Media Tech News

• The highest quality effects and transitions are moving into low cost digital editing software.
  • [Apple] With the release of iMovie3, Keynote, and Final Cut Pro Express, high quality graphics may now be combined with multiple layers of video and audio. Pan and zoom of digital stills are so easy to do.
  • [PC] ULead VideoStudio7, Pinnacle Studio DV8, and Adobe Premiere 6.5 are some of these tools on the PC side that get the job done with less finesse.
• Burning DVDs will finally become mainstream with burners breaking the $300 mark. Watch particularly AcomData's external Firewire drive due out later this year.
• With less than 5 minutes of video taking up a GigaByte of space on a hard drive, it is great to see companies such as Maxtor selling a 40 GB drive for under $50 on sale, and AcomData selling an external 60 GB Firewire and USB2 drive for under $140. The most cost effective way to store video media remains to be back on videotape, with Digital 8 being the least costly rerecordable medium (recording over 330 lines of resolution at $1.90 per hour).

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