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Contact your Trams Sales Representative, who will be happy to help, on 020 7820 7111.

10-Bit Field Recorder, Monitor and Playback & Playout Device

The revolutionary Samurai is a portable touchscreen Professional 10bit HD Recorder, Monitor, & Playback device that captures pristine video and audio direct from any camera with HD/SD-SDI. It encodes in real-time to the visually-lossless Apple ProRes format, onto low-cost, removable 2 ½ inch hard disks. You can then review your footage in realtime onto the pristine 5″ display or out onto any HD-SDI capable device, including directors monitors & broadcast equipment. With up to 10 hours battery from the 2 included Lithium Ian Camera batteries, you truly have a deck & monitor in the palm of your hand, a super high quality deck & monitor.

Visit the Atomos website for more information or contact your Trams Sales Representative, who will be happy to help, on 0845 330 1600.

Version 10.0.01 introduces new features that make Final Cut Pro X even more flexible, powerful, and compatible.

Some of the new features include:

Rich XML Support: Now you can import and export Final Cut Pro X project and Event information via a rich XML format. XML interchange enables a wide range of third-party workflows, including high-end visual effects, color grading, and media asset management.

Projects and Events on Xsan: Create and edit your Final Cut Pro X projects and Events on Xsan. Ideal for multi-user workflows, you can import media through Final Cut Pro X and place it directly on the SAN.

Full-screen view in Lion: Use every inch of your display when working in Final Cut Pro X. And easily navigate to other applications with a swipe.

One-step Transitions on Connected Clips: Add a transition to a connected clip or between multiple connected clips without manually creating a secondary storyline.

Camera Import SDK: Camera manufacturers can use the Camera Import SDK to write plug-ins for importing media from a wide range of cameras.

Download the update free from the Mac App Store.

Visit the Apple website for more information or contact your Trams Sales Representative, who will be happy to help, on 0845 330 1600.

Io XT Provides Complete Video/Audio Capture and Playback in a Feature-Rich, Portable Device

Io XT connects to a Thunderbolt enabled Apple computer via a single cable. An additional Thunderbolt port is provided, allowing daisy-chaining to other Thunderbolt peripherals like high bandwidth storage and high-resolution displays through a single interface; simplifying the connection of multiple devices and creating a very portable package. In addition to the wide range of supported capture and playback formats, the Io XT can unify disparate formats via its 10-bit hardware Up/Down/Cross conversion capability. Designed for today’s workflows, Io Io XT features include:

Visit the AJA Video Systems website for more information or contact your Trams Sales Representative, who will be happy to help, on 0845 330 1600.

KONA LHe Plus Offers Top Price/Performance Value With Analog and Digital Video Capture for SD and HD

KONA LHe Plus offers a host of professional features including 10-bit or 8-bit uncompressed video I/O, two-channel AES digital audio and eight-channel SDI embedded digital audio I/O, analog composite or s-video or SD/HD component video I/O, two-channel balanced analog audio I/O and 10-bit quality hardware down-conversion from HD to SD. KONA LHe Plus offers improved performance with RGB graphics applications, such as Adobe After Effects. AJA’s renowned OS X and Windows software and application integration is included. KONA LHe Plus is also fully extensible via an optional 1RU breakout box.

Visit the AJA Video Systems website for more information or contact your Trams Sales Representative, who will be happy to help, on 0845 330 1600.

Magic Bullet Suite 11 is the newest  release toolkit that brings professional tools to filmmakers everywhere. Designed by seasoned colorist and film director Stu Maschwitz, this Suite produces professional Hollywood-style results on an indie budget. Its nine essential tools let you capture the emotion of your subject, making your footage more personal and compelling. With the addition of Looks version 2 and our new Cosmo plug-in for easy skin smoothing, MBS 11 keeps outdoing itself, giving you more expert products at an even greater savings. Whether you are creating a color treatment, color grading, adding a beauty pass or removing noise, Magic Bullet Suite helps you create the final look that tells your story perfectly.

What’s New

• Includes new Looks 2 release and Grinder 1.5 upgrade
• Introduces brand new Cosmo for beautiful cosmetic clean-up
• Save time with single installer and one serial number for all products
• Now supports Adobe CS 5.5, CS5, 64-bit

Visit the Red Giant website for more information.

Apple  introduced Final Cut Pro X, a new version of their professional video editing software at NAB 2011 in Las Vegas. This latest version of Final Cut was completely rewritten from the ground up, with a new user interface and a slew of new features that take advantage of core Mac OS X features like Cocoa, Core Animation, Open CL, and Grand Central Dispatch to improve performance; and it’s  first 64-bit version of the software.

New features in Final Cut Pro X include:

• Fully color-managed Final Cut based on colorsync.
• Resolution-independent playback system up to 4K formats.
• Background rendering built into application.
• Automatic import features
• Media management
• Improved timeline
• Streamlined audio editing

Final Cut Pro X will be available this June from the Mac App Store.

Trams together with Active Storage and Quantum introduce a cost reduction for SAN Storage in media environments.  Using ActiveSAN,  StorNext and Apple xSAN licensing we can offer hardware licensing and support bundle to reduce your costs.

At the same time this solution will simplify the management of your SAN using ActiveSAN admin.  With Active SAN, you have the stability of Linux behind your SAN and compatibility Apple’s ACL’s, Open Directory and Active Directory.

Call Trams on 0845 330 1600 for more information.

Evo™ – the latest advancement in complete, shared storage solutions for video and audio workgroups. Evo enables everyone on your team to share projects, media and other large files using the most extensive connectivity options available in a single product – including 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel and up to 10 Gb/s iSCSI and NAS.

There’s also a new version of the globalSAN iSCSI Initiator for OS X. Version 4.1 is 64-bit compatible.

Visit the Studio Network Solutions website for more information.