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LaCie 2big Quadra

Apr 28, 2009 at 5:10 pm in gear by duncan · 3 Comments »

LaCie 2Big Quadra
2-Bay RAID I eSATA 3Gb/s |Hi-Speed USB 2.0 I FireWire 400 & 800

  • Ideal for backup and creative pros
  • Four RAID modes to customize speed and protection
  • Two hot-swappable disks for non-stop data access*
  • Aluminum heat sink design for greater reliability
  • Genie and Intego Backup Manager Pro incl.
  • Time Machine Compatible

So, now you can have a single enclosure, two-drive system that works with two partitions to create both a Fast and Safe drive to work from.  [read more →]

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Matrox CompressHD Accelerator Card

Apr 27, 2009 at 3:37 pm in editing products by duncan · 3 Comments »

Want faster HD encodes? from Guy Cochran on Vimeo.

If you’re a professional content creator delivering H.264 files for Blu-ray, the web, and mobile devices, you need a fast, flexible, high quality encoding workhorse. Matrox CompressHD is the first implementation of Matrox MAX technology in an amazingly affordable H.264 accelerator card. It works with DV Kitchen to let you create H.264 files, for resolutions ranging from iPod to HD,  [read more →]

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Happy 10th birthday, Final Cut Pro and DVcreators.net!

Apr 19, 2009 at 6:23 pm in digital video news by . · 6 Comments »


In 1998, I remember hearing about a new editing program called “Key Grip”, written by Randy Ubillos, the creator of Adobe Premiere. It looked like a nice blend of Avid/Premiere-style non-linear editing and After Effects-style keyframing, two programs I had been using for years.

At NAB 1998, I was ushered to an underground room at NAB, where Randy was demoing the program on Mac and Windows, since renamed “Final Cut”. I met Randy and some of the development  [read more →]

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Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro $199!

at 3:14 pm in broadcast, editing products by Josh Mellicker · 103 Comments »

Want to view your project out to an HD monitor? Add the incredible quality of HDMI to your computer. Intensity features the latest HDMI technology for the highest quality capture and playback on Windows or Mac OS X computers. Now you can edit using big-screen HDMI televisions and video projectors, or capture uncompressed quality from HDV cameras. Intensity features HDMI-in for connecting to cameras and digital set-top boxes for the highest quality

Intensity Pro is the first  [read more →]

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RODE Podcaster

Apr 6, 2009 at 10:00 pm in post audio gear by Josh Mellicker · Comments are closed.

Podcaster

Broadcast quality USB Microphone.

Ever need to do high quality voice over? Do you need smooth broadcast quality sound? Now you can record directly via USB. Many editing applications allow you to record direct to the timeline. The problem has been, how do you get pristine audio into the computer. You used to need some kind of $200 A/D converter and another $100-1000 for the mic. New solution: The RODE Podcaster. This is a dynamic mic  [read more →]

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The Beachtek DXA-2t

at 9:50 pm in location sound gear by duncan · Leave a Comment »

The two channel, DXA-2T is very easy to set up and use. It allows you to connect professional microphones with balanced XLR connectors to any camcorder with a mic jack. You can also easily connect wireless microphones and mixing boards. The adapter gives you all the benefits of using professional audio gear and noise free balanced inputs for superb audio. You can select either mono or stereo output mode and the independent trim controls allow you to set the ideal  [read more →]

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Edirol V-440HD

Apr 3, 2009 at 5:19 pm in broadcast products by duncan · 3 Comments »

Edirol V-440HD 8 channel Video Mixer/ Live Switcher + Chroma keyer!

The V-440HD is the first affordable HD mixer offering 4 HD inputs and 4 SD inputs and this product is simply stunning. Imagine being able to take a 1280×1024 VGA output from a computer and have a person in front of a green screen shot with an HD camera come walking right into the computer display. Simply amazing! Now imagine being able to size down the person  [read more →]

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Where can I find free fonts?

Apr 1, 2009 at 11:49 am in digital video news by · 2 Comments »

http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts.html

http://www.grsites.com/fonts/

1001freefonts

http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts

fontfreak

downloadfreefonts

katsfunfonts

absolute fonts archive

Blue Vinyl Fonts

nicksfonts

fonthead

macfonts

fuelfonts

chank

a-t-i

This article lists others

WARNING: Do not go crazy and download every free font, then spend days organizing them and printing sample sheets. You will become obsessed with your font  [read more →]