Last week Adobe acquired Cool Edit Pro, a popular multi-track sound editing program, from Syntrillium.

Learn more:
http://www.syntrillium.com/news/article.html?91
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200305/051903Syntrillium.html

It's clear that Adobe needed an audio application to round out its video suite.

For now, Cool Edit Pro will continue to be available as a standalone product. I could not find any information to suggest that Adobe might integrate the audio technology directly into Premiere.

I was excited by this when I first heard of it...but CEP seems to be a music creation app like Acid Music..another app that is a great idea but for me floundered on my lack of musical creativity/interest.

Of far greater interest would be something with more powerful audio manipulation, such as sound forge

The press releases seemed careful to point out that Adobe had acquired technology as opposed to products and equally careful to point out that Cool Edit Pro would not vanish.

We thus don't know yet how Adobe will use the technology. Loops are obviously important for video production, but Adobe doesn't have any audio stuff at all. A Sound Forge-like product could emerge, or audio could get a big improvement within Premiere.

I could be telling tales out of turn, but my wife works for Adobe and says they will be doing both: a stand alone audio editing product and boost to audio editing within Premiere. She was talking about brininging home a beta copy to check out.

http://neasia.nikkeibp.com/wcs/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/fw/254765

Just interesting blurb about cameras with 2.5" CCD (yes, CCD of size of flip-out LCD screen!), super-resolution HDTV, mobile TV broadcasting and more.

Hey everyone,

I can't vouch for this information since I know nothing about the person posting it or the production itself. I just thought some of you might be interested in checking it out for yourselves.
I have a two month shoot in Thailand in August or September._ I'm
looking for a good camera operator. Will be using Sony 537 Beta SP
or maybe two Panasonic 24p cameras._ I need someone who can tough it
out for two months._ Start early and end late - just like any shoot
but you'll have to contend with lots of humidy and lots of bugs._
This is an indie shoot._

Producer takes care of airfare, food and lodging and fee for shoot._
Ability to edit on Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere a plus and can
negotiate for editing fee.

Please send demo reel ASAP to:

Steve Thao
P.O. Box 600249
St. Paul, MN 55106

or email mistyfilms@yahoo.com for more information. Did I say ASAP
if you're interested?

Isn't monkey brain on some of the menus over there?

Most of the menus are in plastic covers...so no problem...just wipe it off.

hehehe... you are funny! Good answer ;)

It's called Ultra Definition. This and 3D screens without special glasses is the next step after HD. Just as HD will catch up, there will be more profit in something new. $ are behind this all.

Only monkey brains on the menu over here are those carved from fat, drunk white guys doing drugs and buying hookers. Other than that, you're thinking of India.

But we do eat friend cockroaches and othere bugs.

David

Hi David,

No offense meant...hope none was taken. Thailand is THE best place for food, in my opinion. I could eat green curry chicken and pad thai (sp?) every day. India would be my second favorite place for food.

Any more info about the shoot you can share?

None was taken, just thought I'd add a laugh to things.

The shoot is me mapping out a company's operations all over Thailand and its relative benefits for potential customers

The Indian food here is great, just not enough of it and way more expensive than regular Thai food.

Peace,
David

ps; Thanks for the job info. I emailed him. We shall see what happens

Okey-doke,

When he gets back to you let us know the details. Even though I won't be trying for the job, I'm still curious about it.

...Also Saturday, a gunman shot and killed a young British journalist outside Iraq's Natural History Museum.

Richard Wild, a 24-year-old freelance videographer, was standing in a crowd in the midday sun when he was killed by a single, small-calibre bullet fired into his head at close range, said Michael Burke, an independent British TV producer in Baghdad.

Wild arrived in the country two weeks ago aiming to be a war correspondent, his co-workers said Sunday. Burke identified Wild's body at a hospital morgue. The assailant fled into the crowd and was not apprehended, he said.

Wild's death brings to 16 the number of journalists killed since the beginning of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on March 20.

http://canada.com/national/story.asp?id=0C4A89BF-7ABA-4CA7-A495-CA155FB942A9

British journalist killed in Iraq
14.03PM BST, 6 Jul 2003
A British television journalist has been shot dead in the centre of Baghdad.

He has been named by colleagues as 24-year-old Richard Wild.

Mr Wild was a freelance journalist, who was hoping to become a war correspondent.

Mr Wild, a former soldier, had worked at ITN's London offices before heading out to Iraq.

ITN chief executive Stewart Purvis said: "We are shocked and saddened to hear of the reported death of Richard Wild.

"In the six months that Richard worked at ITN, he was regarded as a dedicated and popular member of the newsroom team, particularly as he tracked all the material coming into ITN during the Iraq war."

Wintesses said Mr Wild was shot outside Iraqi National Museum and his body was handed over to US troops.

http://www.itv.com/news/1801338.html

Hi all,

according to Heise (the publisher of the german C't computer magazine), Canon, Sharp, Sony and Victor have agreed on a standard for recording HD material on standard DV tape cartridges. The standard is called HDV and will record MPEG2 format. Included in the standard are 720p at 25, 30, 50 and 60 fps progressive and interlaced as well 1080x1440i at 50 and 60 fps.

