Editor's View: Events, Expeditions and Excellence

Digital Video Expo Comes to New York
If you’re living or working on the East Coast, you are most cordially invited to join me on June 20 for Digital Video Expo East in New York City. Held at the Metropolitan Pavilion at 125 West 18th Street, our event will be a full day of exhibits, education and networking, with a (free) series of presentations and conversations that I think you’ll enjoy. Visit www.dvexpoeast.com for the full schedule.

Partnering with us, FMC Training is offering a two-part, full-day educational program at Digital Video Expo East. The program is divided into two sessions: “Understanding the 4K Workflow” (9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) will focus on what you need to know to shoot, edit and deliver content in 4K (and beyond), and “HDSLR Cinematography” (1:30 to 4:30 p.m.) will show you how to get the most out of DSLR video and create stunning cinematic scenes. You can register at www.dvexpoeast.com, and please use the code DVC5 for our “friends and family” discount.

I look forward to seeing you!

Big Winners
I’d like to congratulate the 2012 NAB Show recipients of the Digital Video Black Diamond Award. We invited a panel of engineers, editors, and production and post professionals to help us determine the outstanding products and services introduced at the 2012 NAB Show. You can learn all about the winners in our feature story found here.

The 2012 NAB Show Black Diamond Award recipients:

1 Beyond Wrangler LTO-5 NetDrive
Adobe Creative Suite 6
Aframe Cloud Video Production Platform
AJA Ki Pro Quad
AJA T-TAP
ARRI L7-C
Autodesk Smoke 2013
Avid Media Composer 6
Blackmagic Design Blackmagic Cinema Camera
Blackmagic Design Teranex 2D and 3D Processors
Canon Cinema EOS Series
Carbon XL 10
Ciphertex CX-10K-NAS
Convergent Design Gemini RAW
Edelkrone FocusPLUS+ and FocusONE
Fujinon PL 19-90 Cabrio
GenArts Sapphire Edge
HP Z1 Workstation
JVC GY-HMQ10
Libec SWIFT JIB50
Manfrotto Remote Controls for Canon HDSLRs
Nikon D800
OConnor O-Focus Dual Mini
Panasonic BT-LH1850
PRG TruColor HS
RED SCARLET
Sachtler Ace
Sony NEX-FS700
Sound Devices PIX 260
TVLogic LVM-074W
Zylight F8

Call for Papers and Presentations for Pro Media Conference
For more than 10 years Digital Video Expo has been the largest content creation event on the West Coast. We are soliciting papers and presentations on a range of topics relevant to the digital video and postproduction landscape for Pro Media Conference West, which is co-located with Digital Video Expo. The deadline for submissions is June 29. For more information, visit www.dvexpo.com/ProMedia.