Noise Industries announced today the release of Light Box 1.0 from FXFactory development partner Luca Visual FX. Light Box 1.0 is a collection of light and image enhancement tools designed to work inside Adobe After Effects CS3/CS4/CS5, Final Cut Pro, Motion and Final Cut Express applications. The new release provides nine customizable GPU-accelerated plug-ins and [...]
In the first two parts to this series we detailed how to create a bootable Mac OS X install hard drive, and include disc images of pro apps installer DVDs and other programs on it. In part three, we identify a user’s data files, custom files and presets, and folders that should be copied to [...]
Broadcast Pix™ has announced iPixPanel, an application that facilitates iPad control for its Slate video production systems. The iPixPanel combines the iPad’s touch screen and wireless control with a Slate panel.
From the company’s web site:
The iPixPanel will be able to control every aspect of a video production, including switching cameras, adding graphics and clips, controlling [...]
Boinx has released a public beta of its flagship slideshow and pan/scan creation program, FotoMagico Pro 3.2 that facilitates rendering of its projects directly in Final Cut Pro, and Motion. It fully integrates with iPhoto, Aperture, Lightroom, and iTunes, supports the Apple Remote, and exports to any QuickTime codec on your computer. The beta release [...]
A web blog purporting to have Jobs’ ear on the status of Final Cut Studio is reporting that it received an e mail from Steve Jobs representing that the next release of Final Cut Studio will be “awesome.” The blog had previous reported responses by Jobs on the status of layoffs to the Final Cut [...]
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 [...]
Aneesoft has released Video Converter Tools for iPad, which converts common video formats for use on Apple’s iPad. The utility converts AVCHD, AVI, WMV, MOV, MKV, FLV video to iPad compatible video formats in 1280×720, 640×480, 720×406, 480×320 resolutions. Controls to adjust movie brightness, contrast, saturation, and to apply special effects and watermarks are included, [...]
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 [...]