Hitachi began shipping a consumer version of its popular M2 camera/recorder last week. Dubbed the M2L, the new multimedia recording camera costs $999, less than half the price of the M2. Like its predecessor, the M2L records video, audio and still images.
It has a 1GB expandable...
The release of Microsoft's video and music downloading system has sparked an urgency for Internet webcasting businesses trying to convince movie studios to supply them with videos at the time that video rental stores get them.
If a deal happens between webcasters and a major studio, it would...
The Annual and much anticipated National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention wrapped up in Las Vegas. Videomaker sent a team for up-to-the-minute dispatches on the latest products and developments by the major players in the video industry. Here's the major news they found:.
Blossom Technologies showed a Casablanca-style...
Whatever streaming audio and video technology lacks in quality, it more than makes up for in diverse and interesting content. While CNN flooded television screens all over the world with haunting images of Albanian refugees fleeing their war torn country and Serbian news showed the devastation caused by NATO...
Remember the old Kodak drive-thrus? Well, eEncoding .com, a successful Web site that converts film and digital clips into streaming media files, is developing a site that capitalizes on the Fotomat idea with a twist -- clients will be able to drop their digital media files on...
Adding to the Studio family of video products, Pinnacle Systems announced the release of Studio MP10, an advanced MPEG CD authoring tool.
The Studio MP10 is essentially a capture device that plugs into the computer's printer port and allows users to capture compressed MPEG-1 video from a number of sources...
In video and film, "continuity" refers to the many strategies utilized by the director and editor to create the illusion of, yes, a continuous program out of a bunch of separate shots. Continuity consists of all the techniques employed to arrange those pieces into a mosaic picture in which...
The pros call them "flags" or "cubes." They're the little boxes that TV news reporters have on their microphones to identify what channel they work for. Picture a podium at a major press announcement. Usually there will be at least a dozen mikes bearing flags that represent all kinds...
An audio mixer is an important tool for achieving a good soundtrack. Whether you need to mix your audio in the field or in post production, there's a wide range of audio mixers that will give you more control over your audio and better overall quality in your video.
Whether...
Canopus corporation recently announced shipment of Rexf/x ($699), a hardware-based 3D effects engine that offers "near-real-time" rendering of over 40 high-quality pre-set effects, including cube, tube, mosaic, double doors, spinning cube and environmental effects including haze and lighting. In the coming months, Canopus will offer additional effects modules that...
