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THE in:sync® Speed Razor™ is the Broadcast industry’s leading non-linear video editing and compositing software for Windows NT. in:sync Speed Razor provides video and film editors, videographers, animators, and special effects artists with the most powerful tool available for creating professional video productions from the desktop.
Speed Razor 2000 X. Adds to 4.8 RT: multiple bins, customizable shortcuts, Windows 2000 Pro support. Works with everything that previous versions of Speed Razor supported plus Targa 3000. List price: $2000, coincidentally. Speed Razor 2000. Adds to 4.8 RT: Windows 2000 Pro support. Works with everything that previous versions of Speed Razor supported plus Targa 3000. List price: $895.
Speed Razor for DV (aka DV Master Pro) has been released. It works with Fast DV Master™ and is arguably the first and the only professional DV-based editing solution for Windows NT, with a price tag of under $10K for a complete system. DV Master Pro bundle (hardware, software, break-out box) lists for $3,295. See in:sync's Press Release for more information.
Speed Razor Mach 4.5S works with DPS Perception and all Targa 1000 and 2000 series boards. With Perception, it also works on DEC® Alpha™. Includes Inscriber CG - the most popular Character Generator and titler in the world. List price is $2,100. Upgrade from v.3.5 - $600. Speed Razor Mach 4.5 RT brings the joy of real-time video effect and transition capabilities to the most versatile professional video editing and compositing software available on Windows NT. Speed Razor RT was developed on a new API that supports real-time hardware video and audio effects. See in:sync's Speed Razor RT page. Available on Matrox DigiSuite™ platform, it is shipping since January '98. Was also planned for Targa 2000 RTX/SDX™ boards but we don't know what happened to those plans. Educational discounts apply on all in:sync products except for the upgrade from 3.x to 4.0S version.
6/2/98 About Speed Razor Speed Razor is the most versatile editing and compositing solution available on Windows NT®. With unlimited track layering, multi-track realtime audio mixing, and in Version 4.0RT, realtime video effect capabilities, Speed Razor provides a fully realized software solution for the video professional. Speed Razor 4.0 RT also ships with other new features including Bezier curve control for software effects and support for multi-processor systems. About DigiSuite LE Matrox DigiSuite is a single-slot PCI-bus card that integrates easily into any post-production environment. It features two realtime video streams at up to 15 MB/sec per stream; advanced realtime keying, DVE, color correction and transitions; professional 48 KHz audio genlocked to video in accordance with SMPTE-272M; a choice of analog and digital audio and video I/O; an ultra-high speed 32-bit graphics frame buffer; and Windows NT networkability. In addition to realtime editing with Speed Razor, DigiSuite also seamlessly supports the Windows-native AVI environment that is common to other leading Windows NT editing, titling, animation, compositing and paint applications. About in:sync in:sync corporation creates innovative digital video editing and compositing tools for professional broadcast production. Founded in 1992 by Jamie Carr and Jack Buchanan, in:sync is a private corporation based in Bethesda, Maryland. in:sync's first product, the Audio Visual Recorder launched in 1993, allowed animators to capture video streams and single images. This was followed by the popular and well-reviewed Razor Pro, a multimedia editing package for Windows 3.1. Speed Razor Mach III for Windows NT was released in December 1995 and immediately became an award-winner. Speed Razor Mach 4.0 builds upon the success of its illustrious predecessors. In addition to Speed Razor, in:sync has also created Kohesion, a video editing software optimized for the Internet. For additional information about in:sync products visit www.in-sync.com. About Matrox For 22 years, Matrox
Electronic Systems Ltd. has been the technology leader in the development of
computer-based digital video hardware and software tools. A privately held
company headquartered in Dorval, Quebec, Matrox employs more than 1,200 people
dedicated to the design, development and manufacturing of strategic products in
all areas of the communications world: video, graphics, imaging and networking.
In the past two years alone, Matrox has been recognized with more than 300
prestigious industry awards and has equipped more than 10 million people with
leading-edge technology. Additional information about Matrox products is
available via e-mail at (video.info@matrox.com)
or on the World Wide Web at www.matrox.com/video.
