Archive of the Video Editing Systems Category

At the Wacom booth, After Effects artist and Apple Engineer Ben Koning is spending his first 20 minutes of life as a Wacom user testing the new Intuos4 tablet. “In that time I’ve gone from completely flailing around, drawing things when I don’t want to, to being able to drive Photoshop and AE,” Koning says. “This is my first animation with keyframes and spline,” he says with mock pride, indicating a kindergarten-level construction of boxes on the monitor. Buy hey, he’s driving. “It’s responsive and easy to learn I’d have to say, almost like drawing with a real pencil or a real brush.” more

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Calibrated Software, an innovator of applications and plug-ins for video, asset management and mobile platforms, announced an enhanced family of cross-platform tools to streamline and speed the process of viewing and using high-definition camera and other video files within popular post-production systems and editing packages. The products are being demonstrated at NAB booths #C5108 (Ikegami) and #SL8307 (Square Box Systems). Read on at The Briefing Room

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Class on Demand, a provider of professional educational products for creative markets, announced it will release a new self-paced training title on the industry-leading GenArts Sapphire for Adobe After Effects and Apple Final Cut Pro. Recognized by top studios and postproduction houses for its image quality, organic look, speed and intuitive controls, GenArts Sapphire provides more than 200 state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects plug-ins. It has been used to create some of the most exciting visual effects in countless blockbuster and Oscar-nominated films. The new training title will be hosted by GenArts’ Todd Prives and will guide After Effects and Final Cut users all the way from basic Sapphire features through advanced tips and tricks as they actually build a broadcast quality spot. Included with the title will be complete project files for both After Effects and Final Cut Pro. Read on at The Briefing Room

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Avid Deko 5.2 enables users to easily import and play back a broader range of 3-D models and animations. Watch the video.

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EditShare, a technology leader in cross-platform collaborative editing and shared media storage systems, announced it has partnered with Automatic Duck to solve workflow productivity issues for postproduction facilities and editing workgroups collaborating on shared media files across disparate editing platforms. As a result of this technology partnership, EditShare is integrating key timeline translation technology from Automatic Duck’s Pro Import FCP and Pro Export FCP solutions into EditShare’s Flow Universal Media File technology. Read on at The Briefing Room

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I don’t want to appear jaded, but at this point, if a nonlinear editor is still in the game, it’s obviously extraordinarily functional, which makes updates somewhat predictable and incremental. More formats, more filters, some interface tweaks, that kind of thing.

At the risk of increasing my hate mail by 300%, I’ll use the Sony Vegas 9 upgrade as an example. The new version includes enhanced format support (native XDCAM and AVCHD editing, as well as support for the RED ONE .r3d format), support for 4K workflows and gigapixel image sizes, six new video effects, additional customizable layouts and new keyboard shortcuts, and “improved audio-waveform drawing during recording.� more

When Adobe doesn’t debut new products at NAB, they tend to offer interesting and often far reaching product “previews.� This year, it was Adobe Story, a new online/offline program for collaborative scriptwriting that will debut in “CSNext,� no date announced or implied during our interview with Simon Hayhurst.

Why a screenwriting program? Because most serious productions have a screenplay that contains the dialog and descriptive information about scene location and the associated action. Scripts in Adobe Story get converted to metadata that Adobe can use all the way through to the Flash Player. In online productions, advertisers can buy ads in just the right locations, like auto insurance during chase scenes, or a Bombay Sapphire Gin advert when Bond orders his martini, shaken, not stirred. Basically, Adobe has staked a long term claim on the over-arching value of metadata, and Adobe Story is their latest investment. more

Thomson Grass Valley‘s Kayenne video production center is a new family of switchers that integrates features of the company’s Kalypso and Kayak models and adds new advances that help to streamline production workflow for HD projects. Watch the video.

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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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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