Mac Industry News:

from Creative Mac.com:

RedHawk To Beta Paparazzi Pics on Mac
Beta ships end of June; registration now

Digi-Data Ships 10 TB Fibre Channel RAID
System boasts 160 MB per second sustained transfers

Toon Boom Studio Set for Public Beta
Download version to include beta Wacom tablet driver

Form.Z 3.8 Ships
3D Modeler gets smooth shapes, improved parametric functionality

Corel to Ship KPT 6, Bryce 4, Painter 6 and KnockOut 1.5 for Mac OS X

Lightware Announces 1,000 ANSI Lumen, 5.6-lb. Projector
Traveler CS-11 to Sell for $2,495

Mac OS X Gets TWAIN Support
Prerelease API available as free download

Review
NEC LT155
Ultraportable digital LCD projector
by David Nagel
NEC's displays, historically, have proved top-notch, and their professional presentation products have carried this tradition to yet another level. I've previously reviewed two NEC portable projectors, and both, the MT540 and the MT1050, were just gorgeous in terms of anything that matters about a projector—color saturation, picture quality, brightness, etc.

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Video Tutorial
Rectangular Pixels in After Effects
Dealing with footage conversion in digital video
by Brian Maffitt
With the advent of digital video, there's one concept desktop video artists have had to come to terms with: rectangular pixels. Television's actual resolution is 720 pixels by 486 pixels, which doesn't exactly equate with the 4:3 aspect ratio of a TV screen. The end result is rectangular pixels, slightly taller than they are wide. In this clip from Total AE, instructor Brian Maffitt demonstrates the ins and outs of dealing with rectangular and square pixels using After Effects. This is a complex concept, but Brian gives a thorough, easy to understand explanation of the inherent problems. Brian ends by showing the ideal resolution for working in DV and demonstrates how to make your comps and artwork automatically snap to this resolution.

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Question of the Week
Editing speed issues
from the Aurora Video WWUG forum
by James Mulryan
Speed question:
How fast is Ignitor with FCP2 at rendering titles compaired to M100? Does the timeline ever get bogged down when using hundreds of clips and long form projects?
How do you benchmark the Ignitor Card verses the m100 card for everyday editing applications?
With faster CPUs, Bus Speeds, and 160 SCCI drives does a digitizing card affect speed as much as it used to? Does a propriatary card such as Avid or M100 have an inherent advantage over Ignitor which has to operate with more than one type of software?

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