Reprinted from a Boris FX press release
BCC 6 AVX for DS brings nearly 180 filters to 64-bit versions of Avid DS. The release features over 30 new filters including Pixel Fixer, DV Fixer, and Smooth Tone tools; Swish Pan, Cartoon Look, Pencil Sketch, and Water Color effects; and OpenGL-accelerated effects such as 3D Extruded Image Shatter, Damaged TV, Glint, Glare, Glitter, LED, Lens Flare, Lightning, and Scanline.
Check out this video we found of a demo on the Making Of site. It’s an editing system called “Tamper” being created by Oblong Industries, a software company that’s looking into the future with a technology called G-speak. John Underkoffler, the creator, gave a demo of this amazing system at this year’s Sundance Festival.
The editing system’s design consists of human interaction by way of hand gestures, wearing special gloves. The user waves, flaps, grabs or spins the media being manipulated until the desired look is achieved. Read the rest of this entry »
Reprinted from a Boris FX press release
Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, announced that the Boris Continuum Chroma Key Unit now includes a Chroma Key Studio filter for real-time previews and rendering in Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Final Cut Express.
Chroma Key Studio builds on the strength of Boris Continuum Complete’s keying and compositing tools with features such as a best-of-breed chroma key process, spill suppression, matte choker, and a light wrap compositing step. All four tools are combined in one, easy-to-use filter; users do not need to stack multiple filters to pre and post process video. Read the rest of this entry »
Videoguys’ blog today references NVIDIA’s forthcoming Mac edition of the popular and speedy Quadro FX 4800 card. The card is very similar to the Adobe CS4-optimized Quadro CX, but runs on the Mac. Now the question is, are there CUDA-enabled apps on the Mac? (I’m sure there are… at least I’d be very surprised if there weren’t.)
All the usual trimmings are here; the stereoscopic port, the multi-monitor outputs (two dual-link DVI ports), 1.5GB of memory (accessible at 76.8GB/sec), and PCI Express x16 connection.
Reprinted from a proDAD press release:
proDAD GmbH today announced the latest addition to its popular Adorage Effects Package – Adorage Effects Package 10 – Full HD Video Effects Generation. As its name suggests, Adorage Effects Package 10 includes hundreds of video effects and transitions from previous Adorage Effects Packages, now in Full HD resolution. Adorage Effects Package 10 allows editors working with HD footage the ability to have their effects and transitions in HD too. Adorage Effects Package 10 is the first effects package offered by proDAD with HD support. Editors working with SD footage can still take full advantage of the effects contained in Adorage Effects Package 10. proDAD has even created its own high performance codec for the rendering of effects and transitions, offering up to 40 percent faster rendering over other solutions.
Adorage Effects Package 10 now includes plug-in support for Adobe Premiere/Pro/Elements, AVID Liquid, Canopus Edius/NEO, Sony Vegas/Vegas Pro, Corel/Ulead MediaStudio & VideoStudio Pro X2, and Magix Video Deluxe 15 NLE applications (previous effects packages required separate purchase of Adorage All-Plugins Collection at a cost of $29 U.S., now included with Effects Package 10). Adorage Effects Package 10 also offers a new, streamlined user interface, making the application easier to use. “Adorage for Pinnacle Studio” can also be enhanced with Effects Package 10 HD effects and its enhanced interface.
Adorage Effects Packages are a low cost way for video editors to add a wide range of high-quality effects and transitions to their video productions. Adorage has been widely popular among hobbyist video editors for years due its ease of use and low cost and is now attractive to the professional video editing community for the same reasons.
“proDAD is once again responding to the voice of the market,” said Andreas Huber, general manager of proDAD GmbH. “Our users have been asking to have Adorage support HD effects and transitions and our reply is Adorage Effects Package 10. This easy to use solution offers hundreds of high quality HD effects for use in wedding, family, sports, and holiday video productions at a price point that users can afford.”
Pricing & Availability
Adorage Effects Package 10 will retail for $99 with an introductory special for a limited time of $79. Adorage Effects Package 10 will be available starting in December at fine pro video resellers (retail boxed version), as well as an electronic download directly from the proDAD.com website Please visit www.prodad.com for full product information.
Need some help sucking the soul out of someone’s body? Want to create an energy ball in the middle of the city? How about a giant crater, in the center of the road? If you do, a great site to check out is Videocopilot.net!
With tips that use Adobe After Effects, Andrew Kramer takes you through a host of visual effects and teaches you how to do them. It’s a great and very useful site for all of you advanced video enthusiasts out there. Not only that, the site also offers products and stock footage for sale. Plus a blog that has some helpful tips as well. Don’t take my work for it. Check it out for yourself! Enjoy!
