 Avid ® (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced that renowned television production company, Bunim/Murray Productions, has selected Avid Media Composer® 6 and Avid Symphony® 6 editing software for all of its programs beginning in early 2012. Bunim/Murray joins a growing number of professional users who have returned to using Avid solutions from Final Cut Pro to meet their production workflow requirements. Additionally, as part of this implementation, Bunim/Murray also plans to deploy an Avid ISIS® 5000 s
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 Lowest Prices Ever! Featuring the New Pioneer BDR-206 Blu-ray burner!Blu-ray Disc Bundles Available Now at Videoguys.com
The external MEGA bundle ($149.95) is perfect for MAC & laptop users - and anyone who wants to author Blu-ray Discs without the hassle of installing an internal drive! The Videoguys complete MEGA bundle includes the Pioneer BDR-206BK 12x Blu-ray
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 2011 was a banner year for filmmaking tools
In a landmark year for production and post-production gear, 2011 will most likely be remembered for the tragic events in Northern Japan. Although minor compared to the devastation and loss of life, all the major camera manufacturers (Sony, Canon, Panasonic, etc.) were greatly affected by the disaster leaving factories badly damaged, which disrupted production and distribution for the entire year.
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 2011 is drawing to a close and before I start making predictions for 2012, I thought I’d have a look back at 2011 to revisit some of the video industry developments that I thought were the most significant for the segments of the event and corporate video production industry that I work in and cover as a video industry journalist. Now let me be upfront with my biases because they certainly shape my preferences and the perspective in which I see video industry developments.
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 Digieffects has updated and optimized their plugin effects to be Adobe CS5/64-bit compatible and have added some great new tools to their suite of tools! Both Damage v2.5 and Delirium v2.5 are fully compatible with the latest versions of After Effects, Premiere Pro, FCP and Edius. Even better news, this is a free upgrade for registered v2.0 owners!
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 Welcome to the latest edition of my monthly Final Cut Studio newsletter for December, 2011. (Don’t panic, the last issue I published was #79 in July…. I know, I’m so embarrassed.)
This newsletter provides tutorials, tips and other information essential to the interested user of Final Cut. I try to publish this every month, and past issues are available via subscription. All software references are to Final Cut Studio (3) or Final Cut Pro X unless otherwise noted.
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 6 months later, and the "discussion" of FCPX has still not quieted down. A recent ep of "That Post Show", as well as a post by Philip Hodgetts, has thrown some fuel into the fire. I was going to post on Philips post, but that has already turned into a god awful mess.
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 Out with the old and in with the new! After a big year of new features and new hardware for Media Composer, Matt's in the Rough Cut studio visiting with the ghosts of NLE's past. Take a trip down memory lane and check out some things that you may have forgotten, and some that you have definitely never seen. Happy Holidays from Avid and The Rough Cut!
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 That Post Show is a roundtable discussion with industry experts about the art and science of video, film and post production.
On this Episode of That Post Show, we are proud to have Scott Simmons, Paul del Vecchio and Steve Cohen join us for a discussion about Final Cut Pro X and Avid Media Composer 6.
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 Richard Harrington describes how he reached the decision to switch from Final Cut Pro to Adobe Premiere Pro and why part of his post-production department is running on Windows.
The past few years has forced me to rethink a lot of my business decisions. What I'm going to lay out for you is how I reached the decision to switch from Final Cut Pro to Adobe Premiere Pro, as well as why part of my postproduction department is running on Windows.
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 We caught up with Boris Yamnitsky, founder and CEO of Boris FX, to find out more about the latest version of the company's flagship plug-in suite, Boris Continuum Complete, its most comprehensive and popular collection to date.
Q: You've just released Boris Continuum Complete 8 for After Effects and Avid. What's unique about this particular version???
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 With its top-of-the-line media management tools, generous suite of high-end software, and impeccable history, the Avid Media Composer 5.5 suite is perfect for any editor who is looking to take their editing to the next level.
Ever since introducing Media Composer back in 1989, Avid has claimed a large section of the video editing market by making its editing software a standard for others to live up to. This was due not only to Avid's early foray into the world of nonlinear editing, but as a
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 2011 has been quite a year for Videoguys and our industry. Things changed dramatically back in April when Apple gave a first look of their new FCPX editing software during the NAB show in Vegas. I was at the event, and the room was filled with excitement, energy and anticipation. That is until after the Apple presentation. For the professional editors and broadcasters in the room, it left them feeling nervous and uneasy about Apple's commitment to them, their workflows and professional editin
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 Flooding in Thailand Creates Hard Drive Shortages - Videoguys has stock!
Flooding in Thailand created massive disruptions in hard drive production. As soon as we heard the news we put in a very large order with G-Tech for GRAID4- 4TBs. The G-Tech G-RAIDs have been our go to external drive solution for years. With the move to 64-bit computing, everyone you can now take full advantage of the 4TB model.
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 Let’s start this review off by dispelling a long-held rumor. I’m a PC guy, just always have been, and after reviewing just about every PC NLE at least once, I have settled on Adobe Premiere Pro (and the CS 5.5 suite) as my editor of choice. Not too long ago, I had a freelance client that absolutely insisted on Apple ProRes files for the output of a project. Unfortunately, Apple does not allow PCs to write ProRes files, and at the time PC’s couldn’t read them either.
Fast-forward a few mon
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