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Computer Video News - February 2004

DVD Workshop goes pro

Version 2 of Ulead's mid-range DVD authoring program adds professional features such as multiple tracks, playlists, copy-protection and support for DLT and dual-layer DVDs.

The eagerly-awaited up-spec'd version of DVD Workshop - Ulead's CV-award-winning DVD authoring program - will offer a raft of professional features and be available from January with an SRP of £300 (inc VAT) or £129 for an upgrade.
Although the easy-to-use, wizard-based interface seen in V1 (review, April 2002, p28) is still there, the MkII program is a lot more powerful, featuring multiple subtitle and audio tracks, together with playlists and output support for Digital Linear Tape (DLT) and dual-layer DVDs (DVD-9). Region coding and copy protection are also possible, with CSS encryption and Macrovision for discs authored to DLT, and Macrovision also available for DIY DVDs.
Up to eight audio tracks and 32 subtitle tracks can be added, allowing the production of DVDs in different languages, and with additional music tracks, commentaries, subtitles and other messaging. Production is made easier because tracks can be selected by name and not just by number. Customisable subtitles are typed directly into the preview window, or onto a track.
Audio enhancements include independent volume control of menus and audio tracks, with fade-in/out options, and decoding of 5.1 channel Dolby Digital audio files and encoding to two-channel Dolby Digital stereo. There's also an option for surround sound emulation during DVD playback if the original audio track used more than two channels (typically Dolby Digital 5.1) but was converted to a two-channel audio track.
Multi-layered menus can be built from image masks, objects with gradient transparency, motion menus and buttons, or created from one of the program's many included templates. Progress can be previewed in real-time during authoring using the built-in DVD simulator.
Motion-menu video clips can be made to loop on playback from a particular timecode, and buttons can be assigned to change when activated, by applying either a colour or image layer. They can also be set to display another window or menu item when navigated over, or be made 'invisible', with a highlight image programmed to appear when selected. Creative button-options include the ability to design active text menus, irregular-shaped edge masks, or rotating buttons with composited images or video content.
The new Playlist Control feature is for linking a sequence of assets - menus, video clips, subtitles and chapter-points - to buttons, without duplicating that sequence each time. This saves disc space and allows for the creation of creative playback possibilities. Files that have been moved elsewhere on the system can be relinked using Smart Relink.
Enhanced input options include support for multi-layered images, including PSD or UFO files, or GIF animations and video clips. Video can be copied and edited from DVD-VR (rewritable and RAM) and non-copy-protected DVDs, and sound can be ripped from audio CDs. V2 is reckoned to fully support capture and encoding of Sony's MicroMV MPEG-2 format, too.
Also on the features list are 'advanced' slideshow creation tools with 100-plus transition effects; a label designer for creating disc labels or case inserts; full widescreen (16:9) support; multiple Video Title Sets (Multi-VST) using SmartRender technology; instant burning (creating an ISO disc image); and capture as DV or directly to MPEG and Dolby Digital AC-3 from analogue or DV devices in various image-quality settings, using constant or variable bit-rate recording.

Ulead; 01327 844880; www.ulead.co.uk


Adobe editing suite on the cheap 1

ADS bundles FireWire card with full Adobe Premiere Pro, Encore DVD and Audition for £400!

ADS Tech's Pyro Professional editing suite brings together the company's well-respected three-port OHCI FireWire card and full versions of three Adobe programs - Premiere Pro (review, December 2003, p30), Encore DVD (review, January 2004, p28) and sound editor Audition. The likely street price inc VAT? An amazingly low £400.
That's less than Premiere or Encore costs from Adobe's on-line store individually, and less than a third of the total price for all three programs - £1,316. It's also less than half the price of Adobe's value-for-money Video Collection suite (£828), though that does include a standard version of After Effects 6 (AE 6 Pro review, December 2003, p48).

