Tiffen has introduced a new stabilizer, the Steadicam Zephyr, that include a number of new “future proof features.” Among them are:
30lb (13.6kg) lift capacity no-tools (20lb (9kg) payload capacity)
Adjustable Iso-Elastic Arm™
Telescopic carbon fiber post
Connector rich base and stage
Dual axis vernier adjustable stage
Unparalleled Inertial control and dynamically adjustable base
The new Steadicam Zephyr comes standard with a [...]
Panasonic has released its AG-HMC80 AVCCAM HD shoulder-mount camcorder, the company’s first low cost AVCHD camcorder to feature solid state DV as well as HD recording capabilities. The HMC80 records video in all four professional AVCCAM HD recording modes, including the highest-quality PH mode (average 21 Mbps/Max 24Mbps), the HA mode (approx.17 Mbps), the HG [...]
Panasonic has announced a new line of professional Blu-ray Disc™ media designed for secure digital data archiving in professional applications. The new recordable Blu-ray Disc™ (BD-R) will be available in two grades – Archival Grade and Century Archival Grade. The Archival Grade discs have an expected archival life of more than 50 years at a [...]
The Final Cut Pro User Group Network (FCPUG) today announced that the Ninth Annual Las Vegas SuperMeet, scheduled to take place on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 in the Amazon Ballroom at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas, will be live video streamed over the Internet by Boinx Software and Zaplive.tv. Registration will be required to [...]
SmallHD has introduced the DP-SLR, a 4”x6”x1”, 10 ounce, 5.6” diagonal screen with 1280 x 800 resolution. The monitor supports HDMI, Component and Composite interfaces and features solid aluminum construction and four tapped ¼-20 mount points. It can accept voltages ranging from 5v to18v, consumes 6 watts, and runs up to 4 hours on the [...]
Panasonic Broadcast has introduced the AG-AF100, the first professional micro 4/3-inch video camcorder optimized for high-definition video recording. It is scheduled to ship by the end of 2010.
From the Press Release:
Targeted at the video and film production communities, the AF100 delivers the shallow depth of field and wider field of view of a large imager, [...]
An improved version of ClipWrap 2.1, from Divergent Media, significantly speeds batch converts of AVCHD grounded m2t, mts, and m2ts transport stream files to QuickTime HDV files. The program does not re-encode the video but instead places it into a QuickTime container. It offers automatic format detection, support for all m2t formats, and full timecode [...]
Live Capture Plus 2.2 captures an entire DV tape unattended while automatically splitting on scene boundaries. It also provides Firewire device control for the camera. The updated Square Box Systems utility improves control of movie size and aspect ratio, better handles timecode resets, and for Mac Users provides an option to monitor audio during capture, [...]
Square Box Systems has introduced CatDV 8.1, a media asset database and video logging application with augmented features. It catalogs, creates thumbnails, renames clips, provides multi-track sequence editing, automatic scene detection, metadata extraction. It is fully integrated with Final Cut Pro. HTML printing enhancements, support for customized HTML layouts for the clip details panel, improvements [...]
Adobe Creative Suite 5.0 was formally announced on Monday, April 12th, and will ship within 30 days. The product family includes Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium for video editors, priced at $1699.00. Among the suites major new features are:
Truer Edge technology in Photoshop CS5 Extended offers improved edge detecting technology and masking results in [...]