Tweet Panasonic had a few new announcements this year – first off is their new HPX 600 camcorder. It is being touted at the lightest shoulder-mounted 2/3 inch camcorder available. It sports the new 2/3 CMOS sensor and will be upgradeable for new features in the future like AVC-Ultra support, and recording to proxy files. [...]

Tweet Blackmagic released a new cinema camera at NAB this year that promises to provide filmmakers with a better contrast range, better compression and an overall better experience. From the press release: The Blackmagic Cinema Camera includes a super wide 13 stops of dynamic range, large 2.5K sensor, integrated SSD recorder that has the bandwidth [...]

The crowds are thick here at NAB 2012’s Booth #SU902. People are shoulder-to-shoulder trying to take a peak at Avid’s largest product announcement at this conference in over a decade. The booth itself is enough to stir a sense of excitement in even the most Luddite of tech users. The displays are larger than life and I’m slowly making my way to each smaller display to wrap my head around the new family of products and services they are offering. I have to say: This is going to change everything.

Tweet It looks like Autodesk is stepping up to try to capture that market share of editors that felt “abandoned” by the release of FCP X last year.  Even though Apple is releasing new updates for FCP X bringing it closer to how FCP 7 used to be, there is still a void in that [...]