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AMATEUR A/V where technology meets art
ISSUE 1
OCTOBER 2011
Rs. 120
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Amateur A/V News
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT
13 VEGAS PRO 10
What’s New?17
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N ews Desk Lets get moving. This is the rst issue of AMA-
TEUR A/V, where technology meets art. Our
team has been working at this project for
months and we present to you our rst issue.
What happens in Vegas? Before you guys t hink
it’s about the Hollywood movie please stop
right there. Vegas refers to the much awaited
reviews of the Sony Vegas PRO 10 which was
released in India about last week. Our team putthe soware through various trials to bring you the review and we were quite
impressed.
In this issue we bring to you what’s new this week in the market, such as the
new audio systems brought to you by Waterfall Audio and Soundfreaq, plus
some really cool gadgets by Dispro and HTC. Take a look at what they bring to
you and we hope that you like it.
Not to forget our readers who would really want to know what’s new in the
market, in the upcoming issue we will present you selected products of some
really awesome gadgets. At the same me, we will bring you “Movie Reviews”
and “Music Reviews” along with some really high quality and eecve sound
systems and surround sound systems that will be reccomended as you enjoy
watching and listening to movies and music.
In this issue’s “Industry Spotlight,” we have Roxy Jerry, who graduated with the
rst batch of students studying lmmaking from SAE Instute, Dubai. He gives
us an insight into the industry.
Also take a look in “What’s New?” and see what new gadget has been launched.
I am sure that it will impact those who are profound about music.
Now for the techies, Af Ibrahim answers your queries in “Ask the Expert.”
In the next issue we will take a comprehensive look into the new prosumer 3D
camcorders to hit the market.
Arash Karl Dumasia
Editor
Let’s Get This Started!
Contact Information:
Mumbai Media City
Bldg 35 Suite 14
Phone: +919620916079
Fax: +919717007378
E-mail: [email protected]
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Amateur A/V N EWSGadgetitis / Waterfall audio
THE GLASS LOUDSPEAKER EX-
PERTS TELL US
Waterfall Audio has launched a
groundbreaking new hi- loud-
speaker concept that promises
to oer the ulmate in discrete,
compact audio. Called Serio, the
diminuve 2.1 satellite speaker
features Waterfall’s striking glass
design experse, while at the
same me oers a high perfor-
mance sound.
Serio has been carefully craed
for both hi- and AV applicaons
and comes with three mount-
ing opons--on-wall, ceiling, and
tabletop stand-mount. It is avail-
able in three colours--black, whiteand silver--with matching grilles.
Besides being aesthecally pleas-
ing, Waterfall has incorporated
its patented Heatstream technol-
ogy into the design, which oers
beer power handling from a
compact speaker unit. By cleverly
coupling the speaker’s voice coil
to the unit’s aluminium body,
the speaker’s Atohm driver can
eciently dissipate enough heat
for the higher-power demands of
high-quality audio and intensive
home-cinema soundtracks.
All Serio models are based around
a 3 inch Atohm transducer;
housed in a die-cast aluminium
chassis with a safety-glass sur-
round. The overall cabinet depth
of the Serio satellite is just 8.5cms
and each package comes with an
accessory pack, including devices
for desk/shelf posioning. The
package is supplied with Water-
fall’s HFM (High Force) subwoofer.
Compact, bass reex and acve,
it boasts of 3 class D ampliers-
-1x120W amplier for the sub-
woofer and 2x60W amplier for
the satellites, while a full bodied
and dynamic bass is delivered
through a 7 inch bass driver withconnecvity through a 3.5mm
jack for all standard mulmedia
sources or a cinch cable for L&R
stereo.
General sound sengs and sub-
woofer sengs are independent
of each other. There is a phase
and frequency adjustment for
the subwoofer secon and dual
voltage oered between 110/220
V. The package is ideally suited for
use with home audio/desktop PC/
MAC/NotePad/direct iPod use or
for use with Sonos-style systems.
WATERFALL AUDIO - Launches HFM 2.1 Serio
GADGETITISSAVING UP FOR IT ?
DISPRO 3D GLASSES
WHAT?With 3D products picking up
slowly but steadily it’s very impor-
tant that you have the right gear
to enjoy the 3D experience to its
fullest. The problem is its pricing.
But now you have a soluon in
the form of the Acve shuer 3D
glasses from Dispro 3D.
WHEN?
Distributed by Dispro Visual Tech-
nologies, Hydrabad, it’s available
at select retail outlets all across
India.
How?The stylish high-tech 3D glasses
allow you to enjoy vivid and real-
isc stereoscopic 3D images even
while working with any acve
shuer 3D unit. It uses an IR emit-
ter and a sync splier that ena-
bles you to watch 3D movies and
play 3D games. With the ghost
depressing circuitry onboard, the
glasses also claim to eliminate theghosng issue seen in most 3D
glasses.
