Roland QUAD-CAPTURE: the little sister of the OCTA-CAPTURE

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ProVideo Coalition readers who are into audio gadgets probably read my recent full review about the OCTA-CAPTURE from Roland. This article is about the OCTA-CAPTURE’s little sister, the QUAD-CAPTURE, and covers the differences between the two units, as well as its relative preamp and ADC (analog>digital conversion) quality compared with similar devices. Both of the […]

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Matrox Video Products Group at IBC2011

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Matrox Video Products Group will be showcasing H.264 encoding accelerators; A/V input/output /monitoring devices for use with Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5 Production Premium, Apple® Final Cut Studio®, and Avid® Media Composer®; capture devices for streaming with Adobe Flash® Media Live Encoder, Telestream Wirecast, and QuickTime Broadcaster™; as well as cost-effective HD-SDI scan converters. The latest […]

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Element Technica Debuts and Ships Accessories for Sony PMW-F3 Camera

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Art of the Cut is brought to you by our friends at Frame.io. Video collaboration for the 21st century Read all of the AOTC interviews or learn more about Frame.io As Sony’s engineers were putting the finishing touches on the company’s groundbreaking PMW-F3 Super 35mm sensor camcorder, Element Technica (ET) was working in close […]

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Trapcode Form 2 update

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Trapcode Form has been updated to version 2. New features in this particle system for After Effects include : 3D import of static or animated OBJ (leapfrogging Plexus), orthographic viewing & Shading and Layer Maps, Particular’s Textured Polygons that can rotate in 3D space, Shadowlets that cast shadows onto other particles, natural light fall-off, and intergration […]

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Magic Bullet Suite’s MisFire and Adobe CS5.5 Production Premium

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The Unsung Hero of Magic Bullet I say unsung, because there’s not any mention of it being part of the Magic Bullet Suite. Once I loaded the Suite and opened it up for the first […]

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HP plus Autonomy equals Buyers Beware?

I cannot say that the acquisition by HP of search giant Autonomy bodes well. Taking the parties past histories into account, this simply doesnt seem to be a good long term match. Hence my advice is, “buyers beware”. Autonomy was the darling of the UK tech sector. And the darling of investors, too, since from […]

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Replay Now Available: Adobe Webinar on PDF/VT by Print Media Centr

PrintMedia Centr was honored to host a webinar today presented by Mark Lewiecki – Senior Product Manager at Adobe on the upcoming PDF/VT technology that will shortly impact the Printing Industry, specifically regarding Variable Data, TransPromo, Direct Mail and the Digital Printing sector overall. A specific list of criteria for attendees was supplied to PMC […]

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Video As Project Documentation

Everybody hates doing documentation. Anyone who claims to enjoy doing should be on some kind of watch list. Robin East (@insidedctm) asked the question on twitter today “project documentation: “documents” on their own are totally inadequate. Wikis are barely better. Anyone tried something else?” The most effective documentation experience I ever had was the first […]

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5 Myths About ECM ROI by Digital Landfill

[Note: The opinions expressed in our 5 myths columns are those of the author.] Myth # 1 – We won’t save that much time or money if we cut paper out of our business processes. Reality: Time is money! Organizations that effectively use their workforce, technology and innovation can improve customer service, decision making and […]

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