Panasonic AG-HVX200 review
When we last looked at Panasonic’s AG-HVX200, its shooting flexibility greatly impressed us, but the lack of editing support for DVCPRO HD recorded to P2 card rather limited its usage...
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Sony HVR-Z7E review
Sony’s HVR-Z1E has become a classic, and is now the standard tool of the independent videographer – so the HVR-Z7E has a lot to live up to.
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Sony PMW-EX1 review
A quick glance at the PWW-EX1 reveals a family resemblance to the HVR-Z7E. But although its CMOS sensors also use the Exmor technology, the EX1 has a trio of 1/2in units.
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Sony Vegas Pro 8 review
Vegas 8 doesn’t look that different to the previous iteration when first loaded, but Sony has been doing some major renovation under the hood.
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HDC-SD1 review
We were sceptical about a camcorder that records HD video onto an SD Card. The HDC-SD1, however, captures exceptional video for a sub-£1,000 model.
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Soundbooth CS3 review
Soundbooth is an audio clean-up and score creation application with some rather neat features for video editors and multimedia professionals.
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Premiere Pro CS3 review
Premiere Pro has not received as much of a features boost as stablemate After Effects, though it too has been touched with the CS3 makeover brush.
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After Effects CS3 review
After Effects is the most popular of Adobe’s video tools, as its reach extends to motion-graphics artists, VFX professionals and 2D animators – and from simple Web cartoons to Hollywood blockbusters.
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Final Cut Studio 2 review
Once the underdog to video-editing applications from the likes of Adobe and Avid, Apple’s Final Cut Pro has since become the industry standard for desktop cut-&-correct work.
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Photoshop CS3 review
Photoshop is the tool that unifies Digital Arts readers. Whether you work in graphic design and illustration, VFX, and 3D animation – for print, broadcast, disc, or Web – chances are you spend a significant amount of time using Photoshop.
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Halide review
Halide is the first release from UK plug-in newcomer Amber Visual -- a 'film-look' plug-in for After Effects that's designed to compete with Red Giant Software's Magic Bullet Suite.
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Intensity review
Most video capture cards try to offer as many different connection types as possible, but Blackmagic Design's tiny Intensity has two HDMI ports only.
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Magic Bullet Colorista review
Colorista is a colour-correcting and colour-matching plug-in for digital video work, designed for use with Red Giant's film-look plug-ins - but with a wider appeal.
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Vegas+DVD Production Suite review
Vegas has an unusual history. Starting life as a multi-track audio-editing tool from Sonic Foundry, it has since reinvented itself as a video-editing package, and was later acquired by Sony’s media software development arm. It’s emerged as a genuine contender in the video-editing market.
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Boris Red 4 review
While we now take integration between video-editing programs and compositing tools for granted, Boris Red pioneered this by running as a plug-in for most of the major NLEs.
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Armari Magnetar QS quad-core workstation review
Armari’s latest graphics workstation is the first to feature one of Intel’s brand new quad-core chips, which were announced today. The Intel Core 2 Duo QX6700 doesn’t just boast four cores...
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RT.X2 review
enables editors to capture, edit and output HDV with a minimum of fuss. Like the first generation of DV editing hardware, it’s somewhat limited, but it’s far better than...
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Boris Blue 1.0 review
Following on from the first real-time 2D motion graphics application, Apple Motion, Boris FX has released the first truly-professional real-time 3D compositor, Boris Blue.
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Encore DVD 2.0 review
The new version of Encore DVD shares many of the other enhancements of the Production Studio components. Customizable workspaces with automatically resizing palettes, roundtrip editing via Dynamic Link, and the Bridge media management utility all contribute to improved efficiency in the system.
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Premiere Pro 2.0 review
As part of the Production Studio, Premiere Pro 2.0 ties into the workflows of Adobe’s other production tools. Even as a standalone application, though, version 2.0 offers tighter interoperability between the various Adobe applications.