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AVID Media Composer 3.0
Following a recent change of senior management, Avid has changed its policy. As part of the company’s new strategy, the latest version of Media Composer arrives at around half the price of its predecessor, and includes a whole lot more in the box, too.
News
Monday, 01 December 2008
Plextor magicians pull tiny drive from hat
John E. Dunn, Techworld
Plextor has launched a new family of tiny external hard drives, one of the smallest designs available in a conventional capacity.
Friday, 28 November 2008
Welcome to Macintosh now available on DVD
Macworld staff
"Welcome to Macintosh - The documentary for the rest of us" is now available to buy on DVD.
Friday, 28 November 2008
QuickTime update allows SD movies on external displays
Peter Cohen Macworld.com
Apple has released an update for its QuickTime media technology, fixing an issue for users of Apple's new MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air notebooks.
Thursday, 27 November 2008
Panasonic forecasts 90 percent drop in profits this year
Martyn Williams
Citing "deteriorating sharply" business conditions, Panasonic has slashed its full-year sales and profits forecasts.
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
YouTube goes widescreen
Nikhil Pradhan
YouTube, Google's video-sharing website, will now show embedded video clips in 16:9 aspect ratio rather than the 4:3 ratio that was earlier used.
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Sonnet discounts award-winning Fusion F2 portable storage range
Macworld staff
Sonnet Technologies Technologies has announced price drops for the company's acclaimed Fusion F2 portable two-drive RAID SATA storage systems. The recipient of numerous industry awards, the compact Fusion F2 is the fastest storage solution of its kind, delivering unparalleled performance with up to 134 MB/sec read and write sustained data transfer rates.
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
USB flash drive gets eSATA port
Lucas Mearian, Computerworld US
Kanguru Solutions has announced the first USB flash drive that also has External eSATA connectivity.
Monday, 24 November 2008
Pro Applications Update for all Final Cut Studio 2 users
Rick Young
Apple have released a Pro Applications Update for Final Cut Studio 2.0. This update includes Final Cut Pro 6.0.5, Compressor 3.0.5, Color 1.0.3 and Shake 4.1.1. The software addresses general performance issues and improves overall stability.
Monday, 24 November 2008
FCPUG Network Macworld San Francisco Supermeet Announced
Rick Young
The LAFCPUG Boston, SF Cutters and FCP UGs from around the world will meet in San Francisco for the largest gathering of FCP users and gurus on the planet on the 7th January 2009.
Monday, 24 November 2008
Free Final Cut Pro Move Plugin from Alex Gollner
Rick Young
This free generator takes a clip and animates it from one place to another. It defaults to moving the clip from off the bottom of the canvas to the top, and can be set up so an image will move in combination with text.
Friday, 21 November 2008
Premiere Pro CS4 improves Final Cut Pro exchange
Peter Cohen Macworld.com
Adobe Systems has announced the release of Premiere Pro CS4 4.0.1, an update to its video editing software that's part of the Creative Suite 4 Production Premium package
Friday, 21 November 2008
Samsung begins mass production of 256GB SSDs
Agam Shah, IDG news service
South Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics has announced that it has started mass production of 256GB solid-state drives (SSDs), which should start appearing in laptops within the next few months.
Thursday, 20 November 2008
Toshiba sets high storage capacity for small drives
Ephraim Schwartz, InfoWorld
Toshiba's Storage Division has announced a breakthrough half-terabyte hard disk drive in a 2.5-inch form factor.
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
New MacBook prevents home-cinema viewing on non HDCP monitors
Macworld staff
Apple's new line of MacBooks include built-in digital copy protection that will prevent protected media, such as DRM-protected iTunes films, from playing back on devices that aren't compliant. The Intel-developed High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) prevents content being played on devices such as large TV monitors and projectors.
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
USB 3.0 specification sent to vendors
Agam Shah, IDG News Service
A standards group has released specifications for USB 3.0, which greatly boosts the speed at which data can be transferred compared to the current USB 2.0 standard.
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Apple discontinues 23in Cinema Display
Macworld staff
Confirming concerns first raised on the Macworld Forums, Apple has discontinued the 23in Cinema Display, to be replaced by the new 24in LED Cinema Display.
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
QuickTime update improves compatibility with Apple's iChat
Jim Dalrymple Macworld.com
Apple has just released a software update for QuickTime. The update titled "H.264 Compatibility Update" claims to improve QuickTime compatibility with Apple's iChat.
Monday, 17 November 2008
Apple set for record Mac sales despite MacBook criticisms
Mark Hattersley
Investment bank Piper Jaffray believes that Apple is on course for a record quarter of Mac sales. Is Apple flying in the face of criticism of its latest MacBook refresh to sell more Macs than ever before?
Monday, 17 November 2008
Fujitsu announces super-fast SAS drives
Martyn Williams, IDG News Service
Fujitsu plans to launch two series of 2.5-inch enterprise hard-disk drives based on the faster 6Gbits/s version of the serial-attached SCSI (SAS) interface in the first half of 2009, it has announced.
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Tour continues
Macworld staff
The free Adobe Creative Suite 4 Tour continues across the UK with events in Sheffield (today), Edinburgh (November 18th), Newcastle (November 20th), Bristol (November 25th) and Dublin (November 27th).
