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WD releases 500GB, 750GB, 1TB and 2TB My Passport USB 3.0 portable drives
Available in five colours: white, black, silver, blue, and red.
- Autodesk releases free 3D capture app 123D Catch for the iPad
- 2012 Apple MacBook Pro and iMac benchmarks appear on Geekbench site
- Updated: our guide to Illustrator CS6, After Effects CS6, Premiere Pro CS6 and Photoshop CS6 plugins
- Adobe will issue free security patches for pre-CS6 Photoshop, illustrator and Flash Pro
Movie of the Week
Live vision mixing with the Datavideo SE-2000, HD SDI vision switcher
Vision mixing on location has traditionally been very expensive, requiring a significant amount of peripheral products. The affordable Datavideo SE-2000 offers HD quality inside of a portable unit which features: up to 5 inputs (4 HD SDI, & DVI); built in audio mixer; HD quality from input to output.
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- Rick's Camera Tips (part 1)
- Testing the Rycote Softie
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- M dot Strange: Live in London (part 1)
- Sony PMW-F3; 14x Powerzoom and 11 - 16mm wide lens; SR Memory
- Michael Wohl - features of Final Cut Pro X
- Best of MacVideo Movies 2011
- Panasonic AG HPX250, P2 camcorder
- Simon Walker presents Grading in Premiere Pro
- Telestream: Episode 6 presentation & demonstration
Interview of the Week
Bill Warner - the man who "made" AVID
In 1987 Bill Warner quit his job at Apollo Computer, Inc. and set up AVID Technology. Within a few short years filmmaking was changed forever. Bill Warner is the man who had the vision, he's the man who made this happen. In this, the first of a five part series, Bill explains the frustration he felt at the linear editing process in a tape-based world and how he, turned this frustration to find a solution to the problem. As a result the world of editing has never been the same. Where once tape-based suites and film cutting rooms dominated, now the electronic non-linear way has become the accepted process.
Latest Interviews
- Canon C300: Philip Johnston, the HD Warrior speaks
- Baby seal defies death
- Baby seal defies death
- Stu Maschwitz: DV Rebel (parts 3 & 4)
- Vision Research, the company behind the Phantom high-speed camera
- King of the camera lights: Ledzilla
- Editing with Smoke on the Mac
- MTF Services show off EOS adapter with adapter control for large sensor video cameras
- Inventor of the Glidetrack: Alastair Brown
- Dealing with archiving: Sony introduce 100GB and 128GB XDCAM discs
Latest MVA Movies
- Dan Brockett: mics, lights and a DSLR viewfinder magnifier
- Shooting with DSRs: comments by Ned Soltz
- Dennis Radeke: Adobe Certified Expert
- RED Digital Cinema: changing the face of movie making
- The strength of AVID Media Composer: Frank Capria, Angus Mackay, Robert Russo
- Walter Murch - History of Editing (part 5)
- Walter Murch - History of Editing (part 4)
Editing
News > Adobe will issue free security patches for pre-CS6 Photoshop, illustrator and Flash Pro
Late Friday night, Adobe confirmed its plan to issue free patches to fix the problems in three of its key Creative Suite apps.
Late Friday night, Adobe confirmed its plan to issue free patches to fix the problems in three of its key Creative Suite apps.
Reviews > Adobe Dreamweaver CS6
Discover how Dreamweaver CS6 can help you design responsive sites that work across desktop, tablet and mobile.
Discover how Dreamweaver CS6 can help you design responsive sites that work across desktop, tablet and mobile.
Motion Graphics/VFX
News > Autodesk Maya 2012: in-depth
New tools include full-screen effects, editable motion trails, Substances, new camera rigs, better physics and more.
New tools include full-screen effects, editable motion trails, Substances, new camera rigs, better physics and more.
Reviews > Red Giant Software buys video plug-in range from Digital Anarchy
Acquisition adds six new products to Red Giant product-line
A look at the video plug-ins made by Digital Anarchy which have now been purchased by Red Giant. Demonstration by the man behind Digital Anarchy, Jim Tierney, who shows off the former Digital Anarchy video filters and the incredible results which can achieved.
Distribution
News > Virgin Media hacked by supporters of The Pirate Bay
ISPs have been ordered to block access to the popular file-sharing website
Virgin Media suffered a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack on its website at the hands of The Pirate Bay supporters yesterday.
Reviews > Step into Blu-ray - for less than £200
Affordable Blu-ray provides storage solution on the Mac
None of the modern Macs ship with Blu-ray writers which is incredibly frustrating for video editors/camera people, especially those shooting to tapeless formats. What we need is a reliable and affordable way to archive our media. In this report we take a Blu-ray writer, specified to work with Windows XP or Vista, and plug it into a Mac to see what happens. The results are not only surprising but inspiring. We now have that archiving solution we have been looking for.
Encoding
News > Blu-ray tech advance integrates iPhone, iPod touch
Use your iPhone or iPod touch as a remote control and automatically transfer digital copies
The iPod touch and iPhone seem set to enter a special relationship with Blu-ray discs and players, with the imminent launch of new software that networks Apple's devices with Blu-ray technology.
New features include BluRay VC-1 support, improved MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 encoding, H.264 support
As ever more video content is uploaded to the Web, the number of compression applications has exploded. With so many budget alternatives, is Squeeze still worthy of consideration?
Camera Technology
News > RED Experience Days at Prokit
Learn about and use the RED ONE Digital Cinema Camera
Demonstrations and hand-on workshops with the RED ONE Digital Cinema Camera covering: introduction to Red One Camera, run-through of the camera's functions, hands-on assessment of the camera, controls, and menus, workflow of RED and Final Cut Pro, experience shooting with the RED ONE camera.
A high-end camcorder with the versatility of removable lenses
The Sony VG20 is a high-end camcorder with the versatility of removable lenses
