 Videoguys Top 10 Products of 2011
- Avid Media Composer 5.5 & 6
- Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium
- Matrox MXO2 Family with Thunderbolt Adapter
- Grass Valley ADVC-G Series
- SONY Vegas Pro 11
- Avid Studio
- Reds Giant Software Suites
- Boris Continuum Complete 8
- Roland VR-5 Mixer
- Class On Demand Online Training Catalog
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 2011: The Year of the X
That's "X" as in FCPX and XGrades (crossgrades)
2011 has been quite a year for Videoguys, and our industry. In April, at the FCPUG SuperMeet during the NAB show in Vegas, things changed dramatically when Apple gave a first look of their new FCPX editing software. I was at the event, and the room was filled with excitement, energy and anticipation - that is until after the Apple presentation. The professional editors and broadcasters in the room left f
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 When most of us started as editors, we likely substituted cheesy video effects for content and creativity. Some of us may have even chosen our NLE based on the number of included video effects. As we mature as editors (and shooters), we come to realize that effects need to be used ever so sparingly-such as when adding salt to any dish. That's why I'm always hesitant to gush over any effects package: As many as I have installed, tried, uninstalled, or kept, I invariably wind up using only a few o
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 Syfy, formerly known as the Sci-Fi Channel, is an American cable channel featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural, paranormal, and reality programming. Syfy is part of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast and General Electric.
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 A few weeks ago we published a couple of stories about the demise of the phonetic dialog search tool Get for Final Cut Pro. It looks like the comment from Nexidia that it would return was true as Wednesday night at the LAFCPUG meeting Boris Soundbite was introduced.
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 Got Final Cut? Get Media Composer for Just $995
If you’re not getting what you need to succeed—or you’re a former Avid user who switched (we’d love to have you back)—we want to help make your choice easier. That’s why we’re offering Final Cut Pro (excluding FCP X) users another opportunity to purchase Media Composer 5.5 (with the Production Suite) for just $995 USD—that’s over 60% off the regular price! What’s more, you’ll get free Avid Media Composer for Final Cut Pro Users online training
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 With all the craziness of the Final Cut X going on, people threatening to switch NLE’s, wondering where to go and every blogger writing 10 articles about why FCPX is great or why it isn’t, I decided to take action. I didn’t want to write about it right away though. Cammon and I made our video about why you can’t use FCPX on a feature and that’s that.
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 In these difficult economic times the one thing that is on everyone's mind is savings and value. We've kept that in mind with this year's Videoguys' Holiday Gift Guide.
We've broken the guide into several categories that I think will help make your holiday shopping easier:
Gizmos & Gadgets - Low-priced recommendations for everyone!
Blu-ray Disc Authoring - Now is the time to start delivering Blu-ray Discs!
Hardware - Do you need more video storage, Hardware I/O or a new graphics boa
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 One way to spruce up your editing application is through various plug-ins for effects filters, transitions and generators. Your options range from single-purpose filters, like Magic Bullet Colorista II and Digital Anarchy Beauty Box, to full suites, like Boris Continuum Complete or GenArts Sapphire. Such filters enhance the power of your favorite editing or compositing tool by connecting through an API (application programming interface), like Avid AVX or Apple FxPlug. Not all APIs are equal. So
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 Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE will bring over 200 filters to Macintosh and Windows versions of Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro CS5, CS4, and CS3. Version 7 features 11 new filters including a 3-way color corrector with built-in keying and masking tools, a new video noise reduction tool, a spline-based warp filter, an audio-driven keyframe generator, a new OpenGL particle engine, and still and video morph technology. Each BCC filter has been re-engineered to take advantage of 64-bit processi
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 The new effects in version 6 include a broad set of text and image-styling filters, including Extruded Text, Type-On Text, Extruded Spline, Layer Deformer, Extruded EPS, DV Fixer, Smooth Tone, Cartoon Look, Charcoal Sketch, Pencil Sketch, Water Color, Pixel Fixer, Lightning, Tile Mosaic, and Swish Pan.
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 Recommendations for Videographers & Editors at Every Price!
In these difficult economic times the one thing that is on everyone's mind is savings and value. We've kept that in mind with this year's Videoguys' Holiday Gift Guide. We've broken the guide into several categories that I think will help make your holiday shopping easier: Gizmos & Gadgets, Blu-ray Disc Authoring, Upgrades, Hardware, Plug-Ins, and Training.
We realize that many of you are shopping for yourselves, but that doesn't
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 "It's true that at $995 Boris Continuum Complete 6 is a bit of an investment. However, the developers have taken a lot of time to deliver a plethora of effects to make a designer's life easier. Many of these effects include modifications of standard AE effects with added functionality, while many others are unique to Boris. And still other effects mimic high-level and sought after third-party effects. For the price, Boris Continuum Complete delivers a ton of bang for the buck. While you get a to
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 Achieving a convincing chroma key composite is more than just slapping in a background and keying a foreground. It requires the use of integration techniques to marry the image elements together to give the impression they were shot with the same camera at the same time
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 Boris Continuum Complete 6 brings nearly 200 filters to leading video editing and compositing applications on Macintosh and Windows. This new release features 13 new filters including Extruded Text, Extruded Spline, Type-On Text, Layer Deformer, Smooth Tone, DV Fixer, and Pixel Fixer. In addition, BCC 6 delivers unique workflow enhancements such as saving and loading of XML-based animated presets and a single-click custom preset navigation tool.
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