The Foundry Releases RollingShutter Plug-in for CMOS Artifacts
08|25|2009 – By Bryant Frazer
The Foundry's New RollingShutter plug-in is a $500 tool that helps straighten out your CMOS footage.... »
NetBlender Adds AVC Encoding to Blu-ray Authoring Package
08|25|2009 – By Bryant Frazer
NetBlender is shipping the DoStudio Workflow Edition (DSW), a significant upgrade that adds integrated Blu-ray-compliant AVC encoding.... »
TPMGEnc Adds 1080p DivX Support
08|25|2009 – By Bryant Frazer
Pegasys updated its popular and inexpensive video transcoding software, TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress ($99.95), by adding 1080p DivX HD support. The upgrade is free to users already running version 4.0; upgrades from v3.0 are $59.95.... »
Envivio Knocks HD IPTV Bitrate Requirements Below 6 Mbps
08|25|2009 – By Bryant Frazer
Envivio says its new 4Caster C4 HD has increased “measurable video quality” by 35 percent over previous generations of the encoder and reduced HD bitrate requirements for HD to less than 6 Mbps.... »
CineDDR Offers a Disk-Based HDCAM SR Alternative
07|28|2009 – By Bryant Frazer
Lots of people are fans of HDCAM SR as a high quality tape-based technology for acquisition and post, but many of them are not so enamored of the price point for HDCAM SR decks.... »
Jon Peddie Research Sees Video Software Market Bouncing Back
07|28|2009 – By Bryant Frazer
Despite hitting a serious slump, the digital video software market is poised for a rebound, with modest growth in 2010 followed by significant gains through 2013, according to a new study from multimedia and graphics research and consulting firm Jon Peddie Research.... »
Final Cut Studio Incorporates AVC Intra, New ProRes Codecs, and Even iChat
07|28|2009 – By Bryant Frazer
At long last, Apple released a new version of its Final Cut Suite of professional video applications last week. The move was welcome news to users who were impatient with the long wait in between iterations of the software, even if many of them said that the interface refinements and feature upgrades it offered were incremental improvements rather than the kind of blanket revamp they were hoping for.... »
Doremi Turns Up the Stereo
06|23|2009 – By Bryant Frazer
At Infocomm, Doremi put the spotlight on its line-up of products that perform in stereo — including an encoder that allows 2D equipment to work with 3D content, a 3D-aware disk recorder, a 3D playback server for large-screen venues, and an HD playback device geared to museums, theme parks, and .concert venues.... »
Blackmagic Targets $5000 Routing Switcher at Small Workgroups
06|23|2009 – By Bryant Frazer
Blackmagic Design expanded its routing switcher line-up with the Studio Videohub ($4995), a new 16x32 SD/HD-SDI/3G SDI switcher targeting small post-production workgroups.... »
Gefen Goes Wireless for HDMI
05|26|2009 – By Bryant Frazer
Gefen started shipping its GefenTV Wireless for HDMI 5Ghz Extender, which can deliver multiple identical non-HDCP-compliant HDTV signals to individual receivers. Digital 5.1 and analog stereo audio are bundled along with the video signal using technology by Amimon.... »
Pixelfantastic Releases 12 Quantel FX Plug-ins
05|26|2009 – By Bryant Frazer
London-based production and post company Pixelfantastic has issued a series of 12 FX plug-ins for Quantel’s eQ, iQ, Pablo and sQ Edit Plus.... »
Artbeats Debuts Birth of a Baby Collection
05|26|2009 – By Bryant Frazer
Taking a look at the competitive landscape, Artbeats decided to compile Birth of a Baby, a royalty-free collection of childbirth-related footage that Artbeats President Phil Bates said “fills an industry void.”... »
The Foundry Demos Technology to Nuke CMOS Artifacts
05|26|2009 – By Bryant Frazer
The Foundry is experimenting with technology that would remove the rolling-shutter artifacts often associated with images captured by CMOS sensors.... »
60-Second Q&A: DP Dan Fischer
05|26|2009 – By Bryant Frazer
If you’re shooting in the Andes, you’re going to want to bring along technology that helps you function as a lean, mean and completely self-sufficient filmmaking machine.... »
Avid's 'Openness' Initiative Puts Final Cut on Unity
04|28|2009 – By Bryant Frazer
It’s not quite on the same level with peace in the Middle East, but Avid clearly felt it had a certain level of reconciliation at NAB. It led its show announcements with the news that Avid had qualified Final Cut Pro to run on Avid Unity MediaNetwork and ISIS. For example, users can now run Avid and FCP on the same shared-storage system.... »
- Keisoku Giken Offers Uncompressed Recording in Stereo
- Panasonic Makes the HPX300 a Studio Camera
- The Foundry Releases RollingShutter Plug-in for CMOS Artifacts
- Envivio Knocks HD IPTV Bitrate Requirements Below 6 Mbps
- TPMGEnc Adds 1080p DivX Support
- NetBlender Adds AVC Encoding to Blu-ray Authoring Package
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