 Award-winning director and storyteller Vincent Laforet switches to Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 to free time for creativity “Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 is helping me become a more effective director, because I can see what I have shot-wise on the spot and make better creative decisions from there.”
Vincent Laforet
Photographer, storyteller, director
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 Matrox® Video Products Group today announced the immediate availability of Thunderbolt™-enabled Matrox MXO2™ I/O devices as well as Thunderbolt adapters for existing customers. Developed by Intel® with collaboration from Apple®, Thunderbolt is a high-speed I/O technology running at 10 gigabits per second that brings together high-speed data transfer and high-definition (HD) display on to a single cable. Thunderbolt is currently available on all new Macs.
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 On 9/20/11 Apple released their first update to FCPX 10.0.1. While it shows some progress, it doesn't address the main issues and reasons so many Pros have left Apple for Adobe and/or Avid. The comments below have been added to our Videoguys' Options for Final Cut Editors blog post, but I felt they were also worth sharing as a new blog post.
For me the most important thing in the update isn't actually included in 10.0.1 at all. Rather it is this very important information found at the bo
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 Being a Nikon shooter in a multimedia world has some disadvantages. In 2008, Nikon launched the D90, which was the first DSLR with the ability to shoot video as well as stills. The camera was rife with limitations. Without an audio mic jack, you could not use an external microphone to gather quality sound. The Motion JPEG codec the D90 recorded in was a nightmare for Final Cut Pro to deal with. My newspaper bought two of these cameras on release. I played around with one, shrugged my shoulders,
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 The Vegas Pro 11 collection combines the power of Vegas Pro with the elegance of DVD Architect to provide a dynamic and efficient environment for video and broadcast professionals. With extensive format support, unmatched effects processing, superior audio support, and a complete array of editing tools, Vegas Pro 11 gives you the creative freedom you need to produce projects with outstanding results.
Order Vegas Pro 10 now and get a FREE Upgrade to Vegas Pro 11 direct from SONY. In order t
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 Matrox have taken a different approach to Thunderbolt connectivity with their I/O products compared to other manufacturers. Instead of building new models with Thunderbolt connectors, the adaptor allows new and existing products to use the superfast technology.
At IBC 2011, Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd announced their solution to bring their products up to date with Thunderbolt connectivity. The Thunderbolt adapter is available for $199 for customers who have an MXO product already. So the p
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 NVIDIA introduced today NVIDIA® GPUDirect™ for Video, a technology that enables application developers to deliver higher quality, more realistic on-air graphics -- or take faster advantage of the parallel processing power of the GPU for image processing -- by permitting industry-standard video I/O devices to communicate directly with NVIDIA professional Quadro® and Tesla™ graphics processing units (GPUs) at ultra-low latency.
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 Io XT Provides Complete Video/Audio Capture and Playback in a Feature-Rich, Portable Device
Io XT connects to a Thunderbolt enabled Apple computer via a single cable. An additional Thunderbolt port is provided, allowing daisy-chaining to other Thunderbolt peripherals like high bandwidth storage and high-resolution displays through a single interface; simplifying the connection of multiple devices and creating a very portable package. In addition to the wide range of supported capture and pla
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 AJA Video Systems streamlined lens to post workflows with the introduction of its Ki Pro family of portable video recorders. The newest product in that family, Ki Pro Mini has been in high demand, facilitating direct camera-to-edit workflows that eliminate the time consuming video encode step. AJA is working jointly with Avid(R) to build support for the Avid DNxHD(R) video codec into Ki Pro Mini, enabling further production efficiencies to Avid Media Composer(R).
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 This week the Adobe video solutions team is over in Amsterdam at IBC, Europe’s largest show for broadcasters. We announced new video delivery solutions and we’re highlighting our recent momentum that enables media professionals to create, deliver, and monetize premium video more efficiently and across more platforms and devices. Adobe is committed to helping our customers and partners streamline their entire creation to delivery video workflows for any screen and ultimately – help them find new
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 G-Technology™ Demos a Two-Drive 8TB G-RAID™ Thunderbolt® External Storage Solution With Blazing
Throughput for Post Production; New 4TB Hitachi GST Hard Drives are First to Ship in G-Technology’s
G-RAID and G-DRIVE™ solutions
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 Matrox is the first (and so far, the only) manufacturer of professional audio/video interfaces to offer the possibility of adding Thunderbolt connectivity to any of their existing products which are already in the field. Matrox now offers this capability for any of the MXO2 family of interfaces, which currently include the MXO2 Mini, MXO2 LE, MXO2 (original), and MXO2 Rack. Since almost the beginning of the MXO2 family, all of the interfaces have been available either with (or without) Matrox’s
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 Digital video solutions from AJA Video Systems are playing a key role in the capture, conversion, archiving and transmission of mission critical video from the Research Vessel Thomas G.Thompson, in support of the Visions’ 11 expedition currently underway 400km off the coast of Oregon.
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 As we enter an age where our raw footage is either so compressed that recompression for an online edit seems like a very silly option, or so beautifully flexible that we shouldn’t be binding it with the permanence many budgets and minds associate with a transcode to ProRes, the stage is being set for raw workflows based in metadata. This is where Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 shines.
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 ATTO Technology, Inc. today announced its ExpressSAS 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID Adapters have been selected by G-Technology by Hitachi, a leading manufacturer of external disk storage solutions designed for professional content creation applications, to provide high-performance connectivity for their G-SPEED™ eS Pro desktop drives. Using ATTO’s ExpressSAS 6Gb/s R680 RAID Adapter, G-Technology provides a solution that supports real-time HD and film production, including dual-stream uncompressed 10-bit 1
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