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AJA Ki Pro Mini Supports Avid Codec AJA Video Systems has been working jointly with Avid to build support for the Avid DNxHD video codec into AJA’s Ki Pro Mini portable recorder. “Video producers and editors are always seeking to ease their workflows and improve the quality of their productions while reducing costs,” says Paul Foeckler, vice president of Creative Professionals, Product Solutions Org., whose team oversees the products at Avid that are used by a wide range of creative professionals. “With the AJA Ki Pro Mini supporting Avid’s high quality, low-bandwidth DNxHD codec, editing can begin more quickly than ever, easing workflows in film, television and live productions.” “One of the most frequent requests we get from the field is for support of DNxHD in our Ki Pro family of products,” says Nick Rashby, president of AJA. “Avid’s commitment to professional editors has been unwavering for [more than] 20 years, and we’re very excited to bring Ki Pro Mini with DNxHD support as a free upgrade for all Ki Pro Mini owners.” AJA also recently released firmware version 2.6 for the Ki Pro Mini. The updated firmware allows Red Epic, Red One and certain Canon XF cameras to pass metadata directly to the Ki Pro Mini via a single SDI cable. “We’re continually looking at how people are working, and how we can help them take full advantage of the best our industry has to offer,” says Rashby. “By enabling people to control Ki Pro Mini via the Red camera metadata precisely from camera to post, we’re automating a lot of what was largely a manual process — and making workflows easier all the way through the production process.” For additional information, visit www.aja.com. Digital Film Tools Plugs into Avid Digital Film Tools has announced that all of its Avid plug-in product offerings — comprising Composite Suite Pro, PhotoCopy, Rays and zMatte — now support 64bit processing and are compatible with Media Composer version 6, Symphony version 6 and NewsCutter version 10. “We have a fairly large Avid user

base, many of whom keep pace with the new technology releases,” says Marco Paolini, founder and president of DFT. “Our 64-bit DFT plug-ins will provide them with speed and memory advantages that streamline the entire visual-effects process.” Composite Suite Pro features a wellrounded collection of visual-effects plug-ins designed to combine multiple images by utilizing compositing tricks and techniques. The toolset includes color correction; blur, grain, and matte manipulation; lens distortion; lighting effects; and edge blending. PhotoCopy copies the brightness, color, tone, detail, grain and texture from one image and applies them to another. This plug-in also allows user to select a preset look from a library of 94 movies, 72 paintings, 40 photographs and 30 historical photographic processes. Rays allows users to create realistic light-ray effects quickly and easily. Users can add such effects as shafts of light streaming through clouds, rays filtering through a forest canopy or beams of light on a foggy night. Lastly, zMatte is an intelligent, easyto-use blue- and greenscreen keyer that provides such tools as DV and HD de-artifacting, color suppression, matte manipulation, color correction, edge treatment and light wrapping. For additional information, visit ➣ www.digitalfilmtools.com.

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