New G-RAID Pro, G-RAID and G-RAID mini External Disk Arrays Offer High Performance, Affordable Storage Solutions for an All-Digital Workflow
National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show, Las Vegas, April 14, 2008 (Booth SL2105) – G-Technology, (www.g-technology.com, G-Tech), a Fabrik company and manufacturer of premium storage solutions for the video, media and entertainment market, today announced that it has added the new G-RAID Pro drive to its award-winning product line; increased the performance and quiet operation of its G-RAID drive; and added RAID 1 protection and eSATA connectivity to its G-RAID mini portable drive. Each member of the GRAID family integrates the latest storage technologies, and features universal connectivity to Mac and PC laptops and workstations. They provide content creation professionals with reliable, scalable and high-performance solutions to capture, protect, edit and stream media content in an all-digital workflow.

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Adobe Drives the Creation, Delivery, and Playback of Dynamic Content

SAN JOSE, Calif. and LAS VEGAS NV — April 14 , 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) is showcasing new technologies and initiatives that are helping to drive innovation across dynamic media content creation, delivery, and playback at the 2008 NAB Show, beginning today. Adobe is spearheading an effort to begin defining an industry wide open file format for digital cinema files, which is planned to be called CinemaDNG (see separate press release), and delivering native support for the Sony XDCAM EX camera format in Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3 software. For capturing live audio and video to stream in real-time to Adobe Flash® Media Server or the Flash Video Streaming Service, Adobe is offering Adobe Flash Media Encoder 2.5 software as a free download. Adobe also is helping to bring intelligence to dynamic media by allowing the incorporation of metadata into its professional video product line. A highlight of the show is the recently announced Adobe Media Player, which is already featuring content from leading television broadcasters and content publishers, including CBS, MTV Networks, Universal Music Group, and CondéNet. All of these breakthroughs are being shown at the 2008 NAB Show, April 14 - 17 (Booth SL 3220).

“Adobe is committed to driving innovation across dynamic media content, delivery, and playback,” said Jim Guerard, vice president of Dynamic Media at Adobe. “Our customers are building businesses in a rapidly changing media and advertising landscape. Thanks to our partner ecosystem—from CDNs to plug-in vendors—Adobe technologies provide a virtually complete and integrated solution that allows our customers to create content once, then seamlessly distribute and monetize that content across the widest possible array of playback environments.” (more…)

LAS VEGAS, NV — (NAB Tradeshow Booth # SL12413) - Following the industry-wide adoption of the Sony Blu-ray high definition DVD format, Sony Creative Software today announced upgrades to its DVD Architect and Blu-print applications for authoring Blu-ray discs. Ongoing development of Blu-ray authoring solutions reinforces Sony’s commitment to offer comprehensive production solutions, from software to hardware, at the prosumer and global production scale.

DVD Architect 5 software enables independent producers and videographers to author both a standard definition DVD or a high definition Blu-ray Disc complete with full motion buttons, motion menus, scene selection menus, subtitles and alternate video and audio tracks. The clean, drag-and-drop DVD Architect interface, powerful layout and authoring tools work seamlessly with the Sony Vegas Pro video editing and production software, making it easy to develop dynamic menu-based DVDs, movies, picture slideshows and music compilations. Shipping in mid-June, DVD Architect 5 software will be available as a free downloadable upgrade to all registered Vegas Pro 8 users, as the Vegas Pro software ships bundled with the DVD Architect application. (more…)

Simultaneous Multi-File Encoding Featured in Major Release of Award-Winning Video Compression Software. Sorenson Squeeze 5 Also Includes New and Improved Codecs, Filters for Enhanced Workflow, and Dramatic Improvements in Sound.

SALT LAKE CITY (March 31, 2008) Sorenson Media, the worldwide leader for video compression and decoding solutions, today announced the immediate availability of Sorenson Squeeze® 5, Sorenson Squeeze® 5 Pro (formerly Sorenson Squeeze PowerPack), Sorenson Squeeze® 5 for Flash and Sorenson Squeeze® 5 for Flash Pro. This major release of Sorenson Media’s award-winning compression and encoding software offers benefits that include speed increases, superior audio and video quality, workflow enhancements and many pre-processing options. Sorenson Squeeze 5 now allows users to process multiple files simultaneously on computers with multiple cores, features new and improved codecs and filters for higher quality output, and offers a new, workflow-friendly organization of presets.

