Mike’s iPad rant-good device, bogus marketing

With the iPad about to ship in bulk for Saturday delivery and retail launch, some friends on mine were discussing who is getting one and who isn’t, and somebody asked for the group’s thoughts. What started out as an email didn’t get sent, it turned into this here. Apple calls the iPad “magical” and “revolutionary” […]

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Ultra dependable video recorder for legal depositions

Legal videographers need to make high quality A/V recordings and archive safety copies of them for 60 to 90 days. Deposition videos are usually recorded and delivered on DVD and backed up to SVHS for failsafe copies. But with the pro video community as a whole moving away from tape as an acquisition or even […]

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Matrox Announces World’s First Four-Channel 3G SDI Cards for Mac

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Matrox Video Products Group today announced the Matrox Multi input/output cards which bring a new level of channel density to Mac Pro and Apple Xserve systems. In a single PCIe slot, a Matrox Multi card provides up to four independent inputs or outputs with up to 16 embedded audio channels per SDI stream. User-selectable combinations […]

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Silhouette v4 is Here!

SilhouetteFX, LLC is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 4 of Silhouette, the digital post-production industry’s leading stereo paint and roto solution. Incorporating many improvements and new features including a vastly improved planar tracker, version 4’s aim is to provide a complete matting solution from fast automatic methods to fine-scale hardcore manual means. […]

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V, a modernized and reimagined version V, The Visitors, and Zoic Studios Join Forces

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“The Visitors,” in spaceships hovering over every major city, captured the attention of the global population in V, the popular new television series on ABC. In much the same way, V has garnered the attention of the visual effects community, thanks in no small of the original 1983 miniseries, is filmed in Vancouver, where more […]

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Associated Content: Hey, We Were Here First!

Associated Content: Hey, We Were Here First!. Demand Media and AOL’s Seed project have been getting lots of attention lately, in part because they’ve both become poster children (although Demand more so than Seed) for the idea of a digital “content factory” — a virtual sweatshop filled with people toiling at terminals for pennies a […]

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Matrix: Evolution of Social Media Integration and Corporate Websites

Matrix: Evolution of Social Media Integration and Corporate Websites Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing. Many Brands That Adopt Social Are ‘Throwing Away’ Hard Earned Traffic Many brands are jumping on the social media bandwagon, without giving proper though about the impacts to their marketing effort. In particular, many brands are […]

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A Flock of Twitters: Decentralized Semantic Microblogging

A Flock of Twitters: Decentralized Semantic Microblogging. In my last article,Flocking To the Stream, I ended with this thought about the growing issue of social-networking fatigue: …as the number of streams continue to increase and as the flow rate of each stream picks up, people will grow tired of having to subscribe to, having to […]

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Come to NAB for my Avid Media Composer for Final Cut Pro Editors class

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I’m very excited for my trip to the National Association of Broadcasters convention this year as I’ll be leading a couple of the In Depth sessions of the Post|Production world conference. The first, on Tuesday morning from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm and part of the Avid Editing Workshop is, Avid Media Composer for Final […]

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