Sunday, April 13, 2008

Sony Announces the EX3

Scott Gentry | 04/13- 04:09 PM

Sony announces a new sister to the EX1, the new EX3 with interchangeable lenses.  You know you’re in a room with tech guys when Miss Universe 2008 walks out on stage to intro the EX3 and the crowd is taking more pictures of the camera, than Miss Universe.

Of course Sony didn’t hand out press information, instead pushing attendees to the web.  Honestly, that feels a little lame for a press conference.  But adding insult to injury, the link for the EX3 information goes nowhere.  Nice job PR folks.  Here’s the link to all of the NAB Sony news, perhaps they’ll update their broken links soon: Sony NAB Press Info

Alec Shapiro SVP of Sony’s Business and Professional division did share some interesting facts with us:

Sony’s NAB booth is an incredible 26,000 square feet - the largest o at NAB
Their HD linup goes from $1,800 to over $200,000
Sony has sold over 31,000 units of XDCAM worldwide
Sony will display a prototype of a WiFi workflow at their booth.
There’s a new 60GB External Storage Unit with G Sensor and compatible with SxS Pro
Clip Browser software will be updated to 2.0
New BVM-L420 - 42” LCD Display
New Luma display models
OLED Camera Viewfinder

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Sunday, April 13, 2008

Panasonic Intros AG-HPX 170

Scott Gentry | 04/13- 03:56 PM

The press conference for Panasonic went slightly long, but it was full of interesting product introductions.  First up:

AG-HPX170 P2 HD Handheld
1080i HD & SD
Widest zoom lens in it’s class
4.2 lbs
3 1/3 16:9 CCD
14-Bit A/D Conversion 19 Bit Processing
28mm 13x Leica Zoom lens
Time/date state makes this good for legal etc.
with 2 P2 slots, current 32GB cards can give you 64 continuous minutes.  When the 64GB cards hit the market, double that.

Available in the Fall with 5 year warranty.

Press release after the jump

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Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Final Cut Server Now Shipping

Frank Capria | 04/08- 05:26 AM

Nearly a year after its public debut, Apple releases its asset management and workflow automation tool.

From Apple’s website: Apple today announced that it has begun shipping Final Cut Server, a powerful software solution for media asset management and workflow automation. A scaleable server application, Final Cut Server automatically catalogs large collections of assets, allows searching across multiple disks and SAN volumes, and enables viewing, annotation and approval of content from anywhere using a PC or Mac. “With the introduction of Final Cut Server, collaboration just got a whole lot easier for millions of editors, producers and clients who work with Final Cut Studio,” said Rob Schoeben, Apple’s vice president of Applications Product Marketing.

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