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December 4 2003
Production News:
• NAB to Host Second Annual AIM Product Awards

• StageTools Releases MovingPicture v5.0

• Discreet Delivers Strong Growth in HDTV Sales

• Ulead to Debut DVD Workshop 2 at DV Expo West

• Facilities Choose Avid DS Nitris as HD Momentum Spreads Across U.S.

• Study Finds HDTV Purchase Barriers Falling

• AJA's New Input/Output Devices for Digital Video Making First U.S. Appearance

• TrendWatch Fast Fact: Satellite TV Expected To Have Negative Impact in 2004

• Canopus Launches MVRD2200 Professional Real Time MPEG Encoder/Decoder

• International Documentary Association Announces 2003 Award Winners


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Matrox RT.X100 Xtreme Pro Suite
Premiere Pro plus Matrox hardware equals a winning combination
by Charlie White
When we reviewed the Matrox RT.X100 DV editing system about 18 months ago, we liked what we saw. It’s a graceful blend of hardware power combined with host processing that makes digital video editing a nearly all-real-time, all-the-time proposition. Since then, Matrox has enhanced the feature set of its formidable DV editing system, and made the crucial leap to Adobe Premiere Pro as well. We took the new system out for a test drive and ended up liking the RT.X100 Xtreme Pro even more than its predecessor. Here’s our review.

What is Real-Time ... Really?
Vendors define what real-time means to them—and to you
By Erik Holsinger
If you’ve ever used nonlinear-editing software, you’ve seen it: the great real-time exodus. Like an effect in The Matrix, your NLE groans, time slows down, and suddenly your real-time playback grinds to a miserable five frames per second. Real-time is perhaps the most common catchphrases used to describe media-production software on the market, yet it is also one of the most difficult to quantify—for both users and vendors.

After Effects Project: Squiddies
Using Wave Warp to add a swishing tail.
by Stephen Schleicher
In this After Effects Production Bundle exercise, we’ll be making some microphones “swim” through our shot. To pull this off, we’ll use an older effect from the Production Bundle – Wave Warp.

V-One Multimedia's Snazzi DV.AVIO
by John B. Virata
V-One Multimedia's Snazzi DV.AVIO editing system is a $199 combination hardware/software editing solution that enables you to capture/convert video from analog and DV sources to MPEG-1 and 2, DV, Microsoft's WMV, DIVX, and Xvid file formats. It is comprised of the Snazzi DV.AVIO software front end, including WinDVD Creator Plus, muveeAutoProducer, moviefactory 2, and WinDVD4; and a combination hardware PCI card with breakout box that connects to the PCI card for connecting S-Video and composite video devices.

Dixie Chicks Concert DVD Shot With Panasonic AG-DVX100 Mini-DV 24P
Top Of The World Tour Concert DVD recently made debut
The Dixie Chicks Top of the World Tour DVD, shot with Panasonic AG-DVX100 Mini-DV 3-CCD camcorders, recently made its debut in stores and online. The 100-minute DVD was recorded live on-stage during the North American leg of the Dixie Chicks 2003 world tour, which consisted of 79 shows in North America, Europe and Australia.
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