“Sorenson Squeeze 5 sets the standard for desktop encoding applications, this is by far the best Squeeze yet,” said Nate Caplin, manager of Streaming Media, AEP. “Squeeze 5 improves upon its familiar, friendly interface with solid usability refinements, especially for managing presets, previewing video and working with filters. Even more important, Squeeze 5 improves results through dramatic quality and performance tune-ups under the hood.” (more…)

NAB 2008 - Las Vegas, NV - April 14, 2008 - Matrox® Video Products Group today announced Matrox MXO2. Designed to streamline editing workflow with Apple Final Cut Studio and Adobe Production Premium on MacBook Pros and Mac Pros, Matrox MXO2 provides broadcast-quality input/output, monitoring, and up/down/cross conversion. Users can benefit from file-based workflows with native support for XDCAM, XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX, and P2. In addition, they are not limited to using a single codec as with some other I/O devices on the market.”Matrox is leading the way in mobile editing on the Mac,” said Alberto Cieri, Matrox sales and marketing director. “Broadcasters tell us they need a way to upload video from laptops in the field and MXO2 is our answer for them. It’s lightweight, fits in a laptop bag, and runs for hours on a field battery. It’s also a complete I/O solution for post facilities, at an incredibly affordable price point.”

Matrox MXO2 will be demonstrated at NAB 2008 in booth SL320. (more…)

Focus Enhancements Raises the Bar for Direct To Edit Recording; Previews New FS-5 at NAB 2008

Fifth Generation of Flagship FS Recorder Adds Fast and Efficient Wireless Metadata Capabilities, More File Format Support and UDF Disk Formatting

LAS VEGAS, NV, Apr 08, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) — NAB2008 — Focus Enhancements, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCSE), a worldwide leader in media management and ultra wideband (UWB) wireless technology, today announced that it will showcase its soon-to-be released, ultra-portable FS-5 Direct To Edit(R) (DTE) recorder at NAB 2008 from April 14-17 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Booth SL2605.

Designed for use with popular DV and HDV cameras, FS-5 introduces a groundbreaking and unique new technology for tapeless acquisition. FS-5 advanced features provide users with the ability to quickly and efficiently log custom metadata wirelessly via a laptop, smartphone or other WiFi capable device while recording media. Users will be able to select metadata formats that are compatible with different nonlinear editing (NLE) systems as well as media asset management systems such as Focus Enhancements’ award-winning ProxSys(R) solution. (more…)

Avid Delivers Ultimate HD Editing Experience With Release
of Next-Generation Editing Systems

Company responds to customer demand for editing systems that offer greater speed, reliability, price-performance and creative freedom 

LAS VEGAS, April 14, 2008 – Avid Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: AVID) today unveiled a new family of professional digital video editing systems that offer greater speed, responsiveness, reliability and price-performance – delivering an exceptional HD editing experience to media professionals. The new lineup, which includes next-generation versions of Avid® Media Composer® (v3.0), NewsCutter® (v7.0), and Symphony™ (v3.0) software, as well as new hardware configurations, Mojo DX and Nitris® DX, maximizes real-time performance for customers by intelligently using all available computing bandwidth to evenly disperse the processing of video and effects across the entire system. The result is an extremely fast and responsive HD editing experience that provides greater creative freedom and flexibility to end-users.

The increase in power and performance of Avid’s new editing systems is the result of an architectural design that tightly integrates Avid software and hardware with the CPU, host graphics card and PCI Express connection, to create a high-bandwidth, high-performance effects engine. This design eliminates the lag time in responsiveness that users often experience when working with HD material during the editorial process.

