Posted by:
jim
March 12, 2009 3:27 PM
Our Videoguys HD editing experts have been getting a lot of questions about the exciting new Avid Media Composer 3.0 and we'd like to share some of the most common answers with you to help you get "A Whole New Way of Thinking from Avid" ( Read More)
Posted by:
jon
February 2, 2009 3:29 PM
We try our best to give you as much information as we can on the products we sell but sometimes you just need to see it for yourself. We recommend checking out this list of free downloads and trial software versions from some of the biggest software companies in the busibness. When you find the software you need just give us a call at 800-323-2325! ( 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:
matt
September 21, 2006 12:07 PM
One of the most often asked questions we get asked on our tech support and sales lines (as well as in emails, online forums and user groups) is what is the best graphics card for NLE. The answer is actually pretty simple, once you understand why. It all depends on the NLE software you plan on running, what kind of video work you do and if you are also going to be using any additional hardware in your system. ( 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
May 9, 2006 1:00 PM
The advantages of Dual Core processors for video editing are significant. The biggest is price / performance. Most video editing applications are written to take advantage of dual processors and hyperthreading, now with a single affordable chip, you can maximize this capability. Those of you who read our DIY3 article are aware of the troubles and tribulations we ran into building a dual Xeon workstation. With a Dual-Core processor the installation and set up of our DIY4 machines was very easy. A ( 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:
jon
January 11, 2006 1:19 PM
2005 has been a very good year for Digital Videographers. We had some really magnificent new software, hardware and production tools come out that have all had a significant impact on producing video.
We've seen a bunch of new HD camcorders finally start shipping, and the NLE software guys are right on target with support for all of the new formats. In 2006 we anticipate Sony, Canon, Panasonic & JVC will be shipping several different HD camcorders each. Perhaps we’ll also see a couple of new ( Read More)
Posted by:
jon
January 11, 2005 1:20 PM
This past year will go down as the year that HDV emerged. Back in April, at NAB, attendees got their first glance at the future - Sony's HDV camcorder. It was on display in a glass case and it wasn't actually working, but it generated a ton of excitement. Almost all of the leading NLE companies began talking about planned support for this exciting *new* format – which technically wasn't even new. JVC had been selling an HDV cam for almost a year, but most everyone in the industry viewed it as mo ( Read More)
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