Posted by:
matt
July 14, 2009 2:19 PM
Inexpensive Consumer Video Editing programs like Pinnacle Studio, Adobe Premiere Elements, Sony Vegas Movie Studio, Apple iMovie, Windows MovieMaker are easy and fun to use. In fact, I think they are pretty amazing. While these products can be purchased for less then one hundred dollars they deliver a level of performance and features that would have cost 10 times as much just 5 years ago! While these products allow you to edit your video, create slideshows, author DVDs and export them to the we ( Read More)
Posted by:
gary
May 26, 2009 2:13 PM
If you are reading this article, I think it’s a pretty safe bet that you have a big screen HD TV in your house. Now that you have it, you wonder how you ever watched sports or the latest action movie or a documentary or even the cooking channel without it. I know that now when I watch standard definition TV, all I can think about is how much better it would look in HD! Lets face it, everything just looks better in HD. Well maybe not everything or everyone, but I think you get the picture. It’s ( Read More)
Posted by:
jim
April 9, 2009 1:40 PM
The Focus FS-5 is the new, lighter, and more portable disk recorder with a color screen featuring the next generation of Direct to Edit technology. DTE lets you bring your captured files directly from the FS-5 into your computer and begin editing. No messy file conversions or re-compressing is required. With FS-5, Focus takes DTE beyond simple file transfers into workflow productivity improvements using metadata that will allow you to edit faster and better. Learn more about the Focus FS-5 inclu ( Read More)
Posted by:
matt
March 6, 2009 10:07 AM
How to make a Blu-Ray DVD using CineForm NEO Scene and Adobe Premiere CS4 (Windows version). ( Read More)
Posted by:
matt
January 9, 2009 12:10 PM
Before we get into what's ahead for 2009, let's give credit where credit is due – to our top new products of 2008. The top four products stood out above all others this year and I want to give them special honors: Avid Media Composer 3, Adobe Production Premium CS4, Matrox MXO2 and Focus FS-5 all showed a level of innovation, new features, performance and superior workflow enhancement that make them my top picks of 2008!! ( Read More)
Posted by:
jim
August 4, 2008 1:53 PM
Videoguys' Top 10 Products of 2007 includes Adobe Production Premium CS3, Apple Final Cut Studio 2, Matrox RT.X2 with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 and Encore CS3, Sony Vegas Pro 8, Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks & Colorista, Newtek TriCaster Studio, Pinnacle Studio 11 MovieBox Ultimate, Black Magic Intensity Pro, Pioneer BDR-202 Blu-Ray Disc Burner, Canon HV20 HDV Camcorder ( Read More)
Posted by:
jon
May 13, 2008 11:24 AM
The feelings around this year's NAB Show were of apprehension, tension and excitement. With the announcements that first Avid, and then Apple had pulled out of the show, no one was really quite sure what to expect. When we hit the show floor on Monday it was a bit disorienting. No longer was Avid the first booth you saw in the South Hall, and nowhere to be seen where all the folks scurrying around the Apple booth. Instead, the show had a more open and even flow to it. While the traffic was defin ( Read More)
Posted by:
matt
April 10, 2008 12:44 PM
Last spring we updated our DIY5 article to reflect the then latest round of Dual Core processors. Almost as soon as the article came out, we found ourselves bombarded with questions about Quad core CPUs. Back then you paid a pretty hefty premium for them, so we didn't feel it was necessary to build a DIY machine for Quad core. That pricing model held true until the end of last year, when Intel dropped the prices on their Quad core processors and made them just a slight premium over a Core 2 Duo. ( Read More)
Posted by:
jon
January 18, 2007 11:46 AM
2006 was a transitional year for digital videographers. While we had several very new and exciting products, they were more evolutionary then revolutionary. In fact, my most revolutionary new product of the year isn’t even a video product. It’s the new Intel Core 2 Duo dual-core CPUs. With the introduction of these new CPUs, in both Apple and Windows computers, we are now getting an incredible level of CPU power and performance at very reasonable prices. With them we can take video editing and p ( Read More)
Posted by:
matt
November 7, 2006 1:32 PM
Jake Giossi - Is one of the moderators in the Avid Xpress Pro and Avid Studio user forums. He has self-taught himself the skills and knowledge of video editing and production. In this article, Jake provides us with a summary of each part of the new Avid Studio Toolkit 5.6. ( Read More)
Posted by:
matt
November 1, 2006 12:01 PM
As NAB2007 rolls around this April, we want to take the time and offer a DIY update article for you. Our DIY 4 and 5 machines are still an excellent recipe to follow. We still advise anyone planning on building a new machine (or having one built for them) to reference both these articles. We looked over the configs from those two articles and tweaked them a little, and then we re-priced them to reflect the most current pricing on the web. We ended up with 4 models all told. ( Read More)
Posted by:
jim
October 30, 2006 1:35 PM
Alex Alexzander - Alex has worked with non-linear editing software since 1996, and specifically with Avid for the last 3 years. He is an active member of the Avid Community Forums and co-founder of two Avid user groups, based in San Francisco and Los Angeles. He has published many how-to articles, primarily on the Creative Cow. He shares his experiences with the new Avid Studio Toolkit 5.6. ( Read More)
Posted by:
jon
May 23, 2006 11:43 AM
This year’s NAB show was very different from the last couple of years. Unlike the previous 2 shows, this year we saw a bunch of exciting new products that will be shipping within the next few months! That’s right folks, we’ve finally turned a big corner. We didn’t spend time looking at products we may sell in the future, we spent our time seeing products that our customers will be able to buy and use almost immediately. ( Read More)
Posted by:
matt
April 11, 2006 12:11 PM
Our DIY3 project is finally complete. “Double Trouble” was our first Dual Processor system. Unlike the previous two projects, this one was far more difficult. It was very hard finding a motherboard that all our vendors liked and that also included the latest PCI Express technology. As you will recall from our DIY2 article, PCI Express (PCIe) is the new high-speed bus that removes the bottlenecks that would happen with the old PCI/AGP bus design. ( Read More)
Posted by:
matt
February 11, 2006 1:03 PM
Last year (Feb '04) we posted our first DIY article as a guidebook for digital videographers who wanted to build their own NLE computer on a tight budget. We set a $1,000 goal and while we got very close, there were a few areas we were not willing to cut back on and we ended up over $1,000. Six months later we revisited the challenge and re-configured our $1,000 NLE machine. We kept the same motherboard but changed the CPU and storage. While still over budget, the machine is a screamer for the m ( Read More)
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