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bits & pieces What Post readers are experiencing Right Now PLACE: “Record Surplus on Pico in West Los Angeles, one of the last independent record stores standing. I’ve been shopping there for over a decade now.The joint is a landmark.You can find some of the most amazing music there at a ridiculously low price. Unlike Amoeba in Hollywood, Record Surplus is less of a scene, it is badly organized and reminds me of an abandoned warehouse. So if you want to find something good, you have to really get down on your knees and get dirty digging in dusty, aged piles of old CD discs, tape cas- settes, vinyl records and even 8-tracks. Love it! “To me it all comes down to the feel and the spirit of something that is honest and true.The young spirit of rock-n-roll, the raw feel of punk and the intellectual honesty of ‘60s psychedelic music. Record Surplus has all of that at its core.This is why I go there so often. It reminds me that with my editing, to never forget to be honest, raw and intellectual like the music so dear to my heart. I al- ways strive to have this energy come through in my work.”— Dmitri Gueer, Zoic Edit, Los Angeles California Entertainment Industry Plan* Group Benefits for the Entertainment Industry MatroxDSXproducts add DNxHD support M Multiple Coverages Single Invoice Enrollment COBRA Service ers now. Servicing Employer Needs Interested employers contact: 800-753-0222 www.pacfed.com Glendale, California ©2010 PacFed Benefit Administrators, Inc. License # 0B09747 *Group Benefits for Production and Post-Production Employers. ONTREAL — Support for the Avid DNxHD codec has been integrated into Matrox's DSX developer products (www. ma- trox.com). Manufacturers of PC-based ingest/playout servers, character generators, broadcast graphics systems and transcoding systems can now easily support workflows that rely on Avid's Media Composer, NewsCutter, Symphony, DS and Interplay Assist systems. The DSX platform offers a modular architecture that gives developers flexibility in meeting technical and price targets. Multichannel HD and SD video/audio I/O support is provided from a single card, including 3Gb/s for 1080p. There is extensive support of native codecs, including HDV, DVCPRO HD, MPEG-2 4:2:2, MPEG-2 4:2:2:4 YUVA, MPEG HD for XDCAM HD, MPEG HD422 for XDCAM HD422, AVC-Intra for P2, H.264,Apple ProRes and Avid DNxHD. Cross platform file format support includes MXF,MOV,AVI and MPG. Additionally,a multilayer onboard HD scaler/compositor is provided. The DSX SDK with support for Avid DNxHD is available to develop- 8 Post • October 2010 www.postmagazine.com