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December 24 2003
Production News:
• Blackmagic Enhances DeckLink HD Capabilities

• da Vinci Launches Master Colorist Awards Competition

• Avid Updates Xpress Pro

• Sony's New Professional DVCAM Videotape Helps Independent Cinematographers Tell Their Stories

• FirewireDirect.com Ships New Vanguard Ultra Elite 12 Fibre RAID

• Adobe Releases After Effects 6 Plugin Update

• Apple Updates QuickTime

• Digital Broadcast and Pathfire to Streamline Movement of News Content to Video File Servers and Editing Platforms

• Arabesk 2.0 DVD Authoring Software Releases in Time for Christmas

• IRIDAS Releases SpeedGrade


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DMN Interview: Sony Software Synergy
Hardware meets software, editors win
DMN Interview by Charlie White
In this exclusive interview, DMN’s Charlie White talks with Sony officials about the acquisition of Sonic Foundry and the implications of blending the hardware prowess of Sony with software applications such as Vegas, Sound Forge and Acid. Bob Ott, vice president of professional audio and video products for Sony Electronics Broadcast and Production Systems Division, and Paul Foschino, national marketing manager for the Sony Media Software group of Sony Pictures Digital, talk about the present and future of the former Sonic Foundry’s software products as they become part of the Sony product line, and reveal tantalizing clues as to what’s in store for these powerhouse applications.

Mighty Mouse? Nope.
Avoid it like the plague
by Charlie White
After raving about IOGear’s Mini Mouse in a recent Coolness Roundup, I couldn’t wait to try the USB Wireless Mini Mouse, ($49.95 list), IOGear’s new cordless version of this exceptional product. It has the same ergonomic shape as its wired sibling, comes with a stylish carrying case, and it’s rechargeable. But looks aren’t everything. If you’ve decided that you simply must have this little trinket for your notebook-based road gigs, think again. In a word, it’s unusable.

Digidesign GM Dave Lebolt
On pro audio trends and the Pro Tools product family
By Frank Moldstad
With his background as a musician and producer, Dave Lebolt clearly brings a user's perspective to his job running Digidesign, developer of the pro audio industry’s dominant DAW system. He's been a hot session keyboard player whose career took him on tour with David Bowie and other major artists. After that, he was a partner in a New York music production house, where he first encountered Digidesign’s Sound Tools editing software, which later evolved into Pro Tools. It was his involvement during that time as a beta tester for Sound Tools that led him to join Digidesign.

Adobe Photoshop CS
Image editing and graphics creation software
by David Nagel
I've been a user of Adobe Photoshop since its first release, and this is my fourth (or is it fifth?) review of a major update to this software. At this point what could I possibly have to say about yet another version? First off, this is not just another version. Over the years I've seen Photoshop evolved, devolved and recreated to what it has now become, and I have to say I'm impressed. So what, exactly, has it become? With vastly expanded 16-bit color capabilities, new effects, new image manipulation tools and enormous new workflow capabilities--plus a few extra goodies thrown in for good measure--it is, in short, the most powerful version of the most powerful image editing tool on the market to date.

First Look: Trapcode Lux
Volumetric lighting comes to After Effects
by Stephen Schleicher
Turn on the television, and you are sure to see a commercial, television show, or trailer that is using a Trapcode After Effects plug-in in some shape or form; Starglow, Sound Keys, and the ever popular 3D Stroke, and Shine. Get ready to see more Trapcode magic in the near future, this time in the form of volumetric lights.
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