AV Video Multimedia Producer articles from December 2000

AV Video Multimedia Producer archives from December 2000

Message/Media.
December 1, 2000... The business card as a medium is transforming into a trade-show handout on a trimmed CD-ROM. Marshall McLuhan did not believe that content is king. In his best-selling book, Understanding Media; The Extensions of Man, he preached that the...

Video Emphasizes Upsides of Change.
December 1, 2000... As any company that has rebranded itself and created a new identity can tell you, the process isn't easy--especially in the competitive Silicon Valley. But Alventive, a design company in Santa Clara, California, has learned that the strategic...

Ad Museum at Louvre Relies on Digital Delivery.
December 1, 2000... What can a museum do when it has tens of thousands of works to display and a very small space in which to display them? Musee de la Publicite, a new advertising museum that has only 700 square meters of floor space at the Louvre in Paris,...

MCSi Throws a Coming-Out Party.
December 1, 2000... There are very few people in this industry who are not affected--directly or indirectly--by Media Consultants Systems Integrators. What began as a small computer supply business in Dayton, Ohio, has grown into the single largest video and...

All Roads Lead to Surround.
December 1, 2000... 5.1 was the magic number at the AES convention Surrounded by sound" was the theme of the Audio Engineering Society's 109th convention held in Los Angeles in September and it proved to be an apt moniker. An estimated 19,000 vendors, studio...

Deck the Halls with Software.
December 1, 2000... Good Web-animation tools can cost less than $500 It's time again to share with you a few high-value software tools that I've discovered during the past 12 months. Because animation is becoming integral to Web design, I've focused on tools...

The Searchers.
December 1, 2000... Spiders, crawlers and worms are everywhere on the Web If you haven't added a search engine to your latest Web project, you're probably considering it. A search engine--also known as a spider, crawler or worm--is a separate program that's...

IN OUT one screen the other.
December 1, 2000... Monitor manufacturers have predicted the eventual movement of displays from a 4:3 aspect ratio to 16:9. At present, influences related to both content and manufacturing have us stuck in the middle. According to Joshua Kairoff, senior field...

Clark Bars.
December 1, 2000... Composer Tena Clark believes music is for keeps Tena Clark believes in sound business practices. Cited repeatedly as one of the most successful female music producer/songwriters in the industry, she has a list of credits that includes songs...

Knocking CD-ROM Down to Size.
December 1, 2000... Business-card CDs take off at trade shows Where technology is concerned, bigger is almost never better. Miniaturization has had its relentless way with everything from PCs and telephones to cameras and lenses, and now it's helping scale...

ROOMS with a CLUE.
December 1, 2000... IT'S NOT YOUR GRANDFATHER'S BOARDROOM ANYMORE. THE CLASSIC MEETING PLACE THAT ROSE TO THE RANK OF CORPORATE CLICHE AT THE HEIGHT OF THE INDUSTRIAL AGE HAS BECOME THE TEAK-TRIMMED ANACHRONISM OF THE 21ST CENTURY. Which is not to say that...

Horn of Plenty.
December 1, 2000... Harman Multimedia's SoundSticks 5 Summary: Excellent and cost effective sound system for Mac users Target Users: Multimedia producers and Web-site developers; professionals in need of good computer-driven reference speakers ...

Something for Everyone.
December 1, 2000... Avid Xpress DV on IBM's IntelliStation M Pro 3 Summary: A good alternative to a professional-level native DV editing system, albeit one with some performance limitations Target Users: Videographers and multimedia producers ...

Portable Powerhouse.
December 1, 2000... NEC's MultiSync MT1050 Projector 4 Summary: Feature-filled 13-pound XGA projector with 2,100 ANSI lumens Target Users: Presentation professionals Platforms: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME; Mac Searching for the ideal projector?...

Not to Be Missed.
December 1, 2000... Adobe Photoshop 6.0 5 Summary: Lots of new features are added to this stellar product Including full integration with other Adobe programs Target Users: Graphic designers, Web-site developers, photographers, multimedia and...

Get Ready, Get Set.
December 1, 2000... Inscriber Technology's TitleMotion 4 Summary: Impressive set of animated-motion effects plug-ins Target Users: Video professionals, multimedia and presentation developers Platforms: Windows 95/98/NT/2000 Inscriber...

A Thousand Points of Color.
December 1, 2000... New 3D-imaging technology captures the geometry and perfect color of real-world objects Photo-realistic 3D images have long been the Holy Grail of the computer- graphics industry. At SIGGRAPH in July, I got a glimpse of a developing...