Macvideo Expo
Thanks to everyone who attended MacVideo Expo, October 18, 2011.
Huge thanks to those who appeared in the panel discussion, featuring Barry Stevens, Jonathan Eric Tyrrell, Rick Young and hosted by Simon Walker. Content online very soon on MacVideo.tv
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News
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Blackmagic Design Releases HyperDeck Shuttle 2
Rick Young
The new HyperDeck Shuttle 2 now records Avid DNxHD files to SSD for 5 times longer recording!
Monday, 16 January 2012
Adobe confirms Creative Suite 6 (CS6) will ship in first half of 2012
Neil Bennett
Adobe recants statement saying only CS5 and CS5.5 owners will get discounted upgrades, opening it to CS3 and CS4 owners too.
Monday, 16 January 2012
Adobe will offer CS6 at special price for CS3 and CS4 owners
Ben Camm-Jones
Adobe will offer a direct upgrade path to Creative Suite 6 to customers who own CS3 or CS4 after all, it has announced.
Saturday, 26 November 2011
Apple could dump AMD for nVidia graphics processors in next gen Macs
Ben Camm-Jones
Apple could be about to switch back to nVidia GPUs for its next generation of Macs, according to reports.
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve Lite now Includes Unlimited Color Correction Nodes!
Rick Young
Unlimited color correction nodes allow customers to use multiple color correctors for more complex and creative grading and is a dramatic boost in power over the previous version of DaVinci Resolve Lite that was limited to 2 nodes. Adding more than 2 color correction nodes was the top requested feature by DaVinci Resolve Lite colorists.
Friday, 11 November 2011
NewTek launches LightWave 11
Digital Arts Staff
NewTek LightWave 11 gains instancing, flocking, better dynmaics and systems for sharing content with Maya and ZBrush.
Tuesday, 01 November 2011
Maxon launches After Effects plug-in that exports to Cinema 4D
Digital Arts Staff
Maxon has released a new plug-in for Adobe After Effects CS3 to CS5.5 that allows motion graphics artists to export projects directly into Cinema 4D R13.
Friday, 28 October 2011
Apple Motion 5 training video released
Ben Camm-Jones
InfiniteSkills has released a 10-hour training video on Apple Motion 5 which includes realtime walkthroughs on topics such as compositing, chroma keying, text effects and more.
Monday, 24 October 2011
Walter Murch to speak at the SuperMeet this week in Boston
Rick Young
The agenda has been set for the Second Annual Boston SuperMeet, to take place on Thursday, Oct 27, 2011 at the Stuart Street Playhouse, Radisson Hotel Boston in Boston, MA. Featuring Oscar and BAFTA winning film and sound editor Walter Murch, Andrew Weisblum, A.C.E. (BLACK SWAN) for Avid and Jem Schofield (theC47.com) on behalf of Canon, this SuperMeet promises to be the single largest gathering of editors, gurus and digital filmmakers in the Northeast this year.
Monday, 24 October 2011
MacBook Pro range quietly upgraded
Ben Camm-Jones
Apple has quietly upgraded the processor, hard disk and graphics capabilities of the MacBook Pro range.
Tuesday, 04 October 2011
Agenda announced: MacVideo Expo, Oct. 18, London
Rick Young
DP, Director and Filmmaker Philip Bloom, will talk about how he decides which camera is most appropriate for different shooting situations. Philip will discuss and show footage shot with several different cameras, including the Panasonic AF101; Sony NEX-FS100; Sony PMW-F3; and Red Epic. Also featuring, a one hour demonstration of Final Cut Pro X; Panel discussion: the state of editing in the 21st century; demonstrations of Thunderbolt and other technologies, buffet meal.
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Final Cut Pro X software update, version 10.01 now available
Rick Young
Apple have today announced the availability of Final Cut Pro 10.01, offering many new features, including: XML support; the ability to create and edit Final Cut Pro projects and Events on XSAN; what Apple calls Media Stems Export - enabling one to export files based on tages, and a host of other enhancements. Furthermore, Multicam Editing and Broadcast Monitoring, have been promised from early 2012.
Sunday, 11 September 2011
IBC 2011: Boris FX launches Boris Continuum Complete 8 plug-ins for AE
Digital Arts Staff
BCC 8 AE delivers over 200 VFX filters to Mac and Windows versions of Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro CS5.5, CS5, CS4, and CS3.
Sunday, 11 September 2011
IBC 2011: The Foundry debuts Hiero, a timeline for Nuke artists
Digital Arts Staff
At the IBC trade show in Amsterdam, The Foundry announced Hiero. Available this year, Hiero is a desktop application for collaborative VFX workflow.
Thursday, 08 September 2011
IBC 2011: Adobe buys colour and stereo 3D tech from Iridas; new tools in Premiere and AE to follow
Digital Arts Staff
Adobe says that expects to add Iridas colour grading tools -- which include tools for working with stereoscopic 3D footage -- to its video product line.
Monday, 05 September 2011
Apple puts Final Cut Studio back on sale in UK and US
Serenity Caldwell and Digital Arts staff
In a somewhat surprising move, editors can once again purchase the now-outdated Final Cut Studio from Apple by phone.
Monday, 05 September 2011
LG shows Dual Play multiplayer gaming technology on 3D televisions
Nick Barber
Hoping to boost sales of its 3D televisions among gamers, LG showed off technology that lets traditional split screen multiplayer games be played full screen.
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Blackmagic Design Announces UltraStudio 3D With Thunderbolt Technology™ Now Shipping
Rick Young
Blackmagic Design today announced the world’s first video product with Thunderbolt technology. UltraStudio 3D which allows portable capture and playback with full resolution dual stream 3D support, 10 bit hardware architecture, dual link 3 Gb/s SDI, support for up to 1080p60 in SDI and component analog and HDMI 1.4a connections, as well as full SD, HD and 2K support, is now shipping for only US$995.
Friday, 26 August 2011
FCPUG Network Announces Fourth Annual FCPUG Amsterdam SuperMeet
Rick Young
The FCPUG Network have announced the Fourth Annual FCPUG Amsterdam SuperMeet, to take place Sunday, September 11, 2011 at the Hotel Krasnapolsky in the heart of Amsterdam. The Amsterdam SuperMeet will further celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of SuperMeets and promises to be the single largest gathering of Final Cut, Adobe, Avid and Autodesk editors, gurus and digital filmmakers during IBC2011.
Thursday, 25 August 2011
Red Giant releases Trapcode Suite 11 for particle & lighting effects
Digital Arts Staff
Red Giant has released Trapcode Suite 11, which it describes as a major upgrade to the VFX toolset for 3D motion graphics.
