What's the BuZZ?

Steve Douglas - Executive Producer, World Films and Travel

Steve Douglas has been diving for over 25 years and was an instructor, dive shop owner and member of the San Diego Sheriffs Search and Recovery team. As owner of World Films and Travel, Steve is a certified Apple Pro for Final Cut Pro 7, writer for Ken Stone.net, and underwater videographer and winner of multiple awards for his work. His speciality is underwater video and this week, we talk to him about the challenges of swimming with the fish.

The BuZZ Beat

Aaron Cullers, Manager, Convention Marketing, NAB SHOW 2010

The NAB Show, in Las Vegas in April, is a massive project involving hundreds of people. But no one is more central to the look and feel of this year's show than Aaron Cullers, Manager of Convention Marketing. In addition to a bazillion other tasks, Aaron is running a video contest called "I'm a Broader-Caster." Contestants are asked to submit a 60-seocnd video that shows what broader-casting means to them. We talk with Aaron to learn more about the contest, who can enter, and what the rewards are.

Dan May - Co-founder and Creative Director, Painting Practice

By now you know the drill - if it doesn't exist in real-life, we need to create it. And that heads us into the imaginative world of digital art, matte painting, and CGI. There are many established effects firms, but Painting Practice has a new spin on an old concept - a way to bridge the gap between the traditional world of production and the rapidly developing digital world of post-production. They work in the world of Pre-Viz -- imagining what the final shot is going to look like. This week, we talk to co-founder Dan May about what they call their "Digital Art Department."

Nicholas Pearce - Marketing Director, Object Matrix

Object Matrix offers a hardware/software, highly-secure, disk-based repository designed to protect your digital assets. They describe it as a safe place to backup the assets you are currently working on and a secure platform for all your completed work. Basically, it is a RAID of RAIDs. Nick Pearce, co-founder and director of marketing, explains what's new in the latest version of his system.

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