“For any project we begin, we need to know that our tools are going to help us work as fast as we can think and get the job done under budget, usually with intense deadlines,” said Dave Ballard of LAB 601, Inc., a beta tester of the new Media Composer Nitris DX. “Lots of products boast the latest bells and whistles, but if the tools don’t a (more…)

Montreal, Canada - April 14, 2008 - Matrox® Video Products Group today announced that the new Matrox RT.X2 LE realtime HD and SD editing platform is now available through a worldwide network of authorized dealers. Priced at $1,095 US in North America (£649, €895), Matrox RT.X2 LE is a ¾-length PCIe card with a professional breakout box. It is designed to work with Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3 or Adobe Creative Suite® 3 Production Premium.”The demand for HD video production is set to skyrocket now that HD televisions are in widespread use and Blu-ray has won the battle of the distribution formats. There has never been a better time for corporate communicators, event videographers, project studios, educational facilities, digital filmmakers, and video enthusiasts to get into HD,” said Alberto Cieri, Matrox sales and marketing director. “HDV and P2 cameras are affordable and the new Matrox RT.X2 LE card dramatically reduces the cost of a high-performance HD editing system. Not only is the price of the card itself lower than ever, it also fits into a low cost desktop system.” (more…)

TVMax+
A fabulous content booster for any iPod or Apple TV. Let TVMax+ become the heart of your home entertainment by connecting to a range of devices and enjoy your shows on the go. Not forgetting of course that TVMax+ is also a TV tuner, so you can watch, pause and record all of your favorite cable shows to watch exactly as you want to. Be creative and make it happen with TVMax+ and Apple TV on your Mac.

VideoExpress
Thanks to Miglia’s VideoExpress, endless conversions that would sometimes take an entire day are a thing of the past. VideoExpress is a hardware-based video file converter enabling you to turn your unprotected DVDs and QuickTime or MPEG files into h.264, the format readable by your AppleTV, Video iPod or Sony PSP.

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Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the immediate availability of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection software. Adobe Production Premium CS3 is the industry’s most comprehensive collection of integrated cross-platform post-production software tools, helping video professionals deliver stunning results for film, broadcast, DVD, Web, and mobile devices. Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection combines 12 of Adobe’s new design and development products in a single box - the most comprehensive creative environment ever delivered.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium and Master Collection ship today in North America, with other language versions - including French, German and Japanese - available by mid July. With Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Editions and Creative Suite 3 Web Editions already in market and receiving rave customer reviews, this completes the roll-out of the company’s revolutionary Creative Suite 3 family, the largest software release in Adobe’s 25-year history.

“One word: integration. People around the world will be amazed by how easy it is to move among applications in Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection and Production Premium,” said Jason Zada, executive creative director and founder of EVB, a digital content marketing agency in San Francisco, CA. “Because our workflow is so heavily based on moving very quickly through applications, this new Adobe software will save us hundreds of hours that we can put back into our projects.”

Now available for both PC and Mac platforms, Adobe Production Premium integrates time-saving workflow technologies with milestone releases of Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe Encore CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, and Adobe Soundbooth CS3, which can also be purchased as stand-alone applications. Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 software offers enhanced features such as new format support and a unique Time Remapping tool that improves slow motion and variable speed effects. After Effects CS3 software offers Shape Layers for drawing and animating vector shapes; the Puppet tool for stretching and manipulating 2D images as lifelike animations; and the Brainstorm tool for interactively generating and previewing animation variations. For audio, Soundbooth CS3 software enables post-production professionals to clean up recordings, polish voiceovers, customize music and sound effects - even if audio production isn’t their specialty.

Special additions to Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium include Adobe OnLocation CS3 for direct-to-disk recording and monitoring and Adobe Ultra CS3 software for easy chroma keying. For Macintosh users, Adobe OnLocation requires Boot Camp and Windows (purchased separately) or a separate Windows based computer. Adobe Ultra CS3 is only included in the Windows edition. The Best Creative Tools Come Together Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection combines all of Adobe’s flagship creative products, for the design and delivery of high-impact content across media — from print and the Web, to interactive applications, mobile devices, video and film. Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection includes all-new versions of Adobe InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3, Fireworks CS3, Contribute CS3, After Effects® CS3 Professional, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Soundbooth CS3, and Encore CS3, as well as Acrobat 8 Professional software.

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Pioneer BDC-202 The newly designed Pioneer drive offers playback of BD-ROM discs allowing users to view Blu-ray Disc high definition programs directly on a properly configured computer. The Pioneer BDC-202 can play multiple Blu-ray Disc formats, as well as provide high-speed reading and writing of DVD and CD formats.

