 There are three constants in life—death, taxes, and oversized workstations. Why are workstations so large? They need breathing space for their powerful components, which could overheat if they aren’t cooled properly. As a result, no one had successfully designed an all-in-one workstation. Apart from squeezing everything into what is essentially the back of a monitor, there’s this vexing problem of how to disperse the heat. If the components are just inches from your face, you would have to liste
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 Affordable HDMI/analog video and audio I/O with Matrox MAX for Lightning fast H.264 encoding!
Not only does Matrox MXO2 Mini MAX give you affordable HDMI and analog video and audio input and output for your favorite editing app, it also turbocharges your H.264 encoding for deliveries to the web, mobile devices, and Blu-ray – all in a convenient, portable breakout box.
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 WOW! It's hard to believe that May is here and that the NAB show was a full month ago! If you haven't read it yet, you definitely want to go over and check out our NAB 2012 Reflections Article. The industry is changing, and we go over some of the biggest shifts that have occurred and are ongoing.
Adobe CS6 is here!
Avid Symphony 6 for only $995!!
New Low Prices on G-Tech G-RAIDs!
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 by PNY Mail-in Rebates!
NewBlue Titler Pro for Avid, Adobe, Edius,
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 Asking a freelance director of photography about the codecs of their Panasonic cameras is like asking a mechanic about the engine of a car. Be prepared for a long technical answer. All you need to know is why a certain codec is important and correct for your shoot. Panasonic currently has two often confused codecs: DVCPRO HD and AVC Intra. The third codec, AVC Ultra, is to be released next year.
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 If you've been a fan or customer of Videoguys over the years, then you know that our go to recommendation for external video storage are the G-Tech G-RAIDs. G-RAIDs are stylish, external RAID devices that have unsurpassed reliability and performance. They attach to your Laptop or Workstation via eSata, USB2 or Firewire 800/400. G-RAIDs have been our top recommendation since they were first introduced and we awarded it Top New Product in 2004.
The G-Tech GRAID 4th Generation keeps up their
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 Hitachi's G-Technology line of external hard drives has long been a favorite for creative professionals and others who generally need some combination of reliability, performance, capacity and redundancy. While Hitachi has several products in the G-Tech line that specialize in one or more of those qualities, their latest effort is an external storage generalist that can just about do it all. The G-RAID with Thunderbolt offers up to 4TB of capacity over two mirrored drives, or 8TB if configured f
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 It takes well over a year to design, execute, deliver, and ensure the proper implementation of the roughly 5,000 or so assets it takes to get a CS release out the door (we’re already thinking about CS7). Along the away, there are innumerable institutional, technological, and political hurdles to overcome. It can be daunting, but we do everything we can to get it made with as few design compromises as possible.
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 NVIDIA Quadro 4000 by PNY Mail-in Rebates!
PNY has just launched a mail-in rebate program for the NVIDIA Quadro 4000 by PNY graphic boards. You can save an additional $60 on the Quadro 4000 for Mac by PNY ($799 - 60 = $739 after rebate) or $50 on the Quadro 4000 for PC by PNY ($799 - 50 = $749 after rebate). Videoguys recommends the NVIDIA Quadro 4000 by PNY for your NLE workstation running Avid (Media Composer or Symphony), Adobe (CS5, CS5.5. or CS6) or for power users who need the highest
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 Crews Control University is a series of educational seminars on new technology, equipment, or software. The most recent Crews Control University was held at the Crews Control offices, and a couple representatives from Abel Cinetech gave demonstration of a vast array of mobile recording device. Mobile recoding devices are recording devices that attach to a camera and can record different formats, codecs, resolutions, and other options.
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 One of the top requests we've heard over the past few years from our customers is for an easy to use, powerful 3D titling program that delivers high resolution titles. We've found what you are looking for!
At NAB NewBlue announced GPU-Accelerated Plugins & Titler Pro Compatibility with the Upcoming Release of Adobe Creative Suite 6 Software & Mac Operating Systems.
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 We've been very active over the past few months in LinkedIn group discussions. There are several really great groups with very knowledgable professionals participating. Some of the groups you can find us in include Video Editors, Digital Video Editing, Adobe Premiere, Creative COW, Avid, EDIUS professional users, Film TV Professionals, Post Production Professionals, FCPUG Netwrok Community and Final Cut Pro Video Editing. What I like so much about Linked In groups is that they tend to be filled
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 For the past number of years I have been working on a Mac Pro, with two 23" Apple Cinema Displays, running Legacy versions of FCP. I had added a Matrox MXO box, which went between my monitor card and my second ACD to provide Broadcast Monitoring so that I could view my video output. Hitting the Command F-12 keys would toggle the second monitor between a standard Mac Desktop and a Broadcast Monitor. This was extremely helpful in viewing and judging video output, as the Canvas window does not prov
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 Last week Rich wrote about his decision to switch from FCP7 to a combination of Premiere Pro and Media Composer instead of FCP X. Since then, Adobe released Premiere Pro CS6 (along with all the other CS6 tools) and a number of people have published first looks or accounts of switching to the increasingly popular NLE. Here is an annotated roundup of the best of those articles, as well as, some resources on how to get started if you are unfamiliar with Premiere Pro.
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 Highlights of Grass Valley's forthcoming 6.5 upgrade to the EDIUS NLE (coming in June) for pro event and corporate video producers include improved a native stabilization utility, Alpha channel support, 10-bit effects and filters, and several enhancements to the Layouter including a drop shadow function and new options for selecting a scaler.
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 I know what you all are asking yourselves: “What did Shane edit that NAB wrap-up video with?” Plenty of you asked on Twitter, and I know you WOULD have asked on my blog in the comments…but I offered up the information before you could. Because I knew you’d ask.
So yes, I used Adobe Premiere CS5.5 to start the edit…mainly the inputting and organization part…and pulling the selects I wanted to use.
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