EditShare Shows Lightworks Pro Running on Mac, Linux and Windows at IBC 2013

EditShare Shows Lightworks Pro Running on Mac, Linux and Windows at IBC 2013 | 3Droundabout:
EditShare®, the technology leader in shared media storage and end-to-end tapeless workflow solutions, will be demonstrating its Lightworks Pro editor running on Mac, Linux and Windows at IBC2013 (stand 7.B26). The tri-platform editor has reached a groundbreaking 600,000+ registered users and is the tool of choice for editors working on a wide range of critically acclaimed films. “With a sizeable and very active Lightworks community behind us, we have an enormous amount of valuable feedback and are able to aggressively develop Lightworks with distinctive features that resonate with the editing community,” states Matthew Sandford, global product manager, Lightworks. EditShare’s Lightworks R&D team drives some 26+ public beta cycles and aims to push out four major releases per year.

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Can Microsoft’s exFAT file system bridge the gap between OSes? | Ars Technica

Can Microsoft’s exFAT file system bridge the gap between OSes? | Ars Technica:
With Apple's licensing of Microsoft's exFAT file system, it seems like we finally have a good option for OS X and Windows disk swapping. Dave Girard spent some time investigating the appeal, the limitations, and the alternatives to exFAT.

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Configure File Shares In Windows Server 2012

Configure File Shares In Windows Server 2012 | Krypted.com:
As I mentioned in an earlier article, the File and Storage Role is installed by default in Windows Server 2012. This means you can create a file share with a very minimal amount of work on a brand new server. To get started, as with many things regarding Server 2012, open Server Manager.

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Mac vs PC: A Price Comparison

Mac vs PC: A Price Comparison | wolfcrow:
I’ve always heard an Apple computer (Mac) is more expensive than a PC. I needed a general computer for my new office and decided to test this ‘fact’ for myself. The options I had were:

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Encoding Apple ProRes on a Windows PC with Redcine X Pro and FFMPEG

Encoding Apple ProRes on a Windows PC with Redcine X Pro and FFMPEG | Fallen Empire:
I’ve found an alternative workflow that is semi-automated and cheap using FFMPEG (or more specifically, a version called FFMBC with extra features for broadcast formats) and a neat Python script to bridge it with Redcine X Pro, or any other batch media encoder like Adobe Media Encoder or Sorrenson Squeeze.

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יש דרכים פשוטות (וזולות) יותר מזו. בדרכים האחרות גם כן יש שימוש ב FFMBC אבל הליכי העבודה ישירים יותר, אפשר לעשות batch והקובץ שמתקבל תואם למערכות העריכה בלי בעייה.

האופציה הפשוטה והקלה יותר היא תוכנה בשם Cinec. השנייה, מעט יותר מורכבת אבל עם גמישות גבוהה יותר היא AnotherGUI.

EditShare To Show Lightworks for Mac At Show

Definition Magazine - Def Mag - NAB 2013: EditShare To Show Lightworks for Mac At Show:
EditShare will show the highly anticipated Mac version of Lightworks for the first time at NAB 2013. Lightworks has been redesigned to work on Mac OS X, making it the first professional NLE to be tri-platform (Windows, Linux and Mac).

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Preference Manager for Windows Beta 2 released

Preference Manager for Windows Beta 2 released:
We've just released the second beta of Preference Manager for Windows. This is a Windows port of our popular tool for managing preferences and settings for your editing system.
We've listened to your feedback and this version contains fixes for several issues including improved Windows 8 compatibility.





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Mac vs. PC - The Dilemma of a Small, One-Man-Band Production House

Mac vs. PC - The Dilemma of a Small, One-Man-Band Production House | ScreenLight:
Let me first give you some background. I started my own production company in May 2011, with the following goal: to provide affordable, personable, and highly professional video production for medium to large businesses. To deliver a professional product to my clients, I needed to find a way to get the best editing equipment I could, but at a fraction of the cost of a huge editing suite.

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Mac vs. PC - The Dilemma of a Small, One-Man-Band Production House

Mac vs. PC - The Dilemma of a Small, One-Man-Band Production House:
We are faced with decisions daily. Pepsi or Coke? Short-sleeves or long-sleeves? Mac or PC?
But as a small production company, the answer to the last question is not as easy as it might sound.
Let me first give you some background. I started my own production company in May 2011, with the following goal: to provide affordable, personable, and highly professional video production for medium to large businesses. To deliver a professional product to my clients, I needed to find a way to get the best editing equipment I could, but at a fraction of the cost of a huge editing suite.

