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LaCie 2big Quadra

April 28, 2009 in Uncategorized by grace

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, [...]

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Matrox CompressHD Accelerator Card

April 27, 2009 in editing products by grace

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 [...]

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AJA Ki Pro

April 20, 2009 in broadcast products, digital video news, editing products by guy

Everyone from broadcasters to indie filmmakers can probably agree on one thing: the possible choices for image acquisition are daunting. Different cameras, different formats, different recording media and different compression schemes. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way to simplify acquisition so that virtually any camera, digital or analog, could record the same [...]

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

April 19, 2009 in digital video news by Josh

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 picked up in their 1.0 versions and used for tons of projects. At NAB 1998, [...]

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Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro $199!

April 19, 2009 in broadcast, editing products by guy

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 [...]

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RODE Podcaster

April 6, 2009 in post audio gear by guy

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 [...]

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The Beachtek DXA-2t

April 6, 2009 in location sound gear by grace

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 [...]

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Edirol V-440HD

April 3, 2009 in broadcast products by grace

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 [...]

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Where can I find free fonts?

April 1, 2009 in digital video news by Josh

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 reflectdesign nicksfonts fonthead macfonts fuelfonts bvfonts aenigmafonts 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 collection rather than getting work done. [...]