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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.

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 market [...]

PluralEyes for FCP X is out and ready to help with all of your syncing needs. You may be wondering why you might need PluralEyes for FCP X considering that FCP X has it’s own ability to synchronize clips within the application. I shared your same skepticism, however, if you dig in and do a [...]

I decided to take the plunge today and purchase FCP X after giving the trial a once-over. I get a lot of work for both Avid and FCP 7 but lately I have been asked about FCP X – so it’s time to start learning something new. I don’t have a great deal of experience [...]

When I first heard the news about Media Composer 6, I was genuinely excited. It has been a long time since an NLE has given me a reason to look forward to its release. After the release of FCP X, I realized (along with everyone else in the professional film and video world) that I [...]

As you may have heard, the twittergeist/blogosphere was blowing up yesterday based on two big announcements.  One by Canon, one by Red.  Both companies revealed new digital cinematography cameras aimed at budding and established filmmakers. Canon’s C300 was widely anticipated since the company’s 5D/7D DSLRs have been all the rage for videographers for several years [...]

Big announcement from Avid today that has me thinking there might be changes to every FCP post house in the country. At the very least, it will be a hefty battle between Avid and Adobe for the existing FCP 7.0 users that felt a bit left out in the cold from the launch of the [...]

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t [...]

Whoa! This thing is pretty cool looking. The Panasonic HDC-Z10000, is a ridiculously named, alphabet soup, camcorder that looks pretty sweet. It shoots “glasses-less 3D” using dual lenses and dual CMOS sensors, while also allowing you to shoot 2D 1920×1080/24p material as well using a new modified AVCHD 3D spec. Camcorders like this will greatly [...]

If you’re into visual effects, no doubt you’ve stumbled upon Andrew Kramer’s work online. His Video CoPilot series is an amazing educational site for visual effects artists interested in learning new After Effects and 3D modeling techniques. Video CoPilot’s latest endeavor is into the iPhone app world. Why? Because they were bored. What Andrew and [...]