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Preference Manager for Windows Beta 1

Preference Manager for Windows Beta 1:
We're pleased to launch the first public beta of Preference Manager for Windows 7. This is a Windows port of our popular Mac tool for trashing and managing user preferences for your editing application.
The beta can trash, backup and restore preferences and other settings for Avid Media Composer, Symphony, Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.

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The New Era of Digital Post-Production

Making Movies: The New Era of Digital Post-Production:
In the movie industry where “time is money”, technology is being developed and deployed rapidly in order to capitalize on creative opportunities, and to shorten time-to-market for these productions. In my last post, I gave an overview of how RED Digital Cinema is innovating with 4K and 5K motion picture technology, including how Windows PCs are playing a strategic role in the end-to-end workflow during post production. In this post I’ll start a “guided tour” highlighting some of the latest post-production hardware and software tools that are used in Hollywood productions.

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new updates for Adobe Media Encoder, Premiere Pro, and Prelude CS6 on Windows

new updates for Adobe Media Encoder, Premiere Pro, and Prelude CS6 on Windows « Premiere Pro work area:
Today, we released new updates for several of our CS6 applications on Windows, including Adobe Media Encoder, Premiere Pro, and Prelude. These updates are cumulative Windows-only updates that contain an important change to the code signing to address the issue described on the following pages:

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NYC Production & Post News » No Surprise: HP is Number One in Workstations. Where’s the Mac Pro?

NYC Production & Post News » No Surprise: HP is Number One in Workstations. Where’s the Mac Pro?:
There are some larger factors at work here too beyond cool hardware. For one thing, if you’re running a Mac Pro tower, you might be growing increasingly envious of your PC brethren who easily benefit from the latest processors and graphics cards. Mac Pro towers have only been incrementally upgraded over the past few years, which causes some people to wonder if Apple is in the midst of abandoning their efforts in the pro space altogether.

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Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 PC VS MAC

Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 PC VS MAC: By how much can Shawn Lam’s 2012 Video Editing PC beat Jan Ozer’s 2009 Mac Pro?   This article is in response to Jan Ozer’s recent article in Streaming Media Producer entitled: “Benchmark Tests: Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 vs. Apple Final Cut Pro X“. Video Production Article Discussion I wasn’t too surprised by the results.

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Use the exFAT File System and Never Format Your External Drive Again [Hard Drives]

Use the exFAT File System and Never Format Your External Drive Again [Hard Drives]:
Using an external drive between Mac and Windows computers can be a hassle, since you constantly have to reformat it to fit which computer you're using it on. Instead of reformatting it all the time, just use the much more platform-independent exFAT and never format it again.

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Our cross-platform future

Our cross-platform future:
We initially started out as a company developing solutions for Final Cut Studio users on the Mac. Final Cut Pro was a growing application that had made many inroads into professional film and TV production and was bringing lots of new users to the Mac for the first time.

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Hello PC: The Journey to Mac and Back - Creative COW

Hello PC: The Journey to Mac and Back - Creative COW:
So, I'm sitting here in the edit bay with my trusty 2008 Mac Pro tucked under the edit desk, staring at Adobe CS6 on the monitors. I feel like I'm at a crossroads and need to make a decision soon. I don't really want things to change, but decisions made by Apple and developments made by Adobe are pushing me in that direction. I'm sure lots of folks can relate to how I feel.

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CleanMyMac

CleanMyMac:
CleanMyMac does just that by cleaning your cache, logs, universal binaries & other system junk.
Feeling sluggish? Slow? Sullen?
Maybe you’re unconsciously empathizing with your computer.

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AJA Video To Support Thunderbolt™ on Windows

AJA Video To Support Thunderbolt™ on Windows:
AJA Video Systems, announced support for Thunderbolt™ on Windows with select products in its line of professional video I/O solutions. Today Intel is demonstrating the first Windows PCs with Thunderbolt ports to deliver ultra-fast bi-directional 10Gbs performance to video professionals.

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Lightworks for Windows: Your Next Video Editing App?

Lightworks for Windows: Your Next Video Editing App?: Lightworks for Windows is released and ready to take on the video editing software market. Check out this free and feature rich application!

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