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Improve your appeal, present a more specialized product
In a recent column, we talked about the need to review your business strategy and focus on making sure that it reflects today's changed market. Given a refined mission and vision statement that aligns with your revised strategy, your sales team will be anxious to engage your customer base. However, gaining access to customers is more difficult these days. Organizations are lean and, lacking budgets for technology, customers have little interest or time for sales calls.
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Response sytems fill your meeting media with instant data
How do you hold an interactive meeting with 5,000 people? That was the challenge for Option Technologies Interactive (OTI), a specialized software developer based in Orlando, Florida.
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Creating an inlaid metallic effect in Photoshop 7 and CS
We've covered a number of graphic effects in Adobe Photoshop, but most of them are destructive to your original artwork. This week we go back to some Photoshop basics to explore Layer Styles for the creation of a metallic, molten inlaid effects. Why? Well, Layer Effects are non-destructive, so you can apply them to text, for example, without having to rasterize. And you can save your styles to create your own variations that you can easily recall later.
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Premiere Pro plus Matrox hardware equals a winning combination
When we reviewed the Matrox RT.X100 DV editing system about 18 months ago, we liked what we saw. It’s a graceful blend of hardware power combined with host processing that makes digital video editing a nearly all-real-time, all-the-time proposition. Since then, Matrox has enhanced the feature set of its formidable DV editing system, and made the crucial leap to Adobe Premiere Pro as well. We took the new system out for a test drive and ended up liking the RT.X100 Xtreme Pro even more than its predecessor. Here’s our review.
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Photographic and effects filters for Adobe Photoshop
We've reviewed a few of Digital Film Tools' plugins for Adobe Photoshop in the past, all of which have been solid examples of photographic effects filters. But the company's latest suite, 55MM 3.0, simply dwarfs all of them. It includes not only improved version of the filters in 55MM 2.0, but also several new ones, plus two plugins that were previously only available separately--Light! and Ozone--both of which were fine plugins in their own right.
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Big Screen Image With Wide-Format Provides Ultimate Movie Experience
Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America's Presentation Products Division, maker of presentation and display products, today introduced the HC3 Home Cinema ColorView Projector, its first true 16:9 projector designed exclusively for home theater and other applications requiring widescreen display format. The Home Cinema (HC) series of projectors is also the first Mitsubishi Digital projector line available in retail outlets such as Fry's Electronics, Buy.com and other outlets, as well as home theater retailers.
LT10 Offers Portability and Performance, Ships in January, 2004 for $2195
Projector and plasma display provider NEC Solutions (America), Inc. today introduced the LT10, its lightest projector yet at 2.1 pounds. Small enough to fit in a briefcase with a laptop, yet powerful enough to display data and video images that empower any message, the LT10 gives traveling professionals the ultimate business tool for success.
Over the past few months, Mackie products have played a pivotal role in the post-production of three major holiday season blockbusters – The Matrix Revolutions, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, and Gothika.
Pan and Zoom Software for Animation of Still Images Gets Even Better in Its Fifth Year With MacOS Panther Support
StageTools has released version 5.0 of MovingPicture, its image pan and zoom software for nonlinear editors.
Silicon Image, a provider of multi-gigabit semiconductors for the secure transmission and storage of rich digital media, today announced the opening of its new Digital Visual Interface (DVI) Compliance Test Center (CTC). An industry first, the DVI CTC promotes greater interoperability among DVI-enabled devices by providing comprehensive and impartial compliance test services to manufacturers of DVI components and end-user products implementing DVI. To kick off the service, Silicon Image is offering all DVI host manufacturers, such as PC system and graphics card makers, complimentary standard compliance testing of one device per manufacturer through April 2004.
IRIDAS, a leading creator of high-performance digital solutions for the film, broadcast and digital content creation industries, is finding growing interest in the science and medical communities for its high resolution digital playback technologies. A new state-of-the-art presentation facility at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm is providing a first taste of stereoscopic projection that displays sequences at 7 times higher resolution than that of typical TV video. Academic audiences have been very impressed with the results.
Update adds new Adobe CS and Panther support
Extensis has released an update for Suitcase X1, the company's font management system. The new 11.0.2 version adds new support for Mac OS X 10.3, as well as Adobe Illustrator CS and InDesign CS. It's available now for Mac OS X.
Sony Electronics is shipping its first generation of Professional Disc for DATA optical storage drives, automated devices and media to OEMs and system integrators.
47% of consumers still unclear about options
The gap between the cost of a high- definition television and the amount U.S. consumers are willing to pay is closing, according to a newly-released study by Dove Consulting. Thirty (30%) percent of non-HDTV owners indicated they are willing to pay up to $700 for an HDTV; twenty (20%) percent are willing to pay $1,000.
Display technology driven by cluster of low-cost PCs connected to commodity projectors
Video Display Corporation announced today that its VDC Display Systems, Cape Canaveral division will introduce its auto-calibrating system to enable low-cost, scalable, seamless, high-resolution and large scale displays for training, simulation, immersive, command and control, planetariums, entertainment and other specialized applications. The prototype display will be introduced at its Booth 560 at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) Show held in Orlando, Florida from December 1-4, 2003.
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