Blackmagic Design Announces DeckLink Studio

Blackmagic Design Announces DeckLink Studio 1

MacWorld 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA – January 7, 2009 – Blackmagic Design Inc. today announced DeckLink Studio, a new model capture card specifically designed as a replacement for standard definition cards, but with increased analog connectivity for wide compatibility with older analog equipment as well as SD and HD-SDI for the latest digital equipment. […]

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Universal HDV deck (almost)

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Up until now, post-production facilities that accept HDV footage have confronted a major dilemma: If they bought a JVC BR-HD50 deck (US$3,399 list), the only HD recordings they could play were HDV 720p from JVC (none of the HDV 1080i tapes from Canon or Sony). On the other hand, if they bought one of the […]

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FILMMAKER SAM WASSERMAN MAKES FEATURE DEBUT, ‘THE JOURNAL,’ WITH PANASONIC AJ-HPX3000

FILMMAKER SAM WASSERMAN MAKES FEATURE DEBUT, ‘THE JOURNAL,' WITH PANASONIC AJ-HPX3000 3

SECAUCUS, NJ (January 7, 2009) – Los Angeles-based filmmaker Sam Wasserman chose Panasonic’s AJ-HPX3000 native 1080p one-piece P2 HD camcorder to shoot his first feature, The Journal, a semi-autobiographical short that recounts the story of a young man seeking the courage to read the diary of his long-deceased mother. Director of Photography Graham Futerfas shot […]

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NAB 2009: no RED tent

RED Digital Cinema’s Jim Jannard has announced that RED will skip NAB 2009. A delay by a supplier means “too many non-working prototypes at NAB” (no snide comments, please), so RED will skip the big industry confab in favor of their own “RED DAY” event(s). Both Avid and Apple skipped NAB 2008, and Apple is […]

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Reduce costs, increase efficiency, and increase capabilities

Reallocating Budgets. Not new spending for Digital Asset Management. PostedWednesday, January 7, 2009 by Al Falaschi Being the gatekeeper for video here at Widen, I decided to piece together some clips of our client interviews that deal with how Digital Asset Management, and Video Asset Managment has helped our clients reduce costs, increase efficiency, and […]

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