Ko Maruyama is a freelance animator in Los Angeles. In addition to working on film and broadcast animations, Ko teaches at Pasadena's Art Center College of Design - focusing on motion design. When working, writing, testing software or blogging allows, you can find him lending a hand in the After Effects board and lurking among the Cinema4D, Visual Effects and Photoshop posts within the DMNForums. You can email him at komaruyama [AT] mac.com.

David S. Calef is a former broadcast news director, chief engineer from the 60?s .  Besides blogging for Tech Universe he now does HiDef video for clients while in semi-retirement at 63.  You can find out more about that at www.EventVideoTeam.com and more about David at http://www.davidcalef.com/. You can contact him at david [AT] davidcalef.com.

Joshua Virata is a student at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, CA. He has been using computers since the age of 2 and is proficient in the areas of home wired and wireless networking, music creation, secure computing, cell phone communication and GPS navigation. He is a regualr contributor of product reviews at ConsumerElectronicsNet.com. You can email him at jvirata [AT] mac.com.

David Basulto is an independent filmmaker in Los Angeles. After 17 plus years, David is well versed in all aspects of filmmaking from development to distribution. He produces, directs, edits, and now is addicted to motion graphics and 3d. His last film, Death Clique is in Blockbusters nationwide. David is also the host of the www.filmmakingcentral.com. In his spare time David is an avid gamer and can be found slaying monsters in the world of Vanguard. For more info visit www.davidbasulto.com  You can email him at dave [AT] claritypictures.net.

Heath McKnight is a filmmaker and author in Wellington, Florida. Aside from being a filmmaker and regular writer at DMN, he also enjoys writing about technology in general.  Not to mention his passion for writing movie news for Screen Rant.  He also co-wrote, produced and directed the feature 9:04 AM, which was released in Spring 2007. He is co-author of "HDV: What You NEED to Know," Volume 2, with HDV guru Douglas Spotted Eagle and Mark Dileo. You can find out more about Heath at his website at www.mpsdigital.com. and can be contacted at hmcknight [AT] mac.com.

Kevin P McAuliffe is currently a Senior Video Editor working in HD post production in Toronto, Canada. He has been in the television industry for 12 years, and spends his days onlining on a Final Cut Pro HD. Kevin's high definition onlining credit list includes concerts for Coldplay, Sarah McLachlan, Barenaked Ladies, Snow Patrol, Sum41, Paul Anka, Il Divo and Pussycat Dolls, to name a few. If you have any questions or comments, you can drop him a line at kevinpmcauliffe [AT] gmail.com.

John Virata is Senior Editor of Digital Media Online. His interests include digital photography, video, DVD production, and digital media in all its forms. John is also an avid surfer, so if you have waterproof gadgets you can be sure he will pay lots of attention to you and your products! You can email him at jvirata [AT] DigitalMediaNet.com.

Lou Wallace is CEO of Digital Media Online. That's really the only reason we allow him to blog here. Oh yeah, he has been writing and covering digital media and consumer electronics since late 1980's. Big deal. No one will want to write to him anyway, but his email is lwallace [AT] DigitalMediaOnlineInc.com.

Posted at 10:43PM Feb 01, 2007 by Lou Wallace in About Tech Universe  |