Buying life stories is a big business. Anyone’s story is fair game — war veteran, whistle blower, acne survivor. One attorney with experience in this area reports the price to buy a life story for use in a television movie “might be $50,000 to several hundred thousand dollars. For feature films, it could be two […]
Day: February 3, 2009
Matrox Announces Matrox RT.X2 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 Bundles
Montreal, Canada – February 3, 2009 – Matrox Video Products Group today announced that new value-priced bundles of the Matrox RT.X2 and RT.X2 LE realtime editing platforms and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 are now available worldwide. The bundles include either the RT.X2 or RT.X2 LE realtime editing card with a professional breakout box, Adobe Premiere […]
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Divergent Media Releases ClipWrap 1.1 – Adds support for iMovie, Final Cut Express and Avid
Divergent Media announced today the immediate availability of ClipWrap 1.1, a major revision to their highly popular Macintosh application. With ClipWrap 1.1, your camcorder’s m2t files can be converted or transcoded for editing in Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Final Cut Express, and Avid. Brooklyn, NY February 3, 2009 — Divergent Media announced today the immediate […]
LaCie Ethernet Disk: Up to 6TB in a Rack-Mounted Backup Appliance
Today LaCie announced that it has doubled the speed at which its high-performance, large-capacity LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive burns discs to eight times (8x) standard data writing rates. The increased speed to burn files applies to both single and dual-layer discs. LaCie also has upgraded the authoring and backup software that ships standard with the […]
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The Not-So-Technical Guide to S-Log and Log Gamma Curves
For a couple of weeks I’ve been researching the mystery of Sony S-Log, and log curves in general, trying to determine what they are, what they do, and whether they are a good thing or not. After interviewing three different people (George Palmer of HDPix, Michael Bravin of BandPro and especially Steve Shaw of Digital […]
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Quicktip Day 03: Project folders in the Finder sidebar
Quicktip #3 (February 3, 2009) Put Project folders in the Finder sidebar I access my Final Cut Pro projects folder and my Avid projects folder all the time so I put those folders into the Places sidebar in the Finder window via click and drag. They are always there, even in an Open and Save […]
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FreshDV Reviews the ARRI MFF1 and FF4 follow focus units
In the fall of 2007, FreshDV released an extensive review series of 5 popular follow focus units. We’ve continued to update this video review series in the following months. To date we’ve tested units from Chrosziel, Cinetech, Redrock Micro, Petroff, Indifocus, and Shoot35/SGPro. Today we’re adding two more review videos for the new ARRI’s MFF-1 […]
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Performance enhancements, updates and bug fixes span entire Cumulus product lin
Canto® Cumulus 7.6.1 is available for immediate download, Canto announced today. Many improvements and fixes will be clearly apparent to users and administrators, while other updates were seeded to ease the transition to the advanced architecture updates coming in the company’s next major product release, Cumulus 8. Canto Releases Cumulus 7.6.1Performance enhancements, updates and bug […]
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Discover DisplayPort’s untapped power for pro video
You’ve probably heard or read that Apple recently changed the video outputs on all of the new laptops from DVI to Mini DisplayPort, and has stated that all desktop models will begin offering DisplayPort outputs as they are updated. At first, some people think the DisplayPort just a nuisance and requirement to purchase another adaptor… […]
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Saepio Technologies Featured in Mike on America CNBC Segment
Segment focuses on Saepio’s ability to help marketers save money and preserve brand integrity Kansas City, Missouri – (01/06/09) –Saepio Technologies’ solutions for corporations with distributed marketing networks was featured on a recent Mike on America segment during CNBC’s Power Lunch program. The segment, which aired on December 31, 2008, highlights the benefits that Saepio […]
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