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AVID Media Composer 3.0
Following a recent change of senior management, Avid has changed its policy. As part of the company’s new strategy, the latest version of Media Composer arrives at around half the price of its predecessor, and includes a whole lot more in the box, too.
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Movie of the Week
From Spain, Miguel de Olaso
Known to Red Digital Cinema Camera users as MacGregor, Miguel de Olaso from Spain, shows footage from the Red Camera and talks about the workflow needed to get files direct from the RED and into Final Cut Pro. In this piece we get an overview as to where RED sits in scale when compared to others formats on the market and how to work with the material and just what can be achieve when treating the images to get the most out of them.
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Interview of the Week
Jared Picune & John Schilling, Caldigit Inc.
When it comes to serious storage a few vendors stand out as providing powerful and unique solutions. There are those with tailored technologies which target specific needs in the video environment, providing solutions which otherwise cost considerably more money. This piece is full of knowledge for anyone needing to know about storage, backup, and putting together a system which works and is reliable.
Latest Interviews
Editing
News > Larry Jordan presents PowerUP with Final Cut Studio: Pro Techniques in Glasgow and London
8 hour seminar focussing on Audio; Adobe Photoshop in a Final Cut Pro workflow; Understanding Color Correction in Final Cut Pro.
Larry Jordan will be presenting PowerUP with Final Cut Studio: Pro Techniques in Glasgow (13/2/09) and London (20/2/09) just after he presents at the broadcast video expo in January
Reviews > Abaltat Muse - music creation software
Royalty music, custom-scored to your images, written by a computer
Can a computer write music - the answer, according to the creator of Abaltat Muse is definitely yes. Using artificial intelligence this music creation software analyses the colour information in a video piece and scores music defined by band selection, rhythm, tempo, and use of jingle. A fascinating way to create music which is neither loop or music library based.
Motion Graphics/VFX
News > Apple updates Color application
Finishing and grading tool for Final Cut Studio udated
Apple has released the Pro Applcations Updates 2008-005, that includes an updated version of Color, Apple's finishing and grading tool for Final Cut Studio.
Reviews > Red Giant Software buys video plug-in range from Digital Anarchy
Acquisition adds six new products to Red Giant product-line
A look at the video plug-ins made by Digital Anarchy which have now been purchased by Red Giant. Demonstration by the man behind Digital Anarchy, Jim Tierney, who shows off the former Digital Anarchy video filters and the incredible results which can achieved.
DVD Authoring
News > BBC iPlayer for Mac & Linux released
BBC announces that the long-awaited version of iPlayer for Mac complete with download functionality is now available
The BBC has announced that a version of its iPlayer application for Mac and Linux computers is now available. BBC iPlayer Desktop uses Adobe Air technology to incorporate DRM functionality that prevents downloaded video files from working after 7 or 30 days.
Reviews > Step into Blu-ray - for less than £200
Affordable Blu-ray provides storage solution on the Mac
None of the modern Macs ship with Blu-ray writers which is incredibly frustrating for video editors/camera people, especially those shooting to tapeless formats. What we need is a reliable and affordable way to archive our media. In this report we take a Blu-ray writer, specified to work with Windows XP or Vista, and plug it into a Mac to see what happens. The results are not only surprising but inspiring. We now have that archiving solution we have been looking for.
Encoding
News > Nintendo's Wii to get video channel in 2009
The Nintendo video service will focus on family-orientated content
Nintendo plans to launch a video channel for its Wii console although initially only in Japan.
New features include BluRay VC-1 support, improved MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 encoding, H.264 support
As ever more video content is uploaded to the Web, the number of compression applications has exploded. With so many budget alternatives, is Squeeze still worthy of consideration?
Camera Technology
News > New Express card adapter for XDCAM EX cameras
Affordable alternative to SXS
The MxR Express Card Reader is specifically designed to accommodate SD/SDHC cards only. It uses a push-in/push-out mechanism where the whole SD card is enclosed in the reader. The manufacturer claims this has been tested to work with the 16GB Ultra 2 Sandisk memory card, and the 8GB Class 6 Transcend card.
Reviews > Shooting with the RED 4K digital cinema camera
Hands on with what has been described as a "film replacement"
The RED ONE 4K camera feel like a cross between a film camera and a large video camera. It is solidly built, feels and operates like a camera of the highest quality, and works with lenses which would traditionally attach to a 35mm motion picture body. It is an incredible achievement that an independent camera manufacturer has been able to produce a working system which challenges the established players in the world of high end acquisition.
