Editor’s View

VIDEO digital

vol. 23 | no. 6 06.2015

EDITORIAL

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EDITOR’S VIEW

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NASHVILLE GUEST SPEAKER: BRIAN HALLETT

An award-winning cameraman, editor, producer and writer, Brian Hallett is the senior promotions producer at the NBC affiliate in Nashville, Tenn. Since 1999, Brian has worked for Spike TV, NBC, FOX and CBS, shooting for every kind of production, including broadcast news, promotional image campaigns, music videos, short films and documentaries.

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CONTENTS

LOOK

20 20 Making Disneynature’s Monkey Kingdom Shooting in the Jungles of Sri Lanka with Sony’s F65 Camera

LUST

24 Image Resolution, Infrastructure, Infinite Pixels A Round-Up of Products and Technologies from the 2015 NAB Show

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LEARN

46 Best of Show The Tools and Technologies Recognized by Digital Video at the 2015 NAB Show

52 Tips to Clip

53 Cartel Land Capturing Conflict and Conflicting Perspectives

58 Production Diary: Camera 4, Where Are You? Missing in Action and Presumed Dead 24

38 Buyer’s Guide: Video Streaming

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feature

16 Grace and Frankie Capturing the Netflix Series: Friends, Family and 4K

departments

3 Editor’s View 6 Update 56 Company Index 57 Classifieds 57 Advertiser Index

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