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At this year’s trade show “Digitalschnittmesse 2019” in Munich, Grass Valley gave an outlook on the new Audio Sync feature in EDIUS. This feature will be available with the next EDIUS 9.50 update. The coming update will also include other additional features and is expected to be released in September 2019. In the following report from the trade show the Audio Sync function is explained in more detail:

DaVinci Resolve Studio 16 Public Beta 7 improves playback performance on the edit and cut pages when using DeckLink and UltraStudio capture and playback devices, makes multicam angle syncing via audio waveform more reliable and improves the behavior of grabbing stills and working with color qualifiers on clips that have OpenFX or ResolveFX. In addition, this release also adds support for decoding embedded AIFF content in AAF timelines, now recognizes the correct order of channels in AAC and QuickTime clips, and renders IMF packages with the correct audio metadata.

NewTek announced the availability of LightWave 3D 2019.1, a feature update to the production-proven 3D graphics and animation package that refines the artist’s workflow to make creation of complex, photo-real animation and imagery faster and more efficient. LightWave 2019.1 builds on the streamlined workflows introduced in 2019, and also adds new capabilities to many of the new features of 2019.1, including improved performance of the LightWave Bridge tool, new game-style navigation mode in Layout and Modeler, new OpenGL viewport option to hide all non-renderable elements, Python scripting enhancements, and more! In addition, more than two hundred stability enhancements continue the trend of making each new edition the most stable and productive LightWave ever, for users. The LightWave 2019.1 update is a free download for registered users of LightWave 2019.

Neat Video is a digital filter designed to reduce visible noise and grain found in footage from digital video cameras, DSLRs, TV-tuners and even digitized film or VHS. Neat Video is available as a plug-in for many popular video editing applications such as Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro.

Neat Video offers a way to clean up noisy clips. It is a highly automated and user-friendly plug-in that can be applied in only a few clicks. Improving video quality while preserving the beauty, detail and clarity of the original footage. In many cases rescuing clips that would otherwise be unusable.