WHY?
The Stylish acve 3D shuer
glasses with built-in-electronics
are compable with the lat-
est 120Hz/200Hz/240Hz, LCD’s
and 3D ready DLP HDTV’s, and
ulise the brightest and fastest
LCD lenses to bring you clear and
bright images. Dispro promises a
hassle-free user experience.PRICES VALID FROM 20-23 OCTOBER 2011
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SOUNDFREAQ HAS LAUNCHED
Sound Step and Sound Step
Recharge, the company’s rst
compact, wireless speakers. The
new releases allow users to dock,
charge and stream music wire-
lessly from mulple devices,
including the iPad, iPhone, iPod
touch, Android and Blackberry.
Sound Step Recharge also oers
a built-in rechargeable baery.
Sound Step and Sound Step Re-
charge will be available online at
Amazon.com
The Sound Step speakers give
users the ability to mul-task, surf
the internet, check emails and
text message, while streaming
audio directly to the dock. The
SOUNDFREAQ LAUNCHES NEW PORTABLE Wireless Speakers
Sound Step speakers feature a
dock for Apple iPhone and iPod.
Sound Plaorm also oers theability to dock and charge an iPad,
even if it’s in a case. Al so new in
both Sound Step speakers is a
USB charging port, allowing any
USB-chargeable gadget such as
a Blackberry, Android or a Blue-
tooth headset to be kept fully
powered or any second Apple
product to charge.
A built-in rechargeable baery
in the Sound Step Recharge of -
fers six hours of AC-free playback
me. iPad users can stream music
wirelessly and can also dock
and charge their iPad, with or
without the case. The USB charg-
ing port allows users to charge
any USB-chargeable gadget, be
it a Blackberry, Android or Apple
phone or Bluetooth headset.
Featuring a 2.1 speaker congu-
raon with a dedicated subwoof -
er and Soundfreaq’s proprietary
UQ3 spaal sound enhancement,
the speakers deliver natural bass
and stereo seperaon.
The Sound Step speakers can
be used for movies, TV shows,videos, games, internet radio and
apps like Pandora, YouTube, Net-
ix and HBO GO. In addion to
Bluetooth wireless and dock,
line-in jack inputs from any device
that has a standard headphone
jack and an internal FM tunerallows users to listen to radio
through the app interface.
Users can download the free
Soundfreaq app to turn their
iPad, iPhone or iPod touch into
the ulmate remote control. Us-
ers control what is playing from
the speakers via the device while
keeping their device in hand.
The MSRP for Sound Step is
$139 (approx. Rs. 6,143) and for
Sound Step Recharge is $159 (ap-
prox. Rs. 7027).
GADGETITISSAVING UP FOR IT ?
HTC FLYER
WHAT?
HTC marks its entry in the tablet
space with the very impressive
HTC Flyer.
WHEN?
Launched in June 2011 all over
India, the Android-powered
tablet is available at a price of Rs.
39,890.
How?The HTC Flyer runs on Android 2.4
and is powered by the Qualcomm
Snapdragon 1.5 GHz processor;
this is one beast of a tablet. It
sports a 7” display, 1GB RAM, in-
built memory of 16GB and 5MP
camera. The Flyer will also mark
the debut of the HTC Watch, a
new connected video service for
movie downloads and will also
integrate OnLive’s cloud-based
gaming service, which lets people
play games on TVs and comput-
ers.
WHY?HTC knows it has to enter with
a bang in a segment which is
dominated by heavyweights like
Apple and Samsung. The Flyer hasamazing specs, is more powerful
than the iPad and has got some
great apps. One new technology
is the HTC Scribe that combines
features of natural touch and
pen interacons. Another feature
called Timemark enables you to
capture the audio of a meeng in
line with your wrien notes. You
can jot notes and save them on
the audio meline where they oc-
cur in the actual meeng!
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Sing across the table in the
food court at Ibn Bauta is Roxy
Jerry. How can I dene Roxy? It
wouldn’t be fair to dene him in
one sentence. Roxy and I met at
an internaonal student’s con-
ference where Roxy and I were
in the same small group. At that
me Roxy was a student at SAE
Dubai which was a brand new
instute for media educaon at
the Knowledge Village.
A couple of days later Roxy called
me
to his oce to see a project hewas working on. Roxy works at
Katarak Ibda which is a produc-
on house that pro- vides op-
portunies for Arab students to
intern with them. This helps the
stu- dents understand the dier-
ent aspects of producon and
praccal implicaons of the same.
A conversaon with him gives us
more of an insight into his eld of
experse.
What is your job descripon?
I work as both Director and Editor.
How would you dene Katarat?
Katarat is a lm or TV producon
company which mainly focusing
on helping young local Emira
students to produce their lms,
we do also work with corpo-
rates, documentaries etc.