ADS Technologies, 001 35 361 702042; www.adstech.com

 

Adobe editing suite on the cheap 2

Matrox bundles RT.X10 real-time card with full versions of Adobe Premiere Pro, Encore DVD and Audition for a little over £500

Matrox is offering a trio of Adobe editing programs on the cheap, bundling its RT.X10 real-time analogue/DV editing card (review, December 2002, p52) with full versions of Premiere Pro, Encore DVD, and Audition, calling it the RT.X10 Suite. The best price we've seen to date is £516 (inc VAT) from Siren Technology.
The package includes a breakout box with S-video, composite video and analogue L/R audio in/outputs - for easy connection of analogue devices - along with Matrox's quartet of productivity tools. This consists of MediaTools for capture and logging (with single-pass DV scan and capture available to save time); MediaExport for hardware-accelerated encoding of MPEG-1/2 and Windows Media/Real Media streaming formats; a Video-for-Windows software Codec; and WYSIWYG video output support for standard DirectShow-based applications.
In addition, Ligos's GoMotion MPEG encoder is integrated into MediaExport, and there's a bundled lite version of Pixélan SpiceRack, with 150-plus real-time organic transitions. The card's real-time editing capabilities within Premiere Pro include colour-correction with automatic white balancing; customisable Matrox Flex 3D effects such as page curls, spheres, cubes and P-in-P; and what's described as 'smooth fast and slow motion effects'. Finished edits can be output to analogue or DV tape; authored in Encore DVD; or batch-encoded into DVD, SVCD, VCD or web formats (with free web-video hosting at: www.matrox.tv).
Matrox's system recommendations for the suite take in a 2.4GHz P4 or AMD Athlon 2100+ processor (though faster is better); 512MByte of RAM; 2.5GByte free hard disk space for installation; a separate video drive for editing; and Windows XP - Premiere Pro and Encore DVD only run under XP.
There appears to be no software bundle upgrade for existing RT.X10 users, though there is a free upgrade to Premiere Pro for any RT.X10 Xtra bought on or after June 7. Others can upgrade to Pro directly from Adobe.

Siren Technology, 0161 796 5279; www.sirentechnology.co.uk
Matrox, 01753 665500; www.matrox.com


Toshiba portable Media Center

Edit-ready Toshiba Media Center laptop with 17in widescreen TFT, DVD-R/-RW/-RAM burner, Dolby Digital and Harmon Kardon speakers

The newest addition to Toshiba's Satellite laptop range is the P20-504, an edit-ready 3.2GHz P4 PC running Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center 2004 operating system. Key features include a 17in widescreen (16:10) XGA TFT display (1,440 x 900 max resolution), FireWire, USB 2.0 and a DVD-R/-RW/-RAM burner. Likely price is £2,300 (inc VAT).
Windows XP Media Center Edition (Bits and Bobs, December 2003, p73) turns the P20 into a home media centre. The machine can record and play video, live TV and music; and handle photos and DVDs - all under the control of an easy-to-use media interface and supplied infrared remote control. It has built-in Harman Kardon stereo speakers, and integrated Dolby Digital (AC-3) sound. Bundled software includes Panasonic's Motion DV Studio DV editor, Sonic Drag'n Drop CD disc creator, WinDVD disc player and Microsoft Works Suite 2003.
The P20's DVD burner (brand undisclosed) is reckoned to write to DVD-R (1x), DVD-RW (1x), DVD-RAM (2x), CD-R (16x) and CD-RW (4x), and read DVD-R/-RW/-ROM (8x), DVD-RAM (2x), CD-R/-ROM (24x), and CD-RW (12x). The 17in display is driven by an Nvidia GeForce FX Go 5200 graphics processor with 64MByte of DDR video RAM and support for DirectX 9.
System memory is 512MByte DDR RAM, expandable to 2GByte, and the hard disk is 80GByte (5,400rpm). The 3.2GHz Hyper-Threading processor has a front-side bus of 800MHz and 512KByte of Level 2 cache.
Socketry includes a single four-pin FireWire port, four USB 2.0 ports, TV-output (S-video), RF-in for the TV tuner, audio line-in, stereo headphone, mic input, VGA, parallel, and modem and networking (10/100-Base-TX) ports. There's also an SD Card slot, Type II or Type III PC Card slots and Fast InfraRed (FIR).
The unit comes with an AC adaptor, TV-out cable, TV tuner bay module, and a rechargeable lithium-ion battery said to be good for 2.5 hours running time. It's a big 'un, though - measuring 419(w) x 293(d) x 47(h)mm and weighing little less than 5kg with the battery.

