Major Developments of the Last Months

60-Second Q&A: Entertainment Lawyer Michael C. Donaldson

Clearance & Copyright author Michael C. Donaldson says a few words about the fair use doctrine. »

 

HD Video Conferencing Can Ease the High Cost of Fossil Fuel

The high cost of fossil fuel is impacting everyone, including video crews traveling to acquire interviews for television programs. Now, a Colorado company has announced an alternative to travel—high-definition video conferencing over its IP network. »

 

HD Audience Grows; 71 Million Subscribers by 2012

Why the need for so much high-definition content? According to a new study, cable and satellite HDTV subscribers will penetrate 65.7 percent of multichannel households in the United States by 2012. That’s dramatically up from only 18.8 percent in 2007. »

 

Q&A: Louis Bertini, sound editor/mixer

Bertini is a veteran sound editor/mixer of numerous high-profile television shows, including all six seasons of HBO’s Sex In The City and the CW Network’s Life Is Wild. His specialty is automated dialogue replacement (ADR) and creating original sound effects. »

 

Angenieux’s “Rouge” Lens Delivery Set

Thales Angenieux’s highly anticipated new Optimo DP (digital production) Series Lens—nicknamed “Rouge”—is set for delivery in the fourth quarter, according to the company. Some DPs say it can’t arrive soon enough. »

 

Avid Comes Out Swinging

Continuing its “New Thinking” (read “lower-cost”) strategy that pits it head-to-head with Apple, Avid Technology is now shipping the next generation HD editing systems and storage solutions that it showed at the NAB convention. »

 

EditShare Offers Universal Media File Format

EditShare, a specialist in cross-platform editing and shared media storage, has introduced technology that creates a single media file that can be used in both Avid and Final Cut Pro editing environments. »

 

Streaming the (Intimate) Moment in 5.1

Capturing the true essence of 5.1 surround sound is getting easier and less complex with each passing day. The demand for such recordings, to accompany HD music videos, is increasing as well, as virtually every home-theater receiver now enables viewers to hear the multichannel audio. »

 

Q&A: Anton Strauss, editor

Strauss is now editing a number of high-definition videos, using a home-made PC with dual Intel Xeon (eight cores) processors. He uses the latest version (4.6) of Thomson Grass Valley Edius Broadcast editing software, with its real-time processing and JPEG 2000 codec. »

 

Canon and Vinten Collaborate for HD Lens Users

Vinten’s Vector 950 Active pan-and-tilt head, which complements Canon Broadcast’s lens-stabilization Optical Shift Image Stabilizer (Shift-IS) technology, can now be used with most existing Canon HD field Shift-IS lenses. »

 

Snakehead Stars in New Bond Film

A new gyroscopic POV camera mount is making its big-screen debut in the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace (set for release November 7). Called the Snakehead, the new camera system from SpaceCam Systems (Los Angeles), specialists in aerial and specialized gyro-stabilized cinematography, allows pilots to fly as aggressively as they dare without sacrificing the drama of the shot. »

 

Red Giant Chroma Keyer Adds Support for Apple Software

Red Giant Software has released Primatte Keyer 4, a new version of its professional green-screen tool that adds support for Apple’s Final Cut Pro and Motion pro video applications. »

 






 
 
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