Features
The Fixers: The Buck Stops with Engineers
Guild engineers are self-admitted gearheads who just plain love to fix things. […]
Technology
Features
Smooth Operators: QC and Tape Ops Adjust for the Digital Age
Watching movies and TV shows all day––and getting paid for it–– sounds like a dream job, but it’s serious work for quality control and videotape operators. Both are technical jobs, but the digital age has morphed them into a way more creative and challenging endeavor. […]
Book Reviews
Coloring Book
The tools for color correction will evolve fairly rapidly and there may be a necessity for a second edition of this book at a certain point in the future. […]
Columns
No Excuse for Copyright Abuse
They somehow think that freedom to speak equals freedom to steal. […]
Book Reviews
Post Moderne: A Resource and Reference Tool
When nonlinear editing systems first appeared nearly 25 years ago, a lot of people scratched their heads. Who could edit with a picture you could barely see and a hard drive that couldn’t hold even a reel of images, on a new-fangled personal computer that was likely to crash? […]
Book Reviews
Of Montage & VFX, A Pedagogical Analysis
The number of books dedicated specifically to motion picture editing is not large. There is a steady supply of how-to guides, often geared to specific technologies […]
Columns
Fill ‘Er Up with High-Speed Octane For GPU Rendering
Imagine if the excruciatingly long time it took to render photo-realistic 3D images were reduced to practically no time at all. No, it’s not a pipe dream, it’s graphic processing unit (GPU) […]
Book Reviews
A Guide to Putting the ‘Pro’ in Pro Tools
If you’re a Pro Tools instructor, ‘Audio Production Basics With Pro Tools | First’ provides a guided, formal course of study that will turn beginners into Pro Tools engineers. […]
Book Reviews
Assessing the Media Landscape for Common Ground
“The Storytellers Dilemma: Overcoming the Challenges in the Media Age” is meant for everyone who works in the media industries, whether in content creation, post-production finance or distribution. […]
Features
Digital Dreamcatcher: ‘Droidmaker’ Chronicles the Early Years of Lucasfilm
Droidmaker takes the reader inside the early years of Lucasfilm’s computer division. George Lucas foresaw a time when film would be replaced by a digital, high-resolution alternative that was neither film nor video. […]
