The Digital Production Buzz Covers the 2011 NAB Show!
Larry Jordan, live at the 2011 NAB Show for a series of BuZZ Special Interviews with industry leaders.
Mas Omae
Mas Omae, Sales Manager at Accusys, joins Larry Jordan to talk about their ExaSAN enterprise-class RAID.
Alex Lindsay on the Digital Production BuZZ
Larry talk with Alex Lindsay, founder of the Pixel Corps.
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Industry Interviews
Peter Crithery, Sony & Vincent Maza, Avid
Peter is responsible for marketing most of Sony’s professional cameras in the U.S. He joins us to talk about a variety of new camera announcements – and solid state recording devices – that Sony made at NAB. Then, Vincent Maza joins us to talk about the new ability within Avid Media Composer to edit HDCAM SR video natively to more tightly integrate production with post.
Alexis Van Hurkman, Van Hurkman Productions
Alexis Van Hurkman, Principle of Van Hurkman Productions, is a full-time colorist and a regular guest on The BuZZ, joins us to discuss the latest news from the creators of a variety of color-grading software; including DaVinci Resolve, LightWorks, and Assimilate.
Ric Viers, BlastwaveFX
Ric Viers loves creating sound effects. As the publisher of the world’s largest collection of sound effects, Ric talks about how he records sound effects and introduces their newest product: Sonopedia, their sound effects library with more than 30,000 effects.
Stefan Kramper, Digital Film Technology
Spirit and Scanity, created by Digital Film Technology, are two high-end film scanners which are used throughout the industry to convert film images into digital files. Stefan Kramper describes a new technique they’ve developed that scans film without relying on sprocket holes; which is great when scanning film archives.
Matt Brohn, Sony Creative Software
Matthew Brohn is the product manager for Sony Creative Software’s professional and consumer video applications. He manages the marketing and development of award-winning software tools such as Vegas Pro, Vegas Movie Studio, DVD Architect Pro, and DVD Architect Studio software.
Bruce Devlin, Amberfin
Bruce Devlin, Chief Technical Officer, Amberfin, explains their ICR software, which grew out of research at Snell and Wilcox, which is software for file and standard conversion, technical analysis, and conversion automation.
Jerry Pierce, Hollywood Post Alliance
Michael Kammes interviews Jerry Pierce about its push to standardize IMF (Interoperable Mastering Format) and why this standardization is important to the professional side of the industry.
Kip Watters, Nexidia
Nexidia first appeared on the market with Avid Script Sync. Then, last year, they released Get for Final Cut Pro. This year, Kip Watters talks about their technology and a new way they have of indexing all the audio content on a website and making it instantly searchable.
Kevin Klingler, SmartSound
Kevin Klingler, President & CEO of SmartSound Software, tells us about QuickTracks – SmartSound’s new cloud-based music customization service.
Erik Otto, XDT and Media Proxy
XDT develops software-based solutions for digital media transfers over local and wide area networks. In this interview, Erik Otto illustrates how to speed up data transfers between computers and servers for large media files.
Dr. Ji Zhang, Yuvad Technologies
Dr. Ji Zhang, CEO & Chairman, Yuvad Technologies. Yuvad is a leading provider of multi-service video processing, and video over IP, with advanced advertising capabilities. Since all of us are looking for ways to turn our projects into money, you’ll be interested in what Dr. Zhang has to say.
Matthias Rose, Fraunhofer IIS
Fraunhofer IIS is Europe’s leading research institutes. At NAB, they introduced MPEG compression for 5.1 surround sound, a real-time encoder for surround audio on the web, and a utility that lets you hear the results of audio compression in real-time, while you are mixing your audio. Matthias Rose, Head of Marketing Communications for Audio and Multimedia, Fraunhofer, explains.
Tony Papa, Cool-Lux
Tony Papa tells us about their line of camera-mounted, battery-powered lights and explains the difference between Quartz lights and LED lights.
Kimball Thurston, Reliance MediaWorks
Interviewed by Michael Kammes, Kimball Thurston, Lead Scientist, Reliance MediaWorks, explains new technology they are showing at NAB that allows better image processing and cleaner up-resing of SD to HD images.
