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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 ...
TourWeaver, from Shanghai-based EasyPano, lets you link several immersive spherical images via hotspots to form a guided tour – for instance you could create a tour of your house with hotspots on the doors to take you to the next room. You can link to still images, movies, sound files, and to URLs ...
On paper, the Sovereign Pro looks like a powerful bargain laptop. Based around ATI’s powerful Mobile Radeon 9600 graphics chip and a large 15.1-inch screen, this notebook boasts a desktop processor, a large hard drive, FireWire, USB 2.0, and ...
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 relative success of CorelDraw upgrades is inconsistent to say the least. CorelDraw was already at version 3 before anyone took any notice; version 4 was astonishing; version 8 was a blinder; version 10 was the dog’s bollocks. All the intermediate releases, however, have come across as fillers, as if they were produced by contractual obligation. This is how version 12 feels too.
There seems to be a plethora of mid-range DVD authoring tools on the Windows platform at the moment, including Adobe’s Encore DVD. In terms of ease-of-use however, DVD Workshop 2 actually resembles Apple’s iDVD – offering a similar approach, motion menus, and drag-&-drop functionality.
Until this autumn, Matrox’s line of DV-editing hardware looked to be in trouble. Tied to an ailing piece of editing software – Premiere 6.5 – the systems were facing redundancy, made obsolete by software-only NLEs and the power of host machines.
Occasionally an upgrade ditches the ‘ooh’, ‘aah’ new features for an expansive list of seemingly minor updates that combine to leave a wide smile on your face. One such release is Video Toaster 3, the latest version of NewTek’s live production system that the company now calls VT[3], but which UK reseller Onevideo calls Video Toaster 3.
U&I Software’s ArtMatic Voyager is a keenly priced, dedicated 3D landscape generator for Mac OS 9 and OS X that can produce scenes of stunning realism or worlds of fantastic imagination.
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.
The TAB is a curious little animation tool from the maker of Toonz – the previously Softimage-affiliated product that was used in the making of Spirited Away.
Liquid Edition finally brings together Pinnacle’s prosumer and broadcast DV editing tools into a single application.
Despite Adobe’s decision to drop version numbers and call everything CS, the splash screen reveals what we all knew anyway: this is InDesign 3.0.
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.
Many 3D packages are like religions, and less-entrenched tools, such as Carrara Studio, have to work much harder to woo serious 3D designers.
The MVX3i sits at the top of Canon’s range of single-CCD DV camcorders. Though primarily aimed at consumers, it does include some professional-level features, and even works surprisingly well as a still camera.
E-on Software, makers of landscape and environment rendering package Vue d’Esprit, has launched a new version aimed more at the professional 3D market. The prosaically named Vue 4 Professional seems to be an attempt by E-on to make Vue 4 Professional the 3D program everyone wanted Corel’s Bryce to become.
One of the most enticing new features in Combustion 3 is the built-in editing capability. The Edit tool exists as an operator (as Combustion calls its effects nodes) and creating edits is easy). However, as an NLE, the Edit operator offers less functionality than iMovie.
The first thing that hits you about DVD Studio Pro 2 is the big interface improvement. Highly customizable, you have great freedom to choose which windows to display and where they should go.
