Digital Video - NAB Show Special - March 14, 2008 - (Page 14)

NAB CHEAT SHEET Azden’s SMX-10 microphone. BOGEN IMAGING www.bogenimaging.us BOOTH C5922 NAB ‘07 Highlights: Avenger lighting CrossPole, upgrades to the Manfrotto 503HDV head. New This Year: Gitzo Titanium Traveler Tripod, featuring an exclusive 180-degree folding mechanism that allows the user to accommodate the extra length of the head inside the folded legs. Manfrotto Camera Stand 269HDB-3U is crafted from electro-welded aluminum and features five sections with twist locks for a maximum camera height of 24' that can support up to 15.4 pounds. Manfrotto 585 Monosteady Three-in One Stabilization System for consumer camcorders. Enticements: Rebates up to $50 on Manfrotto tripods until June 30. With the Lastolite HiLite promotion, get $35 off on HiLite 6'x7' or $25 off on HiLite 5'x7' until May 31. New This Year: The CalDigit Hardware RAID card, announced in January, will make its NAB debut: A hardware RAID that relies on a dedicated Intel processor and 256MB of built-in cache memory, offering RAID level 5 speeds of 330MB/s externally — using the company’s new HDElement 4-bay external drive enclosure, with RAID 0,1,5,6 and JBOD connected through external mini-SAS — and 4-drive speeds of 247MB/s internally. CANON USA www.usa.canon.com BOOTH SU3020 NAB ‘07 Highlights: The HV20 and HR10 HD camcorders. New This Year: The DigiSuper 27 HDTV studio lens and the BU-40H remote-control robotic pan-tilt HD camera system. The DigiSuper 100AF and DigiSuper 86AF long-field Autofocus zoom lenses; the full line of cost-effective HDgc portable ENG lenses for all leading camera-imager sizes; and the Canobeam DT-150 HD Free Space Optics transceiver. Also introduced will be the new VIXIA line of HD consumer camcorders, available in flash memory, disk drive, DVD and HDV. Events: Canon’s broadcast communications marketing exec Laurence Thorpe will speak at the Digital Cinematography Summit, “Digital Cinematography: From HD to 4K,” on Saturday, April 12 from 8:45-10:00 a.m. in S222. CALDIGIT www.caldigit.com BOOTH SL13505 NAB ‘07 Highlights: HDPro 8 bay, a RAID storage solution at under $2 per gigabyte, including a CalDigit controller card. EXPERT OPINIONS NAB VETERANS OFFER THEIR INSIGHT ON HOW TO ATTEND THE ‘08 EDITION. SCOTT BILLUPS PixelMonger Inc. NAB Strategy: See as much as I can, in as short a time as possible; spend as much time with my friends as possible; try not to get arrested. Tempting Tools & Tech: Scarlet from Red, Infinity from Thomson, SDI Flash recorder from Convergent Design. Rumor Mill: Mega-Processor Mac? HDR prototype camera. Big Issues: 2K and 4K cameras, media management, solid-state recording, uncompressed HD post. the format war. Rumor Mill: I don’t believe the rumors that Apple is selling off their Pro Apps group — it’s too integral to too many things they do. I take their lack of presence on the show floor to mean that they don’t have significant new offerings — a shame. Curious to see what Apple and Avid do outside of NAB proper. Big Issues: 2K and 4K cameras, mobile content, solid-state recording, storage and asset management. Experts swoop in on a new RCA Hawkeye camera at NAB ‘81. MIKE CURTIS HD for Indies, DV contributor NAB Strategy: With Avid and Apple off the show floor, that will free up some significant time to see the players that I’m 12 dv april 14, 2008 NAB Show special usually rushed to see in the areas of cameras, monitoring, storage, etc. Tempting Tools & Tech: I’m very curious to see what Red has up their sleeve. They’ve talked about a lower-cost camera, as well as 4K displays, projectors, and distribution systems. Also curious to see how the other camera manufacturers respond now that Red is “real.” (I got mine recently). Very curious to see what happens with Blu-ray authoring now that they have won PHILIP HODGETTS President, Intelligent Assistance NAB Strategy: This year I plan to spend more time looking at the small booths down the back of the halls, where the interesting innovations tend to come from. Plus, more time digging in deeper on spewww.dv.com http://www.bogenimaging.us http://www.usa.canon.com http://www.caldigit.com http://www.dv.com

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