there goes this weeks paycheck...

VASST Tour update
 

Hey Gang,
We keep getting lots of emails about the VASST tours, wanted to post updates to maybe save our office manager from replying to so many:
Gary Kleiner and I will be the instructors on this tour, tag-teaming various functions and segments through the day.
With Gary on the tour, we'll be giving away a copy of Excalibur and Neon at each city, plus everyone gets some fun goodies in their attendee bags from Gary.
We'll also have great products from Artbeats, Sony, VASST, and other fun things in the attendee bags. We'll have giveaways from Sony, ADS, Artbeats, VASST, and other manufacturers.
There is a FREE Sony event the night before each full day training event in each city, where we'll be showcasing Vegas, ACID, Sound Forge, and Noise Reduction, you can register for this FREE event on the VASST website, http://www.vasst.com/registration
I think I speak for Gary as well in saying we're looking forward to getting out there and meeting you all, spending time in your city, and getting to know some of you directly.
See you on the tour!!
See full tour details at
http://www.vasst.com/touragenda/vegas5agenda.htm

this is the futur for realtime editing
 

grid computing

http://www.gridironxfactor.com/products/faq.asp#6
http://www.gridironxfactor.com/products/overview.asp
http://www.gridironsoftware.com/product/overview.asp

X-Factor speeds both rendering and preview processing. Unlike other distributed rendering methods that use multiple computers only for the final rendering of frames at the end of a project, X-Factor also speeds up the rendering of previews while you are working. Because previewing is performed many times during the creative process while final rendering occurs only once, X-Factor allows you to achieve productivity gains that are not possible with other distributed rendering methods.
X-Factor typically exhibits linear performance improvement when used with After Effects. That means preview processing and rendering will take place twice as fast on two machines, three times as fast on three machines, and so on.
no hardware (matrox digisuite or targa cinewave) out there can't beat that. in term of scalability

It doesn't have anything to do with editing does it? It helps After Effects rendering and previews.

(It doesn't have anything to do with editing) for now,but in the futur
it would be great if we can adapt this technology for video editing.
hdtv it in the way with its large data to procese, grid comtuting its not expensive solution.

48hr film fest in DC this weekend
 

The DC edition of the 48hr film festival starts this weekend, May 7.

www.48hourfilm.com/dc-new.htm

I wouldn't be suprised to see a future version of Final Cut Pro offer Grid functionality

http://www.apple.com/acg/xgrid/

I think Grid Computing is going to be very big in some areas. It remains to be seen just how well it will help Digital Video. I'm looking forward to it.

I think Vegas already does points 2 & 3 on that FAQ. Only thing
missing is 1... That would be an interesting option that I've
thought of myself recently. LightWave could use it as well,
although the new Worley plugin seems to remove the need for
that basically.

I wish I knew aobut it before. I like out in Fairfax.

Growing UK Digital Cinemas
 

McDonalds and.....DVDs?
 

In Arlington VA at the McDonalds on Columbia Pike, east of Glebe Rd, there is a DVD rental kiosk in the parking lot. I guess they will move them inside now.

Bias Now Shipping SoundSoap Pro
 

Bias is finally shipping SoundSoap Pro. This is the long-awaited big brother to the popular original SoundSoap audio restoration tool.

Visit the Bias site for complete information.

Having used the original SoundSoap many times I can highly recommend your consideration if you often need to clean-up your audio tracks.

I'm very anxious to find out how well this program works. I may finally have to upgrade to OSX now.

Panasonic DVTapes at OfficeMax $5 for a 3 pack
 

Here is a goodie I found on OfficeMax
Panasonic Camcorder Digital Video Tapes

New Low Price, Was $19.99, now only $5!

Tape Grade: Linear Plus

3 Tapes per Pack


http://www.officemax.com/max/solutions/product/prodBlock.jsp?prodBlockOID=537017729&siteID=isIkAyUyNbM-wuWhUxwJk87zrpDwOMl7hA

Thanks, George. Nice deal at 1/3 the cost of my Panasonic PQ tapes. But they're "consumer" not "professional" rated. Dorothy

I don't know man.

I've got a matrox digisuite le (sd) and it gave me problems for 7 years. Maybe it's cause it's a pc platform, but man . . . I'm never goin matrox again.

George thanks
 

George:

Thanks for the tip was it online or in the store?

I know they arnet rated professional, but im always subjective on that due to the fact that my old employer a cable news net used to have those before we went all sony excellence (and I had to start buying tapes :( But they went through more cases than you can imagine and we never had a problem with using those tapes (provided shooting was ok) to air. At 3 for $5 I might just pick up a whole bunch if I can find it at the max near me...

