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FORT COLLINS -- Fastpaced advances in digital video technology are being applied locally by a Fort Collins company that already has a track record for Web-site development, Website hosting and video production.
"We want to offer promotional, educational, and documentary digital videos for that can be delivered on Web-based video, VNS-based video and CD-ROM-based video," said Kai Staats, head of Terra Firma Design. "Eventually we will move into the television medium."
Kip Schauer, a Denver-based business-development specialist for Radius Inc., said that with digital technology, someone can "all of a sudden achieve much higher quality for a fraction of the price."
Radius makes the FireWire package that allows digital video to be transferred directly from a digital video camera into a computer. It includes a FireWire cable, FireWire card and video-capture software.
"It's like an ethernet card," Schauer said. "It allows you to pass more data through it to your computer."
Consumer-grade digital video camcorders...