Sony PMW-200 camcorder coming September featuring three 0.5-inch CMOS sensors

Sony has announced the PMW-200 handheld camcorder, adding a relatively low-cost model to the company's XDCAM line of cameras.

Featuring HD4:2:2 50 Mb/s recording capabilities and genlock and

iStabilizer Dolly Universal Camera Mount

iStabilizer announced Dolly, a universal mount for professional-style panning at a range of angles and positions with just about any mobile device. Dolly turns shaky and amateur videos into smooth stunning works of art. It is compatible with any smartphone without requiring the removal of protective cases or bumpers.

Equipped with a built-in iStabilizer Mount, Dolly works with most mobile devices or digital cameras measuring up to

Grass Valley Ships Latest Version of EDIUS with Cross-Platform Codec and Powerful 3D Content Editing Features

Grass Valley™ has begun shipping the highly anticipated latest version of its EDIUS® multiformat nonlinear editing software. EDIUS Pro 6.5 now includes a comprehensive 3D editing workflow and cross-platform codec support.

Grass Valley is making its renowned intermediate codec technology freely available to other third-party applications. In addition to the PC-based HQ/HQX codecs, a QuickTime version of Grass Valley’s HQ and 10-bit HQX codec (for Windows and Mac platforms), is now available as a free download. “We were careful not to release this new version of EDIUS until

Magic Bullet Photo Looks 2 Released

Red Giant has take wraps off of Magic Bullet Photo Looks 2. The feature set matches up with that of Looks 2 (the video app), which means you can now share presets between photo and video host apps. Additional new features include:

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4: This Image Management Software Will Also Please Video Producers

By: Oliver Peters For the fourth iteration of Lightroom, Adobe has enhanced the processing capabilities and added features to aid photographers with handling modern photographic challenges, such as the integration of video. Although Lightroom is primarily a photographer’s tool, it is also indispensible for video producers and editors who have to deal with a large volume of photographs, such as when producing documentaries that are based on archival images. Lightroom is the ideal application to store, organize, adjust, crop and prepare stills for video editing.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 offers enhanced image processing, such as improved highlight recovery.

Beauty Box Video 2.0 Released for Easy Skin Retouching in Assimilate Scratch and Sony Vegas

Digital Anarchy announced Beauty Box Video 2.0 for OpenFX, a new release that brings their award-winning skin retouching plug-in to ASSIMILATE SCRATCH®, SCRATCH Lab®, Sony Vegas Pro®, and Sony Movie Studio®. Beauty Box now uses OpenCL, a new technology that runs on ATI and Nvidia cards, to automatically reduce wrinkles and blemishes. Fast rendering allows it to fit into any workflow pipeline. Version 2.0 also introduces a new smoothing algorithm that improves automatic masking, and adds shine removal for hot spots on skin areas.