AV Video Multimedia Producer articles from June 2003

AV Video Multimedia Producer archives from June 2003

Profits by design. (Real Time).
June 1, 2003... GOOD DESIGN IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS. CONSISTENTLY good design is even better. Take, for example, Target's wildly successful corporate branding and ad campaign, featured in our montage of images from the Cooper-Hewitt's National Design...

Input.
June 1, 2003... AV Video Multimedia Producer welcomes your letters. Reach the editors at 2700 Westchester Ave., #107, Purchase, New York 10577; by e-mail at avvmmp@pbimedia.com; or by fax at 914-328-9093. Please include your name, address and telephone number....

RU Ready? Routing-switcher options expand as footprints decrease. (Post-Production).
June 1, 2003... SPACE-CHALLENGED PRODUCERS, take note: A number of new routing switchers and router releases--many of them released in the past few months--are aiming to take the bulk out of your production setups. At NAB, Snell & Wilcox...

Teach within reach: caststream expands media-type options for distance learning. (Delivery).
June 1, 2003... WHEN MANY PEOPLE THINK OF distance learning, they think of boring and barely interactive images of an instructor and perhaps a blackboard or whiteboard. IP technology, however, has matured to make rich-media presentations and classes a reality....

Three P's in a pod: new projectors balance portability with price and power. (Presentations).
June 1, 2003... WHAT'S THE CLASSIC STRATEGY for buying a projector? It can best be summed up as: portability price, power--choose any two. Think of it as the "three peas in a pod" problem. The pod can hold only two of the peas, so you have to choose the two...

People Skills: how can you manage your most important resource? (Winners' Circle).
June 1, 2003... IT'S AN EXCITING TIME FOR MEDIA producers who work with new presentation technology. The lines of the past, separating the video producer and the IT network administrator, have all but disappeared. The traditional AV department has become an...

Moving Target: when you're on location, getting the shot is all that matters. These producers show you how.
June 1, 2003... Zen and the Art of a Motorcycle Video A producer finds his center on the back of a bike RALPH UMHOEFER, AN INDEPENDENT producer in Poughkeepsie, New York, is no stranger to location shoots. Umhoefer's specialty is reflected in the name...

The elements of style: design that inspires from Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Triennial.
June 1, 2003... Whether in print, online or in motion, good design is the agent of effective communication. The second "National Design Triennial: Inside Design Now" at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, attempts the impossible by...

Easy DVD: Sonic Foundry's Vegas+DVD. (Test Patterns).
June 1, 2003... Summary: Vegas dives head first into DVD production with an integrated DVD-authoring program and DVD-compatible 5.1 audio codec. The upgrade also beefs up the video- and audio-editing features. Target Users: Video and audio professionals...

Render Splendor: Maxon's Cinema 4D R8. (Test Patterns).
June 1, 2003... Summary: Maxon upgrades its flagship application with a wide range of new features and improvements. Target Users: Professional 30 artists for video, multimedia and film applications Platforms: Windows NT/2000/XP; Mac OS 9.x and OS X...

From soup to nuts: Canopus' RES-300. (Test Patterns).
June 1, 2003... Summary: RES-300 lets users navigate from a source DV tape through to a master and then output to DVD Target Users: Video and multimedia producers and editors Platform: Windows XP Professional CANOPUS CONTINUES TO IMPROVE its...

Keeping it real: Curious Labs' Poser 5. (Test Patterns).
June 1, 2003... Summary: 3D character animation program for manipulating, animating and rendering 3D human characters Target Users: AV professionals and graphic designers Platforms: Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP I HAD TO LAUGH WHEN A FORMER Disney...

Contour Design. (Tool Wise).
June 1, 2003... Contour Design, a designer of audio/video input devices, has added Leitch's dpsVelocity and Digidesign's ProTools to the list of applications with pre-programmed settings for the Contour ShuttlePRO multimedia controller. The new application...

Graphics-Tools. (Tool Wise).
June 1, 2003... Graphics-Tools has released PicMaster version 3.8, an image-editing shareware program that features a morphing package with an editor, renderer and video maker. Users can save all pictures for animation as AVI files. Main features include:...

Magix. (Tool Wise).
June 1, 2003... Magix's Music Maker 2004 Deluxe offers new features to create high quality music, music remixes, and professional-looking music videos. Music Maker 2004 Deluxe is 96-track music software with pre-recorded sound loops for any style preference...

Toon Boom Technologies. (Tool Wise).
June 1, 2003... With this release of USAnimation OPUS, Toon Boom has improved its vector model to provide increased support for line textures so users can have the benefits of vector technology (resolution independence and small file size) while maintaining...

Leader of the pack: ease your anxiety over transporting your gear. (The Last Word).
June 1, 2003... EVEN THOUGH I'VE TRAVELED NUMEROUS TIMES BY plane since January 1--the day the Transportation Security Administration began screening all checked baggage at U.S. commercial airports--I'm not used to leaving my luggage unlocked when I check it....