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Chris Ostertag

Gone Baby Gone

As most people know by now, I’ve left NUAMPS to take a position as Manager of Video Technology and Operations for...
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A Victory for Open Source

Ars Technica reports on a federal ruling that makes redistributing software in a manner that violates a free software license akin to...
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Fiber is Good for You

There’s been a lot of changes over the past few months in the technologies supporting NUAMPS video production and post-production.  Stefani...
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Two for Ten

NUAMPS has recently delivered two more programs for air on the Big Ten Network. Produced in association with University Relations, these...
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A National Forum on Interdisciplinary Team Development

On May 12th, NUAMPS shot and broadcast the National Forum on Interdisciplinary Team Development, which was held in Northwestern University’s Hardin...
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Happy Mother’s Day!

Today Mike Curtis, Stephen Poon and I are at Hardin Hall preparing for the National Institute of Health event taking place...
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The (My) Best of NAB2008

We’ve now made available my presentation to the rest of Academic Technologies on my trip to NAB2008. I’ve hilighted products and...
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A Deluge of Technology

  I’ve been pretty quiet on this blog as of late.  In fact, if you look at many video/production blogs on...
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Midwinter Night’s Shoot

Here are the photos from the previously-mentioned shoot of A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Saturday March 1st at Cahn Auditorium. The stage,...
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Midsummer Night’s Dream

This weekend, NUAMPS will be shooting the School of Music’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  This is the ninth opera...
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NUAMPS on Big Ten Network

Two NUAMPS productions have been scheduled for air on the Big Ten Network in January 2008: Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5,...
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I am tired of hearing about your numbers

This comes up a lot in my field: comparisons based on technical specifications. And in a field where codecs, resolutions, and...
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