April
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2004
19
2004
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• Celco Announces 3D-Color & Film Recorder Software
• Small Tree Announces 802.3ad Link Aggregation for Apple
• Accel-KKR To Acquire Alias From SGI
• Snell & Wilcox Unveils NIAGRA
• Fast Forward Video Makes Its Covert Debut at NAB2004
• Giant Killer Robots' Bill Haller
• Trillium Lane Labs Announces TL Space
• Ciprico Unveils New SATA Storage Solutions At NAB 2004
• NewTek to Broadcast Live from NAB
• Sorenson and Ulead to Bundle Squeeze 3.5 Compression Suite
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How To Pitch A Hollywood Blockbuster
Tips from an expert
Peter May
Author, teacher and speaker Laurie Scheer always draws crowds of anxious, hopeful writers. She's spent nearly twenty years either sitting across the table from anxious, hopeful writers or as an anxious, hopeful writer herself. She's a veteran of Women's Entertainment, Showtime, MTV, Nickelodeon, Carolco, HBO, ABC Productions, Hearst Entertainment, Columbia Pictures and The Sundance Institute. Over the years she's learned to recognize an effective pitch and, more importantly, she's been willing to analyze the good ones and share her observations. DMN reporter Peter May sat in on one of her recent classes.|
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Dispelling the Myths About Plasma Displays
Fact or fiction? Sort it all out here.
Keith Yanke
With the increasing popularity of plasma displays both for commercial and residential use, many questions have begun to circulate about the technology - particularly when directly compared to LCD monitors. Keith Yanke, product specialist with NEC, dispels myths and finds truth concerning plasma displays. While both technologies offer many advantages, Yanke supplies the truths and facts behind the most commonly misunderstood perceptions about plasma displays.
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Giant Killer Robots' Bill Haller
John Virata
For animator Bill Haller, Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed is a milestone for his career because after seven years as a freelance animator with Giant Killer Robots, the company hired him on as lead animator to work on some monsters for the Warner Bros. sequel to the 2002 hit.|
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Bleach Bypass
How to do it in your application
Stephen Schleicher
Made most famous in the film Saving Private Ryan, the bleach bypass method of treating film gives a very unique look to a project. Since most videographers don’t have the luxury of spending money on film to achieve this look, they usually turn to mimicking the look in post. In this exercise, I’ll show how to do the effect in Adobe After Effects, Avid Xpress DV, discreet’s Combustion, and Apple’s Final Cut Pro 4.|
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Effortless Text Animation in Boris Red 3GL
Part One: Text on Path
Chris Vadnais
One of the most interesting and amusing capabilities of Boris Red 3GL is its vector text animation features. Red 3GL allows you to animate beautiful, clean vector titles in ways you’ve never imagined. In this short tutorial, we’ll see how easy it is to make your text move along a path using the Text to Path feature.|
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Motion Masks in DVD Studio Pro 2
Creating buttons with moving mask shapes and modifying button effects
Dave Nagel
You know DVD Studio Pro can use motion masks. You've seen them in action in some of the themes supplied with the program, but, for the life of you, you can't figure out how to make your own. Motion masks allow you to add transitions to your individual button shapes without affecting the entire menu. You can use them to create transitions for your buttons, add effects or even fade drop zones in and out. So why don't you have the ability to create your own custom motion masks? The short answer: You will after you read this.
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Top rental houses talk hot products and how to get the most out of them
Debra Kaufman
Tom Dickinson, VP/GM,Bexel, “The Panasonic AJ-DSX900 DVCPRO camcorder with 24P capabilities is our hottest item. It’s a very cost-effective, rugged ENG camera that’s much cheaper to rent than Beta SP and has DVCPRO50 recording. The 24P camera capture capability allows the camera operator to create a lot of unique looks. If you’re doing an up-close interview, for example, you might want to go dramatic with 24P, but if the subject is walking around, you can shoot it normal news style at 30 fps.”The Truth About Post
Post People Identify Opportunities, Money Pits, Key Technologies and Attitudes about Their Jobs
Alison Johns
If you work at a post-production company, you’re faced with challenges all day and the realization that many things you do are being redefined, whether you like it or not. In late January, we conducted a survey to learn what was on the minds and the horizons of post people nationwide.Warner Bros. Tackles Asset Retrieval
Managing Digital Media at the Studio Level
Debra Kaufman
Warner Bros. got to MARS, so to speak, long before the Spirit Rover set down on the red planet’s surface. A two-year project that has just completed roll-out, Warner Bros.’ Media Asset Retrieval System — MARS for short — addressed the studio’s need for a digital asset management system that was responsive to the stepped-up release of motion picture assets. Darcy Antonellis explains how they did it. 
The 5.1 Migration
Sound Placement Helps Convey Story Points in 60 Seconds
Dan Daley
Digital television is creating a two-way street for commercials between cinema and broadcast. The multichannel audio that theatergoers have been enjoying is migrating to television as the number of digital broadcast channels increases. But with the market penetration of stereo televisions at well over 50 percent and Dolby Pro Logic LCRS now a common feature for many broadcasters, mixing between two-, four- and six-channel formats is creating a wide new range of techniques and potential pitfalls.DMN Newsletter Sponsor
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