• Serial ATA Interface
• Reads up to 5x speed on BD-ROM, BD-R, and BD-RE Blu-ray Disc media (single layer)
• Reads up to 2x speed on BD-ROM, BD-R, and BD-RE Blu-ray Disc media (dual layer)
• Writes up to 12x speed on DVD-R/+R 4.7GB (single layer), 4x on DVD-R (dual layer), 4x on DVD+R (double layer), 6x on DVD-RW/+RW media, and 5x on DVD-RAM
• Reads up to 12x speed on DVD-ROM & DVD±R media (single layer), 8x on DVD-ROM (DL), DVD±R (DL) & DVD±RW media, and 5x on DVD-RAM
• Writes up to 24x speed on CD-R and CD-RW
• Reads up to 32x speed on CD-ROM and CD-R, and 24x on CD-RW

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Avid Liquid Pro combines a powerful SD and HD video editor with a versatile breakout box to provide editors & videographers with all the connectivity they need using just a simple USB2 computer connection. Avid Liquid Pro software provides video editing integrated with DVD authoring from the timeline; surround sound audio processing; & amazing visual effects. The integrated breakout box adds analog & digital video and audio I/O as well as 1:1 & MPEG capture codecs.

Now with a $100 Instant Rebate!

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The Network Edition supports the sharing of music and project soundtracks among editing and production teams. If more than one person needs access to the music or final score, no other music or library solution even comes close. Only available for large quantity music purchase.

Sonicfire Pro 4.5 Network version was developed specifically to improve the workflow and music library efficiency in a networked environment with multiple editors. Rather than adding additional cost to the Standalone version, we’ve decided to make Express Track exclusive to the Network version. The Standard version of Sonicfire Pro 4.5 can offer all of these features and more, so nobody misses out.

Express Track was designed easily replace your current music search engine without requiring any training of your editing staff. By adding the SmartSound customization to the search process, editors will find the process intuitive and light years better than the other music search engines.

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The 320ULT 240 frequency selectable, dual-channel system is Azden’s latest advance in our over 20 year history of providing “audio for videography”. The systems consists of a 320UPR receiver and two 30BT body-pack transmitters with lapel microphones. Smaller and lighter than all previous units, the new 320UPR is a discrete dual-channel UHF receiver offering a choice of 240 user-selectable frequencies for each channel, and features stereo output, digital LCD displays with multi-function readout, and separate Power On/Off switches for each channel.

Smaller and lighter than all previous units, the new 320UPR is a discrete dual-channel UHF receiver offering a choice of 240 user-selectable frequencies for each channel, and features stereo output, digital LCD displays with multi-function readout, and separate Power On/Off switches for each channel. The 320UPR operates on just 2 “AA” batteries and has a unique dual-function DC jack. Optional NiMH batteries can be recharged while in the 320UPR, or the receiver can be powered from an external, optional power supply. Additionally, the 320UPR comes with both dual-plug XLR and a stereo mini-plug output cable, a removable shoe-mount, and flexible high-gain antennas.

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With the growing popularity of HD video production, the Datavideo SE-1000 Switcher Package is an interesting and viable choice for small production companies, churches, OB vans and corporate production departments. It supports live production using, 5 inputs (HDSDI or SDI) plus one computer and one still frame. And, it has three outputs (HDSDI or SDI).

This is ideal for venues with live HD projection and an audience that needs SD “take away” DVD’s or SD for live webcasting. (Use the DAC-5 to convert SD-SDI to DV)

Since all internal processing is done in HD, you’ll get the most from every input.

Included is a Linear key and self key effect for easy titling or logo insertion, and can be used with an external Character Generator.

The SE-1000 has Composite SD (and composite YUV) monitor outputs for each input. The SE-1000 package includes two 19″ racks of 3 monitors each, and a holder that has an extra 1ru space for an intercom. It also comes with a tally box with six LED tally lights. One benefit of the package is that the monitors are included.

No genlock is required because there are built in frame synchronizers. For those who wish, this switcher may be slaved to an external reference.

The SE-1000 is a compact, portable switcher that does all processing in HD, accepts either HD or SD and is supported by a family of collateral products including monitors, distribution amplifiers, tally lights and intercoms. In addition, we have a range of shipping cases and mobile studios customized just for the SE-1000.

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The Sound Forge 9 professional digital audio production suite includes everything you need to quickly get from raw audio to finished master. Use this suite to create and edit stereo and multichannel audio files with speed and precision. Efficiently analyze, record and edit audio, digitize and restore old recordings, model acoustic environments, design sound for multimedia, and master replication-ready CDs. Sound Forge 9 new features include multichannel file recording, editing and processing, phase scope metering, and Dolby Digital AC-3 export.

