no disqualifications for gear that was just future talk, cause just about everything shown on the floor was future gear. so here goes:
8. JVC baby 3D camera: the GY-HMZ1 its smaller than the HM100 and its in stereo for under $3K. will it be the camera that brings 3D production to the masses?
7. Matrox MXO2 Thunderbolt adapters: turn any MXO2 into a thunderbolt box for $299. (no thunderbolt loop though) backwards compatibility is your friend.
6. AJA "Phaser" - basically an IO Express with thunderbolt I/O and up/down/cross built-in. It could easily be the defacto post box I/O when it ships later this year (?)
5. Sonnet FusionEcho Express PCIE Thunderbolt box. add a full PCIE slot to any Macbook Pro or iMac with thunderbolt! KONA3G or Atto Fiber in your laptop you say? well ok!
4. FCPX for $299, Avid Media Composer for $995! of course, FCPX for $299 doesnt include all the other suite apps (announcements pending?), and Avid's price is temporary and dependent on if you own FCP, both are pretty significant.
3. Blackmagic "Atem" product line. Blackmagic bought Echolab last year and brought it back out this year w/ less zero's in the pricing. get a full daddy HD broadcast hardware based switcher for $6-$10K
2. Aaton quietly showed the only hybrid 4K/film camera on the show floor. its a 2 or 3 perf 35mm Penelope camera that can be changed from film to 4k in 30 min. It also can record offline to Avid DnxHD. The online codec is a 800MB/s 4K DPX. The digital mag has a built in Dalsa CCD sensor! crazy.
1. KinoFlo practical light bulbs! how come it took them so long to make something like this! around $20 a light.
come see some of this stuff this thursday at the Texas Production Roundup in Grapevine! the yearly post-NAB show goes from 9am-5pm this year and will also include some nifty seminars on media archiving, AJA on-set and post work flows, thunderbolt overload and future FCPX talk!
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