You have to hand it to Quantel: Whether the economy is good or bad, for the past 30 years, the company has kept its position as one of the players at the top of high-end postproduction
Until recently, using a standard laptop to capture HD resolutions wasn't feasible. Now, new generations of capture cards such as the HD-SDI Express from Imperx
Adobe After Effects remains the most widely used compositing program on both Mac and PC platforms, so new software designed to work with it finds an eager market of users looking for new capabilities
While it's common to think of a facility standardizing on one or another NLE or compositing programs, visual-effects plug-in decisions are often left up to the discretion of editors
At NAB Show 2009, EditShare pushed out the second iteration of its Complete Collaboration product line (media acquisition, sharing, storage, and archiving products)
For many of us, this will be overkill. But with HD post proliferating and some high-end effects houses now implementing 4K post, faster throughput for storage might be a necessity
