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Macworld: News: Adobe brings Premiere back to the Mac

Macworld: News: Adobe brings Premiere back to the Mac: "Adobe will announce on Thursday that it will revive a Mac version of Premiere, the software maker%u2019s video program aimed at professional editors. The new Mac version will only run on Intel-based Macs and will be part of a larger Adobe Production Studio suite that will include Adobe Encore DVD and Adobe Soundbooth."

(Via http://www.macworld.com .)

Musicbed DV plus Seasons 1 & 2 - Video

Musicbed DV plus Seasons 1 & 2 - Video: "About Musicbed DV plus Seasons 1 & 2 Musicbed DV generates professional music soundtracks that match the mood and timing needs of your video or audio project. Choose fully composed and orchestrated music themes from an extensive and included customizable stock music resource. Sculpt stock music with unique musical style and texture controls. Adjust music intensity, complexity, dynamics, and much more, all in real-time. Punctuate and underscore your project with innovative and easy-to-use musical style and texture automation curves. "

editors's note: I've tried this out. Frankly, it's really cool. It creates a mix/music with even less knowledge than you need for soundtrack. I love the "emotional" settings. Definitely worth a tryout.

FlipFlop - live firewire cam preview

FlipFlop: "FlipFlop is a small, free Mac OS X application designed to assist filmmakers with onset monitoring / previewing using a laptop and a firewire connected camera. The features came mostly from reading many peoples requests on various forums such as DVXUser and Redrock Micro."

dvGarage Product - conduit

I'm a big fan of Nodal Compositing - it's building effects like a flowchart. Shake has it, but is very complex. Brand new from DVGarage - Conduit. Nodal Compositing in Motion. $199

dvGarage Product - conduit: "Conduit is a nodal compositor that actually sits inside of Motion 2. Nodal compositors provide a powerful flow-chart approach to compositing. Rather than thinking in layers, each node applies an operation. This approach is very popular in high-end facilities because it provides a very open ended way to create composites that are customized to each challenge"

Mac User Comments on Maya 7.0 and 8.0

Mac User Comments on Maya 7.0 and 8.0: "Mac User Comments on Maya 7.0 and 8.0 Reports Last Updated: 10/31/2006"

Maya compatibility updates.

(Via http://www.xlr8yourmac.com .)

Silicon Color - Creators of Final TouchColor Finishing System

Silicon Color - Creators of Final TouchColor Finishing System: ""

Think FInal Cut's Color Corrector sucks? (You should - it's extremely elementary). Fret no more. Apple just bought silicon color - makers of Final Touch (The XML Color correction 25k system that works with FCP)>

Episode from Flip4Mac

Episode and Episode HD comparison Flip 4 mac comes out with compression software: Episode and Episode Pro. The difference? Both do the majors, MPEG2, MPEG1, MPEG4, and MOV (Both in and out of their software)... The Pro version also group support and batch processing. Cost? $395 and $895

DV Monitor software (no field monitor needed)

Home: " DV Monitor offers features not included in the most expensive field monitor such as Over and Under exposure zebrau2019s, image flipping, magnification up to 250% and computer screen calibrating."

Titanium Software

Titanium Software

Onyx is one of my favorite pieces of software.

It allows you to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure certain hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Safari, Dashboard, Exposé, Disk Utility... to delete cache, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome, to see the detailed info of your configuration, to preview the different logs and CrashReporter reports, to check the Preferences files and more.

Bitrate Pro - Video

Bitrate Pro - Video

A media calculator for audio-visual professionals. Calculate data rate, file size or duration. There are file size presets for CD, DVD, HD DVD, Blu-ray Discs, and locally mounted disks. There are data rate presets for DV, DVCPRO, CCIR 601, Avid DNxHD, Sony HDCAM, HDTV, PCM Stereo and Dolby Digital. You can even drag and drop any QuickTime supported media file from the Finder to import its properties. Calculate storage requirements for video capture or data rates for encoding, all in one simple elegant tool."