GRIDIRON Software - Flow

Flow is a revolutionary approach to digital content management that dramatically simplifies the design process for creative professionals working on graphic design, web and video projects. Flow automatically tracks your work from idea to end result and manages your assets and applications for your most complex projects- all without changing the way you work.

MacBook - Armor Case

The coolest notebook case I've ever seen. Head over to Civilian Lab's for more info.

RAID Alert

Just a quick post to put up details on a little utility for monitoring mac software RAID 1 drives - RAID Alert.

RAID Alert is a unique application that continuously monitors attached RAID systems based on the free (Mac OS X built-in) RAID software. It will inform you about any RAID systems' status changes (esp. failures) via email, a notification dialog and an alert sound.

Never again will a hard disk failure go unnoticed - even on unattended headless servers!

syncVUE - Reveiw and Approval Tool

syncVUE is a sophisticated, QuickTime-based media player that plugs into SKYPE, the VOIP (Voice-over Internet Protocol) conferencing software available for both Windows and Macintosh platforms.

Simply download SKYPE (it’s free), sign up for an account and you’re ready. syncVUE adopts your SKYPE “buddy list” as its own, allowing you to collaborate with any other syncVUE user on the SKYPE network.

syncVUE has proven to be an extremely useful tool for animators, video and film editors, EFX editors, advertising agencies, class instruction/remote learning, remotely controlled digital screenings (previews), remote voice-over collaboration, etc.

For more info check out - www.syncvue.com

Media 100 i Update

Media 100i version 8.2.3 is now available as a free download for existing Media 100i version 8.2.2 users. This new version adds new OS and software compatibility to your familiar Media 100i interface.

Version 8.2.3 Highlights:

• Macintosh OS X Tiger and Apple Quicktime version 7.0 compatibility have been added.
• Media 100i is now compatible with Media 100 HD and Media 100 sw.
• This allows you to seamlessly move media between systems.
• You can now export your timeline to the newly released Adobe After Effects version 7.0. Export all elements including clips, effects, titles as separate layers.
• Macintosh G5 systems with an expansion chassis will no longer experience problems when digitizing high data rates. (This fix only applies to systems running Tiger).
• Export timeline audio and video to an Apple iPod.

Check it on on media100.com

LlamaLog

LlamaLog is more than a logging tool, it is a flexible asset management suite, designed from the ground up for use in production editing environments. It aids in collaboration between editors, loggers, producers, and archivists. It is not solely a list of clips, but an entire workflow, highly integrated with Final Cut Pro and AVID.

As show deadlines shrink and shooting volumes skyrocket, productions have become more collaborative and at the same time more distributed. LlamaLog offers the tools to unify your post production, to leverage the countless hours of logging and transcription, and to give editors and producers the information -and video- they need, when they need it.

LlamaLog is currently in closed beta testing, it's one to keep an eye on.

What is Traffic?

Traffic – Visual feedback to show the flow of your edit through the interface.

Traffic presents a new model in the non-linear editing school of thought. It utilizes whats called a dependency graph, and it’s the same interface that high-end visual effects software like Apple's Shake uses. Operators connect “nodes” together to form a chain of events they want to perform on a clip. Traffic employs this node-based interface and has infused it with an editor's mindset. Changes and tweaks which seemed too tedious or even impossible to do can now be done in a matter of seconds.

Check it out for yourself - www.xmedit.com