M

Sony Challenges Rival in Digital Cinema
 

Reuters, June 3: " Sony Electronics on Thursday unveiled a new digital projection system for movie theaters at a cost and technology upgrade that rivals market leader Texas Instruments Inc."

A little good old competition is just what's needed to get digital cinema moving at a faster pace.

See the full story at Reuters.

A gig on a stamp.
 

http://www.info-mica.com/en/index.html

Very interesting featured in Wired this month.
I wonder what this could mean for future video storage.

Sony's new High-Speed DVD Burner
 

Sony has a new 12x DVD burner that burns DVDs in 6 minutes. The only bit of information I could find on it is over at www.gamersdepot.com

JVC SD to HD upconverter
 

It is a little expensive for the average prosumer user, though...

http://pro.jvc.com/prof/Attributes/p...&feature_id=08

More on that story

http://www.digitalproducer.com/artic...e.jsp?id=25993

Sooooo,
this means that a person who's thinking about making his own digital feature could rent one of these and travel with it, showing the finished product himself and save the cost of having it transfered to film. Hmmmmmmm....

Jeff Patnaude

New Power Macs Official
 

Umm, but they're not that much faster...

http://www.apple.com/

Wouldn't that require 12X media? Isn't the fastest out
now 4X?

A number of people are using 4x media but burning at 8x speed.
I just received my Pioneer A07 burner and will report how it uses my existing stack of Ritek 4x DVD-R.

I was one of the unfortunates who bought the first run of the rt2000 card.

Never again.

For me, software based solutions work very well, and with the ability to setup a render farm, proprietary accellerator cards seem unecessary.

As the HD product lines shake out, I'm hoping to stay with a simple i/o card and software nle.

IN their defense. Part of the problems with Matrox cards was traced to VIA chipsets (266, 333). Matrox finally had to expose them even though they were loath to do so.
Subsequently I seriously doubt if I ever buy another mobo with a VIA chipset on it again. My audio apps were affected to.

Many thought it was AMDs fault. But that cleared up when the 2nd generation of Nividia chipsets came out. LIve and learn is a very expensive outlook on life.

Get your film shown in Las Vegas
 

Check this out --

http://www.filmmakerprogram.com/

http://show.vsdahomeentertainment.com/videoshow/V40/index.cvn?id =10030&p_navID=55

Canon DV website?
 

Is it just me getting re-directed or did Canon completely re-do it's DV camcorder website?

http://www.canondv.com

Canon did a make over on all there sites several days ago.

My favourite part of the new Canon website is that all of its links to its manuals and docs redirect you to nowhere in particular.

Just like before, there are still more than 60 separate images to load on that main page. I'm glad I'm not on a dial-up, but satellite access isn't much better.

foveon f19 for video
 

Foveon announces a chip with "variable pixel size technology" for video application.Check out http://www.dpreview.com/news/0406/04062102foveonf19.asp

It indeed seems to support video as well as a cameralink interface,
that's pretty interesting. The sensor is probably quite expensive, though

Was there a mention of an application for a video camera in there someplace? The 1.125-inch size would be too
big for a camcorder, unless it was a large HD type. A huge lens would be needed to get much zoom power with such a large CCD.

I would think there would be a version of the Foveon CCD that was smaller and with fewer pixels, if it was intended for any type of video use, other than ultra-high definition, special use cameras. There was no indication of the refresh or frame-rate that these tri-depth sensors could use. I'm surprised by the slow implementation of the Foveon CCD system, which has been around for several years.
I expected that my next video camera would have been outfitted with one, a couple of years ago. Is there a hidden difficulty in using them for video purposes? Do the three sensing layers use pixel-offsetting?

Lots of questions, but I haven't heard many specific answers, nor have I heard of committments by video manufacturers to use them.

Steve McDonald

The chip isn't that big its just a bit bigger than a 1/2" CCD(1/2 = 0.5, 1/1.8 = 0.5555, 2/3 = .6666) smaller than a 2/3". So lenses could be 1/2" . This is the first in the series that has a low pixel count. I think the others were intended to address the high end still camera market. This chip could be an excellent choice for a HDV camera!!!

Ron Evans

We've actually had several good discussions on the Foveon. One of the most recent was last August. I don't think their situation has materially changed since then. It looks like they are now emphasizing niche markets rather than suggesting that they're headed for mainstream photo and video devices.

I also want to chime in. My friend has gone through 4 Sigma S10 cameras due to spots (dead pixels?) in his pictures. So besides not being ready for main-stream markets, they don't appear to be ready for mass market - period....

Of course this could be a Sigma issue as well.