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 »
Tag Archives: Compression
Editorial in 3D
In theory, stereoscopic media content can be edited exactly the same as 2D content is, when an offline-online workflow is used. This allows the editor to edit one stream in 2D,… Read more »
Shared SAN Storage Solutions
SANs are a hardware solution that allows multiple systems to share access to the performance and security offered by large high speed disk arrays. A single array of disks can… Read more »
Post Production Media Storage and Drive Arrays
After my last article explained why USB3 is not ready to be used as the interface for primary media editing drives, this has led to the question of: what interface… 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 »
Editing DSLR Footage in Avid
Avid Media Composer works on a very different paradigm than either Premiere or Final Cut. This makes the application more stable than its competitors on larger projects with lots of… Read more »
Live from NAB 2010
So after the first two days of the show, I have finally found some time to post some info here. By far, the most revolutionary new development announced at the… 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 »
