Blackmagic Design (http://www.blackmagic-design.com/) will showcase
their new product line — including the DeckLink HD Extreme, DeckLink
Studio and DeckLink SDI — for the first time to the broadcast and
post production industries at Broadcast Video Expo 2009.
iVideo (http://ivideoapp.com/), a movie organizing and sharing app
for Mac OS X (10.3 and higher) has been updated to version 4. The new
version improves web page creation, batch exporting, network sharing,
multiple library support, online bookmarks, and smart playlists. The
update also includes a number of bug fixes.
iVideo lets you create one place for your movies — whether they be
in separate folders, external hard drives and CDs, or even online —
and then share them. A demo is available for download.
ThePowerXChange (http://www.thepowerxchange.com) has released
“QuarkXPress 8: Production Tricks and Experts’ Tips. This US$54.99
tome is a collection of tutorials that offer beginner-level topic
introductions, intermediate examinations of production tricks, and
experts’ tips for using QuarkXPress’ features.
Chapters include contributions from experts Joe Root, Kelly Kordes
Anton, John Cruise, Trevor Alyn, Davina Hicks, Tom Kelly, Steve Gray,
and Cyndie Shaffstall.
VMWare has released VMware Converter 4.0. You can
run this virtual machine on Macs as well.
Datalogics (http://www.datalogics.com), a source for Adobe PDF
developer technologies, has announced the availability of version 9
of the Adobe Normalizer API (application programming interface),
Adobe’s developer toolkit for converting PostScript and EPS files to
PDF.
This release of Normalizer 9 adds support for PDF/VT (ISO/WD
16612-2), the emerging standard for variable data printing (VDP)
solutions. Normalizer 9 can now create PDFs which contain reference
form Xobjects for commonly repeated elements on a page.