NLESystems Blog

EventDV by Mark Von Lanken

As your editing workflow slow because you are shooting with DSLR or AVCHD cameras? Do you ever feel like your NLE is fighting you instead of working with you? I have heard complaints about instability, crashes, unresponsiveness, rendering, and transcoding, and the list goes on and on. I have been editing on a computer for 11 years, and I have experienced very few of those complaints. In 1999, I was editing with Rex Edit by Canopus. Fast-forward 11 years; I am now editing on EDIUS 5.5 by Grass Valley. EDIUS is the evolution of Rex Edit, so it brought with it two key features from Rex Edit: stability and real-time performance. When making a living with your NLE, those are two very important features to have; after all, time is money. Continue reading »

Videomaker by Brian Peterson

CS5 is among Adobe’s most significant upgrades to the Production Premium bundle ever. Continue reading »

Tastes Like Chicken by Dylan Reeve

NAB is on in Las Vegas at the moment, and while I’m still slogging away in an edit suite in Auckland I have been able to keep an eye on some of the coice announcements. The choicest of these, from my perspective was Avid’s announcement of Media Composer 5.0! Continue reading »

Today, Adobe revealed Creative Suite 5 (CS5). Like many members of the press, I’ve been working with beta software for about three months, and I am very familiar with the additions to Premiere Pro, OnLocation, Media Encoder, and a couple of ancillary programs, which I’ll detail here. For information about After Effects, Photoshop, or other programs in the suite, you’ll have to look elsewhere. Continue reading »