I understand that you are a lm
making graduate from SAE Dubai.How has the training imparted
there beneted you in your work
place?
Well, SAE was purely a me of ex-
peri- ment for me, I was connu-
ously involved in researching how
I could recreate certain framing,
color grading, and much more
that I see on the big screen.
I believe that helped me to throw
in some of my conclusions that I
came up with to add in to the
avour of what Katarat was do-
ing. And I should say that it’s a
privilege to work with a mulna-
onal team who has the same
focus.
How would you dene the video
pro- ducon market in Dubai?
It’s kind of hard to say about the
mar- ket , Dubai is absolutely
unpredictable
in all the areas of the market,
but that doesn’t mean that itwill not grow in the media pro-
ducon area, I think we need to
look at specically which area
of video producons, so if I say
about Dubai or U.A.E. becoming
the next hub for Hollywood style
movies, it is possible but the
local students have to be trained
well and they should have the
opportunity like MEFF, GFF &
DIFF to showcase their skills and
the Government should start
a funding system for these stu-
dents to make their lms.
INDUSTRYSP OTLIGHT
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INDUSTRY SP OTLIGHT
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The UAE has been geng its
share of lms being shot in andaround the country, do you think
the current capacity of produc-
on houses are geared to provide
support to these producons?
Well, I think producon houses
are equipped with prey good
equipment. Although I would sll
hope to see Dubai building a new
producon hub where all levels of
producons are made possible.
What eding plaorm are you
most ac- customed to?
I like to work with Final C ut pro.
I do like Avid but the supporng
hardware is quite expensive.
What would be one feature or
features that you would like to
see incorporated in the workow
(eding plaorm) that you use?
One of the main areas I think nal
cut has is the special eects area,
I know they have moons sepa-
rately dedicated for small graphics
but something more faster and
easier to bridge the gap without
jumping out from nal cut while
I’m on it.
Quite a few Video producon
houses are moving toward incor-porang HDSLR’s into their work-
ows. What is your take on this?
HDSLR has a secret which you
will only nd out when you start
to work with it. Film is lm and I
don’t think anything will overtake
it, but in the case of low budget
lms, lmmakers could easily
get the same look if they shoot it
well.
What are some of the things to
pay at- tenon to while working?
Inially at SAE, I used to forget
at most mes to set the white
balance and some- mes when
framing I used to leave a lot of
headroom. When you start work-
ing, you learn from your mistakes.
And be-
fore I forget
you have to
make sure
you get
your shots
right in
terms of fo-
cus, white
balance,
framing
etc. What
you can do
in post is
very limited to correct your
mistakes and at the end of the
day what you shoot is what you
shoot.
How did you end up as an editor?
Well, in this industry there are a
plethora of sub elds you couldpursue. I would encourage you
guys to research on your areas of
interest and keep asking yourself
this queson” where do I see my-
self in ten years?” For me eding
was my passion, and that’s what I
started doing in the industry aer
a few months of working as an
intern.
Roxy, what advice would you im-
part to our readers?
Go back and read up on what is
being taught in the classroom
and read a lile extra as well.
Constantly analyse yourself, your
projects, and whatever else you
do. Always be “up to date” and
always keep researching on latestprac- ces in the industry.
V EGAS PRO 10
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Le : The GUI of Vegas
Review: Sony Vegas Pro 10A couple of years ago, working
on a school Project I had come
across the Sony Vegas PRO plat-
form, at that me the version
available was the 7.0. At that
point I was using the soware for
its mul track audio capabilies,
and I was quite impressed with
the results. Come February 2011,
Sony Professional came out with
version 10.0 which comes packed
with new features and geared to
handle the needs of producon
formats such as REDONE, XDCAM,
AVCHD and also the latest HDSLR
formats which are taking the
world by storm. The program sup-
ports SD, HD, 2K and 4K work-
ows easily.
Sony Vegas also doubles up as
a brilliant alternave for audio
eding, thanks to its excellent set
of audio tools that allows users
to mix audio on a mulple num-
ber of tracks. Some of the noted
features are on-the-y punch in
recording, record meters, as-
signable eects, Master and Aux
inputs, input busses. Vegas PRO
sup- ports VST eects from third
party vendors. I decided to put
the Vegas PRO plaorm to test.
I took some footage of my Sony
HDCAM which shoots it in the Mpeg 2 format .m2t or commonly
known as AVCHD. When I had
purchased this camera in 2005, Ihad diculty in eding the foot-
age in its nave format, I had to
oen resort to using a Blackmagic
device to capture the footage.
Vegas PRO allows me to edit the
format navely. My enre rush
was about thirteen minutes. Aer
dragging and dropping the clips to
the meline, I spent about twenty
min- utes reviewing the footage,
selecng the required the clips, I
began to working on the audio.