Oliver Peters, Oliver Peters Post Production Services
Oliver Peters is a regular guest on The BuZZ and provides his perspective on the current trends in post-production: stereo 3D, higher camera resolutions and frame rates, and reactions to Final Cut Pro X.
Scott Morris, Adobe
Scott Morris, Senior Director of Marketing Digital Media Solutions at Adobe, talks about their new Creative Suite 5.5.
Larry Jordan & Michael Kammes on FCPX
Larry Jordan talks with Michael Kammes about the newly announced Final Cut Pro X.
Tom Vice, FotoKem
NextLab has developed an on-set hardware and software kit that can be used during production to simplify the process of working with tapeless media, which Tom calls “file-based workflows.” Listen as he explains his new system.
Erwan Maigret, The Bakery
Erwan Maigret, CEO, The Bakery, discusses the benefits of using traditional 3D software to create stereoscopic 3D images, as well as some graphics technology trends to watch in the future.
Craige Mott, Bluefish444
Bluefish444 makes uncompressed SDI video capture cards for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh systems. Craige Mott explains how their cards work, their latest NAB announcements, and why you need a capture card in the first place.
Greg Dolan, Xytech
Greg Dolan, Executive Vice President, Xytech Systems, explains how his company can help in scheduling resources, staffing, and media to enable mid-size production companies to avoid getting buried in paperwork.
Sean Safreed, Red Giant Software
Sean Safreed, Co-founder and Director of Product Management, Red Giant Software, discusses the challenges of communicating color decisions between different groups working on a project and showcases two new, free, utilities that they released to solve this problem.
Ned Soltz, Technical Correspondence
Ned Soltz, Contributing Editor, Government Video and DV magazines, talks about the latest trends in camera technology displayed at NAB 2011.
Alex Lindsay, Pixel Corps
Alex Lindsay, Founder of the Pixel Corps and host of “This Week in Media (TWIM),” explains how he came to start Pixel Corps and the new paradigm of using groups to create content.
Michael Smollin, Image Systems
Michael Smollin describes the process of color grading and the power of Open EXR on salvaging poorly-exposed shots.
Michael Kammes – Audio Plug-ins Special Report
Plug-ins are special software tools which can really make your editing life easier. This year at NAB, Michael Kammes highlights three new audio plug-ins that really show a lot of promise.
Greg Prentiss, Autoscript
Greg Prentiss, Director of Sales for Autoscript, tells us about two new products. Cueplus is a light that can change color – especially useful for people who are color blind. Countplus is a countdown timing strip at the bottom of the camera.
Tsukasa Baba, Keisoku Giken
Tsukasa Baba, Manager of Business Development for Keisoku Giken, talks about his company’s products, including their new 4k-3D monitor system.
Tim Dashwood, Dashwood Cinema Solutions
Stereo 3D is all the rage. Dashwood Cinema Solutions has developed a new application to simplify shooting on the set.
Tracey Ruesch, Adrienne Electronics
Tracey Ruesch, President of Adrienne Electronics, talks about his company’s time code tools.
Barbara DeHart, Telestream
Barbara DeHart gives a wide-ranging look at Telestream’s products and services.
Phil Storey, XenData
XenData has a Windows server-based archiving solution optimized for media and entertainment. Dr. Philip Storey explains more.
Philip Nelson, NewTek
Philip Nelson, NewTek’s Senior VP of Strategic Development, tells us about their new TriCaster 850 Extreme.
Paola Hobson, Snell
Paola Hobson, Product Manager for Conversion and Restoration at Snell, talks about their NAB 2011 announcements: their new Archangel restoration system, and additions to their Alchemist standards converter.
Paul Babb, Maxon
Paul Babb, President of Maxon, gives us an update on one of our favorite programs: Cinema 4D
Josh Apter, Manhattan Edit Workshop
Josh Apter of Manhattan Edit Workshop talks about their upcoming special events.
Steven Canepa, IBM
Steven Canepa, General Manager for IBM’s Global Media and Entertainment Industry division, takes a global look at the challenges facing the entertainment industry as we move to a tapeless workflow.
