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This new, comprehensive reference guide for the Panasonic AG-UX90 and AG-UX180 camcorders is now available for free download. The UX Series book is an interactive digital book examining all the camera's features, settings and modes, as well as tutorials on some of the most common situations users face. The book demystifies what all the UX Series features do, as well as explaining when and why you'd want to use each setting for the best results. Tutorials and essays teach a range of subjects from the simple to the advanced. The 269-page, full-color book was penned by Barry Green, an Emmy award-winning producer/writer who has authored many books on the operations of Panasonic professional camcorders, and is a technical moderator at DVXUser.com. The book, jam-packed with photos, screenshots and video examples of menu functions, can be downloaded here.

For this year's NAB, Stardom has prepared several new solutions integrating new USB 3.1 and Thunderbolt 3 interfaces, all featuring the USB Type-C connector and hugh transfer speeds! The new rack-based Stardom DR8-TB3 features 2x Thunderbolt 3 interface, and hardware RAID supporting RAID 0/1/5/6/10/50/60/JBOD for up to 8x 3.5/2.5” HDDs or SSDs. The smaller, portable 2-drive units SOHOTANK ST2-B31 and SOHORAID DR2-B31 both feature the new „SuperSpeed USB” (USB 3.1 Gen. 2) with 10Gbps transfer rates.

Steinberg released a maintenance updates 8.5.30 for Cubase Pro and Artist. The updates greatly improve the compatibility with MusicXML exports for imports into Dorico. The new Cubase 9 Pro and Cubase 9 Elements trial versions may be used for a period of 30 days, and include all functionality of the full versions. The Pro version requires the USB-eLicenser.

New podcast in the EDIUS Podcast series coversimport and usage of LUTs inside EDIUS 8.2 or later. Visit podcast.edius.net YouTube channel to watch the ongoing podcast series.

This new update for Blackmagic's camera monitors/recorders fixes a bug which could potentially cause problems when playing back 1080i ProRes on both Video Assist and Video Assist 4K models.