AV Video Multimedia Producer articles from January 2000

AV Video Multimedia Producer archives from January 2000

New Frontiers Revisited.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Consider the plight of the typical planetarium. The challenge is to excite people--especially young people--about the infinite majesty of the universe and to accomplish that mission with technology that is, to put it politely, a little dated....

Creating Conference Rooms.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Today's conference rooms must be designed to accommodate everything from videoconferencing systems to slide projectors. Few understand this challenge better than Greg Patrick, sales manager at Midwest Visual Communications, a major AV dealer...

NBC Opens an Interactive "Store of the Future".(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... NBC started a mini-trend several years ago when it installed a street-level window in New York's Rockefeller Plaza that lets fans watch the Today show as it is being broadcast. Now, across the plaza from that window, the network has added The...

Design Tips.(work multimedia equipment)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Build a technology infrastructure that anticipates future expansion. Make sure that the closets will more than hold your existing equipment, with more racks or expandable mounting surfaces. Whether or not you require them today, put in...

ADDENDUM.(Evaluation)
January 1, 2000... In our roundup of Music Libraries (November), we omitted Sonic Desktop, which offers the SmartSound royalty-free audio library. The series features music and sound effects on CD-ROM that are designed to be combined with the company's SmartSound...

Barnard and Borden Make Medical History in HD.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... In December, UCLA broke ground for a new 1 million-square-foot, $700 million hospital and research complex at its Westwood campus. The production and direction team of Michael Barnard and Bill Borden, of Lightning Bolt PIX: Barnard Productions,...

A Real Biggie Show.(business convention equipment design)
January 1, 2000... Encore produces a meaty meeting mosaic for Wendy's Like most fast-food franchises, Wendy's Corporation works diligently to deliver the same burger in Manhattan as it does in Missoula. This quest for uniformity is paralleled by the...

Hanging Together.(computer animation groups)
January 1, 2000... Online or offline, user groups give you the magic edge I'd like to tell you without reservation that animation groups are a wonderful thing. But I can't. But before I go down that road, let's step back a second. You may not even be...

Voodoo Ergonomics.(Evaluation)
January 1, 2000... Take the hocus pocus out of building Web database links Several authoring languages have long boasted the ability to link to a database. On closer examination, these languages simply opened the door to database linking through Microsoft's...

SERVE YOURSELF.(Evaluation)
January 1, 2000... Issues in Technology This Month: Operating Systems Back in August 1991, a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds posted a message to the comp.os.minix newsgroup, saying, "I'm creating a free operating system (just a hobby; it won't be...

OUT OF THIS WORLD.(Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History)
January 1, 2000... Next month, the American Museum of Natural History will unveil the most ambitious project in its 130-year history: the $210 million Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space. The 333,500-square-foot exhibition and...

Cleveland Rocks.(Odie Mills and others purchase AV department of Post Masters and create Media Resources Group)
January 1, 2000... The reversal of an industry trend bears fruit in the heart of the Tennessee Valley How many times has this story been repeated in corporate America? Someone in the accounting department of a large corporation looks at the numbers and...

Ready to Roll.(reviews of the latest audio, video and multimedia technology)(Review)
January 1, 2000... In-depth reviews of the latest audio, video and multimedia technology Summary: DVD-authoring package offering a streamlined version of Spruce's DVD Maestro Target Users: Presentation and title developers; video editors and...

Controlling Interests.(Software Review)(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
January 1, 2000... AccessFX's TransLux and Lord of the Wipe Summary: Premiere plug-ins that give users control over a variety of video transitions Target Users: Multimedia/Web/presentation developers; video professionals Many plug-ins are now...

Pan and Scan It.(StageTools' MovingPicture)
January 1, 2000... StageTools' MovingPicture Summary: Application for panning and scanning still images for output to video Target Users: Video producers, documentary makers, post-production houses Platforms: Windows 95/98/NT Have you ever...

Do You Hear What I Hear?(Neumann's TLM 103 and M 147)
January 1, 2000... Neumann's TLM 103 and M 147 Summary: Two affordable professional microphones, each with its own set of distinctive characteristics and strengths Target Users: Sound designers; musicians Lately, it seems as if microphone...

Welcome to the Fun House.(KidsRoom2 at Millennium Dome in London)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Nearlife takes millennial madness virtual What do Tony Blair, Queen Elizabeth, the Archbishop of Canterbury and a dozen virtual monkeys have in common? On December 31, they were all partying like it was 1999 inside England's Millennium...