DSLRs once reigned supreme. Top cameras from Canon and Nikon delivered reliability in camera bodies and lenses for serious photographers looking for high-end cameras to do professional work. However, these days, mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras seem like they are taking over. In fact, it wasn’t too long ago that mirrorless cameras were the new kid on […]
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Adobe Helps Sponsor the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge
Image caption: Winners of last year’s Easterseals Disability Film Challenge Nic Novicki is an actor who happens to have a disability. In 2014 he launched the Disability Film Challenge to address the under-representation of people with disabilities both in front and behind the camera. In 2017, he teamed us with Easterseals Southern California to expand […]
Apple Spreads the Love: Adobe’s Video Apps Now Support ProRes
It’s a welcome announcement: Apple finally allows Windows apps to export files using its proprietary ProRes codec. Adobe was one of the first companies to announce support for exporting Apple ProRes on the Windows platform for such ubiquitous Adobe applications as Premiere Pro CC, After Effects CC and Adobe Media Encoder CC. So what’s so […]
Review of Lenovo’s ThinkPad P1, an Ultrabook Workstation
Not too long ago, Lenovo invited NYCPPNEWS to Nice Shoes, a well-regarded color grading house and full-on production studio in Manhattan. We had a chance to tour all of the floors of the Manhattan-based creative house, then got into details about the soon-to-be released Lenovo ThinkPad P1. This thin and light mobile workstation was touted […]
HP Ups the Creative with Z Club
HP decided its connection to creatives needed nurturing, and in new ways the company hasn’t tried before. Last week at annual Adobe Max, the company revealed just that, new plans and initiatives to better deliver their hardware to the world’s creative professionals. At the conference, HP announced Z Club, a program to offer creative professionals […]
Awesome Audio Tools: Review of Presonus Studio One 4, Notion 6 and PSO
These days, for those involved in professional music production and audio editing, your main tool of the trade is pretty obvious these days: a good and capable digital audio workstation (DAW). But if you’re checking out the market, possibly for an upgrade or whole new package, you face a similar situation to someone moving to […]
Adobe’s Hollywood Downpayment – Premiere Goes to the Movies
Adobe finally bought into a dream house. The San Jose-based company recently began leasing a 3,000 sq ft space in Santa Monica (at 429 Santa Monica Boulevard), making this its first big push into the entertainment market with the setting up of a full-service shop for the LA creative community. Adobe’s Creative Cloud tools are […]
HP Drops New Z2 Line of Cost-Effective Entry-Level Workstations
From many users’ perspectives, HP is the leading manufacturer of high-end workstations in the world with their acclaimed Z series of machines. Heavy 3D graphics and animation pros opt for their top-of-the-line Z8 which can lash together two Intel Skylake-SP Xeon CPUs with up to 56 cores in total and up to 3 TB of […]
The Compositor’s Apprentice – Joe Herman Checks Out Blackmagic’s Fusion 9
Here’s Joe Herman’s take on Blackmagic Design’s Fusion 9. Soon after he wrote this review, Blackmagic dropped Resolve 15, which builds in the once stand alone Fusion app. As Joe notes, “This is impressive. Everything I wrote is still pertinent, but with the inclusion of Resolve’s legacy high-end color correction, full-featured video editing, Fairlight audio […]
A Game Changer: Review of the HP Z38c Curved Super-Wide Display
“Game-changing” might be a dramatic term, but that’s what comes to mind when describing the new HP Z38c Curved display. You see, every so often, a new product comes along which makes us rethink the way we work and HP’s stunning new Z38c display happens to be one of them. I’ve had the opportunity to […]
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