AJA Video
today announced XENA 3.5, a new software upgrade to the company's
Windows-based line of video playback and capture cards. XENA 3.5 will
provide real-time DVCPRO HD capture, playback and editing support in Adobe®
Premiere® Pro CS3 as well as in AJA's Machina stand-alone deck-control,
playback and capture application.
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Matrox Video Products Group today announced that the new Matrox RT.X2 LE realtime HD and SD editing platform is now available through a worldwide network of authorized dealers. Priced at $1,095 US in North America (₤649, €895), Matrox RT.X2 LE is a ¾-length PCIe card with a professional breakout box. It is designed to work with Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3 or Adobe Creative Suite® 3 Production Premium. ... »
In an effort
to optimize support for RED Digital Cinema workflows in post production,
AJA Video is adding RED-specific video outputs for some of the unique frame
sizes that the REDALERT and REDCINE software applications can produce.
This additional support for RED will be included in the version 6.0
software driver for the award-winning KONA 3 video card. The version 6.0
software update will be a free upgrade for KONA 3 users, and will be
available for download in late May of 2008.
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Avid Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: AVID) today unveiled a new family of professional digital video editing systems that offer greater speed, responsiveness, reliability and price-performance – delivering an exceptional HD editing experience to media professionals. The new lineup, which includes next-generation versions of Avid® Media Composer® (v3.0), NewsCutter® (v7.0), and Symphony™ (v3.0) software, as well as new hardware configurations, Mojo DX and Nitris® DX, maximizes real-time performance for customers by intelligently using all available computing bandwidth to evenly disperse the processing of video and effects across the entire system. The result is an extremely fast and responsive HD editing experience that provides greater creative freedom and flexibility to end-users.... »
dobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today
announced that it plans to lead an initiative to define an industry-wide open file format for digital cinema files to
streamline workflows and help ensure easy archiving and exchange. Adobe intends to leverage its successful Digital
Negative Specification (DNG) file format as a foundation, and Adobe plans to work with a broad coalition of leading
camera manufacturers, including Panavision, Silicon Imaging, Dalsa, Weisscam, and ARRI—along with software
vendors, including Iridas and The Foundry, and codec provider CineForm—to define the requirements for an open,
publicly documented file format that it plans to call CinemaDNG. ... »
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) is
showcasing new technologies and initiatives that are helping to drive innovation across dynamic media content
creation, delivery, and playback at the 2008 NAB Show, beginning today. Adobe is spearheading an effort to begin
defining an industry wide open file format for digital cinema files, which is planned to be called CinemaDNG (see
separate press release), and delivering native support for the Sony XDCAM EX camera format in Adobe® Premiere® ... »
The expanding family of Sony’s XDCAM EX video production technology now includes new models that increase the benefits of a solid-state workflow. These include the PMW-EX3 camcorder, the PMW-EX30 deck, and the PHU-60K professional hard-disk unit.... »
Panasonic unveiled here at NAB the AG-HPX170, a fully solid-state P2 HD handheld camcorder. A full production quality tool, the solid-state handheld camcorder enables high definition and standard definition recording, the widest zoom lens in its class, and a HD-SDI interface for connection to baseband production and distribution infrastructure, all in a lightweight 4.2-pound body.... »
At NAB 2008, Panasonic Broadcast reinforced its leadership in
solid-state high definition video production with another doubling of card memory capacity, and new key additions to its line of P2 HD solid-state products. Foremost among these announcements is long anticipated introduction of two new advanced P2 HD VariCam™ camcorders. The fully solid-state VariCam 3700 and VariCam 2700 build upon the unrivaled legacy of the VariCam HD Cinema Camera, globally recognized as the industry’s premier digital cinematography acquisition tool widely used to create major films, documentaries, television shows, and national commercials.
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Here at NAB, Panasonic introduces the BT-LH1760 17” LCD production monitor that utilizes a 120 Hz double speed drive and an advanced IPS panel to provide unsurpassed performance quality in a high definition, professional LCD display. Equipped with a new vectorscope function as well as built-in waveform monitor, the new LH1760 delivers value added features with exceptional color reproduction, motion handling, and latency characteristics formerly found only in CRT monitors. ... »
– Recognized worldwide as the industry’s premier digital cinematography camera, Panasonic’s VariCam HD Cinema has established itself as an indispensable acquisition tool delivering the distinct, prized look of film. Here at NAB 2008, Panasonic takes a quantum leap forward with the introduction of two advanced tapeless VariCam implementations in the new VariCam 3700 (model AJ-HPX3700) and VariCam 2700 (model AJ-HPX2700) P2 HD camcorders. ... »
S.two Corporation (NAB Booth SL9208 S. Hall Lower Level) has announced the introduction of i.DOCK4™ (4K data and HD RGB offline production ingest dock) and A.DOCK4™ (4K data and HD RGB archive dock) to compliment the DFR 4K™ (4K Digital Field Recorder) announced last year and appearing at NAB 2008 for the first time. DALSA Digital Cinema, a leader in 4K digital motion picture capture is first to order the complete tool set.... »
New ProxSys Media Server to feature several components including
native XDCAM EX format support, XDCAM EX acquisition and playout via Sony's hardware codec card, and metadata-optimized workflow software
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Media 100, a leading provider of
advanced editing systems for the corporate, broadcast, postproduction,
and new media industries, today announced that Media 100 will unveil
version 12.5 at the NAB 2008 ... »
