Gone Baby Gone
Posted Oct 15, 2008
As most people know by now, I’ve left NUAMPS to take a position as Manager of Video Technology and Operations for...Profile Chris Ostertag
A Victory for Open Source
Posted Aug 13, 2008
Ars Technica reports on a federal ruling that makes redistributing software in a manner that violates a free software license akin to...
Fiber is Good for You
Posted Jul 14, 2008
There’s been a lot of changes over the past few months in the technologies supporting NUAMPS video production and post-production. Stefani...
Two for Ten
Posted Jun 9, 2008
NUAMPS has recently delivered two more programs for air on the Big Ten Network. Produced in association with University Relations, these...
A National Forum on Interdisciplinary Team Development
Posted May 19, 2008
On May 12th, NUAMPS shot and broadcast the National Forum on Interdisciplinary Team Development, which was held in Northwestern University’s Hardin...
Happy Mother’s Day!
Posted May 11, 2008
Today Mike Curtis, Stephen Poon and I are at Hardin Hall preparing for the National Institute of Health event taking place...
The (My) Best of NAB2008
Posted May 6, 2008
We’ve now made available my presentation to the rest of Academic Technologies on my trip to NAB2008. I’ve hilighted products and...
A Deluge of Technology
Posted Apr 25, 2008
I’ve been pretty quiet on this blog as of late. In fact, if you look at many video/production blogs on...
Midwinter Night’s Shoot
Posted Mar 3, 2008
Here are the photos from the previously-mentioned shoot of A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Saturday March 1st at Cahn Auditorium. The stage,...
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Posted Feb 29, 2008
This weekend, NUAMPS will be shooting the School of Music’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This is the ninth opera...
NUAMPS on Big Ten Network
Posted Dec 17, 2007
Two NUAMPS productions have been scheduled for air on the Big Ten Network in January 2008: Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5,...
I am tired of hearing about your numbers
Posted Nov 23, 2007
This comes up a lot in my field: comparisons based on technical specifications. And in a field where codecs, resolutions, and...