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Sony's new HXR-NX100 expands its line of professional compact camcorders that deliver the benefits of a 1.0” type sensor. The new model delivers high resolution, superb low-light performance, and accurate color reproduction, and its ease of use and diverse features fit a range of professional applications, from web content creation and student filmmaking to corporate, documentary and event production. The HXR-NX100 camcorder is planned to be available in October 2015.

Adobe launched a new 2015 release of its flagship Adobe Creative Cloud tools and services. The 2015 release of Creative Cloud includes major updates to Adobe’s industry-defining desktop tools, including Photoshop CC, Premiere Pro CC and After Effects CC; as well as new connected mobile apps for iOS and Android. All the updates to CC desktop and mobile apps are immediately available for download by Creative Cloud members as part of their membership at no additional cost. With the 2015 release of Creative Cloud, Adobe magic and Mercury performance provide speed and technology breakthroughs across 15 CC desktop applications, including:

Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015

Premiere Pro CC furthers its lead in the market with the addition of the Lumetri Color panel for powerful color corrections using intuitive sliders and other simple controls; and Morph Cut, which makes it easier to deliver polished interview content by smoothing out jump cuts in talking-head shots to create a cohesive, polished sequence. Also included are: expanded format support, audio workflow enhancements, caption burn-in, editing refinements, and improved support for Windows touch devices.

Adobe After Effects CC 2015
After Effects CC now has Uninterrupted Preview to allow artists to adjust a composition's properties and even resize panels without impacting playback. Also, the groundbreaking Adobe Character Animator brings 2D figures to life using a webcam to track facial movements, record dialog and apply movements in real time onto a pre-configured character.

Adobe Photoshop CC 2015

Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Photoshop CC introduces Artboards, the best way to design cross-device user experiences in a single Photoshop document and quickly preview them on a device; and a preview release of Photoshop Design Space, a sleek new work environment focused on the needs of mobile app and web site designers. Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC both gain a new Dehaze featurem that eliminates fog and haze from photos, including underwater shots, for startlingly clear images. Haze can also be added to a photo for artistic effect.

The new V-Ray 3.2 is fully compatible with 3ds Max 2016! V-Ray 3.2 introduces VR rendering capabilities and multiple V-Ray RT GPU enhancements, and also includes improved volume rendering, distributed rendering, and global illumination. V-Ray 3.2 for 3ds Max is a free update for all V-Ray 3.0 customers. Log in at chaosgroup.com to download. New features:

New VR cameras

With two new VR camera types, you can now render stereo cube maps and spherical stereo images. Output your V-Ray scenes to popular VR formats like Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR quickly and easily.

New V-Ray RT GPU Features

V-Ray 3.2 for 3ds Max includes a faster and more powerful V-Ray RT GPU. V-Ray RT GPU supports:

– QMC sampling using NVIDIA CUDA (resolves noise faster)

– Displacement

– Anisotropic highlights

– Composite map

– Output curves

– Texture baking

– UDIM support (MARI)

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Volume rendering

New V-Ray Volume Grid adds support for OpenVDB, Field3D, and Phoenix FD volume grid formats. This allows you to import and render data from popular effects applications like Houdini and FumeFX.

Distributed rendering

Add or remove distributed rendering nodes on the fly

Global Illumination

Updated Light Cache algorithm removes light leaks and improves animation

Geometry

– New preview types for proxy objects – includes mesh simplification for optimized proxy display.

– Faster rendering of hair and fur.

– Intel Embree support for 3ds Max Hair & Fur and V-Ray Fur.

3ds Max 2016

– Full support for new Physical Camera – co-developed with 3ds Max team

– Support for new Physical Camera Exposure Control

– V-Ray Lens Analysis Utility adds support for the 3ds Max Physical Camera

Press Release

Blackmagic Design announced DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G - Quad SDI, a new mezzanine card that lets customers connect older Ultra HD and 4K equipment that use quad link 3G-SDI connections to their computer through their existing DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G video capture and playback card. The DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G - Quad SDI mezzanine card is available now for US$75 from Blackmagic Design re-sellers worldwide.

DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G has native 12G-SDI connections for working with the very latest high frame rate 4K equipment over a single, high speed SDI cable. Older, first generation monitors and projectors have quad link 3G-SDI connections that require 4 SDI cables. The new DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G - Quad SDI mezzanine card bridges the gap so customers can now have both high speed 12G-SDI connections and four 3G-SDI connections, all on the same card.

Now with DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G - Quad SDI a colorist working with DaVinci Resolve in a grading suite or theater can directly connect to older monitors and digital cinema projectors that have four 3G-SDI connections, without needing to buy additional external converters. In addition to Quad SDI support, the DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G - Quad SDI card also adds a built in hardware down converter for outputting 1080p60 video from 12G-SDI 2160p60 sources.

The new Quad Link SDI mezzanine card fits in the mezzanine slot on the DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G, replacing the standard HDMI card that normally occupies the slot. The mezzanine card is easily replaceable and can be installed directly by customers. Installing the Quad Link SDI mezzanine card gives customers quad link 3G-SDI capture and playback on their DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G card.

The DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G capture and playback card onto which the Quad SDI mezzanine card gets installed is an extremely fast, 8 lane PCI Express Generation 2 card that lets customers capture and playback dual stream video at resolutions up to 2160p60. This super fast, high performance card allows dual stream 3D, as well as the capture and playback of simultaneous fill and key, even when operating in Ultra HD at 60 frames per second.

Also released today is Desktop Video 10.4.1 software update. This update supports DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G - Quad SDI, and also adds 12-bit RGB 4:4:4 support for 2160p30, keying in 1080p60, and deep color support.

“DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G is our most advanced PCIe capture and playback card for high end digital cinema users,” said Grant Petty, CEO, Blackmagic Design. “Now customers that need to work with first generation Ultra HD have a future proof solution that works with both older equipment and the latest 12G-SDI gear! The new Desktop Video 10.4.1 adds even more capabilities to the card many people already have, giving them dramatically better color and more capabilities than ever before!”

Availability and Price

DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G - Quad SDI is available now for US$75 from Blackmagic Design resellers worldwide. Desktop Video 10.4.1 software update can be downloaded free of charge from the Blackmagic design website.

Press Photography

Product photos of DeckLink 4K Extreme 12G - Quad SDI and all other Blackmagic Design products, are available at www.blackmagicdesign.com/press/images.|

About Blackmagic Design

Blackmagic Design creates the world’s highest quality video editing products, digital film cameras, color correctors, video converters, video monitoring, routers, live production switchers, disk recorders, waveform monitors and real time film scanners for the feature film, post production and television broadcast industries. Blackmagic Design’s DeckLink capture cards launched a revolution in quality and affordability in post production, while the company’s Emmy™ award winning DaVinci color correction products have dominated the television and film industry since 1984. Blackmagic Design continues ground breaking innovations including 6G-SDI and 12G-SDI products and stereoscopic 3D and Ultra HD workflows. Founded by world leading post production editors and engineers, Blackmagic Design has offices in the USA, UK, Japan, Singapore and Australia. For more information, please go to www.blackmagicdesign.com.

Speed Booster XL 0.64x from Caldwell Photographic Inc. and Metabones is a new Micro-4/3 mount Speed Booster adapter designed exclusively for the Panasonic GH4 and other selected Micro Four Thirds cameras, with a magnification of 0.64x. The Speed Booster XL 0.64x uses an advanced 6-element optical design to achieve extraordinary optical performance at apertures up to an incredible f/0.80, a new record for Micro Four Thirds format. The adapter is compatible with Blackmagic Cinema Camera MFT, Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera, Panasonic DMC-GH4, and some older models of MFT cameras, including Panasonic GH3 and Olympus E-PL7.