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Recent reviews
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.
Interviews
Interview with Martin Baker, Founder of Digital Heaven
07/11/2008
Rick Young
In November 2004 Digital Heaven introduced Multicam Lite. This was a breakthrough product as it provided the first true Multicam solution for Final Cut Pro, well before Multicam was integrated as part of Final Cut Pro 5. In this interview, Martin Baker, Founder of Digital Heaven, talks about the history of the company, the products on offer, their latest application - Loader, and what we have to look forward to next from Digital Heaven.
Abobe Interviews: Michael Coleman, Product Manager, Adobe After Effects and Simon Hayhurst, Sr. Director, Product Management, Dynamic Media
26/09/2008
Rick Young
Hear direct from the people at Abobe what the release of CS4 means for video editors. When CS3 was released this brought Abobe back to the Mac Platform for video editing. Now with CS4 Adobe takes another swipe at the market with new tools, new features, and new ways of doing things.
Interview with Roger Maybon, G-Technology
12/09/2008
Rick Young
G-Technology are well know for producing quality drives which are both reliable and capable of sustained levels of data transfer needed for high end video production. In this interview Roger Maybon talks about new products and developments for G-Tech for the the first half of 2008.
Interview with Giles Baker, Adobe
12/09/2008
Rick Young
Giles Baker, Senior Product Manager Adobe, talks about some of the key announcements made by Adobe in the first half of 2008 and comments on technologies Adobe has been working on which are yet to be integrated into the Adobe product-line.
Live to Los Angeles and Boston - Michael Horton, LAFCPUG, Dan Berube, Boston FCPUG
22/08/2008
Rick Young
This week we cross live to Los Angeles and Boston to speak to the key players who organise the FCPUG Supermeet each year, for NAB, Macworld and now IBC. In this interview Michael Horton and Dan Berube talk about what has motivated them to bring the Supermeet to Europe and what to expect on the night of the 14th September in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
AJA's Jon Thorn talks about IO HD and working with ProRes HD
11/07/2008
Rick Young
The AJA IO HD was announced at NAB 2007 and is designed to do real-time conversions of source video in real-time to Apple’s ProRes HD codec. In this interview, Jon Thorn, Product Manager for Macintosh Desktop Products, AJA Video Systems, talks about the benefits of using ProRes, the strengths this codec offers, and what makes the IO box unique.
Interview with Graeme Nattress (part 2) Nattress Filters
04/07/2008
Rick Young
The art of plug-in creation from one of key players who has produced many set of plug-ins for Final Cut Pro and Motion.
Interview with David Helmly, Senior Business Development Manager, Video, Adobe Systems Inc., USA
20/06/2008
Rick Young
Adobe Premiere returned to the Mac in spectacular style in 2007. The program which was once the only affordable alternative for independents saw the demise on the Mac platform in 2003. However, when Apple moved to Intel chips Adobe ported what had become a PC only program back to the Mac. This is the story of what happened.
Interview with Grant Petty - CEO Blackmagic Design
25/04/2008
Rick Young
Blackmagic Design introduced 10 new products at NAB 2008 - in this interview Grant Petty, CEO of Blackmagic Design, talks about the new products along with a detailed discussion of video production past and present, codecs, workflows and what drives Grant to keep producing low-cost, high quality, broadcast and consumer devices.
Interview with Giles Baker, Senior Product Manager, Premiere Pro, Adobe
09/04/2008
Rick Young
The Adobe Production Premium suite provides a total solution for video editors who wish to work between Premiere Pro, After Effects, Encore, Soundbooth, Flash and more. In this interview Giles Baker, Senior Product Manager, Premiere Pro, explains how these applications have been designed to work together.
Interview with Pete Schlatter, Director of Marketing, G-tech
09/04/2008
Rick Young
G-tech specialise in producing hard drives solutions for video editing. They sell a range of RAIDS, portable high speed drives, and various options to ensure speed and reliability across their product range. Furthermore, they have some of the best looking drives on the market.
Interview with Steve Ruddock, Director of Communications, Filemaker
09/04/2008
Rick Young
Filemaker makes powerful data-base applications which can be used to locate data quickly and easily. In this interview Steve Ruddock, Director of Communications, Filemaker, describes just how this data-base software can be used in a post-production environment.
Interview with Wes Plate, President Automatic Duck
09/04/2008
Rick Young
Automatic Duck started in late 1999 with the philosophy of using software to solve the tedious workflow issues plaguing today's digital artists. When projects need to be moved from Final Cut Pro to Avid or vice-versa, or into After Effects from either application, Automatic Duck provides solutions which enable this is able to take place.
Flip4Mac/Telestream Product Overview
14/03/2008
Rick Young
Flip for Mac provides Windows Media Components to the Mac enables one to play and encode WMV files. Other products such as Epsiode and Pipeline enable both software and hardware encoding to other formats.
