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Small Tree Shared STorage made Simple and affordable Small Tree believes Ethernet and SAN belong in the same sentence. It's what we call EtherSAN–and it increases your capacity while chopping your production budgets in half. That includes next generation technology like Thunderbolt i/o and Titatnium storage–for ultra high performance with prices down to earth. Simple. Call for a quote or reach us at www.small-tree.com ADOBE ANYWHERE Adobe (www.adobe.com) Anywhere is a new, not-yet-released collaboration platform that allows the company's pro products to work together using centralized assets and media across any network. Adobe Anywhere is cur- rently built into the company's Premiere and Pre- lude applications. Editors can browse shared remote media and edit over WiFi without using any local media. In addition, editors can work at full 1080p resolution without the need to create proxy files, all thanks to Adobe's Mercury Streaming Engine. BLACKMAGIC TERANEX STANDARDS CONVERTERS Announced at NAB 2012, Blackmagic Design's (www.blackmagicdesign.com) Teranex 2D and Ter- anex 3D processors are a new family of broadcast standards converter processors featuring high-per- formance Thunderbolt I/O technology capture and playback features. They offer de-interlacing, up con- version, down conversion, SD and HD cross/stan- dards conversion, automatic cadence NVIDIA K5000 FOR MAC PRO CARD Mac users can benefit from dramatically improved graphics performance and productivity via Nvidia's (www.nvidia.com) new Quadro K5000 for Mac Pro card. Based on the Nvidia Kepler GPU architecture, the Quadro K5000 for Mac includes cinema 4K dis- play support (4096x2160 resolution), a new display engine that can drive up to four displays simultane- ously, and the ability to run key content creation applications up to 2x faster and at lower power than the Fermi-based Quadro 4000 for Mac. It will be available later this year for $2,249. HONORABLE MENTIONS detection and removal, noise reduction, adjustable www.small-tree.com • www.granitestor.com • 866.STC.4MAC 7300 Hudson Blvd., Suite 165, Oakdale, MN 55128 scaling and aspect ratio conversion. The Teranex 2D starts at $1,995. The Teranex 3D processor (avail- able in Q4) adds 3D dual-channel conversion, 3D simulation and 3D camera rig alignment. A number of products received "Honorable Mentions" from our post pros. They include: AJA's new line of USB3-enabled KiStor drives for Ki Pro and Ki Pro Rack, and the KiStor Dock; Filmlight's Flux; the Cantemo MAM; Aframe's cloud-enabled workflow; Autodesk's 20th Anniversary Flame; and the new For-A super slow motion camera. Bits & Pieces A Post Picks: MSTERDAM — The annual IBC show took place here last month, offering the Euro- pean market a first look at a number of new products, some of which were introduced at April's NAB show in Las Vegas. Post had a group working pros/facility tech guys at the show, keeping an eye out for new and inter- esting technology. The following is a list of several products, in no particular order, that caught their combined attention: gear that resonated at IBC 2012 BASELIGHT EDITIONS FilmLight's (www.filmlight.ltd.uk) Baselight Editions line brings the core functionality of its Baselight system to Avid, Final Cut Pro and Nuke users. The releases provide FilmLight's high-quality grading tools, as well as Truelight color management. The Base- light for Avid and Baselight for Final Cut Pro are both currently available for $995. Baselight for Nuke will be available in Q4. SGO MISTIKA'S NEW GRADING TOOLSET Madrid, Spain's SGO (www. sgomistika.com) demonstrated its Mistika DI and stereo 3D post pro- duction system at IBC, which now sports Version 7.0 software and allows users to route and com- bine color selections across any number of layers, with all layers having a complete set of color trans- form functions; all in a single tool maintaining real- time performance.