If AVID Symphony Nitris is your thing, we have two more suites with fresh 5.0 versions ready to rock.

One more thing… You will find the latest version of Final Cut Studio, including Final Cut Pro 7, in our two Apple-based suites.

With all of this great new software, it seemed like the perfect time to more than double the amount of shared storage available.

What do all of these upgrades mean to you? Faster, more efficient editing sessions so you can get back out there and create!

There’s generally not much of note on TV at 4:07 in the morning on a Wednesday, but that’s exactly when you could have tuned in to see an episode of Shmitty, McFunkle & Stump, the three-minute cartoon series produced by Vegas locals John Massé and Chris Allen of Maslen Entertainment. The show airs on Comedy Central Monday through Thursday nights throughout May, typically between 2 and 5 a.m. Times are announced day-of via Facebook. Ten episodes rotate, and the whole process will repeat in July. It’s a technique that Massé calls “guerrilla television,” although what it means is that the duo’s unnamed backers have purchased airtime.

Paid-for or not, Shmitty is airing nationwide during the kind of shows that appeal to its target audience. Massé describes the show as “like if you took South Park and Fat Albert and forced them to have sex withMalcolm in the Middle filming.” It focuses on three urban youths who drink, take drugs and discuss such important topics as back zits and Jennifer Aniston’s flatulence.

The exuberant Massé sketched the show’s three main characters on a piece of tablecloth during an unrelated meeting with a client. What started as a lark to amuse their business associate soon turned into a passion project. Massé and Allen recruited colleagues from the advertising and marketing world, and they produced all 10 episodes with a local team of eight people. Although the airtime on Comedy Central is purchased, the network is definitely aware of the show, and Massé and Allen have had talks with MTV and Adult Swim as well.

Eventually, the hope is to land a full-length series—preferably one that doesn’t air in the middle of the night. And from there? “We’re going to keep this going as long as we can,” Massé says, “until everybody’s absolutely sick or absolutely in love with it.”

808 Post and Production was tapped again to be part of a successful Celebrity Cruises naming ceremony aboard the beautiful Celebrity Eclipse. HKM Productions asked us along for the third consecutive time in order to produce the opening video along with many other video elements for on-board monitors, in-room channels, and even a closed-circuit ship-to-shore broadcast. The HKM production crew fought through flight cancellations caused by volcanic ash and still managed to put on the best show yet.

The opening video was shot for the first time with a Canon 7D and again edited on-board using Avid Media Composer. With video DSLR shooting quickly becoming a viable alternative, we felt it was important to add this workflow to our knowledge base. The camera has the ability to produce some amazing shots, and we are looking forward to working with DSLR video more in the future.

• Directly access and edit RED files through AMA, without transcoding.
• Work natively with QuickTime video formats, including Apple ProRes and H.264.
• Mix and match frame sizes and aspect ratios — in addition to formats, frame rates, and resolutions — in the same timeline.
• Natively access and edit 4:2:2 MPEG-2 media from the new Canon cameras using AMA.

We’ll keep you posted with our thoughts on the new version when the upgrades are installed.

At this JVC Event you will learn about:

• NEW JVC Blu-ray Recorder – the only stand-alone easy-to-use recorder of it’s kind.
• NEW JVC broadcast quality monitors that include larger waveform, vectorscope, digital closed-caption, 3G/Dual Link ready, and 178-degree viewing angle!
• NEW JVC large-sized 42” to 52” LCD monitors that save energy and can operate 24/7, perfect for multi-view, security, video walls, digital signage and more!
• JVC SDHC-card based solid state 720p/1080i/1080p cameras, both hand-held and shoulder-mounted. They save money on media, and offer up to 35MBps!
• NEW JVC lower pricing on the popular GY-HD250 camera that can shoot both standard def and high def, can record redundantly to tape and optional hard-drive, and can be put into studio configurations with genlock and timecode.

The fun begins at 1:00 PM followed by plenty of time for Q&A, hands-on, and open house.

This is a FREE event but please RSVP by calling Jenn at NVT Digital Las Vegas (702-891-9166) or e-mail jtash@nvtdigital.com.