While we’ve handed the buzzword crown this year to “3D,” let’s not forget about old friend “workflow.” Solutions and improvements abounded this year at NAB, and the Vision Research people are no exception. They are addressing the issue as it relates to their popular high-speed digital camera technology.

The guys at Vision Research showed me their new 10gigabit Ethernet Phantom CineStation—a docking station for its hot swappable CineMag memory magazines designed to speed up the transfer of data from the magazine to the people who need it—both the transfer and the download of the data. When you consider, according to Vision Research, that the Phantom HD system gobbles up about four megabytes of memory for each frame shot, just a few seconds of material can suck up internal camera memory quickly.

The Phantom folks believe this solution will widen the applications that can take advantage of their high-speed cameras, and they claim they got a particularly large amount of inquiries this week at NAB from sports broadcaster types, as well as folks working in the stereoscopic world. In fact, they report being pleased with NAB 2009, saying that until late Thursday morning, their booth was a busy place to be. They are at booth C10441 if you still have time to check them out in the waning moments.

–MG