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Virtual Director: Automating a Webcast

This paper presents a system designed to automate the production of webcasts, the Virtual Director. It automates simple tasks such as control of recording equipment, stream broadcasting, and camera control. It also automates content decisions, such as which camera view to broadcast. Directors can specify the content decisions using an automation specification language. The Virtual Director also...

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A Note From NIDA’s Director

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice (AS&CP) is about to enter a new stage in its development. After this issue, the journal moves to a new publisher, Biomed Central, and assumes a new format as an openaccess, Internet-only publication. Taking over as Editors are Richard Saitz, M.D., M.P.H., and Jeffrey Samet, M.D., M.A., M.P.H., of the Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit at Boston ...

A Message from the Director Steven Ealick

In May 2009, NE-CAT applied for a high end equipment grant from NCRR to fund the purchase of a Pixel Array Detector (PAD). As a class, PADs are generally acknowledged as the near-term successor to CCD’s at 3rd generation synchrotron crystallography beamlines. The PILATUS-6M, from Dectris Ltd., is the first commercially available PAD suitable for synchrotron-based macromolecular crystallographic...

Director Oriented Virtual Cinematography

Traditionally film making costs a huge amount of money and a great deal of time and labor. Converting traditional techniques of film making into virtual techniques could save money, time and labor. In this research, we have established a director friendly virtual camera work, which gives a film director the freedom to look through the shots before shooting. This way, a director is able to make ...