As part of its continuing efforts to provide customers with flexible and open solutions, Avid® (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced that it has qualified Apple Final Cut Pro editing solutions to run on Avid Unity™ MediaNetwork and ISIS® shared storage systems. Post facilities, broadcasters and other media content creation organizations using Final Cut Pro can now take advantage of the industry-leading shared storage and collaborative workflow capabilities of Avid Unity and ISIS, and benefit from simultaneously running Avid and Final Cut Pro editing solutions on the same shared storage system. These newly-supported and highly-tested workflows will enable customers to centralize storage on a single solution, streamline operations and cost-effectively manage production workflows.... »
Avid today unveiled a number of new integrations with third parties, designed to give customers more infrastructure and format flexibility within their broadcast and post production workflows. Omneon, Panasonic, Sony and RED are among the companies that will demonstrate new workflow integrations with Avid at the National Association of Broadcasters Show this week. This collaborative development is part of the company’s ongoing commitment to provide open solutions that work with a majority of third-party formats, plug-ins and technologies, ultimately placing greater flexibility and choice in customers’ hands.... »
Matrox Video Products Group today announced Matrox CompressHD™, the first implementation of Matrox MAX™ technology in an H.264 accelerator card for the Mac and PC, priced at just $495 US. 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. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs are finished with amazing speed and system resources are liberated for other tasks. Matrox CompressHD works in systems with or without a video I/O device. On the Mac, ease of use is ensured through direct integration with Apple Compressor on the Mac. As an added benefit, the Matrox MAX technology allows direct export to higher-quality H.264 Blu-ray compliant files from Compressor. For PC, ease of use is ensured through direct integration with Adobe® Media Encoder software on the PC.... »
1 Beyond™, Inc. a leading provider of digital video editing and compositing systems, today announced the 1 Beyond EzHDSAN™, the industry’s first plug-and-play SAN to provide up to 96 TBs of RAID 6 protected storage, allowing multi-stream, real-time HD editing for up to 14 simultaneous users. Thanks to a unique patent-pending design, the 1 Beyond EzHDSAN is extremely easy to install, using a single standard Ethernet cable to connect each workstation to the SAN. The new shared storage solution for both Mac and PC is available immediately with prices starting at $8,995. The 1 Beyond EzHDSAN will be showcased for the first time at the 2009 NAB Show (Las Vegas Convention Center, April 20th to 23rd 2009) in booth SL8625.... »
Adding to their already adept roster, bicoastal editorial company 89 Edit proudly welcomes veteran Editor Jane Keller formerly of Version2, into the mix at their New York City offices. Prior to V2, Keller had successful stints at The Now Corporation and Company X.... »
Watch this video below from Class On Demand to see how to output a file to a variety of different formats at the same time with a few simple clicks. See how to use the Media Encoder to render your After Effects comps as well.... »
Matrox Video Products Group today announced that Matrox MXO2 Rack, a new version of the award-winning Matrox MXO2 I/O device for the Mac, is now shipping. The 2RU-sized Matrox MXO2 Rack is designed for broadcast news operations, OB vans, and other environments where equipment must be rackmounted. It streamlines editing workflow with Apple Final Cut Studio on Mac Pros, MacBook Pros, and Apple Xserve systems, providing broadcast-quality input/output, monitoring, and up/down/cross conversion. Users can benefit from file-based workflows with support for XDCAM, XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX, and P2 without transcoding.... »
FilmCore, which operates editorial studios in Santa Monica, New York and San Francisco, has launched a fourth office in Chicago. FilmCore, Chicago features two Avid editing suites and is headed by editor Angelo Valencia, formerly with the company’s Los Angeles office.
Valencia has been working in Chicago on an informal basis for nearly a year. Joined by producer Kim Walsh (formerly Kim Berman), he has completed projects for such accounts as Kenmore (Y&R), Wrigley’s (AMV/BBDO LONDON), and EA Games (Heat). Editors Gordon Carey and Livio Sanchez, who are based in the Santa Monica office, have also recently traveled to Chicago to cut spots. Based on their success, FilmCore decided to establish a permanent site.... »
Teresis Media Management Inc., the leading provider of tapeless workflow and digital asset management technologies for the entertainment and broadcast industries, today announced it now offers a truly single-pass encoding ingest capability for customers using video editing solutions from Avid Technology, Inc. Responding to the needs of its client base and the television production market, Teresis’ new single-ingest encoding solution dramatically increases efficiency in post-production.... »
89 Edit is pleased to welcome award-winning Editor Stuart Waks to their Santa Monica creative editorial shop. Waks has earned many of the industry's top honors, including a Gold Lion, multiple Clios, and an induction into the Advertising Hall of Fame. In addition to spot work, Stuart has edited several feature films including Ali, Any Given Sunday and Days of Thunder. His impressive resume reflects spotwork for top brands such as Nissan, Sony Playstation II, Budweiser, Lexus, Heineken, Powerade, Ford, Samsung, American Airlines, Saab, Rolex, Wells Fargo, Chevrolet, Citroen, Reebok and the iconic Chanel No. 5 directed by Ridley Scott. Waks' latest editorial effort is for Sony PS3 Killzone 2 out of Deutsch/LA.... »
Gabriel Mitri, regional account manager for Matrox, stopped by the Alpha Dogs Editors' Lounge to demonstrate how the MXO can be used to turn a regular cinema display into a broadcast quality monitor, thus saving thousands of dollars. He also walks through the ingest, cross-, up, and downconversion capabilities of the MXO 2.... »
Post production guru Philip Hodgetts demonstrates his new tool for Final Cut Pro, Sync N Link, for synchronizing sound and picture shot dual-system. Sync N Link does what Avid's Auto-Sync function does, plus more. Footage and sound files with the same timecode can be automatically synched with a few clicks, either before or after the edit.... »
Avid Technology today announced that it has addressed customer requests for native support of the Sony XDCAM format, a ground breaking 3D Stereoscopic workflow and the “death of the dongle,” with the release of Avid Media Composer (v3.5), Symphony™ (v 3.5) and NewsCutter (v 7.5) software.... »
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