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Review: Wacom Intuos5 Touch Medium Pen Tablet
If you spend much of your time in creative applications, as most StudioDaily readers do, a pen tablet would seem to be a natural add-on for your desktop or notebook computer. With a pen, you could more precisely select elements …
Review: Litepanels Croma Camera-Mounted LED Light
It fits comfortably in your hand or atop a compact camcorder. It can output a broad swath of light tweaked for a desired color balance. It packs a nice punch if you need it or a reasonably smooth wash if …
Review: Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
Everyone has been talking about Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 recently. It was a hot topic at NAB 2012, certainly, and Adobe’s booth was full of people taking in demos and asking questions. The entire Adobe Creative Suite has also had …
Review: HP Z1 All-in-One Workstation
There are three constants in life—death, taxes, and oversized workstations. Why are workstations so large? They need breathing space for their powerful components, which could overheat if they aren’t cooled properly. As a result, no one had successfully designed an …
Review: Boris Continuum Complete AE 8
I have been a fan of Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) since I first looked at version 5. I’ve been using it with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects ever since. BCC is made up of a huge family of plug-in …
Review: Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3
Since its initial release last July Final Cut Pro X has gone through several updates that have taken it from version 10.0.0 to 10.0.3. Those numbers may look small but the feature improvements are big and there is plenty of new functionality worth reviewing as part of a much-improved whole.
Review: Litepanels Sola ENG Lighting Kit
For the past five years LED camera lights, with their high brightness at short range and low power draw, have been all the rage. The earliest LED lights looked like a miniature bank of stadium lighting. The Sola ENG from Litepanels, however, takes the best that LED has to offer and puts it back in the form factor of a traditional on-camera light, making it ideal for many ENG shoots.