News Archive for 02/04/06

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Blackmagic announces Kona HD, Offline RT

04/06, 1:00pm

Blackmagic announces Kona HD, Offline RT

Blackmagic will make three announcements at the upcoming NAB 2002 conference beginning next week:

• Kona HD, dubbed as "the first" uncompressed HDTV 10 bit QuickTime card fo OS X, which offers support for Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Combustion, Cleaner, iDVD and DVD Studio Pro. It supports uncompressed 10 bit video at all HDTV resolutions, can be upgraded with real time effects, and has Offline RT support. Kona HD will be available shortly afte Final Cut Pro certification tests have been completed for $11,000.
• The immediate availability of Offline RT support for the Kona SD and Kona HD (see above). Offline RT allows editors to capture directly from tape via the Kona SDI input to motion photo JPEG files compatible with the software real time effects featured in Final Cut Pro 3. Blackmagic Installer 1.2 or later is available at no charge and includes all updates for Offline RT.
• Kona SD has been certified by Apple for Final Cut Pro 3 on OS X, making it "the first product to be released on OS X, and the first uncompressed QuickTime board to be certified for Final Cut Pro 3 compatibility." The $3,300 board offers high-quality uncompressed 10-bit video, and 6 channels of AES/EBU digital audio and is available now.

Email Magician 1.6 adds more spam filters

04/06, 12:45pm

Email Magician 1.6 adds more spam filters

Email Magician 1.6 adds more SPAM filters (now over 250), a new Valid Accounts Filter, and more filter options for unregistered users to the $35 email utilty that automatically creates filters, mailboxes, and address book entries for Eudora as well as checks for more than 1,000 spam characteristic and automates many tasks such as optimizing your Eudora folder, and archiving email messages.

Dragon Burn 1.0: new CD burning app for Mac

04/06, 12:20pm

Dragon Burn 1.0: new CD burning app for Mac

NewTech Infosystems has entered into the Mac market with Dragon Burn 1.0, which offers Mac OS 9 users "all of the essential CD-burning functions, such as CD copy, data and audio mastering, and advanced CD formats, all wrapped within an integrated, streamlined and very user-friendly Graphical User Interface." It supports all the latest drives in the market as well as some of the latest CD-burning technologies available such as BurnProof and JustLink. An OS X version is under development, according to the company.