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The evolving world of data connectors make choosing interfaces more complex than ever.

Making Sense of Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C February 22nd 2018 - 01:50 PM

If you’re like me, making sense of evolving computer standards like Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C is confusing. These standards seem to change often and sometimes when plugging things in that ought to work, they don’t work at all. It’s all in the details. Here’s an overview of where we stand.

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The color grading suite at Light Iron in Hollywood uses a Sony BVM-X300 OLED HDR 4K professional reference monitor for grading.

UHD Post-Part 3 Meeting it in Post February 21st 2018 - 12:05 PM

If UHD is going to become a mainstream broadcast medium, we’ll need to be able to monitor, edit and review it. But can we?

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Setting up a color workspace using Adobe

UHD Post-Part 2 The Signal February 14th 2018 - 12:05 PM

With ATSC 3.0 poised to change the broadcast industry’s basic signal, we need to understand this signal is poised between HD and true 4K.

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Audio is becoming an IP-centric technology that offers many benefits. Image: Rob Wolifson, TCN audio supervisor at Nine Network in Sydney.

Audio Over IP - Why It Is Essential February 8th 2018 - 11:00 AM

The impact of IP on the design of broadcast equipment and infrastructures is profound. Many broadcasters are replacing existing analog, AES3, MADI and SDI ports with a new class of interface for connecting to standard IT switch infrastructure, together with new control mechanisms for connection management and device discovery. In the process, they’re embracing an emerging set of open standards for interoperable, vendor-neutral signal transport.

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The DaVinci Resolve suite at AlphaDogs

UHD Post-Creating UHD February 6th 2018 - 12:05 PM

AlphaDogs is one of the west coast’s premiere post houses, but even they find the prospect of creating UHD projects challenging.

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Digital Recording for Analog Minds January 31st 2018 - 11:00 AM

If you’re like me, looking through layers of buried menus on digital devices for the one thing you need to do is enough to drive you batty. Yet, virtually every digital device in our lives today — from smartphones to cameras to simple audio recorders — comes with layer upon layer of menus in no certain order or place.

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Speaker cables come in all shapes, sizes and prices. This Magnan Signature Speaker cable is a single 4½-in wide X 7-ft long ribbon.

Loudspeaker Technology Part 14: Cables - Behind the Myths and Magic January 30th 2018 - 11:00 AM

John Watkinson puts on his snake-oil-proof clothing and looks at speaker cables. Finally, some clarity behind the myths and magic that surround technical aspects of speaker interconnections.

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Cutting on the Go: Remote Editing - Part 2 January 23rd 2018 - 11:00 AM

In the first installment of this article series, we investigated a solution to the post-production editing challenge offered by Avid. Now it is time to see how a prominent facility puts that technology to work.

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