Digital Video - August 2008 - (Page 4)

PREROLL BY DAVID E. WILLIAMS VOLUME 16 NUMBER 8 AUGUST 2008 WINDS OF CHANGE DV .COM EDITORIAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF David E. Williams dwilliams@nbmedia.com MANAGING EDITOR Douglas Bankston dbankston@nbmedia.com TECHNICAL EDITOR Jay Holben jayholben@gmail.com CONTRIBUTING EDITORS J.R. Bookwalter, Chuck Gloman, Robert M. Goodman, John Jackman, Matt Jeppsen, Nels Johnson, Carl Mrozek, Oliver Peters, Jay Rose, Justin Stanley, Stefan Sargent, Jon Silberg, Ned Soltz, David O. 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New York, NY 10019 Tel: 212.378.0400 Fax: 212.378.0470 Web: www.nbmedia.com O ver the past decade, I've held positions at a number of publications, and at each of them, the print and Web staffs remained separate — each operating independently of the other and rarely collaborating. Fortunately, this is not the case at DV, as I was hired a little more than a year ago under the directive that I would also be the editor and manager of DV.com. That was the good news. The bad news is that the current incarnation of DV.com was built several years back using a proprietary system, and suffers from both an archaic content management system and inflexible architecture. Coding and tagging a piece for posting can take almost as long as actually writing the story. Fortunately, this is changing, as a new incarnation of DV.com is now in its final stages of development. And the development process has involved our edit staff — me, managing editor Douglas Bankston and editorial director Cristina Clapp — ensuring that the print and online versions of DV are intelligently integrated, which will help you, our reader, get the most use out of each. (Stay tuned for more shameless self-promotion once the allnew DV.com goes live this Fall.) New this issue is the review section department “Bench Test” (see page 18), written by John E. Johnson, Jr., the editor-in-chief of the Web site Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity (www.hometheaterhifi.com). Here, John will address the minutiae of lens falloff, resolution, chromatic aberration and color accuracy, with an expended version of his report — including numerous test charts — on DV.com as the CMYK color process required by print publications can only give an approximate suggestion of these video images. (We look forward to John’s upcoming report on Sony’s PMW-EX1.) It’s this sort of two-pronged coverage that the new DV.com design will help facilitate. This issue, we have the second entry in our new ongoing column “Click To Play” (see page 32), penned by Nels Johnson, our San Francisco-based Web video guru and a longtime contributor to DV. After examining Adobe’s AIR in his inaugural piece (see the June issue or check it out at DV.com), Nels discusses this month Microsoft’s Silverlight, which has gradually found favor among developers since its unveiling at the NAB Show in 2007. Finally, November may seem like a long way off, but as the conference chair for this year’s DV Expo (to be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center Nov. 4-6; go to www.dvexpo.com for details and registration), I’m in the thick of programming the event. I’ll give an early “thank you” here to the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group and the Digital Cinema Society for holding their respective monthly meetings at DV Expo, which will undoubtedly co-mingle ideas and perspectives in a lively, relaxed atmosphere. I’m certainly not the only one who believes that the technology and creativity behind the scenes is frequently just as exciting and entertaining as anything that ends up on the screen. David E. Williams, Editor dwilliams@nbmedia.com 4 dv august 2008 www.dv.com http://DV.com http://DV.com http://DV.com http://DV.com http://DV.com http://www.hometheaterhifi.com http://DV.com http://DV.com http://DV.com http://www.dvexpo.com http://www.nbmedia.com http://www.dv.com

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Digital Video - August 2008 Contents DV Update My Studio Close-Up Wristshot HV30 Camcorder Tiffen DFX Bench Test PCM-D50 & R-09HR Recorders Camera Cradle Instant Expert My Passport Elite High School Confidential The Ultimate DIY Raid DV101 Click to Play Production Diary

Digital Video - August 2008

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