Panasonic Broadcast announced today that new editing solutions from Avid Technology, Inc. offer import and native editing support for its AVC-Intra codec. The Avid® products supporting AVC-Intra include Avid Media Composer® software Version 3.0; Avid Media Composer Mojo DX 3.0; Avid Media Composer Nitris® DX v 3.0; Symphony™ Nitris DX v 3.0; Avid NewsCutter® software v 7.0; NewsCutter Mojo DX v 7.0; and NewsCutter Nitris DX v 7.0.... »
Distributing high-definition video over the Internet was once looked at as a futile proposition, because most people didn’t have large computer screens, and the bandwidth necessary to send these data-intensive files was virtually non-existent (at any price). Well those days are history. Now, content creators can offer online viewers a “lean back” experience over the Web, thanks to advancements in compression algorithms and software acceleration.... »
Twelve months ago Stereoscopic 3D wasn’t on most people’s radar. Now it is one of the hottest topics in the industry, not only at the movies, but also in broadcasting.... »
Sony has announced a new CMOS sensor technology that claims to offer better image acquisition, lower noise, and nearly twofold light sensitivity in future camcorders.... »
ATTO Technology, Inc., a global leader of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments, is featuring a live Fibre Channel multipathing demonstration at this year’s Siggraph show on August 11-16. Located in booth 863, ATTO will demonstrate a proven, reliable high-performance storage connectivity solution targeted towards high-end digital editing where workflow productivity is critical and performance must be optimal. ... »
Matrox Video Products Group today announced that Matrox Axio release 3.6 is now available. Highlights include support for Microsoft Windows Vista Business or Ultimate (32-bit) and realtime native editing of Sony XDCAM HD422 and XDCAM EX clips.
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Red Giant Software, with popular products Magic Bullet, Knoll Light Factory, and Trapcode, today announced that it has agreed to acquire the video plug-in portfolio of Digital Anarchy, a San Francisco-based plug-in developer. Digital Anarchy is known for its high-quality creative software for broadcast designers and 2D animators.... »
Pixellexis Systems & Technologies has announced that it will use the TeraOPS-class Ambric® massively parallel processing array (MPPA) chip for its new RedBrix™ and RedCard™ products. The two companies are initially collaborating to bring a real-time HD Motion JPEG 2000 codec solution to market, with expectations of broader offerings in the future. ... »
Why the need for so much high-definition content? According to a new study, cable and satellite HDTV subscribers will penetrate 65.7 percent of multichannel households in the United States by 2012. That’s dramatically up from only 18.8 percent in 2007.... »
Vinten’s Vector 950 Active pan-and-tilt head, which complements Canon Broadcast’s lens-stabilization Optical Shift Image Stabilizer (Shift-IS) technology, can now be used with most existing Canon HD field Shift-IS lenses.... »
Da Vinci Systems today announced its collaboration with 3cP (Cinematographer's Color Correction Process) developer Gamma & Density to ensure that 3cP is fully interoperable with the company's Resolve and 2K Plus systems, giving cinematographers the power for on-set color correction and calibration.... »
When trying to select the right camera for your next project, perhaps it’s time to throw out all of the specs about pixel counts and instead look at the difference between optical sampling from the camera’s imagers (where resolution is totally determined) and its digital sampling.... »
IMAGICA Technologies Corp. announced today
that the company's renowned chromakey technology Primatte® has been
licensed by Red Giant Software for the development of Primatte Keyer Pro 4,
a set of plug-ins that provide support for Primatte within Adobe After
Effects and Avid systems and, for the first time, in Apple's Final Cut Pro
and Motion.
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Maximum Throughput, Canadian developers of software-based solutions for networked storage infrastructure, will unveil the new MAXedit Web Edition, a subscription-based online editing service, at NAB (booth #SL11711).... »
