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Panasonic VDR-D50 DVD Camcorder with 42x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom When it comes to shooting videos, simpler is better. Panasonic DVD camcorders make it exceptionally easy to capture your precious memories directly onto several DVD formats (DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, DVD-R/DL) and SD Cards. When you finish shooting, just take the disc out of the camcorder and slip it right into your DVD player or recorder for immediate playback - there’s no need to connect any cables. Imagine taking video shots on a moving boat and then viewing them on a large-screen TV. They’re likely to appear blurry from the boat’s movement and from your unsteady hands. Panasonic solves this problem with O.I.S. (Optical Image Stabilizer), which minimizes handshake in situations where it is most often a problem, such as with zoom shots - or on a moving boat. The system is optical, so there is no quality loss, and images look clear and beautiful on a big-screen TV. 37mm Filter Diameter F1.9 (Wide) - F4.3 (Tele) Shutter Speed - 1/30-1/8000 sec (Motion Image), 1/30-1/500 sec (Still Image) 2.7 Wide LCD Monitor Built-in SD/SDHC Slot Accepts 8cm, DVD-RAM, DVD-R DL, DVD-R/RW Stereo Zoom Microphone with Wind Noise Reduction Recording / Playback Mode - XP (10 Mbps/VBR), SP (5Mbps/VBR), LP (2.5Mbps/VBR) Recording Format - MPEG2 (Motion Image) Audio Recording Format - Dolby Digital 2-channel Recording Time - DVD-RAM/DVD-RW - XP(36mins)/SP(74mins)/LP(150mins), DVD-R DL - XP(35mins)/SP(69mins)/LP(138mins), DVD-R - XP(18min)/SP(37mins)/LP(75mins) Still Picture - JPEG format at 0.3MP (640 x 480) resolution Connectors - AV out, Analog Out, USB 2.0 Approximate Unit Dimensions - 3.52(H) x 2.08(W) x 5.06(D) Approximate Unit Weight - 0.88lbs
Customer Review: Great Camcorder for the $$$$
Panasonic VDR-D50 DVD Camcorder with 42x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom The Panasonic VDR-D50 DVD Camcorder with 42x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom is easy to use, light weight, and decent video quality. I recommend it to anyone who wants a relatively inexpensive camcorder without sacrificing much.

Pinnacle Studio 9 - It’s the easiest way to capture & edit your home movies, and turn them into an epic cinema experience! Simple drag-and-drop editing tools make it faster and easier than ever, to create perfect DVD movies at home. SmartMovie practically edits your movie for you — automated editing lets you select an editing style, music and transitions with a mouse click Author and burn DVD discs that will play in most set-top DVD players Analog cleaning tools restore old videotapes & reduce noise from old recordings Full support for RTFx video plug-ins and VST audio plug-ins Complete library of audio filters and image filters for fantastic audio/video effects Customer Review: Feature rich but very flakey Love the features and user interface for this program, but it’s full of bugs that lockup and ultimately prevented me from rendering a move that I had put a lot of work into. You would be wise to look at other packages.

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Roxio Toast 8 Titanium (Mac) [OLD VERSION]
Toast 8 Titanium completes your digital life. It’s designed to complement the Mac OS and iLife software you normally use for CD and DVD burning — and now it allows you to burn Blu-Ray discs. Create perfect-quality audio CDs with the smoothest crossfades and transitions. Enjoy your shows anywhere with exclusive TiVoGo and EyeTV burning. Convert video for portables is easy — with a few clicks, you’ll export to your iPod, PSP or mobile phone in no time. Burn files of any size, then catalog it the contents for easier management. Copy your CDs, movies and DVDs in a snap. There’s no easier, faster way to save, enjoy and share your digital media on disc! Back up an entire 9GB DVD disc & use all available disc space to maximize video quality Director’s Cut custom compilations let you select video, audio & languages for your DVD Convert files for your iPod, PSP, DivX or other portable Spin Doctor Assistant guides you through converting LPs and tapes to digital Blu-Ray Disc Burning - Store up to 12,500 music track, 50,000 photos or 4 hours of HD video on a single disc Disc recovery for pulling data from scratched or damaged files Create your own disc labels and inserts Includes iLife Media Browser Customer Review: Toast 8 It really sucks!!! It’s very easy to use but on the other hand, the quality of the imagine is very very poor. Sometimes the imagine is so full of pixels that it’s impossible to continue using. I thought that I wasn’t using it properly but it turned out that it’s the software that’s not good.

Apple Shake 3.5 Mac OS X Retail Box (Fixed Node) [OLDER VERSION]
Apple Shake 3.5 . Shake 3.5 is the industry standard for high-end compositing and special effects.Shake has been the digital effects compositing tool of choice for Oscar-winning effects artists for seven years in a row. If you’ve seen Lord of the Rings: Return of the King,#34 you’ve seen what Shake can do. Shake 3.5 has been optimized for the Power Mac G5 and Mac OS X at all resolutions, so you can utilize the power of Hollywood special effects right in your own home.Apple Shake 3.5 Features:Color Correction: Shake s color-correction tools can be used to set mood, highlight parts of an image, match the shading of two composited images, and mimic lighting effects.Keying: Shake has two industry-standard keyers, Primatte and Keylight, and it combines these keys to achieve high-quality results.Transformations and Tracking: Shake includes high-quality transformations such as moves, rotates, scales, cornerpins, shears, and 3D moves. The application also includes tracking tools to stabilize a plate, remove camera jitter, and match movement.Masking and Rotoscoping: Shake users can create multiple spline-based shapes that can be used as an element s alpha channel or to mask a layer or an effect.Paint Tool: Shake s QuickPaint node can be used to fix holes in mattes or scratches and dirt on images. Users can modify the paint characteristics or the position or shape of the stroke.Timing Controls: Shake s timing controls allow users to speed up, slow down, or sync a clip. Each clip can also be nonlinearly retimed, allowing users to go backward and forward along a clip.Background Rendering: Shake can send rendering jobs to a render farm, using the bundled Qmaster render queue management software.Shake is resolution-independent, with a unique high-performance rendering engine that lets … Customer Review: Don’t buy this version. Version 4 is only $500. Don’t buy this older version unless you absolutely must. Version 4.0 is less expensive at $500. Also keep in mind that Shake has been discontinued by Apple. It’s supposed to be replaced by product code-named “Phenomenon” (hopefully announced at NAB 2008).

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