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UGC

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

UGC.
No, it’s not an abbreviation for Upper Gastrointestinal Condition.
UGC is becoming an abbreviation for User Generated Content and it certainly has a huge spotlight on it. While we may most think of UGC as a name attached to the “YouTube” phenomenon, the idea of being able to create and broadcast content to anyone in the [...]

A Cutting Edge File-Based Workflow

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

On March 2, David Fincher’s next film, “Zodiac” will be released and the production and post-production methodology is as cutting edge as there is. Shot on Thomson Viper FilmStream cameras and recorded to D.Mag Digital Film Magazines (from S.two), the film undergoes a digital acquisition and digital post treatment with a film out for the [...]

1080p: a fire hose of data

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

I was blown away by this article in Broadcast Engineering which rather dryly notes:
Implementation of dual-link 3Gb/s distribution methods for 1080 60p would reduce the capacity of an existing HD infrastructure by 50 percent. SMPTE has issued 3Gb/s standards (424M, 425M) that can be used for intrafacility 1080 60p SDI distribution over a single coax [...]

Endless movement

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Ever since yesterday, when Tom and I recorded the first Digital Media Galaxy podcast, I’ve been thinking hard about the challenges he discussed in that episode.
Then, today, I ran across this story in Broadcast Engineering.
The predictions of what’s going to happen (30Mb/sec in the home!) in the short term has gotta make the harried production [...]

Aren’t all blogs except this one linear?

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

Frequent readers of blogs always seek out the first post to see what the blog’s intent is. If it catches their fancy…well, the blogger might get lucky and get a subscriber.
Bloggers really sweat these first posts: What if it stinks? What if I don’t have real content to deliver regularly that would make people take [...]

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