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sensor. It can capture 1080p video at 30 frames per second, 960p at 48fps, 720p at up to 60fps and 120fps at WVGA. A redesigned wide-angle lens offers 170°,
127° and 90° field of view in 1080p and 720p recording modes. The company also announced plans to launch Wi-Fi BacPac and Wi-Fi Remote products in the first quarter of next year. Wi-Fi BacPac attaches to the HD Hero2 camera (below) for long-range remote control of the device via the remote or a smartphone or tablet running a GoPro app. The Wi-Fi Remote device enables control of up to 50 HD Hero2 cameras. When paired with the
Amount Grass Valley has knocked off the price of its Edius 6 editing software
50% GRASS VALLEY DISCOUNTS EDIUS 6
Grass Valley has knocked 50% off the price of its Edius 6 editing software in a bid to poach customers of rival editing systems. As part of the
promotion, which runs to the end of the year,
users of Apple’s Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere and Avid’s Media Composer can switch to Grass Valley for $399 (£250). “This activity is being sparked by Apple’s recent dramatic changes to the Final Cut editing product, but we thought that Avid and Adobe customers should benefit too,” said Grass Valley executive vice-president Charlie Dunn.
GOPRO UPDATES HERO CAMERA
GoPro has released an updated version of its HD Hero mountable camera, along with plans for a Wi-Fi control unit. HD Hero2 has twice the processing power of the original device and an 11 megapixel
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Wi-Fi BacPac, the HD Hero2 supports live video streaming, with one stream recorded to the camera’s SD card while
a second can be streamed via Wi-Fi to a mobile
device or the web. The Wi-Fi BacPac and Wi-Fi Remote
are compatible with the original HD Hero camera, but functionality is limited to remote control only and video and photo streaming is not supported. The camera is available now and is priced
at £299.99.
ADOBE TALKS UP RUBBADUB Adobe has previewed software that could do away with the need for lengthy ADR sessions in post. Rubbadub (below) is a potential new
feature for automatically replacing the dialogue of a video clip with separately recorded audio.
Adobe’s Brian King, who demonstrated the
software at last month’s Adobe Max 2011 future technology event, said Rubbadub takes unlined studio recording and auto- matically stretches and compresses it to perfectly fit with the original reference.
AMWA TO AGREE SPEC
A common specification for the delivery of programmes to multiple devices will be released by the Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA) this month. AS-02, which has been in development since 2007, is designed for use by post-production facilities, broadcast- ers and distributors that face the challenge of distributing pro- grammes to a variety of platforms. The application
specification will be a specific way of using MXF
(Material Exchange Format) with video codec that will support
MPEG-2, H.264 and JPEG2000. It
will also wrap multiple mono, stereo and surround audio tracks, and carry subtitles. AS-02 is currently undergoing AMWA’s
intellectual property rights review process. The review closes on 11 November, with ratification of the spec likely to take place at AMWA’s board meeting on 14 November.
SONNET RELEASES MEDIA READER
Sonnet Technologies has launched its Dio Pro Compact Flash and SDXC USB 3.0 media reader (below). The device allows videographers and
photographers to transfer files from Compact Flash, SDXC and SDHC memory cards on location or in a facility at up to 5Gbps.
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