News and Features
AKiTiO ThunderGo 1 TB SSD Keeps On Keepin’ On
We all know SSD drives are fast, so it’s not news that the AKiTiO ThunderGo is fast. But how does it hold up when...
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News and Features
Toolkit: June 2016
AJA Video Systems HELO At the 2016 NAB Show, AJA Video Systems announced HELO, a standalone H.264 streaming and recording device. HELO offers a...
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How the Co-Directors of ‘Weiner’ Crafted a Portrait of the Politician
"When we started we had no idea how this was going to go," says co-director Josh Kriegman.
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New York Knicks Score with Sony FS7
Tom Zweibel, digital video producer for the New York Knicks, shoots about 12 to 14 hours of video every week, a combination of pregame...
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Blackmagic URSA Mini 4.6K Gets the Gold
Co-directed by Aaron Carter and Jon Asher, the music video for Carter’s single “Fool’s Gold” was shot with a Blackmagic URSA Mini 4.6K digital...
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‘A Beautiful Planet’ Brings IMAX Filmmaking to Space Station
'A Beautiful Planet' marks IMAX’s first space film acquired digitally, shot primarily using Canon EOS C500 and EOS-1D C 4K cameras.
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2016 NAB Show Roundup: Which Innovations Will Change the Video Industry?
Oliver Peters identifies the technology advances at the NAB Show.
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Sensors & Sensibility: Achieving the Luminous Glow of Whit Stillman’s ‘Love & Friendship’
“'Love & Friendship' was the first period film from that time for me, so I was really happy to do it, especially night scenes...
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Blaze of Glory: My Secret Life as Jennifer Beals
My four-month holiday relief job at the BBC is over. One more visit to say goodbye to my FOM, Fred. “You heard? He burnt...
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Tips to Clip: June 2016
Green Arrow No, this is not about a comic book hero with a bow who catches criminals. Instead, it’s a really great improvement on...
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Best of Show: The Tools and Technologies Recognized by Digital Video at the 2016 NAB Show
Here are the 2016 winners of our annual Best of Show awards.
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Advances and Achievements
I wanted to take a moment to congratulate the recipients of this year’s NAB Best of Show Awards from Digital Video magazine. There were...
Slideshows
‘Preacher’: Translating the Comic Book’s Humor (and Hellfire) for Television
After languishing in development limbo for years due to its religiously controversial and stylistically dark subject matter, the Vertigo/DC Comics comic book series Preacher...
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Jim Courtright Carries OWC Envoy Pro mini Everywhere
For years, Jim Courtright of Chicago’s Big Thinking by the Hour has focused on creating company and product marketing videos. He has conceptualized, shot...
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SpeedDrive for the Video Devices Pix-E Series Is a Must-Have
Helifilm.com is a premier supplier of aerial footage in Scandinavia, offering services to national and international film teams and providing access to an extensive...
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Nexto DI NSB-25 Simplifies Storage for Director/DP
For years I wanted something small that I could dump media onto from any camera, a solution able to back up the footage to...
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A Journey Through India, Powered by LaCie
Much of We SF’s short film “The Ramayan,” a live action English adaptation of the Indian epic The Ramayan, was shot deep in the...
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Bi-Coastal ‘Documentary Now’ Post Teams Rely on G-Technology
To make Documentary Now, a mockumentary series on IFC from Saturday Night Live veterans Seth Meyers, Fred Armisen and Bill Hader, our teams in...
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Light Iron Chooses JMR for Outpost System
Light Iron, a division of Panavision, has selected the JMR Lightning LTNG-XQ-8-DTMP rack-mount Mac Pro/Thunderbolt RAID system to be an integral part of its...