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• Manticom Networks Announces Affordable Broadband for Video-On-Demand Industry
Drives Cost Per Stream Below $35
• Zenith Web Site Helps Viewers Find Digital TV Stations, HDTV Programs In Their Area
Alliance with Decisionmark Enhances Zenith.com
• South Dakota Public Broadcasting Speeds Creation of Multi-Layer Content With 844/X
Statewide Public Broadcaster Chooses 844/X for Unique Combination of Editing and Accelerated Compositing Plus Easy Path to HDTV
• Pioneer Launches Compass Program for Set-Top Box Software Developers
Full-Service Support Program Guides Application Developers On Their Voyage to the Subscribers' Set-Top Box
• JetBlue Airways and DirecTV Airborne Provide Live NBC Programming In-Flight
WNBC and Telemundo Make TV History As The First Broadcast and Spanish-Language Networks Live Inflight
• iN DEMAND Announces 2.5 Million Digital Cable VOD Subscribers
5 Million expected by year end, company says VOD is starting to take off
• Conexant Introduces Semiconductor for Satellite Front-End Set-Top Box
Combination of Digital Satellite Tuner and Demodulator/Decoder Reduces Overall Set-Top Box Cost and Increases Performance
• Maxtor and nStor Intro High-Speed HDTV Storage System For Video Editors
nStor's NexStor 4000S Ultra320 System with Maxtor Atlas 10K III-U320 Hard Drives Stream at High-Definition Video Speeds
• ParkerVision Receives First Patent
Covers Real Time Video Production System and Method
• Pixel Power Announces PixelMOS For Clarity Character Generators
Provides Media Object Server integration between Clarity and state-of-the-art newsrooms
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Tough competition in high end compositing market halts development before release
Socratto, Sony's PC-based high end HD and SD compositing system that was seen as a threat to products developed by Discreet, 5D and other compositing software developers, has been discontinued. The system, whose price was said to be between $500,000 and $750,000, was demonstrated at this year's NAB and showed promise, but the lack of customers for products at this stratospheric price point proved too much for the nascent compositing system. The product was under development by VFX, a division of Sony Corporation.
Is the new setup routine easier?
One of Matrox's RT.X100 DV editing system's claimed improvements is its easier installation routine. In its predecessors, the RT2000 and RT2500, many users complained about setup problems, where it was necessary to reboot the machine three times to get the thing to work. Even then, sometimes it still wouldn't function as advertised. Matrox itself called the procedure "cumbersome." Matrox says it has made great strides in civilizing the setup experience, and we wanted to test that claim. So we installed the RT.X100 on two different workstations, one using Intel's 2.53GHz P4 chip and another with dual Athlon 2000+MP processors. Here's what happened.
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The music you choose can either make or break your production
Choosing and using music is a task that must be faced by almost every digital video editor. Even at the highest levels of film and video production, bone-headed decisions are made on a daily basis that mar otherwise first-rate productions. Why are so many inappropriate musical choices made? I think it's because many producers and editors are placing their personal preferences above careful esthetic judgment of what fits in a production and what doesn't. But that assessment is highly subjective -- it's a matter of opinion. Since this is an opinion column, here's mine.
They're creating motion graphics, aren't they?
Do postproduction establishments need to have photo manipulation software like Adobe Photoshop? What percent of FX studios plan to buy this software? In this weekly quick feature, Trendwatch founding partner Jim Whittington offers you interesting factoids based on solid market research from the broadcast industry.
Configuring your scratch disks
Ever have Final Cut Pro 3.0 crash in the middle of an edit, and you don’t know when the last auto save was performed (or even where it is located)? Wonder why you can easily locate your rendered video files, but not your audio? Ever throw your hands up in frustration and cry out in the night, "I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!"? Okay, maybe you haven’t gone that far, but knowing how to set up your scratch disk can save you some hassle later on.
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