AVC Codec Curveball

Looking back we shouldn’t have been surprised. But there you go, when we took the Panasonic AG-AF100 footage into the editing suite we couldn’t tell the difference between the on-board 24Mb/s AVCHD recorded material and the off-board 100Mb/s AVC-Intra recorded material. We had been...

Avid Ups Ante

Avid’s new Media Composer 5.0 (MC5) is the second point-zero release from Avid in less than a year, and the third major release in less than 18-months.  The new version of the flagship shipped in early June. This rapid release schedule speaks to a serious reorganisation of priorities...