Videoguys FAQs and Technology Reports

[Gary Bettan]

Videoguys Insider Vol 8 Issue 4:
Summer ’08 Videoguys FAQs and Technology Reports
http://www.videoguys.com/Emails/insider-july-FAQs.html

Back in April at NAB08 many new and exciting products where announced. Now this summer many of them are currently shipping or coming very soon. In order to help you understand these new prodcuts and technologies better, we have put together several new FAQs and technology reports on our website. We hope you will find them useful. Please do not hesitate to call us with any additional questions you may have. We are here to help you before and after your purchase.

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Videoguys DIY Video Editing Workstation FAQ http://www.videoguys.com/DIY.html
For almost 5 years we have been publishing our DIY articles. In our latest article DIY6 we built a blazing fast Quad-Core computer that we tested with the leading video editing hardware and software. The results have been outstanding! Many times we get asked the same basic questions each time a new article gets published. So to make life easier for you and us, we have put together this our DIY Video Editing Workstation FAQ.

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Videoguys' Matrox MXO2 FAQ http://www.videoguys.com/mxo2_faq.html
The Matrox MXO2 is a revolutionary new HD I/O device from Matrox that supports both Mac workstations and Laptops! MXO2 connects to a MacPro via the internal PCIe slot, and connects to a MacBook Pro via the ExpressCard/34 slot. The MXO2 ships with both a PCIe card and an ExpressCard so you have everything you need to connect to both systems included in the Matrox MXO2 package. Here are the answers to the most frequently asked questions about the all new Matrox MXO2 direct from Matrox themselves!

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Videoguys' Avid Media Composer FAQ http://www.videoguys.com/mcsoft_faq.html
Our Videoguys HD editing experts have been getting a lot of questions about the exciting new Avid Media Composer 3.0 and we'd like to share some of the most common answers with you to help you get "A Whole New Way of Thinking from Avid"

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Authoring Blu-ray Discs with Adobe Encore in an
Apple Final Cut Studio Workflow http://www.videoguys.com/bluray_workflow.html
With Adobe Encore CS3, professional editors using Apple Final Cut Studio can quickly and easily create high-definition Blu-ray discs from their Macintosh platforms. Included as part of Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 and Adobe CS3 Production Premium, Encore offers a streamlined, cost-effective method to author an interactive disc project once and export it as a Blu-ray Disc, DVD, or to the web via a SWF file. Editors will also enjoy Encore’s familiar user interface and integrated, intelligent workflow with other Adobe applications like Photoshop and After Effects.

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Videoguys' Focus FS-5 FAQ http://www.videoguys.com/fs5_faq.html
The Focus FS-5 is the 5th generation of hard disk based Direct To Edit (DTE) solutions from Focus Enhancements. We put together this FAQ with Focus to better explain the differences between the FS-5 and the FS-4 prodcuts as well better explain the new technologies built into the FS-5

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Videoguys' Matrox RT.X2 LE FAQ http://www.videoguys.com/rtx2le_faq.html
Our Videoguys HD editing experts have been getting a lot of questions about the exciting new Matrox RT.X2 LE and we'd like to share some of the most common answers with you to help you decide to get the Hardware Advantage today!

Gary