If you want a top of the line steady system for your camera gear, you need to check out Sachtler and their artemis system. In this episode, you will see the system at work and Billy, a rep from Sachtler, explains how to use it.

If you need professional backdrops for your next video shoot or you are shooting an action/adventure film that requires lots of green/blue screen footage, The Rag Place has all the “rags” that you need.

A favorite of The Digital Media Dude, Barber Tech has the SteddiePod, an inexpensive steady system for your camera rig that also can be used as a mono pod, a “cheap tripod” and a very cheap “crane”. Eddie Barber shows you how to use it!

This is truly an amazing steady rig that costs only $500 but helps you create amazing shots. It’s a very well designed and constructed rig by a company in Israel. I highly recommend you check out this episode and check out their site as well!

If you are an indie film maker, then you need to keep up with the latest in technology, your competition and your art. Indie Slate Magazine is there to keep you informed. Listen to the founder of Indie Slate tell you all about this great resource!

Need a lighting system, but hate the heat? Check out the latest from Lite Panels, including their very inexpensive, yet highly effective, micro-light, an on-camera lighting system for only $299. These lights are cool, silent and efficient.

Do you want to shoot with the RED ONE camera but can’t afford a full package? Then listen to the President of Hollywood DI explain their special package that includes everything you need to shoot with a RED camera, plus a transfer to film for $1500!

ManiaTV is a digital studio and TV network that produces, packages, sells and distributes made for internet programming. They work with content creators to bring shows that are specifically produced for the web, mobile and other entertainment devices.

Mamoca is a motion capture company that offers a different way of capturing motion without the traditional markers (usually small white balls). The actor’s body can be captured in much finder detail without any special clothing or equipment.

Clupedia is a Web 2.0 social media company that offers an encyclopedia of clues from crowds. Clues include people’s opinions about an entire web page or about particular sections of a web page. Cluepedia was selected as an AO Media 100 company.

Meet and Greet hooks up, via IP TV, celebrities with fans to provide merchandise and autographs and to give a fun experience for the fan while providing additional revenue streams for the artists.

With SceneCaster, you can create or transform 3D scenes, choosing from millions of objects. You can then share those scenes on Facebook and even personalize them with your own avatar and you can tie in objects inside SceneCaster to a store.

The Filter, the vision of Peter Gabriel, the Grammy award-winning artist and digital media pioneer, is an online discovery experience that filters the world of online entertainment and information, personalising it for each individual user.

Check out this cool introductory video at OnHollywood 2008 from Peter Gabriel explaining what TheFilter.com is, how people can use it and why he is one of the founders of the company.

UV Layer is a cool new front end written in Flash (so it’s compatible with any browser) that allows you to share many videos with any of your friends via instant messaging. It’s a cool concept with a very cool front end.

Are you a podcaster? Do you have videocasts in your inventory of media? Submit them to Podcast.com so that you can get bigger exposure and start monetizing your inventory!

If you are a website owner and/or content producer for a website, you need to check out KickApps.com. KickApps.com allows you to easily (and for free) add widgets, such as video players, forums, etc. to your site to create a community around it.

If you are an indie move producer, check out Virsona.com, where you can create fictional characters (from you movie) and have people (your viewers) interact with those characters. Virsona even gives you analytics as to what people are saying.

Do you want to monetize your video by offering ecommerce within your video? Check out VideoClix.tv and find out how you can easily create hotspots inside your video that allows viewers to purchase any product that appears in that video.

Do you create video for the web and have to post it to YouTuve, Revver and the hundreds of other video distribution websites? Check out TubeMogul.com to make the posting of one video to multiple sites an easy task. They even include analytics for free!

Check out the new FS 5 model from Focus Enhancement for recording video directly on to the hard drive. The FS 5 model includes a web server that allows you to create meta data templates and log them while you are shooting.

La Cie was displaying at the Final Cut Pro Supermeet in NAB 2008 their new HD monitor for video monitoring along with a couple of desktop hard drives perfect for Final Cut Pro editing on the road.

At the Final Cut Pro Supermeet at NAB 2008, we got a chance to see the new Eclipse CX color correction panel. No more messing around with the mouse and keyboard shortcuts, use this great panel to do quick Color corrections in Apple’s Color application.

If you are looking for an inexpensive way to stream Flash video over the web without purchasing the expensive Adobe Flash Media Server, then you need to check out the Wowza server which allows you to stream up to HD quality flash video on the web.

Check out the latest in hubs, cards, switchers plus much more from BlackMagic Design. In this episode, Dan May, President of Blackmagic Design runs through a list of 10 new products they debuted at NAB 2008

Yes, you heard about Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid NLE systems, but did you know their is another great alternative from Sony Creative Media called Sony Vegas Pro 8. It has lots of great features. Only drawback, it’s Windows only.

