NAB Wrap-up

There were a lot of big announcements made at NAB this year.  A detailed recap of them would take many hours.  So instead, here's the list:


 - There are a million posts that look at the new features of the Adobe CS5 suite but here is a post that looks specifically at how After Effects CS5 will be much faster.  And here Scott Simmons looks at how Premiere Pro will be much faster thanks to the new Mercury Playback Engine.

- Philip Hodgetts discusses Avid Media Composer 5.0 which has a lot of game changing updates including the ability to edit ProRes and Red files natively.  And Pro Video Coalition just released a post on Avid's cloud-based editing technology.  This feature is not in their new release but hopefully it will be in the next major update.  I hope this takes off because it will be a major leap forward for remote post-production.

- Mocha v2 is out and it's 64-bit among other things.

- the news that took NAB by storm:  Davinci's Resolve is now on a Mac for $995.  Boom.  Watch out Apple Color.

- Sapphire plug-ins go 64-bit. 

 - Autodesk announces 2011 versions of Flame, Flare, Smoke and Lustre.

- Digieffects launchs three new $99, 64-bit plug-ins

- "Get" - the phonetic search plug-in for FCP.

- The Arri Alexa.  Great news for us - bad news for RED.


Also, if you want to hear a great discussion about the NAB announcements check out the podcast wrap up by the guys over at fxguidetv.