 It’s been several weeks now since Apple released their new version of Final Cut for the masses. Having seen a demonstration of Premiere Pro CS5.5 in use at a recent video production conference, I was fairly impressed at what I saw. But as we know from even Apple’s NAB demo of Final Cut Pro X, demonstrations are not the real thing. However, seeing Apple’s demo of FCPX made me realize I didn’t want to go down the path of the iMovie-style interface, so even before Apple’s release of FCPX I was kee
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 Got Final Cut? Get Media Composer for Just $995
If you’re not getting what you need to succeed—or you’re a former Avid user who switched (we’d love to have you back)—we want to help make your choice easier. That’s why we’re offering Final Cut Pro (excluding FCP X) users another opportunity to purchase Media Composer 5.5 (with the Production Suite) for just $995 USD—that’s over 60% off the regular price! What’s more, you’ll get free Avid Media Composer for Final Cut Pro Users online training
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 Glyph RAIDs have been a favorite of professional audio producers and musicians for years and are built with the speed and reliability to handle video as well. In fact, we have been using Glyph RAIDs with Adobe CS5.5, Avid Media Composer 5.5, Avid ProTools, Sony Vegas Pro, Grass Valley EDIUS 6 and more!
Whether you're looking for an affordable and reliable RAID solution like the GT062E, a portable RAID for a laptop workstation like the PORTAGIG62, or a protected RAID with hot-swappable driv
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 Lacking some of the bells and whistles of its pricier competitors, but Datavideo's DN-60 compact flash card recorder gets the job done at a fraction of the cost.
If you've got an aging DV or HDV camcorder whose heads are beginning to fail, or perhaps you simply want to step into the digital age, but your older camera still delivers great footage, then strapping a direct-capture-device onto that prized piece of video history may be exactly what the geriatrician ordered.
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 Walter Biscardi put the inaugural meeting of the Atlanta Cutters together in three weeks from scratch. He lined up demos of the top NLE's and more for the packed house.
Walter is well known in the editing industry, you might have seen his many contributions on industry forums. He's also well connected and full credit to him for organising an event in such a short space of time, it was a full house too.
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 Glyph Production Technologies’ PortaGig 62 is a portable RAID data storage system. This diminutive unit (123mm W X 92mm D X 43mm H) is the offspring of Glyph’s larger desktop RAID, the GT 062E. The unit’s all-metal case contains two 2.5-inch hard drives (made by either Seagate or Hitachi) and is available in a variety of speed/size configurations:
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 I’ve had a few people ask me about my thoughts on the new Final Cut Pro, so I though I’d have a crack at it to join in with all the others. My perspective might be a bit different: I don’t work in a post-house and my workflow isn’t really industry standard but is specifically tailored to what I do. Also, despite this site mainly focusing on color grading, I’ve been an editor much longer than a colorist. I’ve been editing for around 10 years now (admittedly not all of it at a “pro” level, but sti
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 As a video professional you need an editing platform you can rely on to connect to anything, anywhere; work with your favorite apps; and deliver high-quality video to all the devices your viewers and clients use - the web, mobile devices, Apple TV, Blu-ray discs, even tape. The award-winning Matrox MXO2 devices have you covered. You get highly-reliable, broadcast-quality video and audio input/output and HDMI video monitoring with the unique Matrox HDMI Calibration Utility as well as 10-bit realt
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 In this special Tekserve event, presented by Evan Schechtman of @radical.media and Outpost Digital, and co-sponsored by Manhattan Edit Workshop, we took a look at the history of digital video editing—with a particular focus on Apple's Final Cut Pro X, and how this just-released software sets the foundation for the industry's next big revolution.
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 With its June 21 release of Final Cut Pro X, Apple shocked the entire post-production industry. David Lawrence set out to understand just exactly what Apple had done to a tool that, for many of us, is the cornerstone of our livelihoods. The changes in FCPX are broad, deep and many. This article will focus on just one aspect of these changes -- the main NLE editing interface an editor uses for the bulk of their work -- the timeline.
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 The Ki Pro Mini is made by AJA and is a compact professional digital recorder designed to be attached to any camcorder that has either a professional HD/SD-SDI out or a HDMI output. With the Ki Pro Mini it is possible to improve the image quality by recording to a superior codec (Apple ProRes) with higher bitrates over the default codec and bitrate of the camcorder. The Ki Pro Mini gives you a file-based solid-state workflow via the two CF card slots. The Ki Pro Mini is basically a miniature ver
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 Roland, a company that I have a lot of experience with from my past, makes the R-44, a portable four-track digital audio recorder. I still own an antique Roland GR-300 guitar synthesizer that I bought back in the 1980s, and I used Roland keyboards and recording gear quite a bit back in the days when I dabbled in the recording studio. In my experience, Roland products always have been reliable and innovative, so I thought the R-44 would be worth checking out to see how it compares to the high-end
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On July 13th, 2011, AVID hosted an evening dedicated to providing a simple message: Avid is listening to its professional users and committed to that marketplace in developing the new features that editors want. The Steven J. Ross theatre on the Warner Bros. studio lot was packed with nearly 550 editors. Join Debra Kaufman as she highlights the evening's events.
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 By working together, Intel and Apple were able to bring to market Thunderbolt, a new, high-speed I/O technology that offers bi-directional, dual-channel, 10Gb per second performance using a single cable. It is a dual-protocol technology, working with PCI Express and DisplayPort devices.
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 Just before an Avid-hosted event last night on the Warner Bros. lot, editors who gathered there were discussing the shortfalls of FCP X as well as the direction of Adobe and Avid. The buzz was palpable.
Inside the Steven J. Ross theater, Avid brought the troops together to emphasize its commitment to the professional market, hammering home that their focus is us: the editors. It was good to hear at a time when some industry people and businesses are feeling abandoned after the release of FCP
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