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June
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2001

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from DigitalVideoEditing.com:
Techniques:
Subtle Editing -- Sending a Different Kind of Love Letter
A new 30 second spot for Disaronno Amaretto tells the story of a distant love and manages it beautifully, without a single word of spoken dialog. It is engrossing, without any quick cuts, CGI effects or pumping electronic soundtrack. How did the editor do it?

from FilmandVideoMagazine.com:
Motion Pictures
A Knight’s Tale
Rockin’ in the Medieval World
Every detail of the armor, the costumes and the sur-rounding buildings is historically accurate. In the middle of a giant arena, surrounded by tiers of finely-dressed lords and ladies in special box seats, and rows of grubby commoners beneath them, two heavily-armored knights sit on horseback at opposite ends of a central dividing barrier...

from DigitalPostProduction.com:
Grammy-Award Winner Jeff Elmassian Relaunches Endless Noise
Grammy Award-winning music composer, producer and musician Jeff Elmassian today announced the relaunch of his original music production and publishing company, Endless Noise.

from DVFormat.com:
DV Film, Tape, Gets Titles from EyeballNYC
Tape, Richard Linklater's experimental digital video film starring Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard, which debuted at the Sundance Festival, features titles designed by EyeballNYC art director and designer Jory Hull.

from VideoSystems.com:
Great Performances
Cynthia Wisehart, Editor
About 12 years ago at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, I saw a video installation that changed how I felt about both video and painting. The video was projected onto a series of transparent panels, so the images seemed to float in space and flow across the room in a kind of atmospheric haze.

from DVDCreation.com:
Speed Demon
Review of Apple's DVD Studio Pro
by Matt Payne
Last year, Apple bought DVDirector, a basic DVD-authoring package, from Astarte. Now, with the arrival of the new Apple G4 733 with a built-in DVD-R burner, the system has re-emerged as DVD Studio Pro, sporting some significant upgrades, a facelift and a new, much lower price.

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from DigitalMediaDesigner.com:
ToonBoom Studio Demo
A look at the forthcoming animation system targeted toward designers
Last month we reported on the forthcoming release of ToonBoom Studio for Mac OS X and Windows. We had a chance to sit down with company representatives to give us a demo of their new software. ToonBoom Studio is a brand new animation system targeted toward smaller animation houses and designers who work in Flash.

from DigitalProSound.com:
Metric Halo SpectraFoo Complete
Optimizing the Transfer Function
by Michael Cooper
Metric Halo’s SpectraFoo Complete adds a Transfer function, signal generator, 24-bit Audio Capture function and three sample code metering tools (a bit range meter, bit matrix meter and bit scope) to SpectraFoo’s fundamental set of software-based metering and analysis instruments

Broadcast:

from WorldBroadcastEngineering.com:
News & the Internet, Part 2
A new way of news gathering
By PETER H. HENDERSON
By exploiting the cost-effective means of delivering news clips by satellite and receiving news clips by the Internet, a new UK company has introduced a global exchange system for broadcasters to acquire news and submit news for other broadcasters. The founder chairman explains how it happened.

from BroadcastEngineering.com:
Technology in Transition -- Virtual sets: Imagining we were there...
Anyone who has budgeted for a production knows that staging for motion pictures or video cameras is an expensive proposition. Controlling reality always is, and creating illusions is sometimes nearly as expensive.

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from PresentationMaster.com:
Congratulations, Kris
Sometimes you've got to stop and smell the flowers.

This column is almost exclusively dedicated to ProAV industry issues. Technical, process or procedural oriented, AV Insider is a column that explores the ins and outs of the systems integration issues facing people in the trenches - people using, installing and setting-up the gear.

from DigitalWebcast.com:
BellSouth Helps Students and Teachers Bring Living History to the Internet
Students from Dreher High School in Richland County, South Carolina captured Edmands' first-hand account of the bombing of Pearl Harbor on video, and will present the short film at Charleston's Spoleto festival, June 1. Tomorrow, the world can view the film by logging onto the Internet.

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When I'm IA-64
by Charlie White
In the next few days (maybe by the time you read this), Intel will be trumpeting this and that about its newest 64-bit chip, the 800 MHz Itanium. New? Not hardly. The thing has been in development for over seven years.

Wasn't Java "Forked?"
Microsoft Corp.'s Craig Mundie, senior vice president of the Redmond, Wash. company, last week came out with a statement claiming in no uncertain terms, that the Open Source software movement is a dangerous phenomenon that will compromise commercial intellectual property rights and undermine the software industry.

AMD Unveils Self-Service Customer Support Website
AMD announced the launch of Ask.AMD.com, a Web-based, self-service system which offers technical support and product information to system builders and end users.

NVIDIA Introduces NVIDIA nForce Platform
NVIDIA Corporation introduced its new nForce Platform Processing Architecture at the COMPUTEX tradeshow in Taiwan. NVIDIA's nForce is a new PC platform design, integrating system, graphics, communications, and audio technologies into one architecture.

NVIDIA's nForce Chipset Supports AMD's HyperTransport
AMD announced that NVIDIA has incorporated AMD's HyperTransport data bus technology into its new nForce platform processing architecture, becoming the first chipset to incorporate AMD's new data bus technology.

Apple PowerBook G4
Apple's New G4 Titanium PowerBook is an incredible laptop computer. It looks good and it performs well. Slim and elegant, it weighs just over five pounds and has a bright, easy-to-read screen. Everyone who sees this laptop wants one--at least that has been my experience.

We're Looking for WWUG Champions!
We are working on on adding new leaders to the WWUG's host panel to help champion our forums. If you know of someone who'd be a great addition to the WWUG team -- or if you yourself would like to join our team ------
please contact us.

We're looking for WWUG hosts in the following categories: Adobe Illustrator, Apple Final Cut Pro, Boris-FX, Cinema 4D, Cleaner, Commotion, Discreet edit*, Impulse Illusion, Quark Xpress, Ulead MediaStudio Pro, Ultimatte

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