Panasonic Pro AG-DVX100B 3-CCD MiniDV Proline Camcorder w/10x Optical Zoom
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Panasonic Pro AG-DVX100B 3-CCD MiniDV Proline Camcorder w/10x Optical Zoom With the Panasonic AG-DVX100B DV PROLINE Camcorder, you’ll take your digital video recording a step further. This advanced digital camera delivers incredible image quality, superior functions and easy operation. Its high-level specifications and design improvements cater to the wishes of amateurs and the needs of professionals. Mobile, versatile and easy to use, the AG-DVX100B has everything you need for creative content production and active image gathering. Smoother zooming and focusing, with extended 30-second slow zoom User-assignable buttons give you instant, one-touch access to setup functions Viewfinder features B/W display mode and detail function for easier focusing High-quality wide-image recording in letterbox mode (16 - 9) Outstanding sensitivity - F11 @2000 lux, min illumination - 3 lux (at +18dB) Edge enhancement for easy focusing - Peaking (switchable on/off) in EVF and 3.5 LCD Supports 480i/60 (NTSC), Cinema-style 480p/24fps, and 480p/30fps image capture Precision wide-angle Lens with Servo/Manual Zoom (withstops&barrel markings) Auto/Manual Focus f1.6 with 72mm filter size Conventional 4 - 3 aspect ratio and 16 - 9 letterbox image capture modes Large centrally located pivoting electronic viewfinder usable for left or right eye Flip-out 270 3.5 LCD panel with superimposed audio metering on both LCD&EVF S-Video, Video&Stereo Audio IN&OUT
Customer Review: Purchasing my second one as I write this review
I bought my first DVX100b around May-June 07, and my second this April of 08. Impressed enough to buy a second one.
But really this camera is a well rounded DV camera. Its about as good as you can get with out going HD.
The shots are solid as well as the quality of image. It does not take much to learn the controls, yet in no way is it consumer level technology. Between the white balance controls, the light gain levels, and the 3 filter settings this camera can adapt to a wide range of settings. The color and clarity of the image is brilliant but where the DVX100 really impressed me was in low light conditions. I am a wedding videographer and I was terrified of the reception because theres usually very little lighting and the footage looks black. The DVX100b can keep a good quality image while in very low lighted settings.
The only problem I really had was when I first used it, it was difficult to keep a steady shot. Still with practice over time it becomes easy to hold and have a steady shot.
Above all this camera is freindly for those who have never used a pro camera before, and customizable enough to fit even the best of professional videographers. I recommend this camera to any videographer out there, I especially recommend this camera for those that are beginning and need a camera that can hold you together until you get your style down.
Customer Review: great proffesional camera
this camera suprised me with how good it was, i knew it had been used in tv before, and in a few films, but i had no idea what i had gotten myself into. the image quality on this is beyond anything else. and the built in microphone does wonders. only flaw i have about it is the zoom. this camera comes with a 10x optical zoom. which is still nice, and i dont know how much more zoom i really need, but it would be nice to have 20x. but for the price you pay. you cant go wrong
The DVpics Digital Video Editing Kit provides the fast way to edit DV camcorder movies on your home computer. The kit includes the 3-port Adaptec FireConnect 4300 FireWire/1394 PCI card, FireWire cable, and MGI VideoWave 4 digital video editing software for Windows that provides the ability to capture, edit, produce and share your video in one application. The card is hot-pluggable and provides isochronous data transmission that guarantees bandwidth to your audio and video streams for uninterrupted data. Connect up to 62 daisy-chained external FireWire/1394/i.Link devices. DVpics is backed by Adaptec’s world-class reliability, compatibility and support.
ACID Pro 6
General Information - Manufacturer: Sony Corporation - Manufacturer Part Number: SAC6000 - Manufacturer Website Address: www.sony.com - Marketing Information: In the world of digital music creation, ACID Pro software has always stood out from the crowd. Its automatic loop time-stretching and tempo-matching technology is second-to-none, and its straightforward pick, paint, and play functionality has helped make ACID Pro software the favorite loop-based music creation tool for millions of users worldwide. Now reformulated to add multitrack recording and full MIDI sequencing to its superior looping functionality, ACID Pro 6 software delivers a new formula for ground-breaking music creation: loops + multitrack + MIDI. Together, these key components add up to a full-featured professional music workstation unlike any other. Product Information - Software Sub Type: Music Editing/Composing - Software Name: ACID v.6.0 Pro - Complete Product - Features & Benefits: Fundamentals: - Unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI - 24-bit, 192 kHz hard disk recording - Real-time nondestructive editing - Over 1,000 music loops in multiple genres - Preview loops in real-time with your project - Alternate time signature support - ASIO driver support - Support for control surfaces including Mackie Control and Frontier Design TranzPort - Dual/Multi-core processor support - Master, auxiliary, soft synth, and effects bus tracks - System-wide media management - Metronome for playback and record - Customizable UI and keyboard mapping - Multiple file format support - Unlimited undo/redo history - External monitor support - Get Media option to download media from the Web - Integrated disc-at-once and track-at-once CD burning - Sony Net MD format export - ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus, and ATRAC Advanced Lossless support - Gracenote MusicID CD album identification - CD extraction - One-click music publishing to ACIDplanet.com Mixing and Editing: - Multitrack audio and MIDI recording - Multipl
Screenwriter’s Initial Draft Pad: With Formatting Rules
The Screenwriter’s Initial Draft Pad is a workbook and a powerful screenwriting tool. Eighty pages of templates guide and teach you as you handwrite a screenplay. Perfect for the beginner as well as the professional. Specially designed paper shows you how to place the action, dialogue, and characters on the page. The covers of the pad illustrate all the screenwriting formatting rules of the industry that you’ll need to write your screenplay. The perfect gift for all the screenwriter’s in your life — those writing their first screenplay and those writing their next one. Never lose another brainstorm! Write as you travel, lie on a beach, ride the subway, hike, and sip lattes in coffee shops. An excellent editing tool for the novice or the professional during the rewriting process. Dustin Paddock, screenwriter for Fox Network’s popular TV program, “House”, calles the Screenwriter’s Initial Draft Pad the “Lexus of legal pads for screenwriters”. The Screenwriter’s Initial Draft Paper was used for this year’s CS Open Screenwriting Contest at the Screenwriter’s EXPO5 in Los Angeles.
