June 24, 2014, Creative Storage Conference, Culver City, CA—A panel considered the challenges and opportunities for storage in post production. Philip Hodgetts from Intelligent Assistance moderated the panel. Panelists were Jesse Adams from EditShare, Chris Schell from Front Porch Digital, Jeff Greenwald and Shane Archiquette from HDS, Elaine Kwok from Promise Technology, Bernard Asare from…
June 24, 2014, Creative Storage Conference, Culver City, CA—Alex Grossman from Quantum described the requirements for cloud-based workflows. The industry is one of constant change that is looking for consistent steps in production. new camera formats, collaboration, and more tools are all increasing workflow complexity and making the older file-based flows incompatible with the newest…
February 3, 2014, Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco—Harry Matthias from San Jose State University talked about mythologies and their effect on digital cinema. This summer, there will be no more film deliveries to theaters, and all projected films will be digital. Standards from SMPTE and ISO exist to define all facets of these movies from…
April 7, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas—We talked with Avid about their latest tools. The latest creative tools start with Media Composer 7 for nonlinear editing, now available starting at $999 USD. The new version features accelerated and simplified file-based workflows including optimized HD delivery from high-res source material and automated media operations….
April 8, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas—We talked with AJA about their latest product releases. After 20 years in the business, the company is still cranking out new products. They have a number of converters on hand including the Hi5-4K, a quad 3G SDI to 4k HDMI, and the ROI, a DVI and…
April 7, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, las Vegas—We talked with Chyron-Hego about their various products. Their products are integrated across all platforms and allow xross discipline edit, render, etc. for graphics. The advent of blade servers and cloud services facilitates image analysis and production. All of their products are based upon their Lyric system…
April 9, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas—We talked with Dell about their two new product offerings, a cloud-based creation environment and a performance optimization tool. Dell Create is a multi-vendor cloud for content creators. This new professional service is a centralized IT environment with custom packages for content creation. The service and consulting…
January 6,2013, Storage Visions Conference, Las Vegas—Yoshiaki Shishikui, head of the advanced TV systems research division of NHK described the equipment, workflows, and other requirements to handle the live broadcast of the 2012 Summer Olympics in ultra high definition. The experience demonstrated the potential for UHD as well as the need for more development work…
April 10, 2011, NAB , Las Vegas—Sony showed off their HD expertise through some customers and partners. They released a lot of new equipment at this show. The Japan earthquake has affected their production of tapes, but they have a 6 month supply. By the end of July, they will have a forecast for production…
January 4, 2011, Storage Visions conference, Las Vegas-a panel looked at digital storage requirements for capturing, editing, and archiving content. Larry Jordan, video production buzz moderated the panel. Speakers included Tom Inglefield from Oracle, Jay Yogeshwar from Hitachi Data Systems, Jim Jonez from Dot Hill Systems, Alex Grossman from Active Storage, Tony Cahill from CET…