This is important news as it may mean that material acquired on one device will be readable on the others, as well as having a common base for NLE's to work towards.

Read the full story at http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/nij-08.07.03-000/

Kai.

See ongoing discussions of this topic at http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11605

and also at http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11628 -- this one's at three pages of responses so far!

http://www.emptyloft.com/dvexpo03/

Robert

Guess you missed the main entrance roll-up barrier which came crashing down around 2:45pm. Luckily no one was hurt. It looked rather odd, all bent out of shape. I went to grab my camera from the booth, but they had it fixed by the time I got back. Nice shots of Kolb, Downey, BAJ and that Canon dude. Good to see you today,

http://neasia.nikkeibp.com/wcs/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/news/256509

Interesting things start toward the end of the article: 720p sub-standard is pushed mostly by JVC, while others defined 1080i one.
As far as I can understand this is the same standard as in Blue-Ray disk recorders.
Interesting time is ahead, I must say!

I'd rather position Cool Edit as a (multitrack) waveform audio
editor and manipulator. Seeing that they taut that the new
Premiere Pro has enhanced audio capabilities I would not be
surprised if some of that came from Cool Edit parts.....

Hi,

Does anyone know/remember which company was selling camera stabilizers at the DV Expo East? They were close to the Matrox and Bogen booths. On the center aisle.

DV Expo Exhibitor Listing (http://www.cmpevents.com/DVxE/a.asp?option=H&V=1)

And it was great to meet Chris Hurd in person!

Thanks in advance.

Michael

Nice to meet you too! The exhibitor in question is Gary Tull of Hollywood Lite. Hope this helps,

Thanks Chris. Next time your in town I'll have to buy you a drink to say thanks!

Heh. I'm still in town! MacWorld is going on at Javits. So that'll be a Johnnie Walker Blue label on the rocks, please. Oh wait, you said next time. See ya in February,

mike check out this link...i took these of a great stabilizer at dvexpo east...

http://www.emptyloft.com/antonbauer/

Aha. I saw that too, but technically it's a shoulder support, which is a different animal from the steadicam-style Hollywood Lite that Michael's referring to. This A-B shoulder support is quite functional and stylish, well worth looking into.

thats exactly it...

its by no way as diverse as soundforge thou.. and i dont know ANY music studios using Cool edit for Pro work either, so i dont know where they get the idea that this app is "pro" as from what i have seen of it, its more of a midrange hobbyists application.
Its not bad, but its not the best...
mind you Pinnacle will have steinberg's wavelab, Sonic Foundry have Soundforge, and obviously Adobe need to compete somehow and this seems to be it......

An article on DP review cited,

"In an interesting article posted today in the Japanese Nikkei, Canon is to invest 6 billion Yen (approx. $50 million) to install a new production line at its Ayase facility (Kanagawa, west Tokyo). This investment will apparently double product capacity of CMOS sensors for digital SLR cameras. This is interesting in that it confirms Canon's commitment to the use of CMOS in current and future digital SLR's.

The company will invest about 6 billion yen to install a new line that can process 8-inch wafers at its Ayase facility in Kanagawa Prefecture. Canon did not reveal the scale of its CMOS production, but said the new line would double the firm's production capacity when it begins operating early next year".

Even more interesting question is why they produce it in-house. One of the beauties of CMOS technology is that there is a plenty of foundries offering this process. These foundries know how to mass produce it. On the other hand, Canon is not a reknown semiconductor manufacturer. I bet the cost of their in-house production is much higher than one in dedicated foundry. So why don't they ask somebody experienced to manufacture their sensors?

Perhaps trade secrets or quality assurance?

Nowdays there is an abundance of very high-quality semiconductor reverse engineering services. They are cheap too. I don't think trade secret could last more than a day after the device has been released to the broad market.
As for quality assurance, there are standard procedures any good foundry follows to. I don't see how Canon can be better than a semiconductor-dedicated company for which chips are bread and butter.

It's a shame Canon never got into the CCD business, and it's way too late now. I think for them CMOS production is a way to make up for missing the boat in the CCD manufacturing market.

Hello DVINFO'ers,

I am sorry to bring sad news.
Charles McConathy, the owner of Promax, is sick with cancer.

If you ever went to a trade show where Promax exhibited, you
would have seen a smiling grey haired gentleman out on the floor
talking with the customers with a twinkle in his eye.

Charles is the best of the good guys on the net. He has spent countless
hours online responding to complex questions with good answers.

Charles was the hard drive guru when scsi was voodoo.
He steered many of us into solutions
that actually worked, instead of higher price alternatives that didn't.
Promax has always been one of my favorite vendors, because I could
trust them to do what they said they would do.
The reason Promax flourished is because of his hard work, ethics
and continuing generosity to the entire video community.

I sincerely send Charles and his family my very best wishes in this
extraordinarily difficult time.

Jacques

PS you can send your get well wishes to: mcconathy@promax.com

Very, very sad to hear about this. I appreciate the notice, Jaques.

I just heard from Sony's main competition that Sony will be releasing a new DVD cam shortly. That's all I know. Thanks. :)

Hmmm, wonder if it is there new HDV camera...guess we'll have to wait and see.

