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MacVideo Live: The Future of Digital Video (Parts 3 & 4 final)

Part 3 and 4, the final parts of the live seminar recorded at BVE London, February 16, 2010. Topics covered: the ability to adapt and meet changing requirements; making the right investments; the importance of efficient workflows. Featuring Matt Davis, Producer and Director, MDMA; Christina Fox, Camera Operator, Trainer/Consultant, Urban Fox; David Fox, Journalist/Technology Writer; Larry Jordan - Producer, Director, Trainer.

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Bruce Nazarian: DVD, Blu-ray and distribution expert (part 2)

Bruce Nazarian is regarded as an expert in DVD and Blu-ray technology. He is the President of the DVD Association, author of DVD Studio Pro 4 - the Complete Guide for Authoring with Macintosh (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2006), a trainer, consultant and CEO of Digital Media Consulting Group Inc. He called "The Digital Guy" and is known for his knowledge and presentation skills, lighting up the room and inspiring and motivating like no other.

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Editing

News > Apple's iPad hype machine rolls into action at the Oscars

Apple showed the iPad set on someone's lap and being used for a range of activities

Apple chose the Oscars on the ABC television network to air its first iPad commercial on Sunday night in the U.S.

Reviews > ProDate DV, Automatic Duck

Flexible way of date and time stamping DV Footage

ProDate DV by Automatic Duck allows Final Cut Pro users to use a filter to access the date and time information recorded as metadata of a DV file.

Motion Graphics/VFX

News > Escape Studios details its storage solution for demanding creative pros

The Isilon IQ X-Series storage platform, which provides the students with fast access to project files

Escape Studios has set up a network of up to 100 users running high-end 3D tools from Maya to Nuke and sharing assets to build a business that offers solutions similar to its own to post-production companies large and small.

Reviews > Red Giant Software buys video plug-in range from Digital AnarchyHas a video

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.

DVD Authoring

News > RealNetworks settles Hollywood lawsuit, ditches RealDVD

DVD copying software dies as RealNetworks pays studios $4.5 million

RealNetworks has agreed to pay US$4.5 million and permanently stop selling its RealDVD software as part of a legal settlement with six Hollywood movie studios, the company said Wednesday.

Reviews > Step into Blu-ray - for less than £200Has a video

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 > Facebook, Google and eBay, Internet giants slam Labour's planned Digital Economy Bill

BT and TalkTalk, add the amendment to the Digital Economy Bill has "obvious shortcomings"

Google, Facebook and eBay BT and TalkTalk have slammed the UK government's plans to tackle internet piracy, believing it will "threaten freedom of speech".

Reviews > Sorenson Squeeze 5

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 > EOS 5D Mark II Firmware Update Version 2.0.3 on hold

Canon issues notice that Firmware 2.0.3 will soon be available again

The recently announced EOS 5D Mark II Firmware Update Version 2.0.3 has temporarily been put on hold by Canon.

Reviews > Review : The JVC GY-HM100 Camcorder

A user tests the Final Cut friendly camcorder

First of all, let me tell you this is by no means a complete and technical review of the new JVC GY-HM100. I'm not a cinematographer, so I won't be throwing too many technical details at you guys...