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High-Speed 12x Write Capability Lets Professional Users and Enthusiasts Quickly Test, Author and Preserve High Definition Content

LONG BEACH, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. today announces its new BDR-205 Blu-ray Disc® Computer Writer, the industry’s first and fastest model to feature up to 12x write speed for single and dual-layer Blu-ray Disc (BD) media*. Ideal for authoring providers and system builders, the Pioneer® BD/DVD/CD Writer provides accurate, rapid performance for demanding professional applications. Continue reading »

Turn your work flow from days into hours… from hours into minutes!

Add power and performance to your Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS4 workflow with the recently introduced Elemental™ Accelerator, a high–speed, high–quality video processing solution. Leveraging the NVIDIA® CUDA™ parallel computing architecture, Elemental Accelerator allows videographers to perform GPU–accelerated video encoding with a Quadro FX Graphical Processing Unit (GPU), delivering a performance increase of up to 11X compared to CPU–only video encoders. By executing demanding processing tasks on the GPU, Elemental Accelerator not only speeds video encoding, it frees CPU resources to perform other tasks, resulting in a faster, more efficient video editing and production environment.

Elemental Accelerator performs GPU–accelerated conversion of commonly distributed digital video formats to H.264/AVC output ready for upload to the web or burning to Blu–ray disc. Plus, with version 2.1, Elemental Accelerator will add support for high–speed MPEG–2 video encoding for DVD media or digital broadcast output. Support for MPEG–2 encoding will be available via a free upgrade to existing Elemental Accelerator customers. Watch the product tour Learn how Elemental Accelerator will speed the Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 workflow and save you time using GPU acceleration for video decoding, processing and encoding. Elemental Accelerator is enabled for a wide range of Quadro FX GPUs including the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800, Quadro FX 3800, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX 4800 for Mac, Quadro FX 5800, Quadro FX 2700M and Quadro FX 3700M. For the first time, Mac Pro users have a GPU–accelerated encoding solution, with the new Elemental Accelerator 1.2 for Mac OS X combined with the Quadro FX 4800 for MAC. Elemental Accelerator and Quadro FX bundles Elemental Accelerator is now bundled with Quadro FX 1800, FX 3800, and FX 4800, offering dramatic savings over the cost of purchasing these items separately.

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As many of you know, over the past several weeks, Adobe has been working with the 3rd party I/O board vendors and their current CS4 drivers. This has been a joint effort between these companies and Adobe. CS4 introduced a number of changes ranging from 64 bit memory addressing to I/O calls and so on. Continue reading »

Earlier this year Avid released the 3.5 version of Media Composer software, as well as the corresponding versions for NewsCutter and Symphony. Media Composer 3.5 included more change and innovation than a typical .5 software release. Besides many small improvements, there are three big features promoted with this release: software activation, 3D stereoscopic editing and Avid Media Architecture (AMA). Continue reading »