May 18

Studio Daily by Debra Kaufman
Avid execs Gary Greenfield, CEO, and Kirk Arnold, COO, attended Editors Lounge at AlphaDogs Editorial in Burbank to engage editors in discussion about Avid products and what the company needs to do to keep meeting their needs and expectations. Continue reading »
Tagged with: AMA • Avid • Matrox • MC5 • MXO2
May 04

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 »
Tagged with: AMA • AVCHD • Avid • DSLR • MC4 • MC5 • MXO2 • NAB • ProRes • Red
May 04

Videomaker by Charlie Fulton
A very versatile video capture device with the portability edge.
For your consideration: a slick little box that captures HD and SD video, and outputs video in just as many formats. Unequivocal success, you would say? Certainly is – and even better, it can also perform faster-than-real-time H.264 compression operations through hardware. Knowledge is power when selecting any kind of video capture device, and
Matrox has a great amount of background in this field, dating back to their original RT.X family of capture devices.
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Tagged with: H.264 • Matrox • MAX • MXO2 • MXO2 Mini