The format war on DVD is over

It seems that the war between HD-DVD and Bluray DVD is over, now that Thoshiba has send out a press release that they will not support the HD-DVD format anymore, and recently the big supermakert Wall mart announced that they are only going to sell Blu-Ray disc it seems decicde wich format we are going to use for the next generation DVD, well until they come up with something new.
The press release can be seen here: http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL1643184420080216

Panasonic AG-HMC150 a new AVCHD cam

At a press show the 14 of february Panasonic released some information about a new camera, the AG-HMC150 wich I guess is going to compete with the newly popular Sony XDCAM EX.The new panasonic cam records onto SD cars, in the AVCHD format.This is the list of formats it is going to support: 1080/60i, 1080/50i, 1080/30p, 1080/25p, 1080/24p native; 720/60p, 720/50p, 720/30p, 720/25p, 720/24p native; and it is 50Hz/59.94Hz switchable.
THe camera has XLR input for your microphones, USB and HDMI (d-terminal) and more.
Another camera that is goin to come from pnasonic thi fall, is the shoulder-mount AG-HMC70 the price is going to be around 2,496$ this camera is also going to the HD in the AVCHD format
Panasonics say that this is not an replacement for the HVX-200, and they are also telleing that they are going to announce another thing this april, I guess around the NAB2008 :-) so it could be that they have a new HVX-200 type camera.

Apple not at NAB this year

For a long time there has been rumors about Apple not going to NAB 2008, and now it is official, Anuj Nayar, senior manager of PR at Apple said that they are participating in fever tradeshows because ther are better ways to reach the customer, and some month ago Avid also annouced that they would not be at this years NAB, so it seems that we wont see any major news inthe videoediting world this april.
Let's see what happens with the IBC in september i Amsterdam, if Apple is going to be there or not.

My channel on Youtube

Now I had the time to produce some small videos for my channel on YouTube, by now there are only 3, but there will come more in the future.
You can see howto use the Panasonic DVX-100 camera, and the Zoom H2 MP3 recorder.
To see my channel use the link www.youtube.com/permouritzen

Hope you can use it.

Per

New avid tutorial, advanced timeline editing

Today I made another tutorial, this time I am showing you how to move clips around in your timeline, sometimes I need to move a group of clips from te middle of my timeline to the end, and this tutorial show you how to do that.
Here is the direct link: http://mouritzen.biz/avid/eng/advanced-timeline.htm

How to make D-day in 4 days

This is one of those "must see" clip on YouTube, this is how to make an D-day movie, it is a group of guys who used 4 days to make this little 4 minute clip of what the can, and it is impreeing, and it is also great for showing how movies are made, the have 4 guys running on a beach, and with editing and using a lot of effects the make it look like there is a lot more, You should use teh 4 minutes and see it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRS9cpOMYv0

Avid rumors are that soon they will be launching new products

On the Avid forum I cam across a post that was telling amoung other tihngs, that two months before NAB they will launch some new products, and improve there customer support.
You can read the post here:
http://www.avid.com/exchange/forums/permalink/301933/301933/ShowThread.aspx