NAB 2009: Official Announced Attendance

Posted By Mark R. Smith

Just got the number's from NAB's PR office... the attendance this year is 83,842. That figure includes 23,232 international attendees -- many of whom were mega jet-lagged. That reminds me of a funny story... the first year I came to the how, 1992, I ... Continue reading "NAB 2009: Official Announced Attendance" »

April 21, 2009 | Permalink | Comments(0)

One More Thing

Posted By Mark R. Smith

I met a guy in the lunch line in the press room today and he was talking about this year's attendance, too. He said, nevermind the nation's current economic issues, NAB needs to go back after the folks that used to attend NATPE and reintegrate them ... Continue reading "One More Thing" »

April 21, 2009 | Permalink | Comments(0)

Add Some (Production) Music to Your Day

Posted By Mark R. Smith

Had a few good words with David Gurule and Dennis Dunn from Killer Tracks in L.A. today about trends they've noticed of late. David talked about the move toward the digital distribution of music. He said the house has continued to press CDs and ... Continue reading "Add Some (Production) Music to Your Day" »

April 21, 2009 | Permalink | Comments(0)

3D without Glasses???

Posted By John J. Budion

It seems like Sony is trying to take Digital Cinema to the next level. They are trying to bring the third dimension to home televisions. 3D movies without the glasses in the comfort of your own home. Sounds pretty cool. Apparently, they are still ... Continue reading "3D without Glasses???" »

April 21, 2009 | Permalink | Comments(0)

NAB 2009

Posted By Mark R. Smith

There has been a considerable amount of talk amongst us broadcast tech denizens about what the final announced attendance number will be this year. Last year that figure reached 104,000; the record is 115,000 in 2000. After cruising around on the ... Continue reading "NAB 2009" »

April 20, 2009 | Permalink | Comments(0)

DVS steals my RED heart

Posted By Mark L. Pederson

Okay - NAB 2009 has begun. I started by going to DVS to see CLIPSTER's new RED support - and get a full tour of the features. It's hard to find words to express how excited I am about this system. They are debayering RED's R3D files with HARDWARE in ... Continue reading "DVS steals my RED heart" »

April 20, 2009 | Permalink | Comments(0)

Autodesk announces FLARE!

Posted By John J. Budion

Autodesk finally released their new product FLARE at NAB today. I have to say it's pretty interesting. The program is designed to be a separate workstation primarily for junior artist's to facilitate senior artist's who are running the full version ... Continue reading "Autodesk announces FLARE!" »

April 20, 2009 | Permalink | Comments(0)

NAB09 Sony unveils Vegas 09

Posted By David Basulto

Sony Creative unveiled Vegas 9 at NAB and the software looks as robust as ever. There are several new features, transitions, effects and more. Having used Vegas on a film in the past, I really wanted to see if it had been updated to keep up with the ... Continue reading "NAB09 Sony unveils Vegas 09" »

April 20, 2009 | Permalink | Comments(0)

NAB 09 Cineform takes on realtime color correction with First Light

Posted By David Basulto

David Taylor of Cineform unveiled a wonderful new tool I must have called First Light. At first glance it resembled Adobe Lightroom. That is until I saw it work with a 4k image color correcting it in realtime. I was blown away by the tools amazing ... Continue reading "NAB 09 Cineform takes on realtime color correction with First Light" »

April 20, 2009 | Permalink | Comments(0)

Cache-A LTO4-A and SyncSy

Posted By Mark L. Pederson

CACHE-A is showing their LTO4-A series data tape decks. Offhollywood uses LTO3A for archive and we've been inter-acting with the team at Cache-A on feature requests and we are super excited about this product. Key highlights are: span archives across ... Continue reading "Cache-A LTO4-A and SyncSy" »

April 20, 2009 | Permalink | Comments(0)