Macintouch has an excellent review of a third party Hackintosh denominated the SuperMaX — a Mac OS X-ready PC that installs OSX using the Snow Leopard retail DVD. The $7000.00 super fast computer uses a pair of Intel’s latest hexacore “Westmere” X5680 processors — 12 CPU cores in total, overclocked from 3.33 GHz to 4.2 [...]
Synthetic Aperture has released Color Finesse 3.0, its color correction and enhancement plug-in for Final Cut Pro, After Effects, and other programs. Among several new features is 64-bit plug-in (to support Adobe’s CS5 64-bit applications), native FxPlug plug-in support for Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, and Motion, new Auto-Color and Auto-Exposure buttons, a new [...]
Nikon announced its new entry-level DSLR D3100 includes a 14.2-megapixel CMOS sensor 1080p HD video capture @ 24 fps and full-time autofocus with monaural sound. The video DSL shoots to the AVCHD format with a maximum bit rate of 21 mbps. Pricing is around $699.00.
Here are the salient video related specifications from the Nikon Press [...]
Boris FX has released Boris AAF Transfer, a new plug-in designed to transfer Apple Final Cut Pro sequences to Avid Media Composer, with all the FCP media, markers, cuts, dissolves, filters, and audio preserved. The transferred sequence can be edited and finished in the Avid Media Composer timeline without returning to Final Cut Pro. Editors [...]
Boris FX has announced the release of Boris Continuum Unit 3-Way Color Grade that provides professional-level color grading tool support for Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Final Cut Express, Apple Motion, Adobe After Effects, and Adobe Premiere Pro. The 3-Way Color Grade filter is also included with the Boris Continuum Complete 7 visual effects plug-in [...]
Grass Valley is now shipping its “ADVCmini” hardware and software conversion product for the Mac. The ADVCmini video converter is used to transfer VHS tapes, digital camcorders, and similar sources to their Mac computer for editing in Final Cut Pro via composite or S-Video connections along with stereo audio. The unit is small, portable, and [...]
DVDxDV Pro 3.0 for Macintosh provides demuxing capabilities to convert unencrypted standard definition DVDs into Quicktime video files. It includes a editing timeline similar to Final Cut Pro which can be used to set the exact in and out points for movie clips. DVDxDV Pro 3.0 will convert DVDs into High Definition 1080i video for [...]
The Axon Haptic is an Atom based 10.1″ touch resistive iPad type device that supports installs of any Darwin OS, including Apple’s Snow Leopard via a hidden EFI partition. The device has yet to ship, but its specs are impressive for this size device. They include 2GB of RAM, 320 GB HDD, WiFi, web cam, [...]
CalDigit’s new AV Drive is a combination FW800/USB3 1 TB drive that brings USB3 speeds to MacPros via a PCIe board, and to MacBookPro laptops that have an ExpressCard 34 slot. The AV drive, which is PC and Mac compatible provides a USB 3.0 interface capable of 5Gbps transfer speeds. CalDigit claims higher FW800 data [...]
A filmmaker web site has detailed twenty-two iPhone and iPad applications that can be used to edit video. Some are designed to edit video on the iPhone, such as iMovie, others like ReelDirector actually provide editing capabilities for the iPad. Several utilities are provided such as ProPrompter, logging tool Action Log Pro, and slate creator [...]