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REVIEW: Panasonic AG-AF100 Camcorder
No matter how good your lighting, composition and subjects are, one thing screams video from a mile away: the lack of cinema-style, shallow depth of field. We've seen several options aim to fill that void, from DSLR cameras shooting HD on up to the RED ONE fitted with cinema-style lens adapters. What's been missing is a truly affordable option that acts more like a traditional video camera and accepts 35mm still or PL-mount lenses. Until now.
REVIEW: proDAD Mercalli V2 PRO
For long-suffering RED and DSLR shooters the rolling shutter effect can be very distracting, and for folks trying to exploit the Large Sensor Revolution on a professional level proDAD's new Mercalli V2 plug-in is indispensable.
Review: Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve for the Mac
DaVinci Resolve for the Mac brings realtime color-grading performance, multiple GPU support with the right hardware and an amazing tracker to more users at a breakthrough price. The caveat, of course, is it’ll cost more than $995 to get Resolve for the Mac into a usable realtime system in your suite, but considering what's in the software, it’s still an amazing value.
Environment Design 2010: A Round Up of Top Apps
In this look back at 2010's most important environment design updates, I decided to focus on Vue 9 and on the various applications that extend or improve upon it. Vue embellishes the output from so many other tools that I thought it would be interesting to look at them as a family.
2010 in Review: Studio's Top Product Reviews and Tutorials
This year, the most-read reviews and tutorials on StudioDaily.com featured hot new releases and older gear still very much in use.
Review: MAXON Cinema 4D Studio R12
My review criteria fell within a set of initial questions I ask of any new package before I invest in it: 1) Were the features in the new release worth an upgrade for those who have a previous version of the software? 2) Was Cinema 4D a viable package for doing the kind of work we do as 3D artists? 3) Was there a good reason why a studio using other software might add Cinema 4D to its toolset? 4) What were Cinema 4D's advantages and disadvantages once you sat down and actually started using it?
Review: Digieffects Delirium v2
Nino Del Padre reviews Digieffects Delirium v2 and finds it's far from the package he first used ten years ago.
I can say without reservation that Avid Media Composer 5 is an upgrade that truly deserves the "Hot" rating from our product review ranking index. Media Composer has been a top nonlinear editor as long as there have been NLEs. In fact, it pretty much jump-started the whole NLE revolution. Version 5 contains a ton of new features (several quite earth-shattering, if you're a longtime Avid editor) that answered many previous customer requests and complaints.
Review: HP EliteBook 8740w Mobile Workstation
Editing video on a laptop computer has always been something of a kluge. If you do find a good solution, it’s likely to weigh more than you’ll want to carry and have too-short a battery life. It won’t have the processor and display needed to do more than a cursory edit. For most projects, it’s a desktop computer or nothing at all. That may change with the introduction of the HP EliteBook 8740w Mobile Workstation.