Videos from IBC

Avid have made 5 videos from IBC, one from each of the 5 days.
You can see them here: http://community.avid.com/blogs/events/archive/tags/IBC/default.aspx


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Edit Panasonics AVC-Intra with Avid

Panasonic has announced that Avid now can import and edit native in AVC-Intra, For those who don't know what AVC-Intra is, it is an advanced compression technology that provides high quality 10-bit intra frame encoding utilizing the HI-10 and Hi-422 intra profiles of H-264 in 2 modes: AVC-Intra 100 and AVC-Intra-50, and it is used by the Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 and AJ-HPX2000 and other cameras.

It is possible with the following versions of Avid:

Media Composer Software v.3.0
Media Composer Mojo DX - v.3.0
Media Composer Nitris DX v.3.0
Symphony Nitris DX - v.3.0
News Cutter Software - v.7.0
News Cutter Mojo DX - v.7.0
News Cutter Nitris DX - v.7.0

More informations on Avid's page

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More than 2 GB ram in Avid

If you install Avid on a machine with more than 2 gb of ram, you need to run a small application that makes it possible to use up to 3 gb of ram.
When you have installed you software, you locate the small program in the utillities foldes, under the foleder where you installed Avid.In my windows machine it is
Program Files/Avid/Utilities/3GB
When you run the it starts by asking you to set the amount of Memory you need
For Adrenaline with Mojo it is 2700
Mojo DX, Nitris it is 2500
Symphony it is 2500.

You simply type the amount you need, and press Enter and thats it.

Avid DS 10

Ok, Avid is on tour to show te new proucts, and the next coming is the DS version 10, that is impressive faster and has a new way of working with the GPU on the video card (Nvidia FX3700)It is possible to do 2K material with secondary color corection in real time, and it works fast.
When/if you but the packages you get a 8 core HP8600 with 8GB DDR SDRAM And a AJA 2Ke Dual link I/O Card with K3 break out boxExtrenal storage of 8 or 16 Tb raid30" LCD monitor1 Avid DX RP (Remote Processing) licens1 Avid DS software only1 Avid Media Composer software only (Windows)
I'm looking forward to see it in action next month at the IBC in Amsterdam (I hope they bring one)
You can read more at Avid's homepage http://www.avid.com/products/DS/index.asp
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Avid storage calculator

If you want to know how mucg space you need for your next projetct, Avid has a cool tool on there homepage, wich can do the calculation for you.
It is easy to use.
http://www.avid.com/dnxhd/widget/storage_calc_widget.html

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New icons in the next media composer v.3

Next month Avid will launch there version 3 of the Media composer, Some of the changes there will be is the change of the little weight lifter icon, also called lift and extract-
You can read more in this blog from from Greg Staten:
http://community.avid.com/blogs/editors/archive/2008/05/14/new-in-version-3-0-ode-to-the-weightlifter-guy.aspx

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Need more space for editing

If you need more high performance storage, Avid has now announced two brand new storage solutions, they are called VideoRAID ST and VideoRAID SR.They are SATA- based and offer a maximum of flexibility, they are available in a 5 drive mini tower (called ST) and a 16 drive 3 unit rackmount (called SR)

You can read more on Avid's webside: http://www.avid.com/products/videoraid-st-sr/index.asp

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