AV Video Multimedia Producer articles from March 2001

AV Video Multimedia Producer archives from March 2001

The 12 Percent Solution.
March 1, 2001... Michael Gonzalez may be your worst nightmare. To an employer, however, he may sound like a dream come true. Gonzalez, the subject of this month's cover story, is the head of Blue Gross of California's media department. More accurately,...

Producing Multimedia Military Maneuvers.
March 1, 2001... Preparing a presentation geared toward high-school students and those in their late teens is no easy task. Consider that today's teens are used to MTV-style, fast-paced, quick-cut visual content. So when the Army National Guard decided to send...

Multimedia Education Spec Emerges in Canada.
March 1, 2001... Sometimes a picture isn't worth a thousand words. In an effort to enhance the sharing and use of online educational objects, a national protocol has been released in Canada to provide a standard that describes all multimedia educational...

Correction.
March 1, 2001... A review of Philips 201B monitor included an incorrect Web address and phone number (Test Patterns, November 2000). The correct URL is www.pcstuff.philips.com, and the correct phone number is 877-835-1838.

Going My Way?
March 1, 2001... Migrating assets from one software package to another can he an easy trip--if you know how to get there In my survey of Fortune-500 companies a few issues back, I discovered that those with no real in-house animation facilities tend to...

All in a Day's Work.
March 1, 2001... Grandview Island comes up with corporate treasure With the eye of an experienced DP and the academic grounding of a cultural anthropologist, Grandview Island Productions' Michael Lesser deciphers the complex world of business with a mandate...

Assembly Required.
March 1, 2001... NAB 2001 Building the Digital Infrastructure When the industry assembles in Las Vegas for the National Association of Broadcasters' annual conference on April 21-26, the challenge of building digital infrastructures will be one of the most...

Acquisition.
March 1, 2001... High Definition, Low Prices At last year's NAB convention, manufacturers showed a wide range of digital cameras and support equipment for every possible professional application. This year those same manufacturers will offer essentially...

Editing.
March 1, 2001... Bursting at the Streams Look for new versions of nonlinear-editing systems with a heightened level of interactivity, giving producers the capacity to turn streaming Web pages into full-blown presentations quickly and easily. This year...

Animation, Graphics & Effects.
March 1, 2001... Feature Story Last year's show may have disappointed the animation and graphics crowd, but manufacturers are lining up a number of feature-packed major releases for debut at NAB. With shipping versions of 3ds max 4, combustion 1.0, edit...

Presentations.
March 1, 2001... Living Large In presentation technology the emphasis at NAB this year is on two related but still distinct topics: digital cinema and high definition. Many, but not all, products combine the two. Panasonic, for example, will showcase...

Storage, Asset Management & Delivery.
March 1, 2001... Get Real If you're in the market for streaming, asset-management or storage tools, this may be your most productive NAB trip yet. At the '99 show, we saw the promise of dynamic streamed content. Last year, we saw that the companies...

DVD.
March 1, 2001... Increasing Optical Options A lawsuit within the DVD production industry will cast a shadow on NAB this year, as Sonic Solutions accuses Spruce Technologies of poaching the talent and technology behind its low-end DVDit! authoring software....

Audio.
March 1, 2001... Hooked on Stereophonics A plethora of new and updated hardware and software will be on hand at NAB, many of which were given sneak previews at the winter NAMM show in Anaheim in January (see page 47). Other new products are, of course,...

Issues in Technology This Month: Audio at NAMM.
March 1, 2001... The International Music Products Association's annual winter NAMM International Music Market show, held January 18-21 in Anaheim, California, was the association's largest-ever gathering. More than 65,000 people attended the show, representing...

In the Hear and Now.
March 1, 2001... Audio trends stayed the course at this year's winter NAMM show There were no heart-stopping announcements, products or audio trends to be unearthed at this winter's NAMM show. Rather, the same issues and technological advances simply edged...

THROUGH the Looking Glass.
March 1, 2001... A parody of the Alice in Wonderland story forms the basis of an instructional CD-ROM To spend a day down the corporate rabbit hole with Michael Gonzalez at Blue Cross of California, you first have to find him in the twisted maze of...

ACQUIRE THE FIRE: SONIC DESKTOP GOES PRO WITH SmartSound[R] SONICFIRE[TM].
March 1, 2001... With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful. -Alfred North Whitehead, English philosopher. The poet ranks far below...

Stock Marketing.
March 1, 2001... Licensed, royalty-free or public-domain--choices for stock footage abound, and they don't have to break your budget HISTORICALLY, MOST STOCK footage acquisitions have involved licensing. Clips are usually the intellectual property of the...

UNDER Lock AND Key.
March 1, 2001... You think your valuable media content is safe--but is it? Everyone else is doing it. That seems to be the unspoken motto of the general public when it comes to grabbing media assets electronically and online. After all, it's just so easy....

Streaming Media.
March 1, 2001... No new media technology has created the kind of excitement and enthusiasm as has streaming media. A way to send video and other rich media over the Internet in real-time -- and even live! -- streaming media is a new kind of "broadcast" medium...

The BIG SQUEEZE.
March 1, 2001... As production grows, its basic shape is changing The good news is there's plenty of work. How and where the work is performed, however, are among many questions facing today's media managers. Others include: "Are the changes I'm...

King of Frames.
March 1, 2001... Discreet's combustion 1.0 Summary: Stellar compositing package with an excellent feature set Target Users: Video and multimedia producers, directors and editors Platforms: Windows 95/98/2000/NT; Macintosh Last July, Discreet...

Panning for Gold.
March 1, 2001... Apple's Titanium PowerBook G4 Summary: An extraordinarily powerful laptop computer that comes loaded with strong, useful features Platform: Power Mac Apple's New G4 Titanium PowerBook is an incredible laptop computer. It looks...

Precious Mettle.
March 1, 2001... WAVES' GOLD TDM Bundle 3.0 Summary: An entire audio plug-in line in one impressive package Target Users: Sound designers, audio editors, musicians, audio producers Platforms: Windows 95/98/2000/NT; Macintosh WAVES' plug-ins...

Polygons Galore.
March 1, 2001... A 3D modeler pushes the limit with Caligari's new tool Steve Wilson of Chatsworth, California, is not polygonally challenged. For the past 27 years, Wilson has been using traditional AutoCAD software to design the electromechanical...