DIGITAL PRODUCTION BUZZ Interview Summary – 3/4/10

Digital Production Buzz – http://www.digitalproductionbuzz.com

March 4^th, 6pm PST
Hosts: Larry Jordan and Michael Horton

Listen Here: (15 min) Michael Kammes on the Digital Production Buzz

Below are links to some of the companies, products, techniques, and workflows we discussed during the interview.

• Key Code Media: Industry leader in digital media – acquisition through post production: consulting, sales, integration, installation, training, and service.  http://www.keycodemedia.com

• Automatic Duck: Conversion software to interchange between your Avid and FCP projects. http://automaticduck.com/products/

• Avid AMA: Avid Media Access, which allows Avid to edit and use XDCAM, P2 and GFCAM natively in Avid – no transcoding!  BUilt into all flavors of Avid Media Composer: http://www.avid.com/ama/

Stereoscopic / 3D:

• Using MetaFuze to create Avid compliant Stereoscopic files :  http://www.avid.com/metafuze/
  
• Using a pre-release of REDCINE-X to create Avid compliant Stereoscopic files:  http://www.red.com/support/index
  
• Cine-tal Davio: The Davio allows LUTs to be applied in Real Time, as well as decode (Stereoscopic) 3D signals, via HD-SDI & 3G. http://www.cine-tal.com/products/davio_main.asp

Increasing productivity & collaboration and handling data redundancy in post:

• Cache-A: Portable network based back-up appliance for media and files, onset or In the bat to LTO4A digital tape:  http://cache-a.com/ Also, I have a video about it at: http://michaelkammes.com/post-production/video/
• StorageDNA: Point to Point accelerated transfer of data, with delta differencing and automation; a true replacement for FTP: http://storagedna.com/