AV Video Multimedia Producer articles from April 2001

AV Video Multimedia Producer archives from April 2001

Beneath the Surface.
April 1, 2001... Most media washes over us and goes largely unnoticed. We often have the feeling that there are too many channels on television, too many magazines and newspapers, and the Internet is overwhelming. Yet when something really intrigues us, we...

GlobalStreams Acquires Play's Assets.
April 1, 2001... The main assets of Play Industries, the Rancho Cordova, California technology company, have been acquired by St. Louis' GlobalStreams (the new name of the former Play Streaming Media Group), with the proceeds to be distributed among Play's...

Speakers Consider Future of Music, Fate of Magnetic Media.
April 1, 2001... The annual REPLItech North America conference, held in Los Angeles at the end of February, got off to a heady start with keynote speaker Jay Samit, senior vice president of new media at EMI Recorded Music, declaring that the delivery of music...

Obstacles Remain in Efforts to Digitize Media Assets.
April 1, 2001... Media companies face three key obstacles in their quest to fully embrace digital-media asset management, according to Armistead Whitney, founder and chief strategy officer of New York City's Sekani, a leading digital media asset management...

Beyond Chips and Dip.
April 1, 2001... New technology will change the way you produce for DVD While I sat with several white shirt executives in Atlanta before the 1991 release of the first out-of-the-box multimedia PCs, I joked about future technology: "Paint it black, so...

The Right Tonic.
April 1, 2001... Putting TechTV in the laptop of luxury With a name like TechTV to sell to advertisers, charcoal sticks and cave walls don't cut it. Even the true-blue VHS tape loaded with program snippets and acrobatic graphics doesn't exactly communicate...

UNPARALLELED.
April 1, 2001... Onsite Customer Service for Plasma Display and Video Wall Products As the leading manufacturer of industrial display products, Pioneer continues to be at the forefront in developing state-of-the-art plasma display panels that offer the...

Going to Extremes.
April 1, 2001... High in the sky or deep under water, ASL gets the shot With the largest inventory of cranes and remote head systems for cranes in New York, Air Sea Land Productions had been doing pretty well. But Anthony Lenzo, company president, felt a...

Get a Good Book ...
April 1, 2001... ... and teach yourself some new tricks while you work You already have an idea of how handy most 3D design and animation tools would be if you knew how to use them. Looking up from the bottom, the 3D-learning curve can be intimidating--and...

Issues in Technology This Month: Interactive Applications.
April 1, 2001... Even when the implementation isn't an eye-popper, people tend to adore interactivity. A supermarket in my neighborhood recently outfitted its deli counter with a touch-screen ordering system. Shoppers can use their fingertips to indicate...

UPDATE: New Digital Light Processing [TM] Products.
April 1, 2001... ... from reading manufactures featuring DLP, the projector technology from Texas Instruments that delivers higher-resolution, brighter-color images Growth in the Digital Light Processing [TM] market has been explosive since Texas...

Seeing the LIGHT.
April 1, 2001... TimeLine Video helps Spencer Trask Ventures visualize a century of bright ideas The screen is blank but for tiny, indistinct particles floating across, out of focus, and shards of light jutting from the center of the screen. The cloud of...

Showing the Way.
April 1, 2001... A humanitarian nonprofit organization taps into the power of video and the Internet For World Vision, a global relief organization based near Seattle, video is a powerful way to inform people about dire conditions in the world's trouble...

Visual Communications@Work.
April 1, 2001... Knowledge Windows: Visual Displays in the Enterprise Special Guest Interview Mike Peppel, MCSi As the chairman, CEO and president of MCSi, the largest full-service audiovisual systems integration company in North America, Mike Peppel...

Picture Perfect.
April 1, 2001... Olympus E-10 Digital Camera and P-400 Printer 4 Summary: Professional class digital camera and dye-sublimation printer Target Users: Anyone who needs near-35mm-quality digital photographs Platforms: Windows 95/98/2000/ME;...

A Gala Premiere.
April 1, 2001... Adobe Premiere 6.0 4 Summary: A mature, fully featured, NLE system geared toward streamlining video capture, editing and output applications Target Users: Corporate-video directors and producers; Web designers Platforms: Windows...

Something to Talk About.
April 1, 2001... Discreet 3ds max 4 4 Summary: 3ds max moves forward with numerous new features and important improvements Target Users: 3D animators, special-effects specialists Platforms: Windows 98/2000 Max has turned four, is now...

A Lean, Mean, Streaming Machine.
April 1, 2001... Terran Interactive Cleaner 5 4 Summary: High-end streaming utility that provides digital-video capture, encoding, event-stream authoring and direct-to-Web publishing Target Users: Web designers and developers; Internet broadcasters...

City of Angles.
April 1, 2001... Upshot and Reality Check Studios animate a DSL future for Southwestern Bell customers DSL, so-called last-mile technology because it connects telephone switching stations with phone lines in nearby offices and homes, crams a lot of data...