$1,695 ($295 academic price)
Avid Technology Inc.
Avid Technology Park
One Park West
Tewksbury, MA 01876
(800) 949-2843
www.avid.com
Xpress Yourself (in HDV)
It's difficult to discuss an Avid product without paying homage to the company's pre-eminent position within the professional video and film editing world. Avid's flagship video editing solution, the Media Composer, has long been...
Steve Jobs, Apple Computer CEO, introduced iDVD 5 at this year's MacWorld San Francisco keynote address as part of the iLife '05 "digital hub" application suite. Complimentary to iMovie HD, iDVD 5 is a critical component of Apple's push to allow "mere mortals" to make professional quality video you...
$250
Final Draft
26707 W. Agoura Rd. Suite 205
Building B, 2nd Floor
Calabasas, CA 91302
(800) 231-4055
www.finaldraft.com
The King of Drafts
Are formatting headaches forever gone? Professional scriptwriters and aspiring writers have one of the best tools available at their fingertips with Final Draft 7. The ability to open the program and immediately start writing...
Magix Gets Serious
The low-cost video editing software market has really been heating up in the past year or so, resulting in a plethora of low-cost, full-featured video software packages. Case in point: Magix Movie Edit Pro 10, a rich, well-rounded solution that costs about as much as a newly...
$299
Animated Communications
P.O. Box 16907
Chapel Hill, NC 275161
(800) 949-559
Want to turn your kid into a penguin, a butterfly or a cartoon character? Or would you prefer to send him into outer space? No, we don't mean literally, but with video special effects, of course. Animated Communications' 3D Choreographer Video Effects...
Hearing the phrase "good software" together with the word "value" seems like an oddity these days, as prices keep going up, big bugs keep surfacing and product cycles keep getting shorter. But Nero 6.6 is truly a piece of good software that is certainly a value, especially if you're...
Many of us have used buyout music libraries in the past. You find the music you like, buy it and it's yours to use as many times as you like, with no additional fees. Those with more time or creative energy on hand enjoy using music creation software like...
$495
Ulead Systems
20000 Mariner Ave., Suite 200
Torrance, CA 90503
(800) 85-ULEAD
www.ulead.com
DVD authoring is not nearly as complex as video editing, or at least it shouldn't be. While it used to be informative to look at individual features supported in early DVD products, professional-level applications all tend to support the...
Wondertouch particleIllusion is an amazingly cool and almost effortless special effects tool. particleIllusion is for anyone who needs explosions, muzzle flashes, fireworks, waterfalls, realistic effects or psychedelic trips without the drugs. Perhaps best of all, you might not even have to hire a dedicated animator, since you can probably...
When editing applications upgrade a version, the improvements and additions are often at the professional edge. Casual editors might not even notice the differences. Such is the case with Vegas 5.0. It is a better app overall, but if you are happily using 4.0, you might not even notice...
