AV Video Multimedia Producer articles from June 2000

AV Video Multimedia Producer archives from June 2000

Is Film Dead?
June 1, 2000... Walking through the halls of this year's NAB convention I encountered an old friend who runs one of Hollywood's largest and most successful post-production houses, a company that processes and edits thousands of feet of film each year. After we...

Can the Internet Meet Future Video Demands?
June 1, 2000... More than a few industry pundits think that public data networks are the future of audio and video content delivery. Perhaps this is true, but the public network most people know--namely, the Internet--might not be the best network for the job....

Fish & Wildlife Service Documents Historic Condor Release.
June 1, 2000... In 1986 a rare bird known as Adult Condor #8, a wild-born female California condor, was the last female wild bird to be captured by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Recently AC#8 and three juvenile condors that were raised at the Los Angeles Zoo...

Tam Produces Support Video for Children's Hospital.
June 1, 2000... Tam Communications of San Jose, California, recently contributed its services to Stanford's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital by providing a video profile of the hospital's family-care services. The aim of the 10-minute video, directed at...

Macromedia's Exchange for Dreamweaver 3.0.
June 1, 2000... Macromedia is taking the Dreamweaver development community global. In late April, the company launched Exchange for Dreamweaver 3.0, a Web site that gives Web builders a place to share their Dreamweaver extensions online. The site features...

To B2B or Not to B2B?
June 1, 2000... No longer a question, it's become a defining moment Business-to-business electronic commerce--commonly known as B2B--could become a multitrilliondollar industry within the next few years. Though there will be some tremendous opportunities...

Sync and Swim.
June 1, 2000... AT&T reaches out to touch its time-crunched sales force with a synchronized talking-head CD Ever had a conversation during which the other person's words, lip movements and hand gestures suddenly fall out of sync? "In fiscal fourth...

GIF Wrapped.
June 1, 2000... Gilbert Creative delivers on its promise for UPS In last month's column, I set out to understand how corporations view their animation resources. Now that I've delved further, the thing that stands out most is that very few people even...

Say What?
June 1, 2000... How to get a handle on voice talent Say you need a narrator for your corporate video--or maybe you're just looking for someone to enhance your phone system with "Please stay on the line. Your call is important to us." What you need is...

Swept Away.
June 1, 2000... Nonlinear editing goes streaming The buzz at this year's NAB was streaming media. Dozens of exhibitors were offering complete systems for creating and distributing streams of content, and the makers of nonlinear-editing systems were no...

DVD.
June 1, 2000... A Guide to Services Now that computers are beginning to ship with DVD drives as standard equipment, business clients are becoming more interested in DVD as a delivery medium and, undoubtedly, some of your customers have started asking...

iXL Is this the future of production?
June 1, 2000... With approximately 2,600 employees in 20 offices around the globe, iXL probably can support its claim to be "the largest pure-play, service company" in the world. If it were not for the firm's size, it would be easy to dismiss iXL as just...

THE PRICE IS RIGHT.
June 1, 2000... While Hollywood adjusts to the fact that camera manufacturers seem to have agreed to support 24P as a production standard, mainstream professional producers can take advantage of the other two trends that dominated the camera and lens...

THE VISION THING.
June 1, 2000... As usual, this year's NAB was not an outwardly audio-centric affair. It didn't help matters much that the majority of audio vendors attending were exiled to the Las Vegas Convention Center and randomly dispersed among radio-broadcast-oriented...

MIRACLE GROW.
June 1, 2000... Acquistions and other collaborative cultivations of the technology sort led to a nice crop of new products for video and graphic artists at NAB this year. Pinnacle has grown exponentially in recent months. The company arrived at NAB with...

STORM WARNINGS?
June 1, 2000... If DVD didn't exactly take NAB by storm this year, at least it held its own. While the floor of the tech-friendly Sands Convention Center was dominated by an unrecognizable crop of streaming-media upstarts, the companies showing DVD tended...

I STREAM, YOU STREAM ...
June 1, 2000... Nothing prepared me for the streaming-centric hysteria of NAB 2000. Every company has become a streaming company. If it's not hardware or software to handle the compression, it's an entirely packaged service. Indeed, services seem to be the...

WALL MART.
June 1, 2000... As is quickly becoming the case at all kinds of trade shows, plasma screens were in abundance in both halls of this year's NAB convention. Most were being used to promote products other than plasma screens, which further proves the point that...

Double Vision.
June 1, 2000... Appian Graphics' Jeronimo 2000 Summary: Finally--a decent dual-monitor card for Windows users Target Users: Video editors and graphic designers Platforms: Windows 98/2000/NT With applications becoming more GUI-intensive, screen...

The Sounds of Silence.
June 1, 2000... Sound Construction & Supply's Isobox Summary: Sonic isolation for noisy CPU fans, hard drives and other noisy components The digital explosion has made professional audio and video recording and editing products accessible,...

In the Click of a Button.
June 1, 2000... Macromedia's Director 8 Shockwave Studio Summary: The best multimedia-authoring application on the market gets even better Target Users: Professional Web site designers and multimedia/presentation developers Platforms: Windows...

Ready for Action.
June 1, 2000... Shure's VP88 Stereo Condenser Microphone Summary: Dual-cartridge mic suited to studio- and field-recording applications Target Users: Recording engineers, music producers, dialogue and sound-effects recordists Capturing an...

Film History Unframed.
June 1, 2000... A CD-ROM gives students a chance to re-edit a classic D.W. Griffith's historical drama, The Birth of a Nation, is one of the most incendiary, yet technically lauded, films of all time. Repelled by the film's racist propaganda, some...