 Avid Nitris DX Hardware and Avid Symphony 6 Software
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Avid Nitris DX
High-performance, dual link, customizable HD I/O and monitoring solution
If you edit high-profile films, TV shows, or commercials for a living, you need a system that gives you the speed, flexibility, and confidence to take on anything. Customize and pair Nitris DX with Media Composer, Symphony, or NewsCutter, and you get the best I/O interface for working with HD, Panasonic AVC-Intra, RGB
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 It's hard to believe that the winter is almost over and spring is around the corner! Over the past few weeks we've sent out a couple of Spotlight emails. Our 5% off coupon SOFT5 is active through 3/19/12 and you can use it for any purchase!
Check out the latest news, articles and guides on Videoguys.com!!
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 If you work with video, chances are that Sorenson Squeeze is one of your go-to items for compression and, as the hardware improves, it makes sense that the software moves forward with it. Sorenson Squeeze 8 brings performance without limiting you to making videos anchored to a desk. Getting your show on the road is what Squeeze 8 brings, because you can save your videos (with a high level of quality) to almost any device in a huge range of formats. Mobile quality must meet the demands of end-use
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 Why should YOU upgrade your video editing system
and what is the best upgrade for you?
There are several reasons to upgrade your video editing system. Like most technological advances, the video editing systems available today are faster, more stable, easier to use, and capable of higher-quality then some of those made as recently as six-months ago!
Do you want to take advantage of the increased speed and productivity of today's 64-bit systems with more layers of video, realtime tra
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 Vegas Pro 11 is a welcome upgrade to this classic professional editing tool.
Some software upgrades are about flashy new interfaces and sexy new features, and others have more to do with supercharging the engine under the hood in order to boost the overall performance. This past year, video editing tools have been working on the flashy side with support for working with 3D video, but the real focus has continued to be on the machinery - taking advantage of today's 64-bit architectures to work
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 Nope, that’s a long way from a Mac. That’s a brand new Dell Precision workstation featuring an nVidia Quadro card. Walter will post the full details on the workstation once he gets it out of the box and set up which will happen later this weekend.
If you’ve been following along in his blogs you know Biscardi Creative is transitioning over to an Adobe / Avid workflow from 11 years of running Final Cut Pro and cross platform compatibility is one of the reasons for the change.
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 New Multi-Format, Camera-Mountable DVR Delivers Pristine Video Quality and Streamlines Production Workflows by Eliminating Time-Consuming Transcoding
Fast Forward Video (FFV) will unveil the sideKick HD, a multi-format, straight-to-edit, camera-mountable digital video recorder (DVR) that raises the bar for image quality when paired with today's state-of-the-art camcorders
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 Intel is working to boost data transfer speeds with a faster pipe on Thunderbolt, a high-speed connector technology that link computers with peripherals, the company said on Thursday.
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 Creative COW Forum Thread started by Ron Lindebloom
I had to smile reading the people on the original thread below speculating about the possibility of officially licensed Mac OS on an HP Workstation.
For years, Tim Wilson and I have talked about the idea of HP providing workstations that run the Mac OS. (Not every PC manufacturer, just HP.)
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 Sorenson Squeeze 8 Pro Provides the Industry’s Highest Quality, Greatest Control and Most Effective Workflow for Video Professionals
Newest Version of the Industry’s Leading Encoding and Transcoding Engine Empowers Video Professionals with Seamless Input and Output Capability with All Leading Formats, Including Avid DNxHD and Apple ProRes
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 It looks like 2012 will be the year that consumer electronics make the first serious jump beyond HD resolution. Consumers are about to get a higher-resolution screen than has yet been seen in technology for the home, and it's not going to be because manufacturers of PC displays or HDTVs pushed the bar upward. No, the new benchmark for screen resolution on a portable device has been set by the new Apple iPad. Due March 16, it delivers a full 2048x1536 pixels in about 10 inches of screen space — a
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 Kirk Arnold, Avid Executive Vice President/COO, talks about Avid's openness, the professional market, and the hunger for high quality content.
When it comes to business strategy, you have to have a lot of insight and a little bit of luck. When Gary [Greenfield, CEO/president] and I arrived at Avid four years ago, we immersed ourselves in where our customers' businesses were going and how we could support them. It became pretty clear early on in our evaluations that the need to support an ope
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 HP just unveiled the follow-up to its popular line of Z workstations: the Z820, Z620 and Z420, which come equipped with the eight-core Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family, offer up to 512 gigabytes of DDR3 memory and support multithreaded workstation applications.
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 In a review of FCP X’s multicam feature (new to 10.0.3) Scott Simmons claims:
It’s far and away the easiest and most powerful way to setup and manipulate all the angles when prepping for the edit.
Philip completely agree with Scott. Before the release of multicam in FCP X, Philip joked that Apple needed to make it “idiot proof”,
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 Many experienced editors look at the interface design of Final Cut Pro X and seemingly freak out at the radical change in front of them. The truth is that if you dig a bit deeper, many of the underlying concepts aren’t that different from Media Composer, Premiere Pro or FCP “legacy” after all. Different nomenclature and a modified way of working, but still built upon familiar foundations – IF you look for them.
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