Avid Media Composer 6
I haven’t posted much in the last few months, because there have not been many new developments that caught my eye or piqued my curiosity. But this month we are… Read more »
Category: Product Reviews
USB3 and Post-Production
USB3 has been talked about in the tech world for a couple of years now, but it has only been in the last few months that products have finally appeared… Read more »
CS5 Master Collection Applications
The Adobe CS5 Master Collection includes many other applications besides the video ones I reviewed in my last two posts. Although I don’t use any of these nearly as extensively… Read more »
Premiere Pro CS5 with NVidia CUDA
While all of the Adobe applications have been updated in CS5, clearly Premiere Pro is the centerpiece of this release. Adobe has been touting the Mercury Playback Engine for months,… Read more »
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Video Apps
Adobe announced CS5 at NAB 2010 and has recently begun shipping the retail version. Now in its fifth iteration, Creative Suite has grown from a compilation of four stand alone applications… Read more »
Shooting a Feature Film on the Canon 5D
The Canon 5D MarkII was the first DSLR that offered HD video capture capability worth considering as a replacement for film. Its full sized sensor, full resolution 1080p recording, and… Read more »
Elemental Accelerator on NVIDIA Quadro GPUs
The Elemental Accelerator is a plugin for Adobe Media Encoder CS4 that harnesses the computing power of high end NVIDIA Quadro GPUs to encode video files faster. It currently supports… Read more »
GPU Acceleration in Photoshop CS4
Adobe Photoshop is one of the most ubiquitous image editing programs on the planet, used not only by photo editors, but illustrators, graphic designers, web designers, VFX artists, and many others. With… Read more »
The NVIDIA Quadro CX with Adobe’s CS4 Suite
So over the last few weeks I have had the opportunity to test the NVIDIA Quadro ® CX, a new high-end workstation class graphics card. This is basically the next generation successor… Read more »
2K Cineform 444
While Cineform’s initial products were developed for broadcast-level HD 10bit 4:2:2 YUV editing, they have added many other features to their compression format, many of which I have had the opportunity to take advantage of… Read more »