Studio Monthly articles from September 2007

Studio Monthly archives from September 2007

Powering down.(editor's note)
September 1, 2007... Sometime between the release of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth in 2006 and Earth Day this past April, America's environmental IQ took a dramatic turn. Now, everywhere you look, individuals, companies and even entire industries are going green....

SmartSound goes Indie.(gear up)
September 1, 2007... SmartSound has added new Indie Band and Indie Film music discs to its SmartSound BackStage music library. BackStage music is delivered in SmartSound's Multi-Layer format and works with Sonicfire Pro 4.5 and the new Express Track programs to...

Roadside's first sampler.(gear up)
September 1, 2007... Roadside Couch Records, the Indie record label from FirstCom Music, has just released its first compilation sampler featuring music from a variety of artists, including Craig Lyons and The Unlovables. In addition, Sampler 1 features the garage...

Music 2 hues welcomes new addition.(gear up)
September 1, 2007... Music 2 Hues announced the release of its Euro Trance CD, the latest addition to its Flagship Series production music line. The new title offers a variety of pulsating, hypnotic and techno-trance grooves. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The...

Non-stop keeps the beat.(gear up)
September 1, 2007... Non-Stop Music has added three new collections to its library. Urban Score is a three-CD set that offers authentic hip-hop/rap music; it features underscore versions, as well as multiple-length tracks. Also new is Passport to the Middle East,...

Killer tracks' heroic new release.(gear up)
September 1, 2007... Killer Tracks is releasing its 200th CD, Heroes, which features scores categorized in "sweeping-emotional, grand-military, sports-hero and swashbuckling-adventure" genres. Recorded live by an 87-piece orchestra, Heroes was conducted by renowned...

Digital Juice's staxx of Traxx.(gear up)
September 1, 2007... Digital Juice has released Latin Stacks, a new edition to its popular royalty-free StackTraxx layered production music library. Latin Stacks, with its decidedly Hispanic flavor, has a mix of popular Latino styles that range from brass and Tito...

Avid Xpress Pro 5.6: Mac-ready, with an impressive array of video format support.(ROI reviews)
September 1, 2007... This is our third outing with Avid's Xpress Pro software, which is now available on the Mac OS X platform. Since our last review, Avid has been busy adding more video format support, as well as upgrading the core processing from 8-bit to...

Matrox DualHead2Go: driving with extra monitors.(ROI Reviews)
September 1, 2007... Matrox has been doing a lot of "out-of-the-box" thinking in the past few years. The company has three families of external graphics devices--the high-end Exito line, essentially an external remote graphics unit for PCs; the MXO, for getting HD...

Leverage your Final Cut Pro skill set and apply it in an Avid environment.(how)
September 1, 2007... STEP 1 CREATE A PROJECT IN AVID XPRESS PRO OR AVID MEDIA COMPOSER When you launch the Avid software, the first thing you'll see is the Select Project window, where you can pick both the user and the project you're going to work with....

Edit Sony XDCAM and Panasonic P2 media with Grass Valley EDIUS 4.5.(train up)
September 1, 2007... STEP 1 INSTALL P2 DRIVERS Let's start with the Panasonic P2 media. First, install the Panasonic P2 drivers--this enables your PC to read the MXF data (OpAtom in this case) directly on the drive. If you don't do this, EDIUS will not work...

Looking good, high, Wide + Short.(2007 Projector Guide)
September 1, 2007... Buying a projector used to be relatively simple. You selected the brightness level you needed, chose the features you wanted and hoped the price would fit your budget. Now the process is more complicated, in large part because there's a broader...

Minding the store: as storage requirements increase, options are endless.(G-TECHNOLOGY'S G-RAID)
September 1, 2007... In real estate it's said that the three keys to success are location, location, location. For video production professionals dealing with high-definition video and 2K and 4K resolutions now handled as digital data, that adage could easily...

Surviving pool feeds (without drowning): how to get the shot you need when you have no control over the camera.(issues)
September 1, 2007... As you may recall, a lab test indicated that cyclist Floyd Landis had synthetic testosterone in his body during his victorious 2006 Tour de France ride. Landis denied taking the drug, said lab mistakes led to an errant finding and declared that...

Stun Creative: crossing all platforms.(hot house)
September 1, 2007... WHAT'S THEIR GIG? Next time you go to the movies, get there early. You might have the privilege of seeing Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe share a tub of popcorn with an over-sized, but surprisingly tidy, pig perched on a pedestal (the pig, not...