If you need to perform live editing of a show and then stream it to the web live, while keeping an archive copy of it, then you need to check out Tri-Caster Pro from NewTek. Tri-Caster Pro even allows you to perform live green screen keying.

So is Flash dead now that Microsoft Silverlight is out? Hardly, however, as a Flash developer (or multimedia developer), on must be on top of the market, so check this episode out to learn all about Microsoft Silverlight from their product specialist.

If you shoot green screen or color correct, you are always checking your vector scope, waveform, etc. This application replaces all those tools with a single app that allows you to easily check your signal live and lets you record it to hard drive.

Vertus is the maker of Fluid Mask 3, a plug in for Photoshop that allows you to easily mask out people from their backgrounds. It’s seriously a killer plug in that once you use it, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.

Boris FX is the maker of video special effects plugins and filters for Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, Avid, Autodesk Combustion and Sparks, Canopus and Media 100, Sony Vegas and other hosts.

If you need to create special effects in Final Cut Pro you need to check out the latest plugins from Noise Industries. They are fast, clean and incredibly awesome! You can also create your own plugins using their FX Factory application.

If you shoot video or produce podcasts, check out the latest offerings in microphones from Audio-Technica. From $99 up to $800, they have a microphone to make you sound like a professional.

If you need to create special effects in Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid or compositing applications like Adobe After Effects, you need to check out the latest plugins from GenArts. They are fast, clean and incredibly awesome!

In the last part of our 2 part special on the John Lennon Education Bus, we get a tour of the inside of the bus and learn all about the technology that the engineers use, both audio, video and computer wise. Check it out! It’s fascinating!

If you’ve attended MacWorld or NAB in the past, you’ve seen The John Lennon Bus there. Ever wonder what The John Lennon bus is all about? What they have in there? This episode will show you the bus and the technology behind it.

If you ever dreamed of having your own TV studio, dream no longer. Go to Mogulus.com and sign up for your free account and you will be able to launch your own TV channel with full mixing capabilities, multiple cameras, plus other great features.

Revision Effects shows us the latest high quality, cost effective plugins for After Effects, Combustion, Final Cut Pro, Shake, Premiere Pro, Fusion, Nuke, GenerationQ, Autodesk Systems, Avid Systems and Softimage XSI.

Check out the latest version of Episode, the powerful, scalable craft encoding application for Mac. Version 5 includes input support for RED camera, Cineon and DPX formats. It also adds encode and decode support for Flash 8 VP6s, Flash 9 and Blu-ray

Check out the latest version of Sonicfire Pro 5, music editing software, to be released in June 2008. Version 5 now includes sensory searching, spotting, timing controls in the enhanced mood mapping, and the ability to change tempo.

Check out the latest cameras from Red Digital Cinema, yes, you read correctly, cameras, as in plural. They now offer Red One, the original 4K camera and 2 new cameras, Scarlet, which is 3K and Epic, which is a whopping 5K!

Looks like the iTunes store has some new competition and it comes in the form of Flash! The new Adobe Media Player is a Flash application that runs on top of Adobe AIR and promises to bring quality video content to the masses for free.

Check out the latest support systems for your camera from Anton Bauer. If you shoot indie films, corporate video or even weddings, Anton Bauer offers you support systems starting at $99 up to $400.

MACCAM distributes lighting equipment for video and film production including Barger, LED leds, Chimera, Mathew Sans and HMI lights.

Cal Digits offers the HD Pro production, a RAID product that will do 390 to 400MBits per second for doing 1080 uncompress HD.

Check out G-Technologie’s hard drive solutions including fiber channel products for uncompressed HD applications, e-SATA connection drives and firewire drives.

Check out the latest HD cards from Matrox for both Mac, Final Cut Pro, and PC, for Adobe Premiere Pro including HD monitoring.

Check out the latest cameras from JVC Pro, including their GY-HD200U and GY-HD250U, which record HDV n 24p, 25p, 30p, 50p and 60p. It also has a 60p live output via analog with 4:2:2 color space.

Check out the latest offerings from AJA including the Kona cards for Final Cut Pro and the Xena cards for Windows which works with Adobe Premiere pro, Adobe After Effects, Eyeon Fusion and Autodesk.

Are you in the market for a new camera? Tim Smith, from Canon DV, shows us the latest from Canon including the new HV 30, HF 10 (no tapes!) and of course the higher end Canon XL-H1, XH-G1 and XH-A1, of course, all of them are HD!

If you know what RED is, the incredible 4K digital video camera, then you need to check out this episode. Listen to Evin Grant, from 4K Ninjas talk about what they do, why they like the RED camera and how to get your hands on one.

