Final Cut Pro 4 review
Final Cut Pro has come a hell of a long way since its launch in April 1999. Arriving shortly after Apple’s iMac-driven resurgence, the NLE ...
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photon20vision review
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 ...
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FlashTrax review
One of the most annoying problems with digital photography is that there’s never enough space on your media cards for all the pictures you want ...
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Edition 5 review
Edition 5 is different. In an arena of increasingly homogenized video-editing tools, it’s great that someone is walking an entirely different path to its competition ...
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Colour Reference System review
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 ...
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Media Studio Pro 7 review
MediaStudio Pro is aimed at professional video editors. It costs around £300, so you wouldn’t expect it to compete with the depth and power of ...
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Cleaner XL review
A few months ago, Discreet released Cleaner 6 for the Macintosh. This provided some welcome performance improvements, allowing it to compete more effectively with its ...
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LiveChannel Pro 2.0 review
It has a few rough edges, but LiveChannel Pro is a superb piece of software. The program currently only runs on Mac OS X, but ...
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Continuum Complete review
Continuum Complete 2.0 is the latest in Boris FX’s line of plug-ins for compositing applications. It sits alongside the company’s eponymous line of more NLE-focused ...
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AdvantEdge review
AdvantEdge is a redesigned and rewritten version of Ultimatte’s eponymous keying tool. It runs under a wide range of operating systems (Windows, Mac OS 9 ...
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DVX100 review
When the DVX100 was announced in April 2002, it was heralded as the greatest leap forward since Canon’s XL1. Launched under the banner of DV ...
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Freehand MX review
For a number of years, Macromedia has been content with nudging up the feature list a little from one version of FreeHand to the next. ...
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Director MX review
Director has finally joined the MX range of Macromedia products, with a long-awaited upgrade, an overhaul of the user interface, and some key new features. ...
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Camedia 5050 Zoom review
Olympus has been using the same basic form for its high-end compact digital cameras since the 2.1mp C2000Z of 1999. The C5050Z represents a major ...
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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 Matrox had ...
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MojoWorld 2.0 review
Pandromeda's MojoWorld is a virtual planet/terrain generator developed largely by Dr Kenton Musgrave, whose involvement in fractal-geometry landscape generation goes back to pioneering work he ...
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FinePix F401 Zoom review
The FinePix F401 Zoom combines all the features you’d expect from FujiFilm and, after putting it through its paces, we can safely say that this ...
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Cinema 4D 8 review
The idea behind the latest release of Cinema 4D is that its pricing should grow to reflect the user’s needs, providing a basic package to ...
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onViz review
onViz is intended to create interactive multimedia applications with online connectivity and QuickTime multimedia support. Although this is a Mac-only product, you can create self-contained ...
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Softimage|XSI 3.0 review
The Softimage name is legendary in 3D. It’s been around since the beginning, and has been popular among film-effects studios for years. Now with prices ...