Reprinted from a proDAD press release:
proDAD GmbH today announced the availability of free downloadable “Starter Kits” of its popular Adorage and Vitascene effects products. The Starter Kits are not trial or demo versions, they contain fully functional effects and transitions as well as plug-ins to allow the effects to be used seamlessly in popular NLE applications from Adobe, AVID, Corel, Canopus, Magix, and Sony.
The Adorage Starter Kit includes 170 popular effects and transitions for hobbyist video editors and is ideal for wedding, event, holiday, family, and sports video productions. Adorage is very easy to use and the effects can be “expanded” to more than 10,000 effects through purchase of Adorage Effects Packages (volumes 1 ~ 9 currently available). The Adorage Starter Kit includes plug-in support for Adobe® Premier/Pro/Elements, AVID® Liquid, Canopus® Edius, Sony® Vegas/Vegas Pro, ULead® Mediastudio, and Magix Video Deluxe 15 NLE applications.
The Vitascene Starter Kit includes 50 of the most popular professional grade effects, film-looks, transitions, and text-effects for professional video editors. Vitascene utilizes your graphics card’s GPU for up to 50 times faster rendering, improved quality, and sharper details. Vitascene Starter Kit users can expand their effects library by upgrading to Vitascene or Vitascene LE. Full plug-in support for Adobe Elements/Premier/Pro AVID Liquid 7.x & Xpress 5.x, Media Composer Adreneline 2.x, Canopus Edius 4.x, 5.x, NEO 1.x, Magix Video Deluxe 2008, Magix Video Deluxe 15, and Sony Vegas 5.x, 6.x, Vegas Pro 7.x, and 8.x
“The Adorage and Vitascene Starter Kits are proDAD’s way of ensuring that users don’t miss the best effects regardless of whether they are a professional or a hobbyist video editor,” said Andreas Huber, general manager of proDAD GmbH. “Simply by installing the Adorage or Vitascene starter Kits users can begin adding creativity to their work immediately with proDAD’s high quality effects, completely free of charge.”
Availability
The Adorage and Vitascene Starter Kits are immediately available for download
Adorage Starter Kit: www.prodad.com/starter/adorage.html
Vitascene Starter Kit: www.prodad.com/starter/vitascene.html
A Videomaker/Canon Short Video Contest contestant from the wine country of California sent us some entries as DVCPRO HD in a QuickTime wrapper. In the minutes that followed, I puzzled over why we could get audio but not video from the clips. The DVCPRO HD part was what wasn’t supported by anything we were currently using.
A furiously quick round of Googling led us to a bunch of shots in the dark over codecs that turned out to be little more than leads. We finally found something that works great, and as advertised: Calibrated Software’s Calibrated{Q} DVCProHD Decode. If you’re going to be exchanging footage with someone with a Panasonic AG-HVX200 or other DVCPRO HD camcorder, Calibrated{Q} DVCProHD Decode is your friend. There’s no waiting, either–even with our somewhat-old P4 system that we’re using to encode all of our clips with, scrubbing on the contestant’s 720p clips was silky-smooth.
You can try out the software for free, but the software will add rectangular watermarks to make sure that if you’re going to get any serious use out of Calibrated{Q} DVCProHD Decode, you’ve paid your $70 for the license. But it’s absolutely worth it if you need access to any DVCPRO HD footage–it does what it says and it does it well.
NVIDIA has just released it’s new Quadro CX graphics card. It’s been designed in conjunction with Adobe to specifically accelerate certain features of the recently announced CS4 suite. I attended an online demo yesterday and the technology involved looked very impressive.
The Quadro CX allowed very fluid interaction with your content in Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere. Many of the simple tasks, such as resizing and rotation were instantaneous, and certain time consuming tasks such as h.264 encoding were greatly accelerated. The Quadro CX is squarely aimed at Adobe professionals, where time is money. We hope to get one in soon to test out for you.
The card itself has 1.5 Gigs of graphics memory and is priced at $1,999, and has drivers for both XP and Vista. A Mac version is currently “under discussion”.
You can read more details in the press release below:
The wait is over, Adobe has announced the immediate availability of CS4, the largest release of software in the company’s history. Adobe has pretty much updated all their flagship applications, the new features of which, you can find out in our previous post. The Production Premium bundle will be of most interest to Videomaker readers, with new versions of Premiere, Encore, Soundbooth, On Location, After Effects, Photoshop, Flash and Illustrator ready to go out the door today.
We’ve been playing around with the Beta for a while, and we’re taking a look at the final versions right now, and with so many apps to review, it looks like we have our work cut out for us.
Read the Press Release Below:
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