American Cinematographer - March 2009 - (Page 75) ing footage by letting users review and act on their clip choices immediately, from any screen on the Web site. Additionally, the Pond5 Stock Footage Widget offers a fully customizable selection of continuously updated clips that can be created by any visitor at Pond5.com. The Widget can then be embedded anywhere on the Web, from Facebook and Myspace pages to blogs, Web sites or even a desktop. The Widget works hand-in-hand with Pond5’s referral program, which offers referrers 5 percent of sales or purchases made by referred users for a full year. For more information, visit www.pond5.com. CineForm Offers HD, 4K Solutions CineForm, Inc. has expanded its line of high-fidelity compression-based workflow solutions for the post marketplace with Neo HD and Neo 4K software products for Mac OSX. The new products extend CineForm’s workflow solutions to all QuickTime-based video-editing and content-creation applications for the Mac platform up to 4K spatial resolution, including Final Cut Pro, Motion, After Effects and others. Both products offer CineForm’s compression-based technologies, including Active Metadata architecture for renderless color workflows, plus numerous format conversion utilities in support of most HDV, HD, 2K and 4K cameras on the market. David Taylor, CEO of CineForm, notes the company’s objective “has been to enable seamless workflows across Windows and Mac platforms, and between standard industry applications like Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and others. Using Neo HD or Neo 4K for Mac, our customers can now easily capture, edit and share media during postproduction with colleagues who may be using different applications on Mac, or who may be using Windows.” Neo 4K supports up to 4096x4096 spatial resolution with 12-bit precision, and is intended for online editing using Final Cut Pro or other Macbased nonlinear editors with no need for proxy files or conforming. Neo 4K also supports 12-bit CineForm RAW, its compression format for the emerging class of high-resolution digital cinema cameras such as the Red One and Silicon Imaging’s SI-2K. Neo HD supports up to 1920x1080 spatial resolution, and it can work with virtually all HD cameras on the market, including Grass Valley’s JPEG2000-based Infinity camcorder. Both Neo HD and Neo 4K support CineForm’s 10-bit YUV and 12-bit CineForm 4:4:4 (RGB) compression formats. Apple’s ProRes is also offered as an optional compression format when Final Cut Studio 2 is installed. Other features of both products include ReMaster, which provides image/video preprocessing plus camera- and fileconversion functions, and SetActive Metadata, which manages CineForm’s Active Metadata architecture for nondestructive color workflows without rendering. For more information, visit www.cineform.com. Pinnacle Updates VideoSpin Pinnacle Systems, Inc., a part of Avid Technology, Inc., recently redesigned its VideoSpin.com Web site, which hosts a free, downloadable version of Pinnacle’s VideoSpin software and a variety of resources for video-editing beginners. Visitors to VideoSpin.com can experience how easy editing and sharing can be by clicking on the interactive, step-by-step tutorials, and for more information they can view white papers, how-to videos and user reviews, or search the online glossary and frequently asked questions. Visitors can also sign up to receive a monthly newsletter featuring further information and special promotions for Avid products. The site also hosts spotlighted YouTube videos edited in VideoSpin, and visitors can rate their favorites and submit their own videos to be shown on the site. VideoSpin is designed for Windows XP with SP2 and Vista systems, and the program includes support for AVI, MPEG-1, WMV, Real Media and Windows Media with WAV audio support. The application can also be used with the Advanced Codec Pack (available for $15.99) to create, edit and export video in other file formats, and for one-click DVD creation, users can purchase the InstantDVD Recorder for $19.99. For more information and to download VideoSpin for free, visit www.videospin.com. Lightworks Unveils Version 1.3 Lightworks has launched version 1.3 of its editing software for Alacrity and Softworks. Version 1.3 includes a number of new features and advances to offer faster and easier editing for video and film productions. With real-time mixed-format editing and native support for avi, mxf and QuickTime, Lightworks 1.3 offers easy integration in the world of open file transfers. Supported formats include HDV, XDCam and P2, and OMF, AAF and DPX sequences are also supported for interchange. Building on Lightworks’ proven multi-seat editing, version 1.3’s full networking now supports larger volumes, allowing easy integration with large storage arrays of over 100TB. Lightworks 1.3 also maintains full metadata interchange and native-file-format American Cinematographer 75 http://www.pond5.com http://www.pond5.com http://www.videospin.com http://www.cineform.com http://www.videospin.com http://www.videospin.com
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