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Interview: By John Virata

Kaspersky Lab's Peter Beardmore talks anti-virus and the Mac OS

Kaspersky, developers of anti-virus and security software has just released a version of its anti-virus software for the Macintosh operating system. While the Mac OS is targeted by malware and virus writers significantly less than Microsoft's Windows OS, it still gets attacked, just on a much smaller scale. Digital Media Net spoke with Peter Beardmore, senior product marketing manager, Kaspersky Lab, about viruses, malware, and the Mac OS. Read More

I've known Graeme Nattress, creator of Nattress Filters for Final Cut Pro, Color, and Motion, for a few years now. He has helped me with technical questions (he's one of the smartest people in the world when it comes to video and computer-related tech), we've had conversations about the future of digital filmmaking, and he's just an all-around great guy. Read More

Interview: By John Virata

Yosemite National Park. . .in High Definition 3D

While 3D films have been around since at least the 1950s, the technique of creating 3D movies gets revisited quite often. Back in the mid 1990s at SIGGRAPH in New Orleans, Sony showed a 3D film at one of its after hours parties at the Aquarium, to the delight of all who were invited to screen it. At this year's NAB trade show in Las Vegas, all the major camera manufacturers were showcasing 3D displays and some had 3D camera demonstrations in their booths. Read More

Interview: By John Virata

JVC's Dave Walton talks about company's latest HD cameras

JVC recently introduced two ProHD camcorders that can record files to standard SDHC memory card that you can buy at virtually any discount department store or shopping mall. The handheld HM100 and the shoulder mount HM700 will be showcased at the upcoming NAB2009 show in Las Vegas. DMN spoke with JVC's Dave Walton on aspects of both cameras. Read on for more information on JVC's offerings. Read More

Interview: By Heath McKnight

Fujitsu's IP-9500e MPEG-4 Encoder

CBS' Evening News with Katie Couric recently began broadcasting in high definition. The network turned to Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., which used their IP-9500e MPEG-4 AVC encoder, in conjunction with Sencore's MRD3187A Decoder, to deliver high quality HD, while using half the bandwidth. Read More

Interview: By Ko Maruyama

Star Ranger 7's four year journey

In the 23rd century, Star Rangers are the peace keepers of the galaxy. For now they are under the power, Marc Kimball and Michael Harnois. It actually started back in 2004 - a whopping 4 years ago when Marc and Michael decided that they would take on a film production - - IN ADDITION to their regular gigs. They jumped, feet first into the project, enrolling friends and several feet of greenscreen. Read More

Interview: By Kevin McAuliffe

The state of the broadcast industry: The Switchover to HD

With High Definition television becoming more and more a part of our daily lives, consumers are now finding themselves scrambling to find content from their cable or satellite providers. Blu-ray and digital download services such as iTunes are giving people a vast amount of choice when it comes to movies and television shows, but what is happening with broadcasters? It almost seems like they are being left behind when it comes to switching their facilities over to HD to satisfy the growing consumer demand for HD content. Read More

Interview: By Kevin Schmitt

Adobe's Allen Partridge on Director's Past, Present, and Future

Naturally, questions are going to be raised when any software product takes a four-year hiatus, especially when the program in question happens to be a stalwart multimedia veteran like Director, the eleventh version of which was finally released several months back. Enter Adobe's Director Evangelist, Allen Partridge. Allen started out in design, but eventually dove headfirst into Director programming, giving him a unique perspective of the product from several different angles. Allen was kind enough to sit down recently for a candid discussion on where Director has been, is now, and where it may be going. Read More

Interview: By John Virata

Love Versus Evil

Alexis Dias, a filmmaker from Bangalore, India is back with a new film tackling the subject of terror and terrorism. Dias, who works in the country's tech sector, takes on the subject in his second movie, Love Versus Evil. As with his 2006 debut film, Do We Accept the Truth, Love Versus Evil has no dialog, with the story told with an intricate series of cuts and dissolves. Dias talks about the making of Love Versus Evil, as well as what societal subject that he will tackle next., and when he will make a movie with dialog. Read More

Interview: By David Basulto

SIGGRAPH 2008: eyeon Software shows Fusion 6

There are many flavors of compositing tools out there. Everyone has an opinion of which is best. Some however do stand above the rest in terms of features. Eyeon's Fusion has been one of these and at SIGGRAPH the company released a new version. Read More

Interview: By David Basulto

SIGGRAPH 2008: DMN visits Frantic Films

What a Hollywood success story Frantic Films is. From a two person effects shop in Winnipeg to one of the top houses in Los Angeles. Frantic Films has won Emmy's and worked on films such as "Swordfish" where the facility's ball bearing explosion got them noticed in a big way. Read More

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Google PC will start in seven seconds or less

New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for computers that do their work on the Web. Google gave the world the first peek... Read More

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Wikipedia, iPhone among decade's top 10 Inter...

The launch of Wikipedia, emergence of the iPhone and the election of U.S. President Barack Obama were among the 10 most influential moments on the Internet in the past decade, according to the annual Webby awards. Other events singled out by th... Read More

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Black Friday Mall shoppers: There's a Map. . ...

MEDL Mobile, Inc. ( www.medlmobile.com)and App creator Shayne Faerber have launched an iPhone Application called Mall Maps, a database of malls that enable you to locate virtually every mall in the United States. Read More

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GenArts Sale -

Wednesday November 18th 2009 GenArts Sapphire Entire Package $999 ($700 Savings) GenArts, Inc. is a premier provider of visual special effects software for the film and video industry. Sapphire Plug-ins extend the capabilities of editing... Read More

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