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New Product Announcements

The recent NAB show had many new products announced.  We'll highlight a few that caught our eye.  Some of these will be shown at our upcoming May 7-8 show.

JVC JY-HD10U - The world's first affordable Pro high-definition camcorder! Records 720/30P, 480/60P, 480/60i.

Canopus ADVC500 - is a professional video converter, designed for use with broadcast equipment. Providing analog to DV and DV to analog conversion, ADVC-500 is a 19-inch breakout box featuring component video, composite, s-video, balanced & unbalanced audio I/O.

Apple Final Cut Pro 4 - New features include Soundtrack to create royalty free audio, LiveType for professional animated titles, CinemaTools for film work, and many other improvements!  If you purchase Final Cut Pro 3 after April 6, 2003, you’re eligible to update to Final Cut Pro 4 through the Up-to-Date program.

Kona Io - Io delivers the highest quality 10-bit uncompressed video and multi-channel 24-bit audio, and does it all in a simple plug-and-play form factor. And connecting Io to your Mac is easy: just one simple FireWire™ cable. All Io outputs are available all the time—allowing simultaneous connections to tape decks and monitoring - analog or digital. Io also provides RS-422 machine control, audio word clock, and a professional video Genlock. Developed in close cooperation with Apple, Io was designed to take full advantage of Final Cut Pro 4™'s exciting and powerful new features. Io—In. Out. Simple.

Pinnacle Liquid Chrome - What do you get when you marry Liquid, T3K and K2? An amazing new real-time post production editor!

Liquid chrome, the newest addition to the Liquid editing family, is a video editing and compositing solution designed to set a new standard for the postproduction market. Liquid chrome brings together three of Pinnacle’s acclaimed powerhouse components into one remarkable system - Pinnacle’s Liquid version 5 (V5) editing application, Pinnacle’s TARGA 3000 compositing engine and Pinnacle’s K2 single-chip 3D DVE. Liquid chrome provides the professional editing market with a compelling combination of potent editing tools and advanced real-time effects at a remarkable value price.

Inscriber InfoCaster - is an out-of-the-box solution that displays professional information channels. Designed to quickly create attractive multi-zone screens that integrate crawls, rolls, animations and more. InfoCaster is ideally suited for digital signage, cable TV channels and in-house information channels for corporations, schools, hotels, churches, entertainment facilities and other organizations. The new version supports updates from one central station!

Sony DSR-DR1000 - The DSR-DR1000 is a DVCAM format stream based, hard disk recorder that brings new production opportunities to the DVCAM family. This half-rack unit uses a large capacity hard-disk drive to provide up to six hours of DVCAM format stream recording. Primarily designed for straight recording and edit-feeding applications, the DSR-DR1000 takes full advantage of the benefits of disk-based recording, while maintaining the same operational feel as a VTR. Its simultaneous recording and playback capability enables the immediate availability of recordings for play out and other feeding applications - without interruption.

JVC DR-DV5000U - Adds hard disk drive recording to your professional camcorder. Direct to Edit technology compatible with most major NLE systems.

Anark Studio 1.5 is the best way to create interactive content. Purchase now and receive a free upgrade to version 2.0 when it is released in June.  There will be special show pricing on Anark Studio at the Videotex Post NAB event but you must attend to get the special.

• ground-breaking advances in rendering technology and workflow
• New hardware renderer allows users to quickly produce images for film pre-visualization and broadcast final output.
• Tighter integration with physically-based mental ray® renderer (version 3.2); includes global illumination and caustics.
• All Maya rendering options are unified through a consistent rendering UI and workflow.
• New vector renderer allows users to put the power of Maya into your 2D graphics and animation.

• Maya Paint Effects™ strokes can be drawn as, or converted to, polygons for an even wider range of organic and mechanical looks.
• The Maya Fluid Effects functionality has been extended to include "ponds" and "wakes".
• More realistic looking fur options via the new Maya Fur™ “Clumping” feature; includes wet fur and dirty, matted fur.
• Enhanced animation tools include improved constraints, FK/IK blending and channel muting.

• Up to 90% performance improvement in dynamics computation speed on Windows.
• Cloth simulation has been optimized.
• Improved online tutorials and user documentation.
• Improved support for data formats such as StudioTools, DWG, DXF and OBJ.