If you are a cameraman / videographer, then you need to check out this episode. Michele Bailey, from Lite Panels, shows you the different lighting LED panels they offer for your video camera, fro stand alone to on-camera, they carry it.

eQuinux, a German Based company, was at MacWorld Expo 2008 showing off their Stationary Pack for Mail, which expands the number of stationary templates in the new Mail application by over 111 including business, personal, sports, leisure, plus others.

A very cool application at MacWorld 2008, RouteBuddy, allows you to search for addresses, find points of interest, create turn-by-turn routes and support GEOcaching. You can vprint full screen maps and transfer routes and tracks to your device.

Elton Sawyer from MetaCinema TV at Macworld Expo 2008 talks about their new service called MyFiles which allows you to backup files, store your digital music, movies or any other digital content online and access it from any Mac just like a hard drive.

You’ve heard of VMWare and Parallels. They are virtualization machines that allow you to run Windows OS on the Mac. Codeweavers at Macworld 2008 was showing CrossOver Mac, an app which allows you to run Windows applications on the Mac without Windows.

I’ve been using this application for a while, and it was great to meet the 2 “young kids” (only 19) who created it at Macworld 2008. Picturesque is an image beautifier that allows you to add strokes, reflections, glows, rounded corners and masks easily.

Mike Savello of On2 shows us the latest offerings for Flash encoding at Macworld Expo 2008 including a new codec that will encode your video into an HD quality flash version called On2 VP6-S also included in their Flix line of products.

Who went to Macworld Expo 2008? All sorts of people all over the world. The Digital Media Dude asked the attendees why they went there, what they saw, what they liked and why they would go back over and over again.

Eve Online is a massively multi-player role playing game set in a sci-fi environment. This game, originally on Windows only and is now available to all Mac users. CCP Games is offering a 14 day free trial, so stop creating new media and play this game!

Barbara DeHart from Telestream gives an overview at Macworld Expo 2008 of Flip4Mac, the Windows components for Quicktime player, Episode, the video compression suite and Pipeline, the compression and capture solution for broadcast quality video.

Yet another “Windows only” company making the transition to support the growing numbers of Mac users. Techsmith is the maker of Camtasia Studio and they came to Macworld Expo 2008 to start a conversation with Mac users about their screen capturing needs.

Visiting Rogue Amoeba at Macworld Expo 2008 was a blast mainly because I use Audio Hijack Pro extensively in my other podcast, Meet The Experts, to record interviews conducted via Skype. If you want to record any audio from your Mac, check out it out!

Visiting CNET’s Version Tracker booth at Macworld 2008, we learned how VersionTracker can help Mac users monitor all installed software and alert us when new updates are available. You can also track reviews, ratings and compatibility features.

Back again in MacWorld Expo 2008, check out Smith Micro’s Anime Studio Pro animation application. You can create some really cool 2D animations very easily including importing a photograph, adding bones to it and then animating it using key frames.

If you use stock photography and/or stock video, then you have to check iStockPhoto.com. They have millions of images and videos that are royalty free for your web, video or enhanced podcast project. I got the chance to interview them at Macworld Expo 2008.

ToonBoom, a leading Mac animation company, was at Macworld Expo 2008 showing off their StoryBoard Professional software, an application designed to help you in your live production, 2D production or TV commercial. Import your script and add visuals.

Live from Macworld Expo 2008 show floor, check out Microsoft’s latest offering for the Mac, Microsoft Office 2008. Completely redesigned from the top down just for the Mac. They also had a really cool “blogger’s lounge” to do “live blogging” on site!

Yes! The incredibly thin and powerful Apple MacBook Air. The cool guys at GeekSquad.com helped me show you this great new laptop from Apple! Check out it’s slim size, great screen, awesome keyboard, and no CD/DVD! The future of computing!

Reporting again from the DV Expo 2007 show floor, Sherri Sheridan talks about MyFlik.com and how you can use her training DVDs to learn how to create your next big Hollywood hit, including writing screen plays, story plots, characters, etc.

Straight from the DV Expo 2007 floor, Shirley Craig from Weynand Training talks about their Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro and all the other Final Cut Studio applications training they offer, including the new Final Cut Pro 6 Certified Training Book.

More DV Expo 2007 coverage! This time, I speak with Randon Morford from Sorenson Media, the makers of Sorenson Squeeze, the video compression suite for any video created with Final Cut Pro, Avid, Premiere Pro and any other video post production suite.

Continuing the coverage of the DV Expo 2007 in Los Angeles, California, Kai Pradel from Media Silo shows us what their online asset and video sharing application is and how it works with Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and other video and audio editing apps.