AV Video Multimedia Producer articles from October 2001

AV Video Multimedia Producer archives from October 2001

After the Attacks: The Effect on Your Jobs. (Real time).
October 1, 2001... The events of September 11 are still very fresh in my mind, as are the individual stories you related over the phone and via e-mail about how your jobs and lives changed in the days following the terrorist attacks. This country has not...

Industry Mourns the Loss of Technology Leaders. (In Memoriam).
October 1, 2001... Daniel M. Lewin, Akamai Technologies Daniel M. Lewin, co-founder, chief technology officer, and board member of Akamai Technologies, an Internet services developer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was on board the American Airlines flight that...

Squared Away: Fujitsu unifies its image for a trade show. (Presentations).
October 1, 2001... Putting the pieces together to achieve a successful trade-show exhibition is like putting a gigantic Rubik's Cube in order. Only a handful of companies manage to assemble the right combination of booth design, media production and sales...

Hanging Your Shingle: How to avoid the pitfalls of starting your own business. (Animation).
October 1, 2001... I keep running into young and not-so-young animators who are starting boutique animation studios. By keeping overhead low, hedging their risks and freelancing on the side, many of them are finding that it may just be possible to open shop on a...

Share Where?: As media-creation workgroups expand, so do the options for collaboration.
October 1, 2001... By now, nobody needs to be convinced of the power of the network. Even if you do all of your work on one workstation, you've used the Internet, haven't you? Today, the network represents efficiency: It lets producers distribute tasks. It cuts...

Firm Abs-Fast SANs. (Case-study).
October 1, 2001... Believe it or not, a storage area network (SAN) is helping people discover their way to a flatter, firmer stomach and stronger abs. Okay, maybe not directly, but it plays a part. Thane International, the La Quinta, California, company...

Become a SAN Sansei. (Best practices).
October 1, 2001... Have you considered putting a SAN in place so that media-creation tasks can be shared and completed in less time? The job is less complicated than it once was, but there are many things you need to consider before you begin. Even if you're...

Shopping Online for Rich Media. (Cart full of content).
October 1, 2001... Outsourcing is nothing new for producers. Companies seek outside help to complete projects every day. One Campbell, California, company uses the power of an enormous network--the Internet--to automate the assembly of multimedia applications....

Networking Institutional Video. (Case study).
October 1, 2001... For the nation's Department of Veterans Affairs, distributing training and educational programs was, until recently, complex. The Department, with headquarters in Washington, DC, comprises three groups: the Veterans Health Administration (VHA),...

Midnight Media Group. (D.I.Y. connection).
October 1, 2001... Walter Schoenknecht and Dave Emerling co-founded the Midnight Media Group in Parsippany, New Jersey, in 1983. "We were operating out of our homes for the first few years," Schoenknecht says, "and Dave and I would produce, direct and edit our...

The selling block: lego systems, with help from del padre visual productions, takes its field sales process from brick-and-mortar to click-and-order. (Cover Story).
October 1, 2001... Just as its brightly colored, interconnectable plastic bricks have been used by more than 400 million people worldwide to build make-believe worlds, The LEGO Company has stacked its product line way beyond the angular, modular pieces that can...

In the Eye of the Beholder: Slick and practical tools emerge for business-media producers. (Siggraph 2001 Show Report).
October 1, 2001... All eyes at SIGGRAPH 2001, held in August in Los Angeles, were on the latest developments in the graphics and animation industry. This year, business producers found more than their share of elegant and effective content-creation and...

Clip Cruncher: Canopus' Storm Rack. (Test Patterns).
October 1, 2001... Summary: Robust real-time editing system with well-rounded software bundle Target Users: Video editors Platforms: Windows 2000 Professional Storm Rack is aimed squarely at professional video editors who need real-time editing...

Animation Station: Toon Boom Technologies' Toon Boom Studio 1.0. (Test Patterns).
October 1, 2001... Summary: Cartoon animation creation tool Target Users: Web- and vide-animation artists Platforms: Windows 98/ME/2000; Mac OS X Traditional cartoon production has always had one major problem: it is inherently labor-intensive. All...

Economy LCD Samsung's SyncMaster 570vTFT. (Test Patterns).
October 1, 2001... Summary: Sub-$400 15-inch LCD monitor offers solid value but basic features Target Users: Budget-conscious computer users Platforms: PC; Macintosh Have you noticed how much prices have dropped on LCD monitors over the past 18...

In Control: Contour Design's ShuttlePro. (Test Patterns).
October 1, 2001... Summary: Programmable jog-shuttle control for video applications Target Users: Video editors Platforms: Mac OS 8.6 or later with OS ROM update 1.0; Mac OS 9.0.4 or later Contour Design, which makes a variety of ergonomic products...

The way-back machine. (The last word).
October 1, 2001... Whenever I'm writing a feature that entails interviewing a producer whom I consider an industry veteran--I loosely define that as having worked in the business for 10 years or more--there are certain things I like to ask, even if they might not...