Donn Gurule, Lightbeam Systems
Donn Gurule, CEO and President of Lightbeam Systems, talks about their workstations that improve your creative process and production workflow.
Phil Ritti, Cache-A
Phil Ritti joins us to talk about Cache-A’s network-attached archive appliances based on industry-standard LTFS on LTO-5 tape.
Gary Arlen, Arlen Communications
Gary Arlen spoke with host Larry Jordan about the proliferation of video playback on mobile devices and the prospects for the future.
Bruce Master, IBM and Laura Loredo, HP
Is LTO generation 5 really ready for prime time? Larry talks with HP and IBM about the uses of LTO tape archiving and challenges in production.
Richard Heitmann, Atempo
Atempo does media management, media storage and archiving focused on the media industry.
Miguel Saldate, JMR Electronics
JMR is branching out into providing end-to-end solutions. Miguel Saldate explains JMR’s latest releases.
Jim Tierney, Digital Anarchy
Jim Tierney talks about improving skin tones in Beauty Box and Photoshop.
Ben Clasper, Counterpoint Systems
Rights management is very important for making money from your media! Counterpoint helps us manage that.
Jeff Rothberg and Ben Kozuch, Future Media Concepts
Jeff Rothberg and Ben Kozuch launched Future Media Concepts in 1994 as the world’s first Avid Authorized Training Center. Today they talk with Larry about this year’s Post|Production World Conference at NAB Show 2011.
Stuart Ashton, Blackmagic Design
Two of the hottest “buzz” words at this year’s NAB are Thunderbolt and Resolve. Blackmagic’s Stuart Ashton tells us about these as well as AdamSwitchers and their ever-popular Decklink.
Maurice Patel, Autodesk
Maurice Patel is the industry and product marketing manager for Autodesk’s Media & Entertainment business. He is responsible for the company’s presence across the film, television and games segments, and is noted authority on media and entertainment trends.
Alan Hoff, Cinedeck
Alan Hoff, CEO of Cinedeck, talks about their new product announcements at NAB 2011.
Wes Plate, Automatic Duck
Automatic Duck allows sequence and media exchanges between popular editing applications.
Vincent Maza, Avid
Vincent Maza, Worldwide Marketing Manager for Avid, talks with Larry about Avid’s exciting NAB 2011 announcements, including a new technology preview for 3D editing.
Nick Rashby, AJA
Nick Rashby, President of AJA Video Systems, talks with Larry about AJA’s new hardware and firmware updates for existing hardware, as well as two technology previews.
Richard Louis, Sony
Cirina Catania, in a special report with Richard Louis, Product Specialist at AV Media Group for Sony.
Ross Shain, Imagineer
Ross Shain, Chief Marketing Officer of Imagineer, talks about the new versions of ‘mocha’ and ‘mocha pro’.
Jeff Stansfield, Advantage Video Systems
Jeff Stansfield, Owner of Advantage Video Systems, an Apple Certified system integration company, tells us more about his company.
Lin Kayser, IRIDAS
IRIDAS, is a leading provider for color grading, playback, stereo 3D and RAW processing.
David Taylor, Cineform
Cineform, a leading compression and codec company, was recently acquired by GoPro. This interview discusses stereo 3D video, compression, and a developing standard for media delivery: IMF.
Robert Sharp, Digieffects
Robert Sharp, President of Digieffects, talks about their Delirium, Damage, and Buena Depth Cue effects plug-ins.
Paul Holtz, Class on Demand
Paul Holtz, President of Class on Demand, talks about their new gift card-style access to streaming training.
Andrew Richards, Keeper Technology
Keeper Technology, makers of Motion Media Suite an intelligent shared storage and archiving solution for Final Cut Pro workgroups, launched at NAB.
Doug Pircher, International Supplies
We all need gear and International Supplies’ General Manager talks about a new view finder for DSLR’s and two NexTo Storage units.
Jan Crittenden, Panasonic
Jan is Panasonic Broadcast’s Product Line Business Manager for the company’s growing line of professional cameras.
Mas Omae, Accusys
Mas Omae, Sales Manager, Accusys, talks about their ExaSAN enterprise-class RAID and storage solutions.
