AV Video Multimedia Producer articles from February 2001

AV Video Multimedia Producer archives from February 2001

Sidestepping Obstacles.
February 1, 2001... Think of Dick Van Dyke (DVD) as the state of DVD in professional production today. Now think of the ottoman in the opening sequence of The Dick Van Dyke Show as one of the main obstacles that DVD production has faced: price. (Admittedly...

It's a Mac, Mac, Mac, Mac World.
February 1, 2001... Whether you love it or hate it, Apple's biggest-ever rebuild of the Macintosh OS will be publicly available March 24. That news eclipsed the Macworld Conference and Expo, held January 9-12 at San Francisco's Moscone Center. When attendees...

Future Talk.
February 1, 2001... Booz-Allen & Hamilton pitches predictions with (gasp) facts When putting together a trade-show presentation, content is the first thing most companies talk about. Occasionally, the final presentation actually has some. During the e-Gov...

Strike a Pose.
February 1, 2001... Curious Labs' Poser rises fully formed--and less than fully clothed--from the ashes I first met Larry Weinberg several years ago when he was a technical and animation director at Rhythm & Hues, the character-animation and visual-effects...

The Talking Cure.
February 1, 2001... Soothing SDK tonics can help you build voice-driven projects Pundits have long predicted that the computer keyboard is on the way out. But high-accuracy speech-recognition technology, the final nail in the coffin, has been a long time...

Meet the Press.
February 1, 2001... A polyscopic camera system covers all the angles We expect the press to cover every side of a newsworthy story. Covering the press covering every side of a story, then, must entail a very wide scope. At the Newseum, an Arlington, Virginia,...

SPECIAL REPORT.
February 1, 2001... Issues in Technology This Month: DVD Patricia L. Casey If you've been considering working with DVD but haven't because you've thought it's too expensive or that the production process is too complex, you might want to reconsider....

Training Wheels.
February 1, 2001... LearnStream helps Canada's Clarica ease into its new identity, with new training to match When Ken Reimer, LearnStream's president and CEO, met with representatives from Canada's Mutual Life Insurance Company at the Online Learning...

Sonic Arts launches a new room SPEED OF SOUND.
February 1, 2001... Design Tools and Operations The desire for more, better-utilized space and an improved working environment is commonplace among facility owners and executives. Acting on that desire and making it a reality is something else altogether....

A Full Palette.
February 1, 2001... Pinnacle Systems' Commotion Pro 3.1.1 Summary: Mac-based rotoscoping, paint and effects tool that now features unlimited layers for compositing Target Users: Effects artists and design professionals Platform: Macintosh ...

All's Well in Candy Land.
February 1, 2001... Alien Skin Software's Eye Candy 4000 Summary: Affordable, timesaving upgrade to plug-in collection for creating high-quality textures, buttons and other graphics for Web sites and multimedia applications Target Users: Design and...

Start Me Up.
February 1, 2001... Corel's CorelDRAW 10 Summary: Feature-filled graphics application with pleanty of worthwhile tools and enhancements Target Users: Web-site designers, graphic designers, multimedia and presentation developers Platforms: Windows...

Year of the Bird.
February 1, 2001... URS/Box Studio's 3D vision for a Chinese airport Box Studio, the Columbus design group of URS, a global architecture concern, has already provided concepts and renderings for a number of national and international airports. Their latest...