Archive of the NAB News Category

From Mix‘s Kevin Becka
Avid‘s big NAB 2009 news has to do with identity and structure. The parent company will now share its new audio/video centric logo with Digidesign, Pinnacle Systems, M-Audio, and Sibelius. Continue reading at MixBlog.

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Zacuto was showing off a ton of new products at NAB 2009, including its unique gunstock rigs for DSLR shooters (See D.W. Leitner’s take on shooting with a DSLR here.). Here’s an extensive overview of what Zacuto will bring to shooters this year.

JVC‘s Carl Hicks, director of broadcast sales demonstrates the company’s new HM700 camera, which records directly to SDHC memory cards in the QuickTime format for Apple Final Cut Pro and optionally to SxS media compatible with Sony’s XDCAM EX format. Watch the video.

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eyeon Software unveiled Generation 1.1 at NAB. Generation is a new class of software, which fills a gap in post and VFX workflows by offering a platform for artist collaboration and a visual canvas for efficient shot management. The new version of Generation adds new playback and image adjustment features, and extends the collaborative capabilities of the application. Read on at The Briefing Room

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From Mix‘s Kevin Becka
I saw TASCAM‘s slick, miniature M-164 analog mixer at the show. It features six mic inputs, EQ, built-in meter bridge plus digital reverb, delay, and chorus. Continue reading at MixBlog.

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Ensemble Designs has 28 new products at NAB 2009. Cindy Zuelsdorf of Ensemble Designs demonstrates one of them—the company’s new 4500 MPEG transport stream processor for translating DVB-ASI to SMPTE 310M in broadcast and satellite applications. Watch the video.

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The big news out of Boris FX is that Boris Continuum Complete ($995) is now available within the native interface for Adobe After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro/Motion, Avid and Autodesk Sparks. I got a presentation from Boris himself running After Effects on his 17in MacBook Pro.

To paraphrase Boris, After Effects has a wonderful development environment for 3D, but presents most objects in 2D, flat on the screen, where in real life, all objects have thickness. The Continuum plug-in presents the objects in 3D, where they can be manipulated via After Effects native controls like motion, camera view and lighting. This is the best of both worlds for After Effects users, since they get new 3D objects and effects with minimal interface-related learning curve. more

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At the National Association of Broadcasters Convention, Cinegy is unveling a new product, Cinegy Connect & Route, capable of converting SD and HD SDI signals into broadcast-quality, low latency RTP streams. Cinegy Connect & Route, which can function as a standalone system or can be used as an adjunct to Cinegy’s broadcast workflow solution Cinegy Workflow, enables broadcasters to reduce their reliance on expensive SDI infrastructure in favor of RTP-based Ethernet networks offering greater capacity, enhanced flexibility, higher quality and lower cost. Read on at The Briefing Room

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Vision Research, a leading manufacturer of high-speed digital imaging systems, extends its Phantom family of digital high speed cameras with the new v310. Featuring a custom-designed, high-performance CMOS sensor, the Phantom v310 offers users a wide aspect ratio and a top speed of 3,400fps at the camera’s maximum resolution of 1280×800. At reduced resolution, the v310 can record at speeds up to 500,000fps. Read on at The Briefing Room

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Matrox’s CompressHD is the first product that I looked at this year and said “I want that.� It’s a $495 H.264 accelerator card based upon an Amberella chip that you can buy standalone, or will appear in various iterations of Matrox’s popular MXO products. The product integrates with Compressor on the Mac, and Adobe Media Encoder on Windows (but not on the Mac, at least for the first iteration). It accelerates only H.264 encoding, whether for Apple devices, Blu-ray or general streaming.

I saw a demo on the Mac, and I think it will have its greatest success there, at least in the short term. You control the product from Compressor, where it can work either as an integrated codec or like a QuickTime export component. If you use it as a codec, Compressor’s own scaling and deinterlacing functions apply, which his useful if you want to use your old presets and just accelerate encoding. more