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Despite recent advances, the successful integration of systems over a network to enable efficient workflows in a cross-platform, multipurpose broadcasting...
Quicktime Native?
Aug. 7, 2008 Splice Here
Should Avid make the Media Composer “Quicktime Native”? It’s a big question (and not a new one, of course) so let me focus on just two key issues: first, the ability to open and edit any Quicktime file without conversion, and second, the ability to put material in a bin without actually copying them to a centralized media folder.
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Paris Hilton “ad” reveals how much media has changed
Aug. 6, 2008 Terry Heaton’s PoMo Blog
It’s Paris Hilton jumping at the opportunity to be herself in response to the dumb move by John McCain’s campaign to use an image of Miss Hilton in a campaign ad comparing Barack Obama to other celebrities. The observations so far have all been political or from the entertainment press, but I think there’s a huge comment to be made about media here.
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Scoffing at the Apocalypse
Aug. 3, 2008 Viewfinder BLUES
Yes, as hard to believe as it is, this business is about to get even more cut-throat. That's hard to grasp in an industry where we eat our young faster than soccer players stranded in the Andes, but it's true...Throw in scores of bug-eyed refugees from the Great Newspaper Masssacre and you have one very crowded, fractured field of play. Still wanna make TV? So does the lifestyles editor with the Sony of his owny.
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Trendspotting - Finding Opportunity in Career Uncertainty
Aug. 3, 2008 Verge New Media
See that blue line on the graph? That represents jobs data for the TV news industry according to Simply Hired. For those of you who don’t know me, I’m a network news cameraman by trade, still clinging on to rapidly diminishing fortunes. The more appealing green line represents job data results for “Social Network”. So as that downward job trend continues across legacy media, I still believe there is tremendous opportunity in social media.
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Whoa. Media Composer 3.0 is fast
Aug. 2, 2008 The Editblog
Avid says they spent a lot of time just concentrating on making the application more responsive and they weren’t kidding. Moving around the timeline, audio scrubbing, trimming and dragging things via segment mode is lightning fast.
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WBBM uses interactivity to introduce new anchors
Aug. 5, 2008 Lost Remote
This is a unique way to answer a problem you may have experienced: supporting promotional efforts to introduce a new anchor team. Often promotions wants you to post the anchor pics, and that’s it. Or you might be asked to upload all of the new image promos. But neither of those ideas will create an experience users will actually interact with, and be viral.
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4K for Avid, Apple and Adobe
July 28, 2008 Splice Here
So my wish for the manufacturers is that they forget about workflow and think about work. Start focusing on how human beings do all this and let that notion balance your interest in materials and process.
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Forecast: Web ad spend to beat broadcast in 2011
Aug. 5, 2008 Lost Remote
The latest Veronis Suhler Stevenson forecast has some surprising predictions. The first may be expected: broadcast TV will surpass newspapers as the largest ad medium in 2008. But three years later, VSS predicts “total Internet ad spend” will surpass broadcast TV.
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