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Pixelmator reviewed by Macworld
Since we’ve been talking about Adobe Photoshop a lot recently why not talk about a Photoshop alternative? Pixelmator has recently been released and it looks like it could be a low cost alternative. Macworld has an early look which also …
An early look at the AJA Io HD
Apple’s hardware box for their ProRes422 codec, the AJA I0 HD was announced to much fanfare at NAB this year. The unit has yet to ship but HD for Indies has an unofficial first look at a unit with a …
Interesting Forum Posts: Monitor HD on a WEAK budget
While researching some information about affordably monitors to use as a client monitor in an edit suite I came across this post on Creative Cow. It began with a question asked: is there a decent monitor out there that i …
Useful tools for editors: Carbon Copy Cloner
You do back-up your entire hard drive on a regular basis don’t you? If there’s one thing you can be sure of with hard drives is that someday, somehow, some of them will fail. Unless you have a back-up you …
Tom's Guide: HDMI vs. Component – what is right?
With all of the current options in video monitoring devices and cabling, the video connection used is one thing to consider when hooking your video playback device to your monitor. There is often only one option. My Sony DSR-50 DVCam …
Useful tools for editors: WiebeTech docks
If you been editing the non-linear computer based software way for any period of time you probably have a few bare, “non-cased” hard drives lying around. You can always go to Comp USA and spend money on cheap enclosures but …
Useful tools for editors: timecode calculators
If you do any kind of video editing short of iMovie 08 then you are going to need a timecode calculator at some point. If you are using an Avid application then just look under your tools menu. If not …