Sapphire 6 is on the Way!  What’s New in Sapphire v6?

As we mentioned, Sapphire v6 is currently scheduled to be released around the end of September 2011.

We’re excited to tell you about some of the key enhancements that will be included in Sapphire v6:

• New and improved, organic effects and transitions

• 16 brand new effects and transitions
• 7 improved effects from previous Sapphire versions
• Flare Designer

• Create & customize your own lens flares
• Control individual elements of each lens flare
• Preset Browser

• Browse and build looks faster
• Be inspired with hundreds of preset looks
• View on your own footage in real-time
• Integrated masks for isolating effects (After Effects)
• Universal License (Autodesk only)

• Float your Flame license across Autodesk seats and other host platforms

For more details on Sapphire v6 upgrade features, check out the attached data sheets.

- After Effects: Sapphire_6_Upgrade_-_After_Effects.pdf

- Avid: Sapphire_6_Upgrade_-_Avid.pdf

- Final Cut Pro: Sapphire_6_Upgrade_-_FCP.pdf

New Licenses: Buy v5 Now, Get v6 Free

Need a new license of Sapphire? For new licenses, buy Sapphire v5 now (or Sapphire for Avid v3) and you’ll receive an automatic upgrade to Sapphire v6 when it’s available!

• Applies to new license purchases only, not upgrades.
• Any new v5 license (or v3 Avid license) purchased between now and the release of Sapphire v6 will receive upgrade to v6 at no additional charge.

Contact GenArts Sales for details: sales@nichevideo.com or call us at 770-499-1899

Still on Earlier Version of Sapphire?

Here’s What You’ve Been Missing!

These advancements were among the previous updates when Sapphire v5 was released:

• GPU-acceleration for most platforms
• 16+ new effects such as TVDamage and Deband
• 13 new transitions including TVChannelChange

PROMISE Technology Enables Editing and Playback in Real Time of Uncompressed Video on Thunderbolt Equipped Macs

 

PROMISE Pegasus Thunderbolt and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 Bring Fast Performance to Video Projects Being Filmed and Edited on Multiple Sites, Transforming Workflow Efficiency.

Recently, PROMISE demonstrated the Pegasus R6 connected to a MacBook running four streams of 10-bit uncompressed video using Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, Adobe’s flagship video editing software along with Adobe After Effects® CS5.5 software for visual effects. Professionals benefit from breakthrough performance on workstations and laptops streamlined collaboration and boosted productivity with an efficient, robust, cross-platform editing workflow.

 

Benefits of using PROMISE Pegasus with Thunderbolt and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5

• Improved Workflow Efficiency ‒ Spend less time waiting for load time, more time on actual work.

• Real time Editing ‒ World’s first solution allows editing and playback in real time of uncompressed video (10-bit, 2K) on MacBook Pro & iMacs using Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.

• Screaming Performance ‒ Full length HD movies can be copied in seconds from one Pegasus to another or to the SAN with SANLink. This is especially important for video projects being filmed/edited on multiple sites.

• Easy Expansion ‒ Daisy chaining allows for up to 72TB with Pegasus.

PROMISE Pegasus Highlights

• Blistering Performance, Unparalleled Flexibility for Mac Professionals and Artists ‒ With over 800 MB/s of performance, amateur professionals, audio engineers, photographers and video post production engineers benefit from the extreme performance of Pegasus with Thunderbolt Technology.

• Easy to Use and Easy to Manage ‒ Pegasus comes preconfigured out of the box for fast, easy set-up to store music, photos, videos and documents or ingest and edit production video. Managing Pegasus is effortless with a new made for Mac OS X management software.

• Storage for the Digital Home ‒ With two channels of bi-directional 10 Gb/s performance, Thunderbolt Technology enables backups to happen while editing of videos or playlists is taking place. Pegasus provides massive storage space and fast performance.

• Ultra Quiet and Eco-Smart.

• Pegasus is RoHS Compliant ‒ In simple terms Pegasus is eco-friendly, keeping harmful lead out of the environment and our delicate ecosystems.

• Contact us immediately at 770.499.1899
• Click here to contact us by email.