Pinnacle Systems Studio Deluxe Version 8 Video Editing
Introducing Pinnacle Studio version 8: the total video-editing solution for your desktop or laptop PC. Simply capture your video footage and then use the professional editing features like scene transitions, title effects, and fast/slow motion to create compelling movies. After you’ve edited your video, you can output to tape or burn your movies to a CD or DVD that will play on most living room DVD players.Studio version 8 makes editing movies on your PC or laptop easier than ever. Pinnacle Studio software allows you to drag-and-drop your captured video footage onto the editing timeline and assemble a movie in mere minutes. Then add professional 3D scene transitions, some background music, a couple of title effects, and get ready to show the world your finished masterpiece. Share your special moments with family and friends on DVD! With Studio version 8, you can burn a disc with your CD or DVD burner that will play in most set-top DVD players. Plus, there are advanced authoring features that allow you to create multiple linked menus, motion menus, and motion buttons. Now you can turn hours of home video into Hollywood-style movies on CD/DVD that no one will want to miss. Pinnacle Studio Deluxe includes Studio version 8 software, Hollywood FX plus for Studio, and a fully professional video capture card that supports both analog and digital camcorders. Customer Review: One star is one too many Without question the most frustrating software application I have ever had the mis-pleasure of having to work with. Slow - despite a top of the line duo-core processor and terrabytes of storage - doesn’t begin to describe the time that is required to render a project. You can count on the render process to hang approximately 95% of the time and that’s the least of the aggravations. My last project using this so called “solution” corrupted the audio track in the time line, globally replacing the selected audio clips with different clips though leaving the original file name in the time line - so it wasn’t until print to tape one was able to discover that the theme music was now inserted at minute 34:45… Pinnacle’s customer support is non-existant. If you work on a deadline don’t use this product, you will not be able to complete your projects in anything resembling a reasonable time frame. Completely and utterly worthless.
DVD MovieFactory
Turn home movies into DVD movies! Makes burning your movies onto CDs and DVDs quick and easy. Included bonus software: Ulead Photo Express 4.0 My Custom Edition PLUS - the image editor that lets you edit images, as well as design and print your own CD labels and disc covers. Customer Review: Easy to use, but very limited. If you are just getting into the often frustrating world of hobby video, this program will help you get started. However, you won’t learn much in the process. Basically, you run a wizard, and a few hours later you’ve got a (S)VCD/DVD. The menu is somewhat customizable–you can add your own backgrounds and music–but leaves a lot to be desired. The biggest problem I have with Movie Factory is it’s built in encoder. It just takes way too long and the quality isn’t always that great. There is also a problem with audio becoming async when converting DivX/XVid to MPEG2 with Movie Factory; just test burn to a DVD-RW first, so you won’t end up with a bunch of expensive coasters. To be fair, this can be a problem with many other authoring programs, and is a pain to fix. Personally, I prefer DVD-Lab, though it costs more and is a tad harder to use. For $80 you get an authoring program that is fairly easy to use, yet is capable of producing professional quality DVDs, complete with fully customizable menus. Similar programs can cost hundreds, even thousands of dollars and won’t be nearly as easy to use. It also lacks an encoder, so you would probably want to look into TMPEGnc Plus (another $30.00) or Flask MPEG (Free). Actually, it’s not a bad idea to use TMPEGnc instead of Movie Factory’s encoder. Both DVD-Lab and TMPEG have 30 day demos available. Regardless of which authoring program and encoder you go with, you’ll definitely want to download a copy of Virtual Dub. This is probably the most useful piece of software you will ever use for video editing. It’s also free. You’ll also want to bookmark dvdrhelp.com; if you can’t find a solution to your problem there, it probably can’t be solved.
Pinnacle Studio 9 Media Suite - Video Editing Software Suite
Pinnacle Studio MediaSuite is a full set of editing and management tools for creating fantastic digital media! It’s a comprehensive toolkit with features for audio and photo editing, CD and DVD backup, organization tools and a 5-foot by 6-foot green sheet backdrop for creating chroma key effects at home! Built-in chroma key effects Customer Review: Just don’t buy it….trust me It just doesn’t work up to even a quarter of what you think it will do. When it does work, it takes to to the “pinnacle” of a project, then either crashes, won’t burn, or will burn with very messy results and will make you very sorry you spent money and time on this piece of garbage.
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