Topics: AJA Ki Pro Review; Leitner's Cinematography Corner; Matrox CompressHD Test Drive: PC

Section Editor: Andrew Ward
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Apple Snow Leopard for Video Producers, Part 1

By Jan Ozer

Apple's new Snow Leopard (or OS X 10.6) is the type of release that delivers incremental advancements on the surface, but exponential enhancements below the waterline--though many will take months, if not years, to truly start bearing fruit...

Webcast Series

Tapeless Field Production Webcast True HD on the Web: Going Live with Smooth Streaming

Reel-Exchange

Top Facilities Resource Report
Check out the September 2009 Top Facilities Resource Report from millimeter and Reel-Exchange.com.

Webcast Series

Digital Content Producer Webcast Series The Latest on Wireless Mic Systems
This presentation is a must-have checkup for anyone using wireless systems or planning on buying them.

Products

CalDigit VR mini

With laptops having overtaken desktops as the preferred computing platform, storage gear manufacturers are following with products that you might take on the road...

G-Technology G-Speed eS PRO XL

While local storage works for many postproduction setups, some newer, less expensive technologies are enabling editors to add larger high-speed disk arrays once only affordable by the big players...

Blackmagic Design DeckLink Optical Fiber

Facilities with lots of workstations face a quandary: They may want to keep their installed SDI cabling while upgrading to optical fiber, but the cost of separate SDI-to-optical-fiber conversion cards for each workstation makes it a prohibitive investment...

in-depth

Apple Snow Leopard for Video Producers, Part 2

In this issue, I share some benchmark tests with a Mac Pro and Mac Book Pro comparing Leopard (OS X 10.5) to Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) in 32-bit and 64-bit modes...

Apple Mac Pro vs. MacBook Pro Test Drive, Part 2

Back again, comparing the performance of an Apple MacBook Pro (3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 8GB of 1067MHz DDR3 RAM) with a Mac Pro (2.93GHz quad-core Nehalem Xeon CPUs with 18GB of 1067MHz DDR3 RAM) in a range of editing and encoding chores...