Toshiba, 01932 828828; www.toshiba.com


Forging ahead in sound

First release from Sony Pictures Digital of Sound Forge 7 Windows audio editor

V7 of the Windows audio editor Sound Forge is the first release from new owner Sony Pictures Digital since its acquisition of Sonic Foundry desktop software division. The new version - £349 (inc VAT) - adds features in recording, editing and effects, workflow, and file import and export compared to V6 (review, March 2003, p42).
On the recording side, there is now support for automated, time-based recording, and recording at a specific input levels up to a pre-set threshold. And, a new pre-record buffer is reckoned to do away with problems of dropouts and missing audio at the start of recordings.
On the editing and effects front, there are new automation effects plug-ins including DirectX Volume, Reverb, Delay, Flange/Wah/Phase effects. The software has seven choices of new VU and PPM meters for determining RMS playback and record levels. The enhanced Spectrum Analysis window is dockable, and is said to offer extra real-time monitoring tools.
Other features include new noise generators - white, pink, brown and filtered - for audio testing, analysing room dynamics and performing other acoustic measurements; synthesis sweeps and effects capabilities; clipped audio detection and marking; improved mixing capabilities with new visual volume and pan envelopes; and an enhanced selection of graphic fades.
Improvements have also been made to the workflow. There's a new Media Explorer for auto previews of files in the editor's workspace - including directly off CD - plus the ability to save an audio clip's Undo history even after it's been saved to another media format, and a new Sound Forge project (.FRG) file format with a total history of all changes made. Also making life easier are automatic file mixing and conversion, and drag-and-drop extraction of audio clips from CD.
Sound Forge 7 has import and export support for Windows Media 9 Series, RealMedia 9 and QuickTime 6, including new voice and lossless Codecs. Improvements to the handling of compressed file format handling mean that the program doesn't need to waste time and disk space creating proxy files.
Version 7 can handle 24 frames per second (fps) DV footage from camcorders such as Panasonic's AG-DVX100 professional 24fps MiniDV model (news, December 2002, p20) - even without interlaced frames. And, the audio editor can be used to transcode such files to streaming formats.
Requirements are Windows XP or 2000; a 400MHz processor; 60MByte hard disk space for installation; 64MByte of RAM (128MByte recommended); a sound card; DirectX 8 (or later); and Internet Explorer 5 (or later).

Sony Pictures Digital, 001 608 204 7680; www.sony.com/mediasoftware


Apple ups the ante

Edit-ready Apple dual-1.8GHz PowerMac G5 and 20in TFT iMac

Apple is replacing its single-processor 1.8GHz PowerMac G5 (news, September 2003, p6) with a dual-1.8GHz model costing £1,899 (inc VAT) - less than £50 extra - and introducing a £1,750 all-in-one desktop iMac with a 20in (1,680 x 1,050 resolution) flat panel TFT display.
The PowerMac G5 range - now running OS X 10.3 Panther (news, Jan 04, p7) - still has the original dual-2GHz model (£2,299) selling alongside a 1.6GHz single-processor unit (£1,399). Specs are little changed. The 2GHz model has a 1GHz front-side bus (this is 900MHz on the 1.8GHz and 800MHz on the 1.6GHz) and a dual-channel memory interface (ditto the 1.8GHz).
There's 512MByte of 128-bit DDR SDRAM in the dual-processor Macs (upgradeable to 8GByte!), and 256MByte for the base model (upgradeable to a mere 4GByte). All have three 64-bit PCI-X card expansion slots - one 133MHz and two 100MHz for the duals; three 33MHz for the single processor model.
An 8x AGP port fitted with a 64MByte graphics card is standard, but the card is an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro in the 2GHz and an nVidia GeForce FX 5200 Ultra in the others. Hard drives are Serial ATA units - 80GByte in the base model and 160GByte in the duals.
Apple appears to be sticking with DVD-R for now, as each PowerMac's SuperDrive is a Pioneer DVR-105 DVD-R/-RW burner, rather than the newer +/- four-way DVR-106 (review, October 2003, p42).
Each PowerMac PC has one FireWire 800 port and two FireWire 400, plus three USB 2.0 ports (and two USB1.1 on the keyboard), and sockets for analogue and optical (SPDIF) audio in/out and for the built-in modem and Gigabit Ethernet card. All are wireless-ready, with built-in aerials, and can be equipped with Airport Extreme (based on 802.11g) or Bluetooth hardware.
The three-strong iMac range also runs OS X 10.3, but on single PowerPC G4 processors - 1.25GHz in the 20in and 17in (£1,449) models, each with a SuperDrive, and 1GHz in the 15in starter model with combined CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive (£999).
System memory and hard disk drive capacity is the same across the board - 256MByte of DDR333 RAM (expandable up to 1GByte) and an 80GByte Ultra ATA hard disk drive. The 15in model has a GeForce4 MX graphics card with 32MByte of DDR video memory, the others use GeForce FX 5200 Ultra cards with 64MByte of DDR memory.
Ports include two FireWire 400, three USB 2.0 (plus two USB 1.1 on the keyboard), VGA output, S-video and composite video output, 10/100Base-T Ethernet, modem, headphone, audio line-in and a speaker mini-jack - Apple Pro speakers are bundled. All are wireless-ready and can be equipped with Airport Extreme or Bluetooth hardware.