Q.: Upgrade price is $600. How
long will it be available? Q.: Is there a new dongle? Q.: What happens with the old dongle
upon the upgrade?
by Jamie Carr, president of in:sync (as posted on SR list on 1/8/98). Obviously the world of computers is very fast paced, and new improvements are made to the technology at lightning speed. We are very keen to produce a system which is not only a great editing product but also meets the needs of our present and future users and is stable, consistent and fast. We have made a number of enhancements in Speed Razor 4.0 which we hope that you will come to enjoy over the coming months. In this email, I have tried to set out what you can expect with the new version. Minimum system requirements I would like to encourage you to fill in the survey on our website (under the download area) and let us know your current system setup so that we can best judge what is a reasonable system. As it stands currently we have found that more than 50 % of those of you who have responded, have 128 MB RAM or more and what with the price of RAM falling dramatically we are looking to make 128 MB RAM a minimum requirement. Knowing this, we can do many things to create an efficient caching mechanism. In addition, we have found that Pentium II systems have developed into an extremely fast base for a video editing system and there are many enhancements to be found from their improved memory handling and speed. According to Intel, the Pentium II 266 will be the standard home machine by the summer of next year and knowing that our clients are ahead of the crowd we believe that it would not be out of the question to expect a single Pentium II 233 as a recommended minimum base. Having said all of this, we have been testing with better and lesser machines and we have found that 4.0 still has incredible performance improvements even for those with Pentium 133s (provided you have 128 MB RAM). Recommended system requirements We now take full advantage of multithreading and multiprocessing. This has brought about an extremely significant improvement in previewing (including the ability to scrub through complex unrendered multi-layer composites) and rendering. If you have a dual processor machine we will certainly take advantage of the horsepower it provides maximizing both CPUs to 100% when intensive rendering is called for. We have also added MMX support into a number of our operations which further increases our speed. Through the efficient use of multithreading you will find the UI very fluid and responsive even with projects with thousands of clips thus making long form projects easier to manage and edit. A4V We will be supporting the timecode out feature of the A4V in 4.0 as part of our base functionality (it's built right into our Perception support.) Antex Studio card We will be supporting the timecode out feature of this board as well as some of the other advanced functions of this board-set. Alpha processor support We will continue to support the Alpha processor version of our software for those hardware devices that have Alpha processor support. Targa 1k / 2k / PRO support We have significantly improved the performance of Speed Razor with the Targa board-sets. There are very dramatic improvements with the speed of editing and rendering, and we have optimized the code so that it works equally well with the Targa 1k as it does with the highest end Targa 2k PRO. Razor Blades Instead of having our plug-ins be a separate product we
have decided to include them as part of the standard 4.0 package. These
additional plug-ins provide the ability to perform a variety of effects
including: Inscriber We are including a special version of Inscriber CG which includes the ability to do text with soft shadows and a variety of titling types. New features We have drawn from the huge number of responses for new features from you, our clients. We have tried to incorporate as many as we can (whilst still maintaining stability) and we are always keen to hear future requests on how we can improve our software further. Technical support We have been increasing the size of our technical support staff in order to cope with the additional questions we expect from our new version and in addition we have been working on a number of improvements with our backend support systems so that we can efficiently get the latest news and information to you as quickly as possible. We are very proud of our new (virtual) online assistant. Need a question answered at 3 am ? - no problem - we are maintaining a complete set of up to date questions and answers to try and help you out - watch this space for more details. Training A number of our resellers will be offering training for our new 4.0 version. We will be posting details here and on our web site so keep your eyes peeled if you would like more details. Cost and availability The upgrade is $600 SRP. We are in our final testing phase at this point and pending the all clear from our beta testers 4.0 should be available from your Speed Razor reseller shortly. Thank you all for being so patient with us while we have been working on this new version. I am absolutely positive that you will really enjoy it. Jamie Carr
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