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News: EXCLUSIVE: Cleaner XL brings format update
Review: DVStorm2 review
It’s been handbags at dawn between Canopus and Matrox over the last six months. The DVStorm2 was announced in September 2002, shortly after…
News: FreeHand gains MX update
Review: Evo N800w review
For the uninitiated, a mobile workstation is a laptop based around a scaled-down version of a workstation-class graphics card – such as…
Review: Power Mac G5 dual 2GHz review
There’s no question that this Mac is fast. Rendering Digit’s usual test scene on the dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 – a multiprocessor-aware task…
Review: Digital Fusion 4 review
Everyone talks about the market upheavals and price drops in the 3D market, but it's compositing that has gone through the greatest change in the ...
Review: ChromaFlex review
The Chromatte system from Reflecmedia is designed to make it easier for everyone to own their own chroma-keying facility – and the company has…
Review: Mokey V2 review
The first time you see Mokey, it blows you away. The application’s standard tutorial removes a skateboarding child from a piece of standard…
Review: XM2 review
The XM2 is the bastard offspring of the popular XM1 and the ubiquitous XL1s DV camcorders. It builds upon the hand-held body of the XM1, ...
Review: ProCoder review
ProCoder will be instantly familiar to anyone with experience of Discreet Cleaner. The user imports files, sets the output parameters, and leaves…
News: ProCoder 1.2 video transcoder is hi-def star
Review: RT.X100 review
Matrox pioneered the sub-£1,000 real-time editing system with the RT2000 back in May 2000 (reviewed in Digit 23), but since then, the RT2000 –…
News: IBC 2002: Canopus rolls out second-gen DVStorm
News: IBC 2002: Pro DV camera boost from JVC
Review: Precision M50 review
The Precision M50 sits in the same case as its predecessor, the M40, with the same excellent 15-inch, 1,600-x-1,200-pixel UltraSharp screen –…
News: Matrox in low-cost real-time video-editing move
Review: Multiscan X82 review
The Multiscan X82 is the latest 18-inch LCD monitor from Sony, a company that has built a reputation for creating stylish LCD and CRT monitors ...
News: SIGGRAPH: Character Studio 4.0 adds animation mixer, analyzer, and fixer
Review: Video Toaster 2 review
You get a lot for your money with Video Toaster 2 – essentially a live-production studio on a PCI card. The £2,200 price tag includes ...
Review: Edition DV review
This may be Edition DV’s first release, but it’s not a new product. The first offspring of Pinnacle’s takeover of Fast in September 2001,…

