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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

I’ve tried out a lot of Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) for music production over the years. The first one I sunk my teeth into was Cubase but, along the way, I’ve bumped into others, each with its own cadre of devotees. At some point, I adopted Pro Tools, largely because it is widely used in […]

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 […]

Real Time Animation: Review of Reallusion’s iClone 7

As GPUs, from companies such as NVIDIA and AMD, have gotten ever more powerful over the past few years, they have become able to deliver real-time 3D performance in ways that we once dreamed about. This is true especially in games, where realistic 3D scenes are interactively rendered in real-time during gameplay. Now convincing real […]

Adobe Reveals Great New Video Chops at IBC 2017

Adobe unveiled a tasty bundle of updates to its Creative Cloud video applications at IBC 2017. The Amsterdam-based show doesn’t garner the same slew of new product intros that NAB does. But many companies big and small save their latest-and-greatest announcements for this Fall show for that very reason of a lowered PR frenzy. Adobe […]

Review of the HP DreamColor Z24x G2 Display: Color accurate and Affordable

Recently, HP introduced two new DreamColor displays, the Z31x which will be available for purchase later this year, and the Z24x G2 which is the subject of this review (and is available today). If you are interested in learning more about the upcoming Z31x, an advanced, 4K, high-end, feature-rich display which has a built in […]