Category Archives: Review

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Review: MXF4mac P2 Flow

This Swiss Army Knife utility gives you a powerful and convenient way to edit the metadata recorded in your P2 footage and is a supercharged alternative to Panasonic's free metadata editor. more »

Review: Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE

The new effects in version 6 include a broad set of text and image-styling filters, including Extruded Text, Type-On Text, Extruded Spline, Layer Deformer, Extruded EPS, DV Fixer, Smooth Tone, Cartoon Look, Charcoal Sketch, Pencil Sketch, Water Color, Pixel Fixer, Lightning, Tile Mosaic, and Swish Pan. The first new filter I tried out was the "pixel fixer," a handy tool that aims to fix every camera owner's nightmare, dead pixels. more »

PreSonus Studio One

Being a longtime user of PreSonus hardware products, I have to admit, I was very excited when the company first announced Studio One in 2009 to the world on its Web site. Already known for world-class AD/DA audio interfaces, like the FireStudio and FirePod, PreSonus seemed primed to eventually create matching software. more »

Image-Line FL Studio 9

Whether you want to create the next big club anthem, epic trance soundtrack, jungle, hiphop, hard rock, industrial, IDM, glitch-tech, breakbeat or any of the dozens of sub-genres of electronic music, FL Studio 9 gives music creators and sound designers all the inspiring tools they need to concept, record, produce, mix, master and release their work. more »

Review: Sorenson Squeeze 6

This upgrade is a much more stable and feature-rich alternative to Apple Compressor (though not quite as fast) and lets me easily transcode even large batches of files for multiple formats. more »

ROI Review: AJA Ki Pro

The Ki Pro records video in full-raster HD as a QuickTime file using Apple's modern, industrial-strength ProRes 422 codec, can up/down/cross-convert any signal it supports, and can also moonlight as a good portable playback deck. more »

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 for the Mac

Mac Pro users have faced a troubling paradox for some time. While the Mac Pro is capable of 64-bit multiple processor supercomputing, there have been few professional-level graphics cards available for this system. This is like driving a Formula One … more »

Sony Sound Forge Pro 10

Forge Pro 10, like its previous incarnations, comes with a slew of industry standard functionality, and then some. It has become the fastest way to edit, record, process and master audio thanks to its easy workflow. more »

Smartsound Sonicfire Pro 5

Recently, I reviewed a needle-drop version of Sonicfire Pro 5, but I didn’t get a chance to go to far into Sonicfire’s deeper feature set. In that review I went over the basic uses of the software, such as music/score … more »

Canon REALiS WUX10

With its WUXGA resolution and 3,200 lumens, the 10.8-pound Canon REALiS WUX10 is a portable powerhouse. Positioned nicely between the less-expensive 1080p projectors and considerably more-expensive 4K projectors, the WUX10 hits a sweet spot for the intersection of price, portability, brightness, and sharpness. more »