http://videomaker.com/community/blogs/videonews Latest Video News Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:14:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Focus Enhancements today announced their new DTE recorder, the FS-5. Essentially it's a 100 gigabyte portable harddrive recorder that connects to your DV or HDV camcorder via Firewire. When you press the record button on your camcorder, the video goes to tape, but it's also captured to the hard drive ... http://videomaker.com/community/blogs/videonews/2008/07/4024-focus-enhancements-ships-the-fs-5/ HP announced today its xw4550 workstation. It sports a Quad Core AMD processor and an ATI Radeon X1250 integrated graphics card, as well as a 4GB memory capacity. The line has plenty of configurable options so you can customize just the workstation you need. The price point is certainly attractive, starting ... http://videomaker.com/community/blogs/videonews/2008/07/4019-hp-xw4550-a-quad-core-workstation-for-600/ (CHICO, Calif. June 20, 2008) Video enthusiasts will refine their video production skills by attending a weekend of classes at the 2008 Videomaker Conference. The event will be held in San Diego, CA from July 19th - July 20th, 2008. For the weekend, videographers and video enthusiasts can choose from a ... http://videomaker.com/community/blogs/videonews/2008/06/2004-the-2008-videomaker-portland-conference-is-coming-up/ In August, Sony will debut the HDR-CX12 camcorder. It's a Handycam format camcorder, that records to Sony's memory stick technology in 1920x1080 HD video, and also takes a pretty astounding 10 megapixel still photo.   It features a new technology called "Smile Shutter" that can analyze when a person in the frame ... http://videomaker.com/community/blogs/videonews/2008/06/4017-sony-announces-new-hd-camcorder/ (edited to add specs on camcorders, and new pricing information from Panasonic) Panasonic sent around a press release today announcing two new HD camcorders, the HDC-SD100, and the HDC-HS100. Recording AVCHD to memory card, (and to hard drive in the SD100 model) they use 3MOS sensors. What's the difference between MOS ... http://videomaker.com/community/blogs/videonews/2008/06/4016-panasonic-announces-2-new-hd-camcorders/ Maybe I'm showing my age, but I still can't wrap my head around a one terabyte portable bus-powered hard drive. I remember when 9 gig drives were the standard high capacity drive, and honestly it wasn't that long ago. So for those who need massive portable storage, like editing in ... http://videomaker.com/community/blogs/videonews/2008/06/4014-lacie-introduces-1tb-little-big-disk/ JVC has announced 3 new HD camcorders to their lineup, the GZ HD40 and 30, and the GZ HD10. Of special interest in these releases is the hybrid codec for the GZ HD 40 and GZ HD 30. JVC allows you to choose between AVCHD and MPEG2 codecs on ... http://videomaker.com/community/blogs/videonews/2008/06/4012-jvc-announces-3-new-hd-camcorders/ Today Rode announced a new shotgun mic model, the NTG-3. An interesting feature on this mic is the moisture-proof design, allowing the use of this shotgun mic in humid and rainy field conditions without having to worry about condensation building up on the diaphragm. We should probably point out that ... http://videomaker.com/community/blogs/videonews/2008/06/4011-rode-announces-new-ntg-3-shotgun-mic/ Avid released a new version of it's flagship software, Media Composer 3.0, as well as most of it's editing line up. Of note, the new price of Media Composer 3.0 software of $2,495 is half the cost of the previous version, making high end Avid editing a bit more accessible ... http://videomaker.com/community/blogs/videonews/2008/06/4008-avid-releases-new-media-composer/ reprinted from a ProDAD press release: IMMENDINGEN, GERMANY, June 2, 2008 – proDAD GmbH, a popular maker of video effects plug-ins for the professional video editing market announced the availability of its Mercalli video stabilization plug-in for popular Windows-based Non-Linear Editing (NLE) software applications. The Mercalli plug-in provides an elegant ... http://videomaker.com/community/blogs/videonews/2008/06/4007-prodad-announces-new-mercali-video-stabilization-plugin/