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A Clean Kit Is A Happy Kit March 16th 2020 - 09:00 AM

A crude sign with the words “A Clean Kit is a Happy Kit” was taped to the wall of the film equipment room during my first television news job in the late 1960s. The message was a reminder to create a mental check list and keep your 16mm film gear organized to avoid costly errors in the field. Over time, I learned just how important that was.

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Differentiating Between Cloud And Virtualization March 13th 2020 - 09:00 AM

There’s usually a bit of confusion when people talk about going to the cloud vs. virtualizing. While most cloud providers use virtual machine configurations to optimize their offerings, that’s not the same thing.

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Why Recording Natural Sound For News And Documentary Video Is Essential March 12th 2020 - 01:00 PM

In the early 1980s, when Charles Kuralt hosted CBS Sunday Morning, my video crew often shot the “Moment in Nature” segments for the end of the show. We would be on the road, sometimes in war-torn countries, always looking for the pristine natural spots that are still popular on the show today. A major component that has always made these segments so compelling is the authentic natural sound.

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NAB Has Been Cancelled Due to the Coronavirus March 11th 2020 - 07:30 PM

The NAB show has been cancelled. This announcement was made by NAB president, Gordon H. Smith.

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Essential Guide:  Practical SDI and IP March 11th 2020 - 11:30 AM

SDI has been and continues to be a mature and stable standard for the distribution of video, audio and metadata in broadcast facilities. From its inception in the 1989 to the modern quad-link 12G-SDI available today, it has stood the test of time and even with the advent of IP and Ethernet, it shows no sign of waning.

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Tips For Broadcast Quality Voiceovers March 9th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Voiceovers are among the hardest elements of the recording process for engineers to master. A major part of the problem is each voice is different and the narrator often brings a varying skill set to the recording session. There are no hard rules about how to get good results, but these tips can help with most voiceover recordings.

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The Road From CES Leads To NAB March 6th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Following the myriad of transitions in media production and distribution, is a combination of new technologies that create media and ones that support the consumption of media. Since the creation of media is mostly intended for the audience, the technologies needed to create the media are pretty important even while the consumer has no idea what it takes.

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The Sponsors Perspective: HDR and WCG Drives The Need For New Production Tools and Workflows March 3rd 2020 - 09:00 AM

Within broadcast there has always been a quest for higher and higher resolution with improvements in wider color fidelity. The quest has always been to deliver what we see to the audience, often this is limited by technology or cost of production, but today there is the possibility to increase the resolution to 4K/UHD with High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Color Gamut (WCG) that can convey that window on the world to the consumer.

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