 In its hey-day, Media Composer dominated the NLE landscape — the big boys on the block, dictating features, methodology, and, especially, price. The fact that you had to buy Composer’s expensive hardware didn’t hurt their bottom line either.
At the same time, they were expanding, acquiring and developing a diverse group: Softimage, Sibelius, Digidesign, and others… spreading themselves thinner.
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 ow with capacities ranging from 2TB to 32TB, G-Tech’s new upgraded single-drive and ultra-fast, low-cost RAID systems include the G-DRIVE, G-SAFE, G-RAID, G-SPEED eS, G-SPEED eS Pro, G-SPEED eS PRO XL, and G-SPEED FC XL. With the addition of these new drives, G-Tech is now the only external storage provider in the world with a complete line of 2TB, 7,200 RPM drive-based, external storage solutions specifically designed for the Mac and AV markets.
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 Sony Creative Software Inc., a leading provider of professional video and audio editing applications, today announced Vegas™ Pro 9.0c software, the latest update to its award-winning nonlinear HD video and audio editing (NLE) application. Vegas Pro 9.0c software features Sony® XDCAM® EX MP4 file rendering and the ability to Smart Render MPEG-2 video across different containers for faster, more seamless editing.
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 Grass Valley, the leading global manufacturer of broadcast and production equipment including the nonlinear editing program EDIUS, is hosting a contest for editors to show off their chops and compete at a chance for thousands of dollars of production gear!
Contestants need to cut together a 60-second or less commercial spot promoting EDIUS.
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Review: - Matrox CompressHD
October 2009
Matrox CompressHD
The Need for Speed
Accelerated h.264 Encoding
Price: $495.00
http://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/compresshd/
by David A. Saraceno
Anyone involved with delivering video content knows how incredibly efficent and stunning beautiful the h.264 codec is. It produces exceptional video quality at impressively low data rates for both streaming and stored formats. It is used for streaming and messaging video deliv
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 The Matrox MXO2 LE is now shipping. It brings you all of the power, performance, quality and the features of the award winning MXO2, for under $1,000! The only difference is you get a little less audio I/O, but all the great cross and down conversion capabilities. This makes the MXO2 LE simply the best SDI equipped I/O solution for Final CUt editors for under $1,000!!
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 Today we took a major leap forward in our future development of Premiere Pro and AfterEffects. We announced that we would no longer support 32 bit OSes in future releases of Premiere Pro and After Effects. As many of you know, we are not new to the 64 bit arena, Photoshop CS4 is already native 64 bit on Windows and we have been running the last 3 versions of Premiere Pro and After Effects on 64 bit OSes.
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 "Matrox MXO2 LE is more than just an I/O device," said Alberto Cieri, Matrox senior sales and marketing director. "Not only does it meet content creators needs for input, output, and monitoring, it also speeds up delivery to today's digital formats. Creating Blu-ray discs and video for the web and mobile devices is much faster than ever before with Matrox MAX H.264 encoding technology."
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 I think it's time to start talking more about one of the most cost effective tools you can add to your HD video editing arsenal - the Matrox MXO2 Mini. There are lots of great features... in this mighty mite, and I'm going to use this article to tell you all about them. We've had great success in the past using an FAQ format to better explain new products and technology, so we'll keep at it now.
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 Pioneer BDR-205 12x Blu-Ray Burner is shipping
The Pioneer BDR-205 works great with Adobe Production Premium with Premiere Pro and Encore CS4, Avid Media Composer with Avid DVD, Sonic DVDit Pro HD, Roxio Toast, Sony Vegas Pro 9 w/ DVD Architect and the new Final Cut Studio with Final Cut Pro 7.
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 Award-winning Matrox CompressHD card and Matrox MXO2 Mini I/O device speed up HD H.264 file creation for Blu-ray, Flash, YouTube, and the web
Windows drivers for Matrox CompressHD1 and Matrox MXO2 Mini2 with the MAX option are now available as a free download from the Matrox website for registered owners.
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 Get the Industry's Best Compression and Unmatched HD Workflow with CineForm Neo HD with First Light plus 37 FREE Looks
Whether your project is designed for film, television, Blu-ray Disc, DVD, or Internet distribution, Neo HD delivers unmatched workflow efficiency, the industry's highest visual fidelity compression, and cross-platform compatibility unmatched by others.
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 NEW! Avid Media Composer 4 with Avid Production Suite Bonus FREE Avid Keyboard & Class on Demand Training DVD!
Having a rock-solid system that helps you quickly sort through your material and cut together the most engaging video is crucial. Mix and match formats, frame rates, and resolutions in the open timeline. Edit XDCAM, P2, and GFCAM media directly with AMA for the fastest HD Workflows. Find the footage you need quickly with Avid's Media Management tools.
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 The recent Matrox Axio & RTX driver is working quite well with only a few minor issues for Windows users. We are highly recommending that Windows users upgrade to Vista64 (or Win7 64 when released) & 8GB or 16GB of RAM. Here is a PDF with information on using Matrox Axio and RTX with CS4 and identifies a few of these issues. Matrox is continuing to make improvements to their driver. Make sure to periodically check their website for updates.
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 We will be closed Monday September 28th but you can take advantage of our Fall Specials coupon all wekend long and save 5% off of any purchase. Just enter coupon FALL5 at checkout and the 5% will be deducted from all the items in your cart. If you have any questions before you order don't worry, the coupon will be valid through next Wednesday, September 30th so you can give us a call at 800-323-2325.
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