AV Video Multimedia Producer articles from December 1999

AV Video Multimedia Producer archives from December 1999

Star Power.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... As with all magazines, our cover is our pride and joy. A magazine's cover is its first, last and best shot at getting a reader's attention. If the cover doesn't make you want to pick up the magazine and see what's inside, we haven't done our...

INPUT.(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 1999... I Stream, You Stream... Streaming media is not just for the big boys (Special Report, November). It has even reached public-access cable. People who are interested in my series Perils for Pedestrians can check my Web site...

Software Legends: What Happened to mTropolis?
December 1, 1999... Do you remember the first time you saw mTropolis in action? You couldn't wait to buy a copy of the sprightly authoring package from the Burlingame, California, start-up mFactory, even though you weren't exactly sure how to pronounce its name....

IBC Digital Builds a Virtual World for SUNY.(State University of New York)
December 1, 1999... IBC Digital, a computer-animation and broadcast-design company in Buffalo, New York, has created a virtual world for the Center for Computational Research and the State University of New York at Buffalo. The virtual experience is designed to...

Video Warms Workers To Deregulation.(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Chances are that deregulation of the electrical-power industry confused you in some way Perhaps it stressed you out to consider whether you wanted to keep getting the juice from the one and only company you'd known. With the energy industry's...

ITS RELEASES 13TH INDUSTRY PROFILE.(Association of Imaging Technology and Sound report on what types of companies use post-production facilities)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Editing corporate projects represents 18 percent of a typical North American post-production facility's business, according to a survey sponsored by the ITS (the Association of Imaging Technology and Sound, formerly the International...

International Monitor Awards Nominations Open.(Association of Imaging Technology and Sound awards)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The Association of Imaging Technology and Sound (ITS) has issued a call for entries for its prestigious annual International Monitor Awards. The competition recognizes outstanding electronic production and post-production. Each year,...

SMPTE Announces 34th Motion Imaging Conference.(Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) will hold is 34th Advanced Motion Imaging Conference on February 3-5, 2000, in San Francisco. The conference, whose theme is "Bandwidth, Bit Rate and Resolution,' will feature an...

So You Wanna Have a Webcast?(Web video transmission)
December 1, 1999... New tools and services can have you streaming in no time Video on the Web still makes some producers squirm. As last month's Special Report on streaming media stated, just making sense of new tools, formats and emerging standards can be a...

Never Say No.(Chapman Recording Studios)
December 1, 1999... Chapman Recording keeps Kansas City corporations in tune My goal was to create a production environment that could compete with facilities in Los Angeles, New York City and Nashville," says Chuck Chapman, founder of Chapman Recording in...

Interactive ARK.(Architectural Response Kollection)
December 1, 1999... Floating images on a furniture company's CD-ROM provide a distinctive interior design For all the talk about interactivity in nonlinear electronic media, most user-driven presentations on CD-ROMs are essentially prescripted chitchat...

Screening 'The Golf War'.(documentary film)
December 1, 1999... The filmmakers hit the digital-projection trail In our September 1998 issue, Jen Schradie first reported on the two-year production of her documentary, The Golf War. She is now on the road, promoting and showing the video using...

Digital Treats.(computer programs for editing)(Brief Article)(Buyers Guide)
December 1, 1999... Software goodies and gift ideas for $100 and under During the holidays, I take a break from animation. But right now I'm thinking about all the neat things for about $100 that would make wonderful stocking stuffers or holiday gifts for the...

6 Business Media Myths.
December 1, 1999... 1. "Everything" is going on the Web. It is true that some of the highest growth rates for delivery of dynamic business content involve the Web. Twenty percent of the surveyed business and public-sector entities told us that they planned to...

Extra-Terrestrial Video.(video systems used on NASA space flights)
December 1, 1999... NASA takes a surprisingly down-to-earth approach to putting video in space We've all seen video images of astronauts in space: A smiling astronaut reaches for a screw-driver floating by her head; a newly constructed satellite slowly...

