Category Archives: Editing

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Avid Qualifies Final Cut Pro to Run on Avid Unity and ISIS

As part of its continuing efforts to provide customers with flexible and open solutions, Avid ® (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced that it has qualified Apple Final Cut Pro editing solutions to run on Avid Unity™ MediaNetwork and ISIS ® shared storage systems. Post facilities, broadcasters and other media content creation organizations using Final Cut Pro can now take advantage of the industry-leading shared storage and collaborative workflow capabilities of Avid Unity and ISIS, and benefit from simultaneously running Avid and Final Cut Pro editing solutions on the same shared storage system. These newly-supported and highly-tested workflows will enable customers to centralize storage on a single solution, streamline operations and cost-effectively manage production workflows. more »

Avid Announces Third-Party Integrations

Avid today unveiled a number of new integrations with third parties, designed to give customers more infrastructure and format flexibility within their broadcast and post production workflows. Omneon, Panasonic, Sony and RED are among the companies that will demonstrate new workflow integrations with Avid at the National Association of Broadcasters Show this week. This collaborative development is part of the company's ongoing commitment to provide open solutions that work with a majority of third-party formats, plug-ins and technologies, ultimately placing greater flexibility and choice in customers' hands. more »

Matrox Announces CompressHD for Mac and PC

Matrox Video Products Group today announced Matrox CompressHD™, the first implementation of Matrox MAX™ technology in an H.264 accelerator card for the Mac and PC, priced at just $495 US. Matrox MAX technology uses a dedicated hardware processor to accelerate the creation of H.264 files for mobile devices, the web and Blu-ray discs. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs are finished with amazing speed and system resources are liberated for other tasks. Matrox CompressHD works in systems with or without a video I/O device. On the Mac, ease of use is ensured through direct integration with Apple Compressor on the Mac. As an added benefit, the Matrox MAX technology allows direct export to higher-quality H.264 Blu-ray compliant files from Compressor. For PC, ease of use is ensured through direct integration with Adobe ® Media Encoder software on the PC. more »

Adobe Advances Content Creation, Delivery and Playback Technologies

Today at the 2009 NAB Show, Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) is highlighting advances in video and dynamic media software technologies that improve the creation and delivery of content across personal computers, televisions and mobile devices. The show sees the … more »

AJA Announces Ki Pro Portable Digital Disk Recorder

AJA Video Systems, a leading manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, today announced Ki Pro, a portable tapeless video device that records files to the Apple ProRes 422 codec directly from camera. Ki Pro provides a new way of connecting production and post with its extensive analog and digital connectivity; virtually any video and audio source can be fed into Ki Pro to record pristine 10-bit ProRes 422 media that is then immediately available to edit within Apple's Final Cut Studio. Ki Pro will be on display at the AJA Booth (SL2513) at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Convention at the Las Vegas Convention Center from April 20-23, 2009. more »

1 Beyond Announces EzHDSAN

1 Beyond™, Inc. a leading provider of digital video editing and compositing systems, today announced the 1 Beyond EzHDSAN™, the industry's first plug-and-play SAN to provide up to 96 TBs of RAID 6 protected storage, allowing multi-stream, real-time HD editing for up to 14 simultaneous users. Thanks to a unique patent-pending design, the 1 Beyond EzHDSAN is extremely easy to install, using a single standard Ethernet cable to connect each workstation to the SAN. The new shared storage solution for both Mac and PC is available immediately with prices starting at $8,995. The 1 Beyond EzHDSAN will be showcased for the first time at the 2009 NAB Show (Las Vegas Convention Center, April 20th to 23rd 2009) in booth SL8625. more »

89 Edit Hires Editor Jane Keller

Adding to their already adept roster, bicoastal editorial company 89 Edit proudly welcomes veteran Editor Jane Keller formerly of Version2, into the mix at their New York City offices. Prior to V2, Keller had successful stints at The Now Corporation and Company X. more »

Spotlight on NAB: Matrox Rackmount

The 2RU-sized Matrox MXO2 Rack is a new version of the Matrox MXO2 I/O device for the Mac that is designed for broadcast news operations, OB vans, and other environments where equipment must more »

Batch Encode with Adobe Media Encoder CS4

Watch this video below from Class On Demand to see how to output a file to a variety of different formats at the same time with a few simple clicks. See how to use the Media Encoder to render your After Effects comps as well. more »

Matrox MXO2 Rack Now Shipping

Matrox Video Products Group today announced that Matrox MXO2 Rack, a new version of the award-winning Matrox MXO2 I/O device for the Mac, is now shipping. The 2RU-sized Matrox MXO2 Rack is designed for broadcast news operations, OB vans, and other environments where equipment must be rackmounted. It streamlines editing workflow with Apple Final Cut Studio on Mac Pros, MacBook Pros, and Apple Xserve systems, providing broadcast-quality input/output, monitoring, and up/down/cross conversion. Users can benefit from file-based workflows with support for XDCAM, XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX, and P2 without transcoding. more »