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The Pioneer BDR-202 Blu-ray Disc writer is the all in one solution for anyone wanting to create high quality content for Blu-ray Disc, DVD or CD. Offering revolutionary 4x burning speed, the BDR-202 can create a full BD-R 25GB disc in around 25 minutes.

• Serial ATA Interface
• Blu-ray Disc writer at up to 4X on BD-R media
• Blu-ray Disc writer at up to 2X on BD-RE media
• Store up to 25Gb of data on a Blu-ray Disc in 25 minutes
• DVD writer at up to 12X on DVD-R/+R
• CD writer at up to 24x on CD -R/CD-RW
• Reads BD-ROM (Single Layer, Dual Layer), BD-RE (Single Layer), BD-R (Single Layer)
• Reads DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
• Reads CD-ROM, CD-R/CD-RW

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Convergent Design HD-Connect MX - Add Genlocked SDI output and RS-422 deck control to your affordable decks and cameras. All digital video and audio conversion to enable highest quality HD/SD-SDI output. Tri/bi level sync input for genlocked HD/SD-SDI output. Digital AES audio along with embedded audio output. LTC timecode output along with embedded timecode. CameraLive output from HDMI equipped cameras has not been compressed. Maximize your video quality and minimize your investment. Take advantage of the scaler in your camera/deck to get various video output formats including 1080i, 720p, & SD.

Convergent Design nanoConnect - Now you can affordably add full HD/SD-SDI output to your camcorder / deck and enjoy high-quality 100% digital video and audio. Analog conversion losses are a thing of the past. nanoConnect works with virtually any HDMI enabled source, including the new AVCHD camcorders as well as HDV devices. You can even play back your DV tapes and get SD-SDI. nanoConnect takes advantage of the decoder and scaler inside of your HDV / AVCHD camera / deck, so you can get 1080i or 720p or SD video-out independent of your native format.

Convergent Design nanoSwitch - Great as an Editing System or Display Input Switch. Switch between 4 different HD/SD-SDI sources for display or for your NLE. An SDI reclocker is used to lower the jitter and maximize the input and output cable lengths. 143 Mbps, 270 Mbps, 1.483 Gbps, and 1.485 Gbps are supported. This supports the standard video formats including standard definition (486i and 576i) and high definition (720p, 1080i, 1080p24, 25, 30). The desired input can be selected with a button on the nanoSwitch or remotely using USB. 1.4W, ~5 X 4 X 1 inchesPower Supply Included!

Convergent Design nanoView - Monitor from your HD-SDI editing system on a HDMI television (including multi-channel audio). View HD/SD-SDI video/audio on your affordable LCD/Plasma monitor. All digital conversion leads to no quality loss due to analog conversions. The SDI input is mapped pixel for pixel on the HDMI ouput. Broad Format Support, 1080p (30, 25), 1080i, 720p, 576i, 486i. Connect SDI to source and HDMI to monitor. No dip switches or settings. 1.5 Watts. ~3 X 2 X 1 inchesPower Supply Included!

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Boris Blue version 2.0 adds Avid plug-in support, additional features for composing effects in 3D, and adds innovative new deformers and filters. With Blue, Avid users now have access to unique features such as a sophisticated realtime particle engine and the ability to create effects using 3D models in the Avid timeline. AVX plug-in integration eliminates export/import of projects - simplifying online/offline workflow. Additionally, Blue effects can now be saved into Avid bins for re-use.

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Boris Continuum Complete 5.0 expands production flexibility of Boris Continuum Complete by offering Universal binary support for all host applications running on the Macintosh platform including Adobe Creative Suite 3.0. The Boris Continuum Complete 5.0 release also offers full native support for the new Apple FXPlug and Avid AVX 2.0 on Intel-based Macintosh computers. In addition to expanding host support and optimizing performance across platforms, the 180 plus Boris Continuum Complete 5.0 filter set breaks the record by introducing new innovative and accelerated filters for fast effects production and image manipulation. Comprehensive pan and scan controls, superior up rez conversions, integrated motion tracking for video editors, and accelerated Open GL effects make Boris Continuum Complete 5.0 one of the most robust compositing tools on the market today.

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