etc etc. Abused beyond parody, the search has been on ever since for a way to decipher those signals from natural elements within a page. The principle behind […]

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A United Cloud: private and hybrid clouds

It appears that Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, Server and Tools President Bob Muglia and both their teams are well aware that enterprises will expect their cloud infrastructures to fully support the need for private and hybrid clouds. “With Windows Azure, Windows Server and System Center, there’s one coherent model of managing this infrastructure […]

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Filmmaker Selects JVC ProHD Camcorder to Shoot Leper Colonies in India

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JVC Professional Products, a division of JVC U.S.A., announced today that Jeremiah Fry, an independent filmmaker based in New Orleans, used a JVC GY-HM100 ProHD camcorder to shoot video footage in leper colonies throughout India. When complete, his documentaries will detail the charitable efforts of Embrace A Village, a nonprofit Christian organization in Coimbatore, Tamil […]

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GENARTS ANNOUNCES PRICING FOR SAPPHIRE 5 LICENSES

GenArts Inc., the premier provider of specialized visual effects software for the film, television and video industries, today announced pricing for its GenArts Sapphireâ„¢ 5 licenses for Autodesk systems. A new Sapphire 5 license for Linux Flame, Inferno, Flint HD and Smoke HD will be priced at $8,499. This price represents a $1,500 decrease from […]

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The Next Big SaaS – Not your Grandpa’s DAM System

Digital Asset Management has long been the domain of the large enterprise – those companies that have front page stories on Time Magazine or companies whose owners make the Forbes 500 richest list 5 years running. But, is all that changing? Is the DAM system that we know and love morphing into a tool that […]

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Search, Compliance, Collaboration To Drive ECM 2010 Spending

Search, Compliance, Collaboration To Drive ECM 2010 Spending > > Intelligent Enterprise: Better Insight for Business Decisions. Forrester Research also found in surveying 170 information and knowledge management professionals that Web content management and records management will be areas of investment next year. ByAntone Gonsalves December 14, 2009 A survey of organizations using enterprise content […]

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Band Pro 3D – roundup panel discussion on stereoscopic

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At the Band Pro 3D event today, some industry vets discussed tips, tricks, good, bad, and ugly of stereoscopic imaging and post production, with a huge number of useful tips and suggestions on how to successfully navigate the 3D minefield. My raw notes begin after the jump. PANEL DISCUSSION:==================== BandPro3D_Panel – thrilling pics of four […]

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Band Pro 3D – Technicolor 3D is 35mm film based stereoscopic projection solution

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At the Band Pro 3D event held at Technicolor today, Technicolor showed off their film based 3D solution – they wanted to speed up the 3D rollout with something dependable, affordable, and available- so they went back to the future with a film based 3D projection system. See below all my notes from the panel […]

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