NAB is one of those few times when acting like a kid in a candy shop is appropriate. With thousands of new and innovative high-end cameras, computers, lights, jibs, dollies, and accessories to check out, even the most stoic attendees can find it hard to act their age. To help you sort through the bevy of new gear without losing the last vestiges of your respect, the Videomaker staff boldly undertook the task of scouring the show floor's 785,000 square feet of space for cool products that we thought you would love.

This year, we decided to award several products with a "Best of NAB" award that we believe are a perfect fit to our readership - due to pricing, features or functionality. Those "Best of" products are stamped with our this icon to the right. To read more about those and why we picked them, see our Best of NAB blog at Videomaker NAB 2011 Awards Announced.

Best of NAB 2011 - Here's a look at some of the products that we loved the best:

BEST CAMERA SUPPORT

Redrock micro3D Rig
Though 3D camcorders are a great way to capture an easy 3D video, a 3D rig will give you greater flexibility and control over your image. Redrock micro presents a sleek-looking side-by-side rig, the micro3D rig, designed for smaller format cameras that are capable of professional 3D. The precision-machined metal rig includes easily adjustable X, Y, Z calibration, the ability to set convergence and the interaxial distance. All measurements are clearly marked on the rig in millimeters for an accurate setting of each camera. The micro3D rig comes standard with an 18-inch bar. A 36-inch bar is also available.
store.redrockmicro.com

BEST HARD DRIVE

LaCie Little Big Disk Hard Drive
Featuring Thunderbolt technology and storage capacities up to 1TB the LaCie Little Big Disk brings users extremely fast data transfer rates, faster content editing and a complete backup system in minutes. The Little Big Disk supports two 10Gbps bi-directional channels from a single port without compromising bandwidth using Apple and Intel's new Thunderbolt technology. In addition to superior transfer rates and large capacity solid state drives, the Little Big Disk provides daisy-chaining of up to six computer peripherals and are preconfigured as a striped RAID system.
lacie.com

BEST EDITING SOFTWARE

Apple Final Cut Pro X
Apple announced the long-awaited new edition of its editing software, Final Cut Pro X which will support 64-bit, allowing it to render video and effects instantly in the background. It will also take advantage of Grand Central Dispatch, will include a "magnetic" timeline for easy roll and slip edits, supports 4K formats, can sync up audio and video without timecode, allows you to get rid of rolling shutter, and has an entirely new and sleek interface - all for only $299.
No additional information available as of press time.

BEST PLUG-IN

Boris FX Boris RED 5
Boris' newest version of its successful RED line is Boris RED 5. It has support for 64-bit video editing applications, filters for 3-way color grades, noise reduction, up-rezzing, smooth tone, lens blur, matchmove, DV fixing, and pixel fixing for high quality SD to HD conversions. It also has some stylized filters to add scan lines, a damaged TV look, turbulence, LED array look and chromatic abberation to your footage. The product will be available in the first half of 2011.
borisfx.com