Edit Tools: Boris FX By Dan Ochiva
The market for compositing and effects software is competitive, and it’s getting more so with new products from Adobe and Red Giant Software, among others...
Edit Tools: NEC and Matrox By Dan Ochiva
If you're like many editors today, you like having any number of apps open at once on your desktop...
By Dan Ochiva
Describing it as the largest upgrade in the product's history, NewTek recently started shipping VT[5], its do-it-all production tool...
Edit Tools: Corel By Dan Ochiva
Corel, which purchased Ulead last year, delivered its own version of that company's popular VideoStudio editing app earlier this year...
Display Tools: Renewed Vision By Dan Ochiva
Anyone shopping for lyric-presentation systems for churches and other institutions soon discovers that most apps are designed for Windows-based gear, which of course are the most common ones out there. But if you're Mac-centric, check out version 3 of ProPresenter, completely rewritten to support OS X's universal binary, which works with older PowerPC systems as well as Intel-processor Macs. ...
Edit Tools: Digital Anarchy By Dan Ochiva
The power of light is the essence, of course, of film and video, which is why visual designers will want to check out the recently released Knoll Light Factory version 3.0 plug-in for Adobe Photoshop...
Edit Tools: Glyph Technologies By Dan Ochiva
With ever larger and faster drives now part of the production mix, making sure data is secure is more important than ever. ...
Edit Tools: CloseVU By Dan Ochiva
Moving a video production to mobile handsets can involve a lot more work to prep it for the reduced real estate. With the wide-frame format of HD, or even SD, details will be lost on a small screen, especially with action such as sports. ...
Products: Boxx Technologies By Dan Ochiva
In applications that include rendering, new quad-core AMD Opteron-based workstations provide a near-linear improvement compared to the dual-core version, according to Boxx Technologies...
Edit Review: Sony Vegas Pro 8 Reviewer: Franklin McMahon
Sony Creative Software has been fairly aggressive in developing its line of media products, updating its Acid music-composition software while introducing...
Products: AMD By Dan Ochiva
AMD has struggled over the past year with production and marketing snafus, and some worried that the well-regarded ATI FireGL series cards (AMD bought the Canadian company last year) would be in trouble. ...
Edit Tools: GridIron Software By Dan Ochiva
If you're an Adobe After Effects (AE) user, an app such as GridIron Software's Nucleo Pro is a near miracle ...