Hardware

The best computer video demo video ever - With Kiki wipes

What did Shane's NAB video from yesterday start? After two conversations in the office and 3 emails, we thought we would go looking for the infamous 'Kiki Wipe.' We found the wipes and probably the best ever demo video (erhem) you'll see for a computer that handles video. Yes it's Friday.

20 Metre and 30 Metre Optical Thunderbolt cables from Sumitomo

There is no doubt that Thunderbolt is changing our industry, but up until now long cable runs were impossible. Now you'll be able to have your Thunderbolt devices more than 3 metres apart thanks to Sumitomo.

G-Technology ship the Thunderbolt G-RAID and announce the Thunderbolt G-Drive

Another Thunderbolt product shipping and a brand new Thunderbolt product announced at the show for G-Technology. Seems Thunderbolt is becoming the only way to connect to local storage.

Promise announce the J2 drive - It's small and very fast

Straight on our Christmas wish list this year (After the Blackmagic Cinema Camera) are these two portable Thunderbolt drives from Promise, the J4 and the J2.

MOTU display their HDX-SDI with Thunderbolt running with FCPX

MOTO Inc is a relative stranger to the capture and playback market for video, so we thought we'd take a look at the new Thunderbolt equipped HDX-SDI.

Mirroring your Final Cut Pro X screen now to AppleTV without using Mountain Lion

***Update - New version now allows second display out from FCPX***

When the preview of Mountain Lion was announced, everybody thought how cool it would be in the future to mirror your FCPX desktop to an AppleTV. You don't have to wait until after the summer or later for the new cat, we show you how to do it now.

Using Final Cut Pro X with a large touchscreen

It's not Minority Report, but it is a step closer. Jason Rose is editing with FCPX on a large touchscreen. Cool? Fast? Slow? We will let you decide.

FCPX 10.0.3 A roundup of all the third party product news -There's lots!

What a day yesterday was, the 10.0.3 update for Final Cut Pro X set the Internet alight. We thought we would take a look at the third party announcements that might have been overshadowed by the news from Cupertino. News from AJA, Blackmagic Design, Intelligent Assistance, Marquis, GenArts, Red Giant and more.

Does Thunderbolt slow down when daisy chained with an extra display?

Nick Militello, one of our readers emailed us to say he was having problems with Thunderbolt speeds when using an extra monitor in the chain. We investigate.

Blackmagic Design buys Teranex Systems Inc.

Today Blackmagic Design announced they have purchased Teranex Systems Inc, a company that specialises in hardware frame rate conversion, noise reduction, film restoration and compression.

Who said film editing is dead? Steenbeck is alive and kicking

Quite a refreshing break from the chat about which NLE talks to which NLE. Steenbeck proclaim they're alive and kicking so Rick Young caught up with them at IBC.

Part 2 of HDWarriors IBC2011 review includes 4K and 8K

Philip Johnston presents part two of his review of IBC 2011. What was his highlight of the show, the JVC 4K camera or the 8K Super High Vision demo?

Free shared storage 'Shootout' webinar from ProMAX

With Apple announcing support for shared storage this week for FCPX, ProMAX have timed this free webinar rather well.

CalDigit show Thunderbolt connectivity with ThunderExpress

CalDigit have announced their ThunderExpress PCIe adaptor, their first Thunderbolt product. This unit allows you to connect one of their three PCIe RAIDs to any Mac, Windows or Linux machine that has a Thunderbolt port.

G-Technology show their monster 8TB Thunderbolt hard drive prototype at IBC

We can't believe we read a tweet this morning saying that there weren't any new Thunderbolt products on display at IBC. Maybe they didn't go past the G-Technology stand and catch sight of this 8TB monster prototype.

Jon Thorn from AJA talks about Kona, Ki Pro, Thunderbolt and the future

AJA Video have been in the Mac video card business for over 10 years, no doubt you have either owned one or edited on a system using one. Here Jon from AJA runs through the products and looks to the future.