When first launched in summer 2003, Edius seemed like a saviour for users of Canopus’s capture and effects hardware. Tied to Adobe’s ailing Premiere 6.5, Edius offered a more professional and efficient editing environment for the discerning editor. However, Edius turned out to be about as well finished as a PoundStretcher tea-set ...
When Olympus announced the 5.1mp Camedia 5060 Wide Zoom compact digital camera back in September, it seemed like the excellent C-5050Z would just be fitted with a wider-angle lens. Actually it’s a major revision, with a new, fully articulated swivelling monitor, and it’s been tuned for faster start-up and shutter response, too. The lower-cost C-5060Z is still available.
If there’s a weak link in Adobe’s plans for world domination, it’s probably GoLive.
Premiere is back from the brink. Just when it looked like the video-editing product should be put out of its misery, it has been given ...
Edius’s main strength is its interface. Canopus has obviously put a lot of thought into its brand-new NLE, as it’s exceedingly efficient to use. All ...
High-end colour-measurement specialist GretagMacbeth first announced its ‘desktop’ Eye-One colour calibration and profiling system three years ago, though it took a year to reach the ...
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 ...
Those who are serious about colour reproduction for print nearly always look to LaCie for their display needs. Granted, there are better solutions out there, ...
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 ...
Capturing razor-sharp and colour-accurate photos can be a challenge, even with today’s multimillion-pixel digital cameras. But Foveon, an image-sensor company, promises to change all that with ...
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 ...
Straddling the top of Apple’s monitor range, the 23-inch widescreen Cinema HD Display is part of the company’s strategy to enter the mid-range postproduction market ...
The price might have been hiked, but Discreet’s video-effects and compositing tool Combustion 2 is more than worth the little change you get from four ...
It’s not often that you encounter a product that’s truly unique – but Multicam definitely fits the bill. It’s based on the standout feature of ...
Anyone who knows anything about compositing knows that 3D is the future. Who needs 2D when you can mix your footage and animation in true ...
The first thing you notice on the Dimage 7 is its 5.2-megapixel badge. Digital camera resolution is advancing rapidly now, with 4mp and 5mp models ...
This product is the first software-only release from Fast. The box does come with an IEEE 1394 (FireWire) card, but this is just a standard ...
Final Cut Pro has always been an odd kettle of fish. When designing it, Apple took the likes of Avid and Media 100 (both of ...
The DW300 is the latest addition to Compaq’s Deskpro workstation range. It sits at the lower end of the range – just above the AP250 ...
DV.now AV is one of the first releases from Dazzle-Fast, the recent combination of the prosumer part of Fast with Dazzle. It takes Fast’s popular ...
