HD For Indies

This is far from complete, just what I've stumbled across since their booths are close to Red's:

Apple - I guessed it right, there IS a new version of Final Cut Pro! It is 5.1.2, but doesn't ship for about a month. They fixed all my ingest gripes from the Texas HD Shootout:
-improved native P2 import - can batch, can preview before import, can set ins and outs on each shot, is faster, is all around waaaaaaay better.
-XDCAM HD: native support for ALL frame rates and resolutions now, including 18 and 35mbit
-JVC 24p support - can ingest JVC's 24p from the GY-HD1xx series of cameras
-Canon 24F support - can ingest natively Canon's 24F format from the XL H1 and presumably from the two other models recently introduced.
-and if they could remove 3:2 pulldown perfectly from Sony's HDV camcorders in Cineframe, it'd be pretty damned complete!

Blackmagic has two new capture cards, one of which is $250 and does HDMI in and out, which sounds just insanely cheap. I'll go have a chat with Grant Petty and get the full scoop.

AJA is just down the way but I haven't laid eyeballs on any signage indicating new product, but I'll definitely be checking in with Jon Thorn.

I'm sure there's more out there, I just haven't seen it yet. Heard about some killer product of interest to the HD4NDs community? Comment below and let me know the company name (and better yet their booth # too) so I can check it out and report back when I get a chance.

-mike

PS-site was down after I went to bed - there was a problem after I hit "Post" and closed the laptop thinking it was going to work as I went to bed at 2:30am Amsterdam time, and I didn't know about it till I got up this morning. Sorry about that - I'll babysit it more as the week goes on...but now I see I'm having trouble publishing with Blogger, and there's NOTHING on the site...ugh...I'm working on it...stand by...ugh...