Monitors.(market share information)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... This industry loves to declare that certain types of technology are dead--tape being the prime example. The CRT monitor runs a close second. Although it is true that newer innovations such as LCD and plasma are having an impact on the venerable...

Screen Gems.(video monitor innovations)
December 1, 1999... New developments show that there's still life in the CRT Last year, the big trend in monitors was toward lowering prices. Today, the prices are bottoming out. "They can't go much lower," says Bob O'Donnell, PC displays research manager with...

Hear and Now.(Audio Engineering Society convention)
December 1, 1999... Attendees at this year's annual AES convention looked to the future Although the Audio Engineering Society's 107th convention was the largest in the organization's history, the real news at the September show was the first successful...

BURNING ISSUE.(digital video disk format issues)
December 1, 1999... Taking the confusion out of rewritable DVD So you want to burn your own DVDs. Maybe you've got a client who needs just a few copies of a given DVD project, not enough to make it cost-effective to visit a replicator. If you are taking...

Looking Ahead.(visual-communication techniques and technology)
December 1, 1999... Today, just as they have since the dawning of literacy thousands of years ago, numbers and letters continue to serve as the primary means of conveying and archiving information. But their long, uncontested dominance is waning. As the new...

Images on the Web.(stock footage and photo agencies)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... Though slowly, stock footage and photo agencies are discovering what the Web has to offer In November, we took a look a how music libraries are using the Internet. This month, we turn our attention to stock-footage and stock photo/image...

Visual Addiction.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
December 1, 1999... Discreet's 3D Studio MAX Release 3 Summary: Upgrade of the well-known 3D-animation tools with many new features Target Users: 3D animators, graphics and FX artists, editors, producers Platforms: Windows 95/98/NT Looking for...

Take Note.(Olympus DS-150 Digital Voice and IBM ViaVoice 98)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
December 1, 1999... Olympus's DS-150 Digital Voice Recorder with IBM's ViaVoice 98 Summary: Digital microrecorder and voice-recognition software combination Target Users: Producers; production teams; presenters; Web developers Platforms: Windows...

Islands in the Stream.(RealProducer Pro G2)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
December 1, 1999... RealNetworks' RealProducer Pro G2 Summary: Authoring/compression tool for creating streamed multimedia Target Users: Audio and video producers; multimedia content developers; presentation professionals; Web developers; musicians ...

Positively Beaming.(Plus Corp. U2-870 projector)(Software Review)(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
December 1, 1999... Plus's U2-870 Projector Summary: S-VGA projector that does not sacrifice brightness for portability Target Users: Presentation professionals Platforms: Windows 95/98/NT; Mac, Power Mac Over the past two years, we've been...

Monet in the Bank.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
December 1, 1999... Synthetik Software's Studio Artist Summary: Sturdy and flexible graphics-manipulation application Target Users: Motion-graphics artists and animators Platorm: Power Mac Studio Artist is one of those rare applications that makes...

Author! Author!(digital video disk hardware and software)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
December 1, 1999... Canopus's Amber for DVD with Spruce Technologies' Virtuoso Summary: MPEG encoding and playback card bundled with an entry-level DVD-authoring application Target Users: Videographers and multimedia producers Platforms: Windows...

Quit Mousing Around.(Software Review)(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
December 1, 1999... Peavey Electronics and Cakewalk's StudioMix Summary: Affordable recording and mixing package with motorized fader automation Target Users: Project-studio engineers, multimedia audio producers Platforms: Windows 95/NT If your...

Monkey Business.(MONKEYmedia)(Brief Article)
December 1, 1999... MONKEYmedia mines the unconventional in user interfaces MONKEYmedia, a design company in Austin, Texas, is clearly many things to its Fortune-500, health-care and museum clients. But it is not a Web shop. "We're 100 percent about...