Canon C500 with 4K

Electronista actually has the info on this, but Canon has announced a higher end big daddy to the C300, the C500 and C500PL. They both output 10 bit uncompressed RAW footage and simultaneously records 50Mbps HD proxy video to CF cards for easy offline editing (a brilliant idea). It has a super 35MM equivalent CMOS sensor which is 8.85 megapixels.It has cinema 4L 4096x2160 as well as 3840x2160 for 4k TV, though only records 1080 to the dual CF cards. It does 0-60FPS in 12 bit RGB 4:4:$ or at 10bit YCrRb 4:22 it can go up to 120 FPS.No pricing has been announced, but this makes Canon a serious contender, as well as having the EOS facility in Los Angeles for support.

Adobe shows off Production Premium CS6 and it looks Amazing!

Macworld has an in depth article on the new Production Premium CS6 showing off it’s new features, and it does sound exciting.Premier Pro CS6 is getting unlimited dynamic Multi-cam, built in Image Stabilization with Warp Stabilizer from AE CS5.5 and an enhanced Mercury Playback engine that will even work with some AMD video cards instead of just NVIDIA CUDA cards. It ha s anew Default Workspace, and is more customizable. It has more Audio Mixing controls. Trimming controls have been added and more customizing. A rolling Shutter repair. And of course the addition of Automatic Duck for interoperability between Final Cut Pro 7 and AVID and Premiere Pro. And it will edit 5K for RED compatibility.Yes! Adobe has been listening and it looks like Premiere Pro CS6 is going to be a power house editing tool!After Effects CS6 has enhancements to it’s render cache, were renders can be saved with projects, a full 3D camera Tracker, a Ray Trace 3D rendering engine (that looks to give Zaxwerks a run for it’s money), variable mask feathering, and built in Automatic Duck, so it will work with Avid Media Composer and Final Cut 7 files! Nice! Mocha will also be better integrated so you can launch Mocha from within AE (and Mocha is set to get updates at NAB as well).A new edition to the suite is Prelude CS6 for ingest, logging and organization as well as transcoding of files.Audition CS6 also gets updated and has smooth project exchange between Premiere Pro and third party nonlinear editors. Has real time clip stretching, automatic speech alignment and pitch correction. Better control surface control with automation.And an exciting new addition is this suits version of Color, the recently purchases SpeedGrade. A 64 Bit GPU accelerated Color Correction tool. This is really necessary especially with DaVinci software basically being made free from Black Magic.It really sounds like Adobe has been listening, and is making their editing suite a powerhouse that can really replace Final Cut Pro 7 and easily go head to head with AVID with even more powerful tools. I can’t wait to try this suite out!

Bare Bones updates the Free TextWrangle to 4.0

Bare Bones software has updated the fantastic free text editor TextWrangler to version 4.0. An amazing program for free, sure not as powerful as their pay program BBedit, but still a fantastic Text editor.

Something new for Smoke at NAB

So it seems Autodesk has something big and new for Smoke that will be announced at NAB next week. This is utter speculation, but an inexpensive version of Smoke, say $1000 or even $1500 for a crossgrade would be huge, as many editors fresh from losing FCP 7 would give Smoke with it’s amazing compositing tools a try.I am excited to hear what happens here.An update at CreativeCOW.net has Walter Biscardi saying that the new smoke is amazing! I can’t wait!

Apple Updates FCP X, Motion 5 and Compressor 4

This is all over the web, but Larry Jordan reported on it. And Apple has updated FCP X in time for NAB.Sounds like the biggest edition is better broadcast monitor support and better Multicam performance. So mostly bug fixes, but the broadcast monitor support is certainly important.

Sony PMW-100

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Engadget has news on the Sony PMW-100 Camera with 50Mbps birtrate. This camera ha sa 40-400mm (35mm equivalent) fixed lens does 1080o or i and 720p at 50Mbps MPEG HD422 compression on SxS cards. And can record 4 channels of sound in 24bit uncompressed 48kHz. Nor word on price yet though, but it will be released in May

Sony Announces HXR-NX30 Camera

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Engadget has the info on Sony’s newest portable camera. This has a built in 26mm-260mm lens (35 MM equivalent) Full XLR input for sound, 96GB of internal Memory for recording 1920x1080 in 60p, 30p or 24p or 720 60p. It Records in AVCHD and most strangely has a built in projector.To me it sounds like a HVX200 competitor, and I have loved what footage from Sony’s has looked like of late, so I am interested in seeing what the footage from this camera looks like, especially for under $2000.

OnOne Releases Perfect Effects 3 Free

OneOne has released a version of Perfect Effects 3 Free. Not the full suite, but quite a few effects.The next generation of PhotoTools 2.6 FreeBased on the popular, new Perfect Effects 3Over two-dozen professional photographic effectsLive, full-screen effect previewsCombine multiple effects to create your own unique lookIncludes Perfect Layers for creating layered filesWorks as a standalone application or directly with Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Lightroom or Aperture

OnOne Updates Perfect Photo Suite to 6.1

OnOne Software has updated it’s perfect Photo Suite to 6.1. It is a free update for 6.0 Users.Here are there updates.Improved Refine BrushRebuilt for improved results, the Refine Brush in Perfect Mask now better recognizes soft edges, like hair and trees, so you can make your edges more defined between your foreground and background.New Color Spill BrushRemove unwanted reflected or transmitted colors with the new Color Spill Brush in Perfect Mask to ensure all areas of your image reflect their true colors.Enhanced Brushing PerformanceExperience faster, smoother and more responsive brushing functionality, including improved opacity control with Wacom tablets and reduced brush stickiness, that allow you to create high-quality and natural looking masks with just a few strokes.Retouch Portraits with Faster ToolsImages and presets now open faster in Perfect Portrait, and the automatic detection of smaller faces has been improved, so you get to the task of retouching your portraits more quickly.  Visual Tips to Get You Started FasterGetting Started tips show you the key tools to use when you open each module, recommending the first steps to take to start realizing your photographic vision.Select Your Performance PreferencesNow you can optimize the Perfect Photo Suite’s memory usage and undo behavior to match the resources of your computer.Additional performance updatesImproved panning speed and responsivenessUpdated Raw processing library, added support for 35 more camerasAbility to change thumbnail size in matrix view on the browserImproved tool tracking when interacting with other controlsImproved speed when using as a Photoshop plug-inImproved preview quality at all zoom levelsAdded mask thumbnail to Stack in Perfect EffectsPerfect Mask Pen Tool greatly improved for classic useBorders in Perfect Effects now scale non-proportionally to fit the image betterI love how this company does business. The 64 bit versions of their plug ins were free, and they keep releasing either free versions of plug ins or making some of them completely free. This is a company that not only loves it’s customers, but knows it’s whole suite is good enough that it is worth giving away stuff for free since it will make enough sales.