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Table Of Contents
 Test Drive: Intel Nehalem, Part
2
Panasonic's new AVCCAM
Sony Expands XDCAM HD422 Series with
New Camcorder and Deck
Digital Rapids Takes Live Streaming
Higher at NAB with HD, Enhanced Management, Portability and More
Matrox Announces Matrox CompressHD for
the PC
Affordable HD Pros
Streaming for Video Pros: Producing
Streaming Video with Final Cut Pro and Compressor
Up Front
Test
Drive: Intel Nehalem, Part 2
By Jan Ozer
 Welcome back to our
presentation of how HP’s new Intel Nehalem-based workstations compare
to older workstations when rendering from Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4).
Briefly, in the last installment, I detailed the tests that I
performed, and discussed the results for DV and HDV source materials.
This time out, I present the results for DVCPRO HD, AVCHD, and Red and
share how the Z400 and Z800 performed with Hyper-threaded Technology
(HTT) enabled and disabled. more>>
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Affordable HD News from BlogLive @ NAB Show
2009
Panasonic's
new AVCCAM
By Trevor Boyer
 The big product news for
Panasonic is the AG-HMC40, a compact handheld AVCCAM model that features
three 1/4in. CMOS chips and a built-in 12X zoom in a 2.2lb. chassis. more>>
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Affordable HD News from The Briefing Room
Sony
Expands XDCAM HD422 Series with New Camcorder and Deck
 Sony’s newest additions to
the XDCAM HD422 series of optical disc products deliver enhanced
flexibility for motion picture and TV episodic production, and for
ENG/EFP applications. The new PDW-F800 CineAlta camcorder and PDW-F1600
deck expand the capabilities of the MPEG HD422 codec, with both offering
a frame rate of 23.98p natively in 1080 mode and multiformat recording
flexibility as standard—including standard-definition recording to
support legacy formats (MPEG IMX, DVCAM, and 4:2:0 HD content). They
also provide multiformat (1080i/720p) recording, as well as HD/SD
conversion and crossconversion during playback between 1080i and 720p.
more>>
Digital
Rapids Takes Live Streaming Higher at NAB with HD, Enhanced Management,
Portability and More
 Digital Rapids—a leading
provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, film, and web
content to wider audiences—is taking live streaming to new heights,
with new products and enhancements across their entire range of live
stream encoding and management systems. Live streaming solutions
unveiled at the NAB Show in Las Vegas include high-definition models in
the StreamZ Live family of encoders, a new version of the Digital Rapids
Broadcast Manager multi-encoder management software, and the NAB debut
of the award-winning TouchStream portable streaming appliance. Digital
Rapids also announced plans to incorporate support for Microsoft’s
Smooth Streaming technology in upcoming product versions. more>>
Matrox
Announces Matrox CompressHD for the PC
 Matrox Video Products Group
announced Matrox CompressHD, the first implementation of Matrox MAX
technology in an H.264 accelerator card for Windows, priced at just
$495. Matrox MAX technology uses a dedicated hardware processor to
accelerate the creation of H.264 files for mobile devices, the web and
Blu-ray Discs. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs are
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tasks. Matrox CompressHD works in systems with or without a video I/O
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Media Encoder software on the PC. more>>
From Reel-Exchange
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HD Pros
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Featured Forum Discussion
Streaming
for Video Pros: Producing Streaming Video with Final Cut Pro and
Compressor
 Looking for answers to your streaming
questions? From de-interlacing to scaling, continue this discussion and
others at Digital Content Producer's and millimeter's Crosstalk forums.
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