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Aquafadas PulpFX Abstract 1.0

Oh, the still image slide show. Whether you love or hate them, most editors have to deal with them in some form. While they might not be terribly common, we all have been asked to do them at some point in our career. This new tool automates the process with some basic effects. more »

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 »

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