AV Video Multimedia Producer articles from January 2001

AV Video Multimedia Producer archives from January 2001

Acquiring Minds.
January 1, 2001... Independent market research conducted for us by Scenic Wonders in Madison, Wisconsin, indicates that the business-media industry, of which you are a part, will spend an astonishing $600 million this year to purchase a professional video camera...

Giant Foods and JPL Make a Meeting Pay Off.
January 1, 2001... What do a mid-Atlantic grocery company and Las Vegas casinos have in common? Not a lot, unless you were attending Giant Food Stores' annual holiday-selling business meeting this fall. Senior management at Giant Foods, a 96-store supermarket...

Steaming Media West 2000.
January 1, 2001... One could argue that streaming is "not quite there yet" in terms of the quality of the media that audiences receive, but even so, the growth of a trade show dedicated to the technology shows that there's tremendous promise. Held last month in...

Standard Bearers.
January 1, 2001... What does it take to become a top-of-the-line tool? I've been thinking a lot about how animation software packages become standards in our industry. Why do certain tools rise to the top while others, though excellent, slide into oblivion?...

Up and Under.
January 1, 2001... Alaska's Glacier Bay puts an HD camera to the test In our October 1999 cover story, we profiled John Brooks of the National Park Service and his work chronicling life at the bottom of Alaska's Glacier Bay Brooks, a former AVVMMP Top 100...

Range of Vision.
January 1, 2001... LensCrafters' in-house production and training team delivers media with a message to store associates LensCrafters does not have an image problem. A clear, accessible image--in the literal sense--is the principle on which the 18-year-old...

Issues in Technology.
January 1, 2001... This Month: Production Platforms While contributing editor Stefan Petrucha was researching for this feature, he couldn't get Tom Paxton's song out of his head. "The doctor said it was a lack of sleep, but I think it had more to do with the...

OUT of the box and UNDER the hood.
January 1, 2001... Producers compare the current releases of the big three operating systems for video production: Macintosh, Windows NT and Unix/Irix Windows NT, Mac, Irix. Ask about these operating systems in enough production environments and you'll find...

NONlinear Editing.
January 1, 2001... Nonlinear digital editing has arrived. Well accepted by feature film and television producers, nonlinear editing has replaced linear editing in nearly all the high-end creative venues, be it a motion picture studio or a post-production...

A Major Appliance.
January 1, 2001... Optibase's Media Gateway 2000 Summary: Internet streaming encoder with a bevy of valuable features Target Users: Multimedia producers and content developers, IT professionals Platforms: Windows NT Optibase is a company that's...

Fit for a Pro?
January 1, 2001... Sony's VAIO PCV-RX280DS Desktop Digital Studio Summary: Top model in Sony's line of 1394-equipped digital studio desktops Target Users: Multimedia producers and content developers Platform: Windows Millennium Edition If you...

Power DVD.
January 1, 2001... Sonic's DVD Creator 2.1.3 Summary: A popular DVD-authoring and -encoding system ups the ante with a new and upgraded feature set Target Users: Multimedia producers and content developers Platform: Macintosh Sonic Solutions...

Get the Picture?
January 1, 2001... Beatware's e-Picture Pro Summary: A professional-level tool for fast and easy Web-animation applications Target Users: Web-site designers and multimedia and presentation developers Platforms: Windows 98/2000/NT 4.0; Power...

Stream Business.
January 1, 2001... Compaq puts rich media to the test on its enterprise network Can a 56 Kbps connection really deliver high-quality video to employees worldwide? Compaq's Tom Hill thinks so--as long as you have the right server, he says. Hill is program...