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Magic Bullet Editors is a NLE plug-in version of the film stock-mimicking tool Magic Bullet. Whilst previously Magic Bullet lived alongside After Effects, the ‘Editor’ version runs within an NLE – Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, or Sony Vegas 5
Vegas is the permanent underdog of the video-editing world. The NLE has a small but fanatical following in the US, but has probably slipped under the radar of most editors – although it’s a tool you’d know about if you always wanted to make music videos. It's available 'straight' or bundled with the DVD Architect 2.0 authoring package (reviewed here) as Vegas+DVD.
Against rivals such as Adobe’s Encore DVD, Apple’s DVD Studio and Ulead’s DVD Workshop, DVD Architect is unusual in that it’s available only as part of Sony’s Vegas+DVD bundle (Vegas 5 is reviewed here). Looking at version 2.0, this makes perfect sense – as while its interface and integration will appeal to Vegas users, its toolset isn’t up to the competition.
Previous updates to Maya, one of the biggest 3D animation package out there, have seen Alias attempt to make the software easier to use. The company has sought to widen its appeal to include designers and DCC artists not working at the cutting-edge of 3D animation, and to slash the price too.
Most digital cameras are rather boxy in shape, so Sony’s higher end cameras are a little different. The DSC-F828 – like its predecessor, the 5-megapixel DSC-F717 – is L-shaped, thanks to its massive lens barrel to one side at the front. The two sections of the unit are joined by a hefty hinge that lets the lens rotate on a perpendicular axis to the body ...
Last summer, Sony announced a new eight million-pixel sensor for compact cameras, and we’re now seeing a rash of new models all hitting the market together. Sony was first, naturally, with the excellent semi-pro DSC-F828 that arrived late last year. It was followed by 8mp announcements from Canon, Minolta, Olympus. Nikon joined the queue with the CoolPix 8700 ...
Armari’s RX-E includes some of the best components currently available for mid-range, Windows-based 3D workstations. It offers two of the latest generation Xeon processors and a healthy amount of fast RAM – and it sees the first appearance of ATI’s latest workstation-class graphics card.
With the DVC-30, Panasonic has done a good job of cramming the DVX100’s main features into a smaller case – and adding a few of its own. However, it hasn’t achieved scaling the body size down to that of a consumer-camcorder – a feat achieved by ...
JVC Pro’s DR-DV5000E is a FireWire hard-drive container (with removable 40GB hard drive) and controller that you can add to your shoulder-mounted JVC Pro DV camcorder, and use alongside or instead of tape. Users of the GY-DV5000E camcorder can just bolt it on between the back of the camcorder and the battery, though it can be attached to the DV500, DV550, or DV700 through an adaptor plate.
The top models in Fujifilm’s FinePix digital camera series have always set new standards for resolution and features, and the new S7000 is no exception.
Mirage offers the widest and most creative paint-based toolset for compositors and animators available.
MotionBuilder is now available in two versions – standard and professional. The professional version of this real-time character animation suite is aimed squarely at filmmakers, while the standard version is set to take advantage of the desktop director market.
We’ve all been there. There’s an image that you absolutely, positively must use in a Quark document, but the client’s sent you a 300-pixel-wide Web ...
Minolta’s DiMAGE 7 was one of the first cameras to boast five-megapixel resolution back in 2001. We were impressed by its controls, lens and image ...
As with its predecessor, Xpress DV, Xpress Pro sits at the top of the software NLE pile, placed alongside Final Cut Pro looking down on ...
While other vendors such Sony offer desktop replacements with traditional screens that grow ever taller to 15.7 or 16 inches, Dell is following Apple by ...
Patterned after the highly regarded Contax TVS 35mm film camera, this digital version is elegantly designed. Wrapped in a titanium shell, it has the solid, ...
The photon20vision isn’t LaCie’s first LCD display. The company launched the photon18blue in 2001 for a whopping £1,800 – though that was an appropriate price ...
Paint Shop Pro has grown into what is probably the most versatile photo-editing and general-purpose paint package you can buy on the Windows platform. The ...
This is the best monitor I’ve ever used. Period. Sony is pitching the 21-inch GDM-C520K (part of the Colour Reference System (CRS) system) display directly ...