Apple UK, 0800 783 4846; www.apple.com/uk


LaCie Toast 6 burner bundle

LaCie includes full Toast 6 Titanium software package with four-way DVD burner

LaCie is bundling the full version of Roxio's Toast 6 Titanium Mac OS X CD/DVD burning software (news, November 2003, p8) with its external four-way DVD writer, the d2 Dual DVD-/+RW FireWire Drive, SRP £210 (inc VAT).
The FireWire housing holds an EIDE writer (brand unknown) with a 2MByte buffer, and is reckoned to burn to DVD-R/+R (4x), DVD-RW/+RW (2x/2.4x), CD-R (16x), and CD-RW (10x), and to read DVDs at 12x and CDs at 32x.
In addition to Toast 6, the LaCie unit, measuring 173(w) x 44(h) x 268(d)mm, comes with the ToastAnywhere tool for writing to optical drives across networks, and Plug-and-Burn for automatic direct-to-disc burning of footage captured from an attached DV camcorder.
Also bundled are Toast 5.2 Lite (for OS 9.1-9.2.2), a DVD Utilities CD (containing the user manual), a six-pin-to-six-pin FireWire cable, an external power supply, and one blank DVD-R disc.

Roxio, 0049 2405 45080; www.roxio.com
LaCie, 020 7872 8000; www.lacie.co.uk


ADS Tech USB2 boxes

ADS Technologies USB 2.0 MPEG editing packages for Windows with Ulead software

All three of ADS Tech's USB 2.0 external MPEG-encoding boxes for Windows come with Ulead video editing and DVD creation software, putting them in healthy competition with Pinnacle's latest Studio-based Dazzle line (see opposite page).
Range-leader is the USB Instant DVD+DV 2.0 (SRP £250 inc VAT). This can capture as VCD/DVD-compliant MPEG-1/2 footage via FireWire or analogue inputs - S-video, composite video and L/R audio. Capture is controlled either from ADS's own Capture Wizard V3.0.7 program (CapWiz), or the supplied (and ADS-tweaked) version of Ulead's video editing and disc authoring program VideoStudio 7 SE - with Audio-Lock technology used to maintain lip sync.
CapWiz-captured MPEG content recorded at constant/variable bit-rates of up to 15Mbit/sec (with MPEG-1 Layer 2 audio) can be exported via the device's analogue outputs for viewing on a TV set or video monitor. CapWiz can also encode separate LPCM (.mpa) audio files, but these can't be exported via analogue ports.
The tweaked version of Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2.1 SE features direct-to-disk capture and automatic burn, and is accompanied by Muvee AutoProducer DVD SE - movie-creation software which automatically edits selected video clips in a chosen style, with or without music, and burns the movie to disc, or imports it into MovieFactory.
Next down is USB Instant 2.0 (£200). This comes with the same software as Instant DVD+DV 2.0 and is identical in every way except that the box has no DV connection.
Baby brother of the trio is DVD Xpress (£99). This has only analogue inputs , and comes with CapWiz and VideoStudio 7 SE DVD for MPEG capture/playback, editing and disc creation.
Minimum system requirements for the trio include Windows 98SE (or above); an 800MHz (or faster) CPU; 128MByte RAM; 500MByte hard disk space for program installation; 4GByte or more hard disk space for video capture and editing; and a USB 2.0 port.

