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By Steve Rosenthal Cross-platform development has become the rule rather than the exception. Increasingly, there's no advantage in limiting your in-house or commercial programming to the Macintosh. Large organizations "want […]

The advent of the PCI bus should provide breakthroughs in price, performance and cross-platform compatibility for digital video, an area where throughput is critical. Starting this fall, video board makers […]

Editing is vital to any video production, and many Mac-based systems are now available, with more on the way. The need to refine and condense hours of raw video footage […]

By Steve Rosenthal Over the long run, System 7 undoubtedly will transform graphics applications on the Macintosh in several major ways. But looking ahead only at the forthcoming year, changes […]

by Steve Rosenthal Even a simple stream of moving video images quickly becomes a torrent of data when converted to digital form for capture, manipulation or storage. Coping with the […]

People are producing multimedia, from the simple to the sublime. Is it for you? There are important issues to consider. Some technology is still waiting in the wings, yet workable […]

Windows running on an Intel-standard PC now offers many of the same multimedia software tools found on the Macintosh plus a faster available bus and a wider assortment of video […]

Microsoft Corp. is about to engage Apple in a struggle for the hearts and minds of cross-platform multimedia developers. The company is stepping up development, support and promotion of its […]

Charges and countercharges have flown between Apple and NuBus card vendors since Apple introduced the Power Mac line last month. But despite several initial glitches, makers of most desktop video […]

Balloning software increases overhead San Francisco -- Like the balooning federal budget, the size of major Macintosh applications if fast exploding, and not all users believe they can afford the […]

By Steve Rosenthal Los Angeles -- Macintosh software and hardware played a strong supporting role at ShowBiz Expo here last week. More than a dozen different companies showed new Mac […]

A variety of tools now exists to help developers keep up with the demand for multimedia on multiple platforms. Cross-platform multimedia is becoming the norm rather than the exception. As […]

Programs help save time and money By Steve Rosenthal Ask any corporate video producer: Good preproduction planning, which includes writing a script, budgeting and scheduling, can mean the difference between […]

The PowerBooks' built-in LCD screens may be good by portable standards, but they're not the only display choice for these machines. Third-party vendors are offering a growing number of alternatives […]

By Steve Rosenthal Moving video images are swiftly becoming just one more digital data type on the Mac. With advances in image compression and storage, as well as faster transfer […]

Macs are increasingly linked to other desktop platforms to create commercial and corporate multimedia. While the benefits to producers are great, so are the challenges. By Steve Rosenthal Developers working […]

By Steve Rosenthal and Stephen Howard While several companies offer ways to swap complex, compound documents between Macs and a multitude of other systems through sets of file translators, some […]

Interactive games, learning tools abound By Steve Rosenthal Cupertino, Calif. -- "Pow!" "Zap!" and "Wow!" You may soon be hearing a lot more of these sounds -- as well as […]

By Steve Rosenthal and Andrew Gore Las Vegas -- Apple will enter the consumer electronic market in a big way, CEO John Sculley told a packed audience in his keynote […]

When it comes to in-house video production, integrating the Mac can be easy. Getting the other required equipment and finding the money to pay for it is the challenge. By […]

... a Quadra instead of a workstation? Workstation makers claim to produce similarly priced machines that are simply more powerful than the Quadra. Apple says yes, but ... the Mac […]

By Steve Rosenthal Whatever the dangers of Kaleida, Apple and IBM Corp.'s multimedia venture, it may be the best way Mac multimedia can withstand an onslaught of competition. That's what […]

By Steve Rosenthal Paris -- A bevy of new graphics programs from Europe are slated to make a U.S. appearance over the next few months -- providing their authors can […]

By Steve Rosenthal While the Apple-IBM alliance may eventually bridge the gap between Macs and IBM PCs and compatibles, many designers have already come up with ways to handle graphics […]

By Steve Rosenthal Tomorrow's front-page news in desktop publishing: group publishing, color and electronic output. That's the word from developers and analysts as they look at how System 7.0, QuickTime […]

By Steve Rosenthal Extra hardware alone won't guarantee memorable and effective presentations, but it's a big help if you can also afford the time and learn the necessary skills. But […]

Amiga system still a Mac experiment By Steve Rosenthal Mac users who are driven to produce desktop videos right now might well consider NewTek Inc.'s Video Toaster -- even though […]

Video production on a $30K desktop By Steve Rosenthal If Mac-based desktop video promises professional-level video production without the usual racks of equipment, the Video F/X system from Digital F/X […]

Lack of JPEG rules still causes conflicts By Steve Rosenthal Almost a dozen image-compression products for the Mac have been announced or delivered in the past year, but the resulting […]

By Steve Rosenthal San Francisco -- Graphic arts shops and suppliers confirm there will be industry demand for the three new Mac models but mostly by supervisors, copywriters and support […]

By Steve Rosenthal Not every hard disk drive for the Mac is precisely equal, but it's steadily getting harder to buy a bad drive. As both drive makers and independent […]

MaraThon 030 SE Dove Corp. List price: $699 +Economical 68030 upgrade for SEs; provides moderate speed increase; includes Symantec's SUM II and SAM 2.0 utilities. -Does not provide full SE/30 […]

By Steve Rosenthal Cupertino, Calif. -- Earth Day activities blossomed last week at Apple, where a grass-roots alliance of employees organized informational activities for co-workers "who want another way to […]

Compression chip price decline predicted By Steve Rosenthal San Francisco -- The promise of color-image compression solutions for the Macintosh certainly isn't diminishing the size of the controversy about how […]

Special-access Mac still evolving For a growing number of people with physical disabilities, personal computers have become a major tool in creating a more independent, interactive way of life. With […]

THE LANGUAGES OF LOGIC In artificial intelligence, as in poetry, how you say something is often as important as what you say. That's why the quality and type of computer […]

SORTING OUT THE CABLES All Macs come with the basic internal hardware to link with networks and modems. But you still need the right cabling to make the connections work. […]

The parts that make the whole: A product lineup From the dedicated programmer's point of view, a sufficient selection of tools has always been available to make multimedia on the […]

Multimedia developers and analysts dismayed over the recent grant of a broad multimedia patent to Compton's New Media have been insisting there is plenty of "prior art" that would invalidate […]

The cobwebs piling up in the DAV slots on the AV Macs are only going to get thicker over the next few months, and many may end up as permanent […]

......................... Score Card: RCD-202 Pinnacle Micro Inc. List price: $3,995* Overall value 3 The RCD-202 recordable CD drive does a good job of transferring your data onto recordable (write-once) CD-ROMs, […]

Electronic publications that include text and static graphics are becoming commonplace, but it's still a challenge to distribute multimedia projects without enshrouding files in paper or plastic. However, several multimedia […]

We all know about the ATM down at the bank, but another ATM may prove crucial for distributing multimedia on desktop computers. Asynchronous Transfer Mode is coming on strong in […]

Apple was only one of several key multimedia companies conspicuously absent when a coalition of hardware and content makers announced a new format for playing movies on modified audio CD […]

The use of 'CineTMJ' and HyperCard stacks bring speedy assessments and help produce in-depth reference materials. By Steve Rosenthal Multimedia may not immediately come to mind when discussing temporomandibular joint […]