EonStor DS Support for 3TB Disk Drives

IT market research continues to predict large increases in the amount of data generated by businesses. Faced with this explosive growth, companies have to identify ways in which to efficiently deal with all the data that needs to be processed and stored.

To meet growing capacity demands, Infortrend supports 3TB disk drives on EonStor DS storage arrays. Infortrend users are thereby able to store more data in the same storage space and deal with data growth more efficiently.

Besides technologies that help users better utilize their available storage resources, raw capacity on storage systems is one of the key features with which SMBs can meet this challenge. The capacity storage systems are capable of delivering depends on the type of disk drives they support.

To learn more about 3TB drive support on Infortrend’s EonStor DS storage systems, you can:

• Contact us immediately at 770.499.1899
• Click here to contact us by email.

Offer until Sept. 30, 2011:

Save 50% off full versions of Adobe CS5.5 Production Premium or Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 if you own Apple Final Cut Pro or Avid Media Composer.

Get ready for the biggest kick of all.

Thunder kick.

June 6th

at Niche Video.

Click here for details and registration.

The event was a great success.  Please check back later for future events.

Facilis Technology showcased Terrablock v5.0 at NAB this year, which offers a host new and improved features for the already popular Terrablock SAN. This version delivers enhanced performance for OS X Shared File System clients, new scalability options, and features aimed at collaborative workflows.

• Complete Final Cut Pro project sharing
• Enhanced performance in Mac OS X Shared File System
• Pro Tools 9.0 file-level support
• 64bit Kernel support for Mac OS X
• 10Gbit Ethernet support for client workstations

Facilis’ new T8 SAS expansion storage also enables a simple Terrablock capacity expansion of 14TB! It can also be a great starter solution for direct attached, local storage, and once a shared storage solution is needed in your environment, it can be repurposed with a Terrablock!

AJA announced a few new products this year and some powerful updates to their existing product line. Here are a few that we are excited about:

FS2 – * NEW PRODUCT *

A huge update to the wildly successful FS1, comes in the form of the FS2. This high quality and affordable encoder is now DUAL CHANNEL, and has few more I/O bells and whistles.

FS2 offers dual independent streams with full input and output signal routing and dual 16 channel audio processors, making it ideally suited for broadcast facilities, production trucks and other multi-format production environments.FS2 builds on the success of AJA’s FS1 by adding dual channel features, 3G-SDI I/O and HDMI I/O in a streamlined 1RU form factorand at an unprecedented price point of $4,995.00 US Dollars. Optional Optical Fiber I/O support and optional Dolby-E encoding and decoding will also be available.

KiPro Mini – * UPDATE *

Version 2.5 firmware offers:

• Additional Format Support  – Ki Pro Mini now supports 1080i-30 and 720p-60 formats,  providing even more compatibility.

• LANC Support – Firmware v2.5 enables the LANC connection on Ki Pro Mini. This allows control data from LANC-enabled cameras and accessories to be fed into Ki Pro Mini for start/stop and other control commands.

• CF Card Qualifications – Several additional Compact Flash (CF) cards have been certified for use with Ki Pro Mini.

•RED has recommended the Ki Pro Mini as the first Apple ProRes solution for the newly released RED EPIC camera.

KONA 3G – * UPDATE *

V9.0 software opens up the KONA 3G to support full res playback and output of 4K material inside Final Cut Pro 7, AJA TV and AJA VTR Xchange software. 4K Mode is enabled by a new version 9.0 software update — no new hardware is required. Choosing “4K Mode” in the updated AJA Control Panel switches KONA 3G’s four bi-directional SDI ports to output mode enabling delivery of images up to 4096×2160 to 4K-capable monitors or projectors, in RGB and YUV color spaces.

Intel has just announced it will soon be making development kits available for its new Thunderbolt interconnect. The bi-directional cable can carry 10Gbps is currently available on the Apple’s MacBook Pro computers with the rest of the Apple product line to follow. Peripheral manufacturers are starting to unveil their lightning-scorched offerings this week at NAB. Look for Thunderbolt to take over soon.

As normal Autodesk is rocking the show floor in Las Vegas.

They will also rock your favorite device with the live stream demos all day during NAB.

Surf on over and see the future today.

If you missed this I hate it for you.  Check back at IBC and next years NAB.

Bravo Autodesk.