NAB 2007 Day 3 and 4

Well folks this is the last NAB 2007 update. We went, we conquered, we’re exhausted.

We hit the show first thing yesterday morning and had to wait in line for all of 30 seconds because the doors didn’t open up until 9 AM local and we arrived at 8:59:37 AM. Bogus. Anyway, I hit Panasonic first and talked to them about their AJ-HPX2000, AG-HPX500 and AG-HVX200 I covered the entirety of the lower south hall (Post Production and Display Systems) and some of the uppler South hall (Management & Systems and Acquisition & Production). Ended up with, and this is a rough estimate, between 20 and 1000 pounds of schwag and manufacturer propaganda. My shoulders and arms are tired from carrying that around all day yesterday. I met Stu Maschwitz from The Orphanage, who just happened to write the book I am currently reading: “The DV Rebel’s Guide: An All-Digital Approach to Making Killer Action Movies on the Cheap“. He presented some of the finer points of Adobe After effects and demoed how it was used to make the bank robbery and falling scene from “Superman Returns“.

By the end of the day I had visited Ross, Grass Valley, Analog Way, Adobe, Autodesk, AJA, Boris FX, Element Labs, Sony, Canon, Manfrotto, Porta Brace, Kino Lighting and so many more.

Scott was being a fellow information kleptomaniac by camping out in the Apple booth for all of their Final Cut 2 demos.

We ate lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe and dinner at dinner at Bahama Breeze. Souvenir shopping followed and then a run and gun illegal parking jaunt to watch the fountain show at the Bellagio.

Day 4 included a fast dash to the Apple booth for me to run through the whole set of FC Suite demo, lunch at Cozymel’s and surprisingly short wait in line to get our board pass at McCarran International Airport. Now here I sit, waiting on a flight, talking to a couple of guys I met that work at OETA who were out here for NAB as well. I’m ready to go home. Who knows if I’ll go to the office tomorrow. May work from home.

Until next time.