Studio Monthly articles from May 2008

Studio Monthly archives from May 2008

Thinking globally, acting locally.(editor's note)
May 1, 2008... Much has been said recently about the cumulative effect personal environmental choices will have on regulating climate change. Is every small step coming too little too late? How do we know which choices are merely virtuous posturing, as some...

Eco-Friendly foam from Auralex.(Spotlight on Green)
May 1, 2008... Indianapolis-based Auralex Acoustics recently released the first "green" acoustical foam product to be introduced to the audio production and post market. The company's Eco-Friendly StudioFoam now includes soy components that reduce...

Disc Makers launches smaller minimum order service.(Spotlight on Green)
May 1, 2008... Disc Makers announced earlier this year that it is now using only certified recycled paper and board stock for nearly all its CD and DVD packaging materials, including jewel case and DVD inserts, Digipaks, jackets, wallets and other board...

Liberty Wire & Cable gets the lead (and mercury) out.(Spotlight on Green)
May 1, 2008... Liberty Wire & Cable, a supplier of wire and cable products for the audio and video markets, now offers a range of products that comply with Green Market standards for environmentally friendly components. More than 90 percent of Liberty's...

Environmental images.(Spotlight on Green)
May 1, 2008... The stock footage resource, Artbeats, debuted a wide range of exclusive royalty-free collections and solo clips during NAB 2008, including a collection called "Energy and Environmental." The energy images include aerial clips of wind, water,...

Low energy, bright lights.(Spotlight on Green)
May 1, 2008... Zylight has come up with an intelligent Z90 LED light. At over four times brighter than our Z50, the Z90 is only slightly larger and draws the same power. The palm-sized Z90 has variable color temperature and access to any color of the without...

Protect your paperless trail.(Spotlight on Green)
May 1, 2008... Atrato's new V1000 has several key features that make it ideal for HPC, digital entertainment and Web applications. Central to the system is its Self-maintaining Array of Identical Disks (SAID), which give users realiable storage at a low cost...

AJA Io HD: a great box when working with native ProRes422 clips, but not when you need to ingest other formats.(ROI reviews)
May 1, 2008... AJA has been producing some of the best video capture cards in the industry for several years, including the Kona 2 and Kona 3 series, which have been available in several flavors to accommodate differing PCI bus architectures and SD and HD...

Primera Bravo SE Blu: the easiest path to desktop Blu-ray publishing.(ROI reviews)
May 1, 2008... The Primera family of DVD/CD duplicators has long been recognized as disc production workhorses, but the end of the high-definition optical disc format war has given that family a newly important mission: Blu-ray video disc production. (Note...

NewTek TriCaster STUDIO: this much updated "studio-in-a-box" now includes virtual sets.(ROI reviews)
May 1, 2008... It is hard to overestimate the impact the original NewTek TriCaster made when it was released in 2005. Quite simply put, this $5,000 shoe-box-shaped computer gave anyone wanting to do multi-camera video production most of the tools they needed....

Create the "Pleasantville effect" in Final Cut Pro.(how)
May 1, 2008... STEP 1 LOCATE THE COLOR CORRECTOR 3-WAY FILTER Go to the Browser window under the Effects tab, and locate the Color Corrector 3-way video filter, which is located under Video Transitions in the Color Correction folder. ...

Make scientific animations more cinematic with Softimage/XSI.(how)
May 1, 2008... STEP 1 START WITH GOOD REFERENCE IMAGES Regardless of the scientific or medical animation you're working on, the first essential step is to look at and collect as much specific reference imagery as you can. Even if it involves looking...

Creating a greener studio: thinking globally and acting locally is a lot harder to do in the technology-centered world of video production. But it's not impossible, says one producer who created a money-saving green plan for his business.(@WORK)
May 1, 2008... Reading this article's headline, you may be thinking, "Global warming is a big corporate guy issue and I'm just a small production company in Anytown, America." However, production tools that save on materials and energy output are available as...

Brand New School, green by design.(STUDIOS ON THE RISE)
May 1, 2008... WHAT'S THEIR GIG? When Jonahon Notaro opened the doors of Brand New School, his production and visual effects house, he was a whopping 23 years old. "I was working for a company and they got bought out and I wasn't very happy there,"...