Best Buy, Dell Computer Still PC Retailing Kings By by Doug Olenick, STAFF This article is no longer available,but here are some related topics. Canon XL2 DV Camcorder Debuts in New York -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At an elegant and highly-produced press event at one of the finest hotels in New York's Times Square, Canon introduced a new DV camcorder, the XL2. The successor to Canon's highly respected XL1 and XL1S high-end consumer camcorders, Canon's newest, and what the company's officials call its last, standard-definition camcorder of its type proved itself to be an impressive new addition to the camcorder market. Stating the theme of the roll-out, Total Control, Canon showed how the new XL2 gives shooters more control over every aspect of their image acquisition. They’ve Done It! : Internet Lights Up for Regular TV Network Broadcasting -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After almost a decade of unfulfilled promises, finally early last month, the New York- based, Russian TV Network, RTVI announced that it has started regular broadcasting from New York to Moscow and vice versa, using UUNet. New Offerings from Artbeats -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Artbeats, a provider of royalty-free stock footage, has announced the availability of Asian Cities, Crowds, Streets of New York, City Rush 2, Nightsky, Glass Illusions and Chromatica at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention. PostWorks Readies Films for the 2005 Sundance Film Festival -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PostWorks, New York, a 2005 Sundance Institute Associate, today detailed its role in readying scores of films for screening as part of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, most notably director/screenwriter Eugene Jarecki's documentary "Why We Fight." The Festival began yesterday in Park City, Utah, and runs through Jan. 30. Filter Duration in Apple Motion -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You want to apply an effect to some footage, but not over the entire duration of the footage. In most programs, you can do this by keyframing multiple parameters to get your effect to cut in at the right time, or, in the case of some filters, you can give the effect a negative pre-roll value. Both methods can be cumbersome. But Apple's Motion makes it a bit more simple, allowing you to set the in and out points of an effect just as you can with any other type of object. Here's a collection of tips for Motion that should help you work more easily with filters and get your effects work done just a bit more quickly.
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