AV Video Multimedia Producer articles from February 2000

AV Video Multimedia Producer archives from February 2000

The Costs of Creativity.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Finding the right balance between creativity and the bottom line is one of the central missions of professional media production. Although production values and creativity don't always go hand in hand, budgetary concerns are always an issue....

Macworld 2000: The Pro iMac.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Macworld is not the video show it once was, but it is still the place to see innovation from the little guys, as well as new and updated products from vendors who have stayed the Mac-platform course. Fifty of this year's more than 500...

DVD-Powered Kiosks Arrive at Mall of America.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... At least one retailer at the nation's largest shopping center, the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, is tapping DVD to grab more business from the mall's 43 million visitors each year. The KSTP Broadcast Center is using two Pioneer...

Goddard Flight Center Puts Weather on the Web.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... This year, a dozen middle and high schools in several states will be working with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to beta-test the interactive initiative "Exploring Technology with Satellite Imagery." The project aims...

Dolby Releases Surround Sound for Headphones.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Dolby Laboratories has announced the development of Dolby Headphone technology, which lets users of conventional headphones experience Surround Sound from DVDs, MiniDiscs, CDs and MP3 files. The technology, which is being licensed to...

And the Winner Is [ldots] What's Your Name?(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... So, you've made a movie, but it has no stars; no big-name director, producers or screenwriter; virtually no financing; and certainly no distributor. These would-be Hollywood handicaps are actually the qualities that can win your film a prize at...

Digital Signs of the Times.
February 1, 2000... ImageSourceCreative punches out a presentation for a planned entertainment-and-ad network Sometimes, it takes digital media to sell digital media. That was the reasoning at SignCast, a major start-up venture funded by Home Box Office (HBO)...

Online Revolution Number Nine.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... XML, like HTML before it, redefines the Web XML, the extensible markup language that lets you share data objects across the Web, is redefining the way authors handle content online. Well, it's really the authors themselves redefining the...

Surfin' USB.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Connections made noise at Macworld If you were among the record-setting large crowd at Macworld Expo in San Francisco last month, you probably noticed that many of the more than 500 exhibitors were trumpeting new audio devices that take...

Managing Talent.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... When unconventional animators happen to good art directors In one of my first columns for this magazine, I talked about the symbiotic relationship that must exist between animators and the producers or art directors who manage them (June...

Issues in Technology - This Month: Asset Management.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... It's only natural that producers aim to make their businesses more time- and cost-efficient. Not only does asset management provide these benefits; it gives companies the potential to create a new source of revenue. There really is no downside...

Facts On Files.
February 1, 2000... Some producers are managing their own assets, while others go to vendors for help. But these days, most are realizing the need to get their work in order. When David Golder hatched the plan to open his own multimedia-and video-production...

Boardrooms.
February 1, 2000... Training Facilities and Presentation Centers Window on the World Imagine that the CEO of a major corporation has just called a meeting to order, and one of the board members makes a motion to discuss a proposed acquisition. The CEO...

With a Fine-Tooth COMB.
February 1, 2000... Conair brings production in-house and focuses on the details of grooming its brand Bob Dixon, vice president of advertising and communications at Conair, is a man on a media mission. While the mantra of most creative-services departments...

Web Sites That Work.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Our annual (subjective) look at the best on the Internet "Build a Perfect Web Site in Just 1 Day: We Show You How!!" promises the headline on a recent issue of MacAddict magazine. Leaving aside the issue of how one defines "perfect,"...

Museum of Modern Art.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... www. moma.org Type: Education, visitor services, e-commerce Production team: Patterson Sims, deputy director for education and research; Elizabeth Addison, deputy director for marketing and communications; Andrea Buzyn, Web editor and...

The Eames Office.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... www.eamesoffice.com Type: Reference Developer: Eames Demetrios, executive producer Production team: In-house Software includes: NetObjects, FileMaker Pro Charles and Ray Eames, whose work encompassed film, print,...

Epinions.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... www.epinions.com Type: Consumer product reviews/opinion Developer: www.epinions.com (Mountain View, CA) Software includes: Not available A Web site's function often lures me more than its form. The producers of...

iMac2Day.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... www.imac2day.com Type: Reference/corporate Developers: Jeff Keller (San Diego) and Delane Barrus/Gravity Media Group (Spanish Fork, UT) Software includes: Not available Now owned by the Macintosh News Network (MacNN), iMac2Day...

Productopia.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... www.productopia.com Type: Consumer product reviews/opinion Developer: Productopia Production team: Rob Novotny and Anne Bezancon, executive producers; Simon Smith, Phoenix Pop (San Francisco), lead Web designer Software...

Fortune-50 Sites.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... www.boeing.com, www.statefarm.com, www.citi.com Type: Corporate information/branding Production team: Various; details not available Software includes: Not available When you think of multinational corporations, the terms...

ICON.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... www.insulators.com Type: Reference Production team: Bill Mejer, executive producer and lead Web designer; Creative Computer Consultants (Carlisle, MA) Software includes: Adobe Photoshop 5.5, ImageReady 2.0; Corel Paradox V7 and...

Cutting Remarks.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... South Dakota's Xprssiv shows how production houses can expand as the cost of editing tools shrinks In the mid-1990s, the increasing affordability of nonlinear finishing workstations began a revolution in the post-production industry by...

Enhance Your Arsenal.
February 1, 2000... Cycore's Cult Effects and Atomic Power's Evolution Summary: Two new plug-in packages for After Effects that create realistic special effects Target Users: Video designers/ producers; 3D animators; presentation/multimedia developers ...

Purely Altered Voices.(Evaluation)
February 1, 2000... Mark of the Unicorn's PureDSP Summary: Versatile AudioSuite plug-in for altering pitch, timing and spectral effects Target Users: Dialog editors, recording engineers, producers, music arrangers, musicians. Platform: Power Mac ...

Seeing Things Differently.
February 1, 2000... Jedor's Viscosity 1.5 Summary: Inexpensive and easy-to use image-manipulation, animation and video-editing tool Target Users: Web-site designers; multimedia/presentation/ game developers; graphic designers Platforms: Windows...

The Best Gets Better.(Evaluation)
February 1, 2000... Adobe After Effects 4.1 Summary: Flexible and robust motion graphics, animation, and compositing package Target Users: Animators, motion graphics artists, compositors, post-production and animation studios Platforms: Power Mac G3; Windows...

Broad Strokes.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... How do you build a Web site when access isn't the issue? It's not often that a producer gets the chance to create an online presence that doesn't somehow involve compromising for the dreaded "lowest common denominator." But for FYI-Net, a...