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	NAB Expo NAB 2013: Ryan Salazar Wraps Up His Favorites This year's NAB proved to be an overwhelming success. Ryan Salazar had a great time meeting new friends and greeting old friends, finding the Show's best-kept-secret, and getting up on the best of the best at NAB Show. Editorial, Feature

	NAB Expo NAB 2013: Day Four With Ryan Salazar Only Ryan's own words suffice, "WOW! Has this been a SPECTACULAR Show or what?!?! It was intense... I interviewed Vince Pace of the Cameron | Pace Group and Marc Hamaker of Autodesk, among many others during the Show! I feasted my eyes upon so many wonderful innovations that I can't wait for them to be released throughout the coming year! I had my own TV Crew, courtesy of NAB LIVE! 2013, and I came face-to-face with a shark! It was all I had hoped for and definitely MORE!" Editorial, Feature

	NAB Expo NAB 2013: Day Three With Ryan Salazar Wrapping up day three of NAB with Ryan Salazar finds a look at GoPro, Blackmagic 4K Production Camera, Adobe, Pelican Cases, Induro and more. Editorial, Feature

	NAB Expo NAB 2013: Day Two With Ryan Salazar Ryan Salazar fills Day Two of NAB Show with interviews. Ryan spoke with Marc Hamaker, Senior Product Marketing Manager of Creative Finishing at Autodesk, with Vince Pace, co-founder of the Cameron | Pace Group, and stopped by the Panasonic, Canon, GoPro and Camera Corps booths. Editorial, Feature

	NAB Expo NAB 2013: Day One With Ryan Salazar Energetic Ryan Salazar has been checking out NAB and reporting back with tweets, blogs and live webcasts. Here's Day One... Editorial, Feature

	NAB Expo NAB 2013: The Flight to NAB - Blog Entry Official NAB Show Media Partner & Blogger, Ryan Salazar will be reporting to us from NAB, beginning with his flight to Las Vegas! Editorial, Feature

	Broadcasting The New 2013 NAB Show - From A to Z Ryan Salazar takes on a hefty list of new exhibitors to NAB Show 2013. You'll read about new technology, innovative ideas, and rising star companies. Take a look... Editorial, Feature

	Broadcasting NAB Show 2013 Coverage NOBODY is more excited about NAB Show 2013 than broadcast guru Ryan Salazar. His contagious enthusiasm about new products and technologies for the studio industry will be certain to captivate and inform. Take a look at his pre-Show teaser of 2013 coverage. Editorial, Feature, People / Interview

	Broadcasting Ryan Salazar & Pixar Discuss Render Farms Teaming clusters of systems together to generate frames of videos is an amazing time-saver, especially when there are heavy scenes that need lots of processing power. Imagine now an animation that could take millions of hours to render, and one computer is no longer an option. With an in-house system, or a render farm using the latest Cloud Technology, speed and optimum results are what it's all about. Feature, People / Interview

	Broadcasting Digital Asset Management in Broadcast and Post Production One of the least considered functions at many studios is Digital Asset Management (DAM). More attention needs to be spent on this mostly under-used asset. Many files are created and then unceremoniously dumped into outer space, never to be seen again. However, it doesn't have to be that way; once created, digital assets become a goldmine that just keep giving. Editorial, Feature

	Cinematography SMPTE 2012 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition Ryan Salazar brings us highlights from SMPTE's annual convention - three days of highly-technical sessions with the industry's top masters, hosted by the accredited industry standards-setting body, which is also the industry's leading nonprofit association providing technology education and information to the motion imaging industry. Editorial, Feature

	Broadcasting Rewiring, Automating and Scaling Up for Broadcast Post How do 34 staffers produce 1,850+ Television spots & 600+ Radio spots...every month? Automation. Ryan Salazar also rewired studioZ's entire facility top to bottom for digital workflows that can still accommodate the HDCAM some of their clients still require. Combine that with a new machine room, 40 servers, eight Pro Tools suites, triple-redundant archive backups, and you'll find a facility that constantly rebuilds itself for the future. Editorial, Feature

	Broadcasting I've Been Captivated Billing itself as hosting "over 50,000 of the industry's finest minds and wisest investors from across the international electronic media spectrum" in order "to do business, debate, share insight, network and lead," IBC 2012 (this year in Amsterdam) was the talk of the industry! Editorial, Feature

	Broadcasting Remembering SBE Founder John Battison Broadcast legend, John Battison, passed away Tuesday, August 28th, 2012, just 14 days away from his 97th birthday. With a lifetime of contribution to the broadcast world, and a brilliant personality in his own right, Battison leaves a legacy that only he could foster. The broadcasting world mourns its loss. Feature

	Broadcasting Broadcast Audio Goes Digital! Are You Ready? Ryan Salazar discusses the design and rebuild of the eight suite audio department at Ft. Lauderdale's studioZ, why it was so time-consuming, and why it was completely worth the effort for them -- and for you too. Editorial

	Broadcasting SERIOUSLY SIGGRAPH SIGGRAPH member, Ryan Salazar highlights a few key products and services from the largest and most complete display of goodies from the computer graphics and interactive techniques industry - an event which boasted over 160 industry organizations exhibited in a mind-blowing 44,750 square feet of exhibit space. Editorial

	Broadcasting SENCORE: Web-Based Network Monitoring with the VB330 Part of Sencore's VideoBRIDGE product line, the VB330 Probe can be equipped with two 10GB Ethernet inputs in order to monitor and troubleshoot thousands of IP streams in large cable, IPTV and satellite broadcast chains. With the ability to monitor either through a local VideoBRIDGE controller system, TELNET (network protocol) or remotely, using a standard web browser, this guy caught the attention of broadcast guru Ryan Salazar. Let's see what he thinks. Review

	Broadcasting Simply SMPTE SMPTE, or the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers, is recognized as the global leader in the development of standards and authoritative practices for film, television, video and multimedia. Ryan Salazar's article describes a brief history of SMPTE, timecodes and membership today. Editorial

	Boris FX Boris Continuum Complete: The New “Swiss Army Knife” of VFX? It boasts of a mind-blowing archive of more than 200 plug-in VFX filters (in 16 categories); an extraordinary video noise reduction tool; an eye-popping, spline-based warp filter; and a plethora of still- and video-morph technology. Review, Feature

	Broadcasting The RadiantGrid Platform: Performance + Intelligence The recent acquisition of RadiantGrid Technologies by Wohler Technologies may soon produce a new powerhouse giant in the file-based media processing and multi-platform delivery industry of broadcasters, cable networks, content owners and distributors. Review

	Broadcasting The New IT Director Versus the Old Broadcast Engineer From the earliest days of media, it was recognized that there needed to be people who performed the technical workings of the studio. As today's technology calls for new skillsets, there is a new demand for someone - a hybrid engineer - who can bridge the gap between the broadcast engineer of old and the IT director of new for today's specialized media markets. Editorial

	Broadcasting Putting the B Back in NAB NAB has been more than a broadcast show for a very long time -- but the "B" still stands for "Broadcasters!" Engineer Ryan Salazar takes a look at new products for the old school. Feature