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. ... »
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. ... »
At the AlphaDogs Editors Lounge a panel of editors discuss what they are going to be looking for at NAB, what Avid's and Apple's absence means, their search for a CRT replacement, Apple Color vs Avid Symphony and the state of storage and how it is and is not meeting the needs of today. ... »
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.... »
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 ... »
IRIDAS, the industry leader in RAW playback
technologies, has announced the release of SpeedGrade XR and will introduce
the new application at NAB April 14 - 17. Designed as a companion product
for RAW camera workflows, SpeedGrade XR features IRIDAS' new RealTime RAW
2.0 technology... »
ASSIMILATE, developer and provider of the SCRATCH Digital Process Solution™, today introduced SCRATCH CINE, the virtual telecine for projects shot on RED Digital Cinema cameras. The SCRATCH CINE software provides filmmakers and post production facilities an affordable entry into a native RED r3d file workflow. D... »
Cinnafilm will unveil its HD1 real-time film-look visual-effects system at NAB, designed to transform HD digital video images to the classic look of film.... »
Want to edit a Red project on Avid and maintain the original metadata? XMiL founder Rainer Standke explains how the XMiL Sequencer can do just that. ... »
