FUJINON INC. BECOMES WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF FUJIFILM NORTH AMERICA CORPORATION

FUJINON INC., a major manufacturer and distributor of optics and lens assemblies for the broadcast, digital cinema and industrial markets, today announced that, effective July 1, 2010, it will become FUJIFILM Optical Devices U.S.A., Inc., a newly formed subsidiary of FUJIFILM North America Corporation. FUJIFILM Corporation has identified the optical device business as one of […]

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Digital Rapids Releases Powerful Flux HD Hardware and New Encoding Software Upgrade

Markham, Ontario: Digital Rapids today announced that the company is now shipping the powerful new Flux HD video capture and pre-processing hardware, plus a previously-unannounced new version of the Stream software for the company’s encoding and live streaming systems. New features in version 3.3 include enhanced Apple(r) iPad(r) and iPhone(r) encoding, script command insertion, open […]

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Matrix: Brand Monitoring, Social Analytics, Social Insights

Matrix: Brand Monitoring, Social Analytics, Social Insights Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing. Social data is overwhelming. More customers, buyers, and consumers are creating content everywhere they go. Companies cannot scale to match this in a 1:1 basis, and most companies are in early phases of the8 Stages of Listening. Earlier […]

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Online Video and TV will Converge

Google Vice President: Online Video and TV will Converge Henrique de Castro, Google vice president for global media and platforms, speaking recently (well worth watching fullvideo here) at theCannes Lions International Advertising Festival where he noted that TV and online video will, in fact, converge and the two will meet to offer a single platform, […]

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Moving from words to concepts

ctrl, the first product of the R&D group at PRAGMATECH, is a library for text processing that performs semantic analysis on (news-like) textual documents. The API of ctrl can be used to generate lucid summaries of documents, extract key topics, and – most importantly – it can be used to index and retrieve documents by […]

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Should Apple really drop Log and Capture from the next FCP?

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Just a few days ago Philip Hodgetts posted an intriguing article over on his blog The present and future of post production business and technology. It was titled Why Apple should drop Log and Capture from FCP and has generated some interesting discussion in the comments afterward. I think the theme of the entire article […]

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SONY NXCAM FIRMWARE UPDATE NOTIFICATION

User Firmware Update Ver. 2.0 is now available on the NXCAM micro-site. This user installable software updates the HXR-NX5U firmware version from 1.0 to 2.0. It is available here: http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/micro-nxcamsite/resource.downloads Version 2.0 addresses a “buffer overflow” message that may rarely occur due to a software malfunction with the camera’s HXR-FMU128 controller. When this issue occurs, […]

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From Sumo to Samurai: getting your taxonomies fighting fit: Part 1

FUMSI – From Sumo to Samurai: getting your taxonomies fighting fit: Part 1. Taxonomies The word ‘taxonomy’ has now entered into common business parlance and has, as is the way with these things, adopted a more simplified and generic definition. It pretty much describes any kind of controlled vocabulary regardless of hierarchical structure. In this […]

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