Panasonic intros VariCam 2700 and 3700 at NAB

Company also shows AG-HMC 150 AVCCAM and AG-HPX170 P2 Camera

Panasonic's Sunday press conference at NAB 2008 in Las Vegas featured the introduction of three new HD cameras. To be showcased all week at the annual broadcast event, Panasonic introduced at its press conference two P2HD VariCam cameras, the variCam 3700 and VariCam 2700, and successors to the DVX100 DV camcorder.

2007 Credit where Credit is Due

This is not a 'best of' list or any kind of award, but rather a list of the most influential tools of 2007

I've long held the belief that the broad industry and community of media creators need to be proactive and dynamic in their criticism of creative software and hardware developers. Such developers become complacent and self-serving when their users are not clamouring for 'better' and demanding "more."

Speeding Up Your Overall Workflow With Markers In Final Cut Pro

How to enhance your workflow in Final Cut Studio using markers

As everyone knows, markers, no matter what program you are using, are there for a reason. They mark something in your timeline that you want to keep track of. Well, in Final Cut Pro, markers can do that and a whole lot more.

How to get SDI Timecode into Final Cut Pro using AJA capture devices

Let's look at how you can get your footage into your system using AJA's VTR Xchange

I had a reader e-mail me with an interesting question. The problem that they were experiencing was that they were in the field shooting HD, and wanted to capture the footage they shot into their edit system that they had with them, but the only VTR they had was the camera itself. Most people might say "No problem, just hook up the HD-SDI, and capture your video and audio!". That is true, except for one problem.

Avid's "New Thinking"

Avid's Kirk Arnold speaks on Avid's new solutions

With the recent release of Media Composer 3.0, new hardware configurations, a price cut on both hardware and software, and its "New Thinking" philosophy, Avid is turning a lot of heads in the post production industry. DMN contributing editor Kevin McAuliffe had the chance to ask Kirk Arnold, Executive Vice President of Customer Operations at Avid Technology about some of these bold steps.

Northern Lights rocks out in humorous spot for VH1 Classic

The spot melds claymation with VFX to hilariously recapture the bygone era of skinny and shirtless men in spandex

Northern Lights VFX Artist Chris Hengeveld recently handled VFX and post work on a comedic spot for VH1 Classic. Hengeveld partnered with VH1 Creative Director/Writer and long-time collaborator Micah Perta to add energy to the clay-animated spot.

NAB 2008: GridIron Shows Flow

New professional workflow management solution from GridIron Gang

GridIron, a relatively small company showed up with a massive booth for a massively comprehensive management solution. GridIron, previously known for its memory and processor management application: NucleoPro now offers to help us with our file management as well.

3Ware Sidecar

A Mac RAID that that offers a high end PCI Express solution

The sidecar RAID from 3Ware isn't new gear featured at NAB this year, but with the advent of more and more high definition resources and 2K+ video, every Mac editor and/or compositor will have to look at the different solutions available to store and access all of those gigantor elements. It's not just about storage, its about bandwidth too.