From the monthly archives: June 2007

Tentative Red schedule

By On June 23, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Turned out Friday was a great time to make an announcement. Jim Jannard posted this yesterday at RedUser.net. The schedule is below. August 30′s not bad and pretty darn close to my prediction last year at an Avid User Group meeting that got me a good smack down from several industry pundits once word [...]

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A pair of mobile video announcements

By On June 22, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Those who care have already heard that Apple has a deal in place to make YouTube available to iPhone users through a special player.

CUPERTINO, California—June 20, 2007—Apple® today announced that iPhone™ users will be able to enjoy YouTube’s originally-created content on their iPhones when they begin shipping on June 29. A new Apple-designed [...]

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Red at Cine Gear

By On June 21, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Red’s planning a demo at CINEGEAR tomorrow. It wouldn’t be a bad place to announce a ship date (or at least an update) as it’s been nearly a month since the Red One camera went on an engineering delay. An early skeptic, I became a believer at NAB. The Peter Jackson short was [...]

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EditShare 5.0 released

By On June 20, 2007 · Leave a Comment

EditShare will introduce project sharing for Final Cut Pro users in version 5.0 of its popular SAN solution. Some highlights from the press release:

For the first time, Apple FCP editors can enjoy the same tremendous collaborative workflow benefits that previously were only available to Avid editors. The new EditShare Apple FCP Project Sharing [...]

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ProRes 422 – After Effects gotcha

By On June 19, 2007 · 4 Comments

Previous testing of the ProRes codec comparing it the Avid DNxHD codec yielded some unexpected results when Adobe After Effects was used to generate test media. While the Avid codec made the round trip from Media Composer 2.7 to After Effects and back without issue, the ProRes codec showed what appears to be an YUV [...]

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