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Review: Logickeyboard Astra Backlit Editing Keyboard

By Jim Bask 0 Comment July 22, 2016

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Check out this review of the LogicKeyboard Astra Backlit Editing Keyboard 

Ok, it’s just a keyboard, right? Not quite! While Logickeyboard may not be the first out of the gate to offer a backlit keyboard for post production, to my mind the brand-new Astra offers a ton of bang-for-the-buck features, and addresses some deficiencies I’ve seen in the only competition in this narrow product field. (I reviewed a competitor in Post’s May 2015 issue.)

MediaFusion Webinar is TODAY! 2pm ET – Amazing New Opportunity

By Jim Bask 0 Comment July 21, 2016

NEXIS WebinarJoin Us today, at 2pm for our Dealer Webinar Featuring MediaFusion!
You can easily find us on the new  “Live Webinars” tab on our homepage. 

You don’t want to miss this one. Learn everything you need to know about this amazing new dealer opportunity!

MediaFusion is a platform that makes it easy to stream, store and share

MediaFusion allows you to provide optimum streams all devices without taxing your internal systems and internet upload bandwidth. You send out one stream, then Wowza sends out as many as 4 streams

Join Us & Learn How to Make Up to 20% Commission when You Offer MediaFusion to Your Customers. Also, this is your opportunity to beat the crowd and apply to become a certified dealer TODAY! 

Review: G-Technology 1TB G-Drive mobile USB-C portable drive for 12″ MacBook [Video]

By Jim Bask 0 Comment July 20, 2016

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As a MacBook owner, USB-C peripherals are still a little hard to come by. The accessory situation has improved significantly over the past year. One of the latest USB-C-centric peripherals to hit the scenes is an external bus-powered hard drive from the folks over at G-Technology. If you’re looking for a way to quickly offload files to and from your MacBook, the G-Drive mobile is a good option.

Check out this video review on how well the G-Drive Mobile 1TB works with MacBook. 

NDI and Live Titling

By Jim Bask 0 Comment July 20, 2016

NDI technology delivers extremely low-latency video streams over a local area network such as the 1Gbps Ethernet network in your office or studio. Previously, if you had two TriCaster systems in two different studios, you may have had to string an HD-SDI cable or fiber connection between them. Now, as long as the systems are connected on the same LAN, either system can send a stream to the other over the network. 
 
Read this article and learn so much more on NDI and Live Titling

Using 4K video for live event capture with Epiphan Video

By Jim Bask 0 Comment July 20, 2016

AVio-4K_diagram4K video isn’t just the latest fad, it’s becoming the new standard. In the near future, any live video production is going to need to use 4K video (or UHD Video, as the 3840×2160 resolution is often referred to) in order to remain competitive. This isn’t just because it’s a new novelty, either – there are genuine benefits that come from the format, ranging from greater display range, to better behind-the-scenes editing.

 The benefits are huge, but computers are having trouble keeping up, since the amount of information captured by a 4K camera can sometimes tax even the best processors.

Avid Editors: Capture Multiple Streams of DNxHD Without Stopping Your Edit

By Jim Bask 0 Comment July 20, 2016

Avid Editors: Capture Multiple Streams of DNxHD Without Stopping Your Edit

Bluefish444 Fluid ingeSTore is a multi-channel ingest tool that enables Bluefish444 hardware to capture multiple independent format SDI sources simultaneously. Fluid ingeSTore can be used with Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro to provide a simultaneous capture and output solution. In addition, Fluid IngeSTore can be used to encode uncompressed SDI to Avid compliant OP-Atom DNxHD media.

Watch Craige Mott talks through Bluefish444’s multi-channel ingest tool, Ingestore, at AVID Connect 2016. Ingestore is bundled FREE with every Bluefish444 card. 

Bluefish444 Case Study

By Jim Bask 0 Comment July 20, 2016

Check out this awesome case study from Bluefish444 User Stories. 
 
Learn all about how AlphaDogs ( a Burbank-based post production facility  and design studio) use Bluefish444
 
“The Digital Service Station acts as a self-serve ingest and output opportunity for editors with NLEs and no access to videotape machines. As a consequence, they can do a lot of capturing from videotape. The Bluefish444 IngeSTore software and Epoch | 4K Supernova S+ card utilized in the system allows us to capture multiple streams of video at the same time, which reduces the ingest time on large multi-tape jobs. We use the card for mass tape capture jobs. One recently involved capturing hundreds of hours of Gulf War footage from HDCam tapes.”

BCC 10 & mocha Pro Plugin Tutorial on Tracking Options

By Jim Bask 0 Comment July 19, 2016

Colorist & finishing artist Dan Harvey shows Boris Continuum Complete + Avid Media Composer users the main differences between three different types of motion tracking available through Boris FX and Imagineer Systems.

SmallHD Announces New Power Solutions for 500 and 700 Series Monitors

By Jim Bask 0 Comment July 19, 2016

SmallHD has an array of new power accessories to make its popular 500 Series (five-inch) and 700 Series (seven-inch) high definition field monitors more versatile.

2-Minute Tutorial: How to Move a Virtual Camera in TriCaster Virtual Sets

By Jim Bask 0 Comment July 19, 2016

In an earlier 2-Minute Tutorial video, Don Ballance showed you how to set up a TriCaster Advanced Edition LiveSet virtual set in a Mix/Effects (M/E) bus. While one requirement of virtual sets is that we are always working with a locked down camera that never moves, TriCaster Advanced Edition provides the ability to do “virtual” camera moves.