ADS Technologies, 001 35 361 702042; www.adstech.com


Budget Canopus ProCoder

£50 version of Canopus's media re-purposing software for Windows

Lots of video editors need decent media repurposing programs, but few are willing (or able) to stump up over £600 for such software. That's true even of a program as good as Canopus's ProCoder (review, Nov 03, p56), so the company's inexpensive (£50, inc VAT), consumer-oriented alternative, ProCoder Express, ought to get a warm welcome.
Express is based on the core technology of ProCoder, but won't run on Windows 98SE - only on XP or 2000. It has a simple, wizard-based interface to guide users through the process of transcoding video to formats suitable for use on DVD, SVCD and VCD, web-streaming and emailing.
Canopus's own Codecs are used to create files in a variety of formats, taking in MPEG-1/2, Windows Media, QuickTime, RealVideo and DivX (which has full support).
The budget version offers timeline output plug-ins for Adobe Premiere (6.5 and Pro), and for Canopus's own editors, Let's Edit (review, p38) and Edius (review, p54), and even features ProCoder's drag-and-drop Watch Folders for automated encoding of files placed into these folders.

Canopus UK, 0118 921 0150; www.canopus-uk.com


Pinnacle Dazzles

Pinnacle bundles Studio QuickStart editing software with four Dazzle-branded home video editing packages

All four Windows home video editing solutions in Pinnacle's Dazzle-branded range - DV Clip (£40 inc VAT), Digital Video Creator 80 (£60), Fusion (£80), and Digital Video Creator 150 (£150) - come with a new, lite, version of Pinnacle's entry-level DV editing program Studio 8 (review, November 2002, p46) called Pinnacle Studio QuickStart. This lacks a number of features found in the full version - fast/slow motion; colour correction/image filters; title rolls and crawls; split editing; web hosting; and motion menus.
DV Clip has a two-port (six-pin) OHCI FireWire PCI card to fit within a PC, and support for timeline-based authoring for DVD, SVCD and VCD, plus export to AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, RealVideo, or Windows Media formats.
The same export and authoring capabilities are offered by Digital Video Creator 80 and Digital Video Creator 150. Creator 80 centres on an external USB 1.1/2.0 capture box, which looks like a stylised automatic rifle magazine and has analogue inputs for composite video, S-video and L/R audio.
Hardware used in Fusion and Digital Video Creator 150 is typical Dazzle - an upright external box much like that seen in earlier Dazzle products such as the Hollywood DV Bridge analogue<>DV converter (review, April 2001, p42).
Fusion's hardware is USB 1.1 - with no analogue output, but featuring a multi-format media card reader/writer. This handles CompactFlash (Type I and II), IBM Microdrive, Memory Stick, MultiMediaCard SD Card and SmartMedia. Creator 150's box is USB 1.1/2.0 and has analogue in/out for composite video, S-video, and L/R audio, plus hardware-assisted real-time MPEG-2 encoding.

Pinnacle, 01895 424228; www.pinnaclesys.co.uk


Canopus three-way converter

Dual-platform, all-in-one scan converter and analogue<>digital video converter

Canopus's TwinPack100 is a combined scan converter and analogue<>digital video converter for Mac and Windows, costing £410 (inc VAT).
The TwinPack100 can convert a computer's on-screen graphics to analogue video or DV, and handle resolutions up to 1,600 x 1,200 (horizontal frequency: 24kHz - 100kHz, vertical frequency: 50Hz - 130Hz). Canopus's Track and Zoom technology is used for zooming in on parts of the screen, and tracking an area using the mouse pointer - an IR handset is also supplied.
There are sockets for VGA monitor pass-through, plus two two-way FireWire ports (one four-pin, one six-pin) and in/outs for analogue composite video, S-video and L/R audio.
Like the ADVC video converter range, the TwinPack100 uses Canopus's DV Codec hardware, and locked audio technology to sync the audio to the picture. It works with both PAL and NTSC signals. The device is said to clean up, stabilise and preserve analogue video, and separates a Y/C (S-video) signal into RGB.
Canopus is also introducing an identically-priced analogue<>digital video converter, the ADVC300. This has component (YUV) video output for hooking up to a broadcast monitor and partly plug the huge price gap between the £1,169 ADVC500 professional converter and the £234 ADVC100 (review, July 2002, p54). The socket array is much like that on the TwinPack, apart from there being no VGA pair.
Minimum system requirements for the TwinPack100 are said to be Windows XP (SP 1 or higher) or Windows 2000 (Service Pack 3 or higher), plus DirectX 8.0 (or higher); and Mac OS X (V10.2.7/V10.2.8/V10.3) for Apple users.