Thanks Jaques,
Charles reputation as one of the good guys has been long established in my shop. In fact, I worked with him to build the first "affordable" Mac NLEs in our world. We're going back to the blazing Quadra 840AV and Radius card, Premiere 1.0 I think. He's earned enough enough goodwill to help him through this I'm sure

Question. What's the best, least expensive way to generate excitement for a new camcorder release?

Answer. Start a rumor of a new camcorder release and let the amateur or prosumer community speculate like wild !

Let's face it, the real surprise will be if it is actually something really new, really good, and at a really competitive price. Thanks for the heads-up Frank, but ......

Cheers, Nick

Nick, are you talking about the pocket sized CineAlta?

Well, just keep in mind that there was a time when people were calling the JVC HD Cam total Vaporware...and now look, a lot of people had to eat big crap sandwiches. Also, one also needs to remember that Sony has already announced plans for a HD camcorder, so my speculation isn't that spacey. If one doesn't like speculation threads, one should stay away from them.

I'll see if I can get more information now. I'll have to e-mail someone who works---, and get back.

Chill out Boys. Some folks can spread third-or-fourth-party rumors and some folks can comment on them. That's one of the things I like about this country.

Thanks Frank for taking the time to follow-up. Who knows, there may be exciting news after all.

Nick :)

A fella over at DV.com pointed this interesting information out. The new optical cameras from Sony have 24p.

http://bssc.sel.sony.com/Professional/webapp/SubCategory?m=0&p=2&sp=20132&sm=0&s=&cpos=

Yeah, but did you read the last line, it's an optional card that will no doubt add a little more on the the US$19 000 and $34 000 price tags

Hey, I didn't say anything about Sony changing their ways lol. What's also interesting is how this camera converts IMX to DVCAM....almost as if Sony is jumping ship from their IMX Post equipment.

Based on specs and price, these cameras are no threat to the new 480p from Panasonic, which supports 4:2:2 color space, unlike DVCAM.

Very sad news. I wish especially him but also his family the best
and hope he will recover.

New HDV Format Proposed

By Elina Shatkin

Aug 13, 2003, 18:31 PST



Canon Inc., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, and Victor Company of Japan, Ltd (JVC) announced a joint proposal of basic specifications for "HDV" (tentative name) format, which realizes recording and playback of high-definition video on a DV cassette tape. The HDV format includes 720p (progressive) and 1080i (interlace) specifications and enables the development of products conforming to the global high-definition infrastructure. The four companies will actively promote the specifications throughout the industry and plan to finalize the specifications around September 2003.

BS digital high-definition broadcasting, which started in December 2001, and digital terrestrial broadcasting, scheduled to commence in December 2003, have increased anticipation toward the expansion of high-definition broadcasting in Japan. Growing sales of high-definition television sets and the introduction of digital high-definition video recorders, such as D-VHS and Blu-ray Disc recorders, have enriched customer enjoyment of high-definition video in the home.

The HDV format specifies the data recording of MPEG-2-compressed high-definition signals based on the DV format, which is internationally accepted as a consumer digital VCR format. Because the new format employs the same cassette case, tape speed and track pitch as the DV format, it can utilize mechanical parts based on the DV format. It also makes it easy for manufacturers to undertake the development of products that are highly compatible with the DV format.

The 720p specifications in the HDV format are the same specifications as adopted in the "GR-HD1" high-definition digital video camera that JVC introduced to the market in March 2003. By adopting both the 720p and the 1080i specifications, the HDV format will enable users to record high-definition video and further disseminate the enjoyment realized of high-definition video.

The HDV format records both video and audio through compression by MPEG encoding. Video signals are compressed by MPEG-2 encoding (inter-frame compression) as BS digital broadcasting, making possible the recording and playback of high-definition video at a bit rate equivalent to the DV format SD (standard definition) specifications (intra-frame compression). Audio signals are digitized with a 48kHz/16-bit quantization sampling frequency and compressed to 384 Kbps by MPEG-1 Audio Layer II encoding.

HDV format key characteristics
1. Ability to record and play back high-definition video on internationally accepted DV format cassette tapes
2. Adoption of 720p/1080i formats to comply with progressive and interlace specifications for high-definition recording and playback The HDV format complies with both the 720 scanning lines (progressive)/1280 horizontal pixels 720p format (60p, 30p, 50p, 25p) and the 1080 scanning lines (interlace)/1440 horizontal pixels 1080i format (60i, 50i). This ensures the recording and playback of high-resolution video for the high-definition era.
3. Improved error correction By changing the error correction method from error correction within a track, as specified in the DV-SD format, to error correction among multiple tracks, the HDV format offers improved error correction capability and enhanced resistance to lost data caused by dropout.
4. Data for special playback Video signals compressed by MPEG encoding do not support image display during special playback such as fast search. The HDV format records specific data for special playback on a dedicated tape, enabling the display of video images during special playback such as fast search or slow-motion playback. (Video image quality during special playback will differ from that during normal playback.)

Hi Jacques,

We have several threads currently going about this; please see http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11605 for starters... thanks for this update though,