 AJA Video Systems announced immediate availability of UDC, a broadcast quality Up/Down/Cross-Conversion Mini-Converter that can convert between SD, HD and 3G video formats.
Leveraging AJA’s industry-leading conversion technology, the UDC provides very high quality conversions in a small and cost effective package.
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 Like most Avid, editors I was waiting impatiently for the 6.0 release. Dreams of 64-bit architecture were spinning in my head: background rendering, super fast transcoding, more AMA features and a new title tool were my constant smile-inducing dreams. Then came the reality...which wasn’t bad either.
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 Matrox Video Products Group today announced the most amazing Matrox I/O drivers yet for Adobe Creative Suite. Windows release 6.1 and Mac OS release 2.5 for the Matrox MXO2 family of I/O devices and the Mojito MAX card provide Adobe CS5.5 support optimized for the latest multicore, high-performance systems.
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 Attention Adobe Editors! Now is the time to make sure all of your existing software is up to date. Buy now to take advantage of significant savings and get upgraded to the new Adobe CS6 at no additional cost!
If you own, or have been considering the Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection here are the reasons to order now:
1) Buy at today's prices and get CS6 upgrade at no additional cost
2) All Adobe CS5.5 Master Collection Purchases from Videoguys.com now include two FREE Bonuses
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 Once a new editor has learned the basics of editing video, there are a handful of tools that they should learn as they advance their skills. Oftentimes simple to grasp tools get left behind in favor of more flashy effects and filters. Today I want to talk about a couple of easy tools that will improve the overall polish of your video: the vectorscope and waveform monitor. While clicking around your editing software, you may have stumbled across these screens and quickly clicked away, intimidated
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 In Tor's opinion, Apple prematurely released Final Cut Pro X this past June. That’s pretty much why he didn’t opt to review it for Post until now. It just wasn’t ready for prime time. Nor was the professional post market ready to downgrade from Final Cut Pro 7. All that has changed in just a few months, especially with the release of Version 10.0.3. Now with downloadable updates from the App Store, it seems clear that Apple will be making constant improvements to the functionality of the softw
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 New Sorenson Squeeze 8.1 Pro offers support for Apple ProRes, Avid DNxHD, and Dolby Pro audio. With these new features Squeeze 8.1 Pro is the absolute top in video encoding and transcoding workflow.
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 Small Tree the video editing shared storage experts, will be showcasing its expanded GraniteSTOR Titanium line up at NAB 2012 (Booth SL7425). Titanium is a high performance, capacity dense, dedicated video editing shared storage appliance with advanced file sharing capabilities enabling simple, real-time collaboration.
An “all-in-one” system with a budget friendly special introductory entry price of $6,995 (valid until June 30, 2012), Titanium offers extreme flexibility, supporting a wide ran
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 Knowing keyboard shortcuts allow you to work faster than clicking and dragging your mouse. However, it can be tricky trying to memorize all sorts of keyboard shortcuts for several different applications. Luckily, Contour Design has come to the rescue with their ShuttlePRO v2.
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 Last year was a good one for Adobe. Long time rival Apple and its Final Cut Pro video editing software program arguably left the professional video editing market when they announced Final Cut X at NAB. Well it wasn’t technically at NAB but it was during NAB and in Las Vegas a short monorail ride away from the Las Vegas Convention Centre.
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 The two hottest handheld recorders on the market, the Zoom H2n and H4n are now eligible for a mail-in rebate. If you purchase either one of these amazing recorders from an authorized Zoom dealer between April 1, 2012 and June 30th, 2012 you can get one of the following rebates:
The Zoom H2n is eligible for a $20 mail-in rebate.
The Zoom H4n is eligible for a $30 mail-in rebate.
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 With decent basic tools built right into Windows 7, you don't have to look too far to perform casual video editing if you're bound to a PC. But if you work in media or Web-site production, or are the serious go-to person for your entire brood's vacation and event videos, a stiffer solution is in order. Midrange consumer-grade video-editing packages will work for many, but pro-grade programs like Adobe Premiere and Sony Vegas Pro are all that will do for folks for whom time spent processing frame
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 Now thru 6/30/12 the Full Version of Boris Continuum Complete 8 AVX includes FREE Boris Transfer Suite ($399 value) and Final Effects Complete 6 ($895 value)! Boris Continuum Complete 8 AVX gives Avid Media Composer, NewsCutter, and Symphony editors the most comprehensive VFX and compositing plug-in suite ever created. A whopping 200+ filters include 3D Objects such as Extruded Text, 3D particle effects, image restoration tools, lens flares and lights, award-winning chroma keying and compositi
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 Convergent Design announced a dramatic price reduction for the award winning nanoFlash video recorder. The price of nanoFlashes has been reduced to $1,995 MSRP, $1,895 Street Price. These prices reflect a $1,000 reduction (US). Similar price reductions are in effect around the world, but due to customs, taxes and shipping the amounts may vary slightly.
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 Shane started his blog in 2005, when he made my leap from editing on an Avid in standard definition…to editing with FCP in high definition…thus the name Little Frog in High Def (Little Frog being his Indian name from my youth). This blog was him talking about his foray into the world of HD specifically using Final Cut Pro…for broadcast TV shows. A diary of my successes and his failures…lessons he wanted to share so that people could learn from my…well, successes and failures.
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