Canopus UK, 0118 921 0150; www.canopus-uk.com


Discreet 3ds max 6

Twenty-plus new features and enhancements in V6 of Discreet's pro 3D modelling, animation and rendering program

Version 6 of Discreet's 3ds max professional Windows 3D modelling, animation and rendering program boasts over 20 new features and enhancements for its not-inconsiderable SRP of £3,167 (inc VAT). Upgrades are £699 for users of V5 and £1,169 for V4.
The software's node-based scene graph - or Schematic View - has been redesigned for easier viewing and management of complex scenes, and also includes full support for MAXscript. Vertex Paint capabilities have been enhanced. Brush sizes can be changed interactively; new colouring (or tinting) can be applied; and surface friction and damage values can be added directly onto a model. The Vertex Paint Modifier is now seen as a single paint layer, and multiple layers can be applied - similar to Photoshop 7. The Vertex colour opacity can also be animated, allowing users to change the opacity of a Vertex paint layer.
Advanced film-quality renderer Mental Ray V3.2 is now fully integrated, and gives access in 3ds max's Material Editor to shaders from Lume Tools. The upgrade also provides a particle-flow system said to create realistic-looking fountains, fog, snow, splashes, explosions and the like.
Other features include integrated reactor 2 complete physics with stuntman and vehicle dynamics; distributed network texture baking; design visualisation tools and interchange support with Autodesk and other computer-aided design (CAD) and CAD-related solutions.
Requirements, minimum and (recommended), are said to be Win 2K SP4 or XP Pro/Home SP1; Internet Explorer 6; DirectX 8.1 (V9); a 300MHz CPU (dual Intel Xeon or dual AMD Athlon); 512MByte RAM (1GByte); 500MByte swap (2GByte); and an OpenGL and Direct3D 64MByte (256MByte) graphics card supporting 1,024x768/16-bit colour (1,280x1,024/24-bit). Ideally, the system should also have a mouse with three buttons and be used with a pressure-sensitive art-pad.

Discreet, 0870 241 0416; www.discreet.com


Premiere Pro automatic music-making

SmartSound offers Quicktracks plug-in for Premiere Pro, cuts prices and updates V3 of SonicFire Pro

The latest automatic music-track-creation offering from SmartSound - formerly Sonic Desktop - is a version of the company's Quicktracks wizard-based plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro (review, December 2003, p30).
Price is £70 inc VAT, and includes the SmartSound Elements music compilation CD with 23 samples of royalty-free music. Further info from: www.smartsound.co.uk/premiere/index.html.
The company has also introduced updaters for its new range-leading Mac and Windows program, Smartsound SonicFire Pro 3 (review, Jan 03, p40). These (V3.12 for Mac and V3.11 for Windows) are said to allow any Smart Block track to be looped for DVD menus. Also, the play locator line now extends through the wave display area for easier cueing, and the Assistant gives reference to the library that a track comes from.
Fixes include iMovie integration for PAL videos, and incompatibility issues with QuickTime 6.4 on a Mac, although SmartSound says it's still best not to use the program under QT6.4 on Windows. The Mac version also restores auditioning over the Internet - which got broken with the V3.11 Mac updater.
Improvements have been made for smoother playback, and for locating missing project files. Some encoding files have been changed for future compatibility, and notes created for users' files no longer get deleted during a library database rebuild. Downloads are available from: www.smartsound.co.uk/support/updates.html#sfp
Smartsound pricing for SonicFire 3.1.x has also been revised in the UK. For Mac and Windows version, SonicFire 3.1 with two 44.1kHz music CDs costs £200. A bundled version for £369 includes the software with five 44.1kHz music CDs. The Home User V3.1 upgrade for Pinnacle Studio and Movie Maestro is £208 and includes two music CDs. Users of Adobe Premiere 6.x Quicktracks and those with SonicFire Pro V2.x can upgrade to version 3.1 for £70.

Datavision, 01525 406886; www.datavision.co.uk
SmartSound; www.smartsound.co.uk

Read more news in February 2004's Computer Video magazine.

 


 

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In February's news:

DVD Workshop goes pro
Adobe editing suite on the cheap
Toshiba portable Media Center
Forging ahead in sound
Edit-ready Apple PowerMac
LaCie Toast 6 burner bundle
ADS Tech USB2 boxes
Budget Canopus ProCoder
Pinnacle Dazzles
Canopus three-way converter
Discreet 3ds max 6
Premiere Pro music-making

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