Matrox® Video Products Group today announced Matrox MXO2™ Mini support for the popular CineForm NeoScene editing workflow that streamlines AVCHD editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 on the PC. The Matrox MXO2 Mini I/O device provides inexpensive HDMI monitoring with 10-bit 4:2:2 color precision. It turns an HDMI screen into a professional-grade video monitor with Matrox's unique color calibration tool. Controls for hue, chroma, contrast, brightness, and blue-only are provided. Users get accurate color representation so that an inexpensive HDMI monitor can be used even for color grading. Matrox MXO2 Mini even provides 1:1 pixel mapping on HDMI displays that support this feature so video will not be stretched and distorted by the monitor.... »
Add keyframes and motion blur to PDF documents featured in documentaries, news spots or training videos without bulking up your file size or render times.... »
At CineGear 2009, a group of top-notch ACE editors—Mark Goldblatt, Michael Tronnick, Maryann Brandon, Maysie Hoi and Tina Hersch—got together to showcase some of their more challenging editing sequences and describe what’s going on in the business today.... »
Star Trek took the editorial team on a wild, sometimes bumpy, adventure that included battling workflow bottlenecks, alliances with visual effects outfits, warp-speed sync issues and fighting off intergalactic pirates. We spoke with first assistant editor Julian Smirke about boldly going to the final editorial frontier.... »
Matrox Video Products Group today announced that Matrox CompressHD, the first implementation of Matrox MAX technology in an H.264 accelerator card for the Mac, is now shipping. Matrox MAX technology uses a dedicated hardware processor to accelerate the creation of H.264 files for mobile devices, the web and Blu-ray discs... »
Cinnafilm, Inc., an engineering software firm dedicated to the development of powerful, reliable and intuitive film and video post production tools for creative professionals, today announced it has signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar global reseller agreement with ARRI... »
At the AlphaDogs Editors' Lounge, a panel of editors talk about NAB 09, how the reduced attendance made if the best show in years and what products impressed them.... »
Editors talk about the plethora of storage and connectivity options including chip storage. On the other side, the lament the lack of viable archiving solutions.... »
Editors debate whether stereoscopic 3D is here to stay or if it will soon disappear just like it has in the past. Hear reasons why 3D is different this time around and why some don't buy it.... »
At the AlphaDogs Editors' Lounge, a panel of editors discuss the battle for the NLE market, including the future of Avid, whether Apple is committed to its Pro Apps and how Adobe may just sneak up and overtake them both in coming years.... »
In an increasingly flattening market, the old business models of post production are becoming archaic. These editors/business owners at the AlphaDogs Editors Lounge discuss how the landscape of content creation and distribution is making them re-think their business models.... »
Kodak is pleased to announce a collaboration with da Vinci Systems, LLC, a leader in high-performance color correction tools for the postproduction industry, to bring its image quality enhancement algorithms to the marketplace.... »
In this video check out the 17 new products Blackmagic Design introduced at NAB 2009 including the Ultrascope, which had many editors and colorists calling it the hit of the show. The Ultrascope is a software/hardware combination that includes waveform, vectorscope, histogram and audio monitoring for only $695.... »