ALEXA SXT goes wireless

ALEXA SXT goes wireless

A new-high speed ballast, the AMIRA Software Update Package and the first entirely wireless professional motion picture camera system are some of the reasons to visit ARRI’s booth at NAB 2017. Days before NAB 2017 ARRI announced an upgrade to the ALEXA SXT platform, making ALEXA SXT an entirely wireless professional motion picture camera system. […]

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Avid enters the FREE NLE market

Avid enters the FREE NLE market

With Media Composer | First, Avid expects to grab the attention of aspiring filmmakers, editors, or anyone who has a story to tell. It’s a free NLE that hopes to atract users to the complete line of Avid products. In a market where DaVinci Resolve seems to have taken the lead, a new free NLE […]

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Transcriptive – A transcription panel coming to Adobe Premiere Pro CC

Transcriptive - A transcription panel coming to Adobe Premiere Pro CC 1

I only spent a few minutes walking the NAB show floor today but a trip by the plugin pavilion and I saw an old manual typewriter in the Digital Anarchy booth. A closer look reveled an upcoming extension panel for Adobe Premiere Pro CC called Transcriptive. This tool should go into beta soon and it looks […]

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Blackmagic Design NAB 2017 Announcements and Updates

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Today was the day they kicked off NAB 2017 and Blackmagic Design has a bunch of news they announced.  This year they have a very big update to DaVinci Resolve, a few new products and new lower prices for a couple of their products. Think of this post as broad strokes. If you want you […]

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Blackmagic Announces A Huge Update To DaVinci Resolve 14

DaVinci Resolve

Today Blackmagic Design announced a whole helluva lot of improvements to DaVinci Resolve 14. They are calling it the biggest release in the history of the product, and an update that has been designed to be more than an incremental software update, but a complete revolution in post production. I can say after seeing the […]

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Sound Devices launches new audio recorders/mixers with USB audio streaming

Sound Devices launches new audio recorders/mixers with USB audio streaming 6

At NAB 2017, Sound Devices has announced the new MixPre Series of audio mixer/recorders with integrated USB audio interface. The lightweight, high-resolution MixPre-3 & MixPre-6 audio mixers recorders with USB audio streaming offer hefty preamps combined with extreme durability. The new Kashmir microphone preamps have much more gain than competitive units, as I’ll cover ahead. […]

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MulticoreWare shows LipSync to autodetect a/v sync via deep learning + GPUs

MulticoreWare shows LipSync to autodetect a/v sync via deep learning + GPUs 10

MulticoreWare’s LipSync technology uses deep neural networks to autodetect audio/video sync errors by “watching” and “listening” to videos. According to MulticoreWare, NVIDIA GPU-accelerated models find and match instances of human faces and human speech in up to 2-3x realtime, enabling highly scalable quality control for file-based or streaming content. LipSync technology is being demonstrated at […]

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Sony at NAB 2017 – Supporting Professionals at Every Stage of Production

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Most professionals think of cameras and hardware when they hear the word “Sony”, but at NAB 2017, the company showcased how and why they’re looking to change that definition. Their focus on supporting their customers at every stage of a project was evident in practically every announcement, and their stated goal of helping users simplify […]

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HP adds 31-inch 4K DreamColor and improves 24-inch “little brother”

HP adds 31-inch 4K DreamColor and improves 24-inch “little brother” 19

At NAB, HP has announced its new DreamColor Z31x with native 4K cinema resolution and some very welcome new features, and has also released a somewhat improved “little brother”, the Z24x G2 (second generation), which remains much more affordable, yet much more limited. Although I haven’t seen them personally yet, I was able to ask […]

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