To tweak the Audio, I exported
the audio clips to Sony Sound
Forge, where I did some minor
cleaning up on the audio. I then
exported the clip back to theVegas PRO meline. I used the
built in Media Generator for the
tling, which was fairly simple to
use. Then I used the very simple
to use colour correcon tools
which was very easy to work with.
The rendering takes place in real
me and the enre video was
rendered in less than four min-
utes. The whole process took me
just over an hour. The only thing
I would have an issue with is t he
whole look of the soware; it
needs a major overhaul in the GUI
department.
Overall Vegas PRO is soware
that is light on the system and at
the same me power packed withfeatures that will sasfy the most
demanding of editors. I’ve run Ve-
gas PRO on two dierent systems,
one with a Intel Core i7 proces-
sor and one a humble Core2Duo
Laptop with a 3 GB of Ram. The
system runs very smoothly on the
i7 and on the Core2Duo, it man-
aged to funcon without much
dicules albeit a bit slow.
Vegas PRO 10 is ideal for begin-
ners. Sony Vegas PRO is not a
cross-plaorm soware as it is for
the Windows operang system
only.
For those editors who are used
the Vegas Plaorm, version 10.0
is nothing new, but SONY has
added new eects , closed cap-
oning support and o course
stereoscopic 3D eding.
Sony Vegas PRO is ideal for those
videographers who are just en-
tering the market and ideal for
producing a quick promoonal
presentaon as photo zooms and
graphics take less me to render.It works well with a variety of
formats and is able handle most
formats thrown into the meline.
Even tech support will just set
you back by a meagre Rs. 4000 or
more, for a year. And if that’s too
much there is always the email
support opon which is quite
helpful. Sony Vegas PRO running
on a Core i7 processor a RAM
of 4GB, 2 GB graphics will equip
you for the most demanding of
producons.
V egas Pro 10
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W hat’s New ?
Ask The E x pert
I was thinking of assembling my own Video eding workstaon. What should be the
factors to consider?
Some of the important factors to consider for opmum performance are:
VIDEO CARD
You need a performance graphics card in order to capture the video from your cam -
era and to display on the monitor. And NVIDIA or ATI should do the job. 512 MB ofRAM should suce, if you are using two monitors.
PROCESSOR
A dual core 2.5 GHz processor would be able to handle whatever that is thrown in its
way. But at the end of the day, faster processor means beer performance and not
to menon smooth rendering.
RAM
Don’t think you can hide behind a slow processor. It will come to haunt you me to
me. Invest in a good RAM to enhance the speed of the machine. 2GB of RAM can
do the job smoothly.
HARD DRIVE
This is one thing that you should not run out of. You need to keep in mind your origi-
nal les, your output, a udio and video eects. It is suggested that you keep your les
on an external drive and not the one that has your OS installed. Also invest is a RAID
which is creates a redundant system.
MONITOR
A good monitor is essenal to give you opmum results as you have more on screen
space at your disposal. Using two monitors allows you to opmize your work ow as
you have a well laid out screen. This results in ecient eding as you are able to pay
aenon to detail.
Keep this factors while building your system , will allow you take things head on
when it comes to eding.Af Ibrahim is our resident graphics
designer, who work with a computer
assembling rm.
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W hat’s New ? HTC SENSATION XE
FASTER, JUICIER AND NOW BEATS-IER... THE BEST MUSIC PHONE?
The HTC Sensaon XE was
only announced yesterday
morning, but we’ve already
managed to nab some hands
on me with the rst phone
bearing the Beats logo.
Essenally it’s just the popu-
lar HTC Sensaon with the
addion of Beats audio pro-
cessing, but it’s been given
another couple of decent
upgrades too.
The big one in our eyes is the
baery - we’re now being
oered a 1730mAh power
pack which should help o -
set the over the top power
consumpon that plagued
the original Sensaon. But
then again, the improved
processor, which now comes
in at a whopping 1.5GHz dual
core avor, could swallow upthe extra power. When you
consider only a couple of
years ago we were gasping at
1GHz phones, it’s a big leap
forward.
The HTC Sensaon XE does
also completely outdo the
original in the design stakes
too; while it has the same
shape and ‘striped alu-
minum’ design on the
back, it’s now been given
some red accents and a
darker chassis to make it
look that much edgier.
We’re looking forward to
holding it up when walk-
ing past gangs of youths to
get the necessary respect.
Beyond the updated specs
and the addion of red ac-
cents, there’s not a lot ofdierence between this and
the HTC Sensaon. We had
heard word the HTC Sensa-
on XE was going to give us
a taste of HTC Sense 3.5. The
HTC Sensaon XE features a
dedicated Beats Audio pro-
le; complete with the audio
manipulaon technology
HTC bought the company for.
You’ll have to have a pair of
Beats headphones to make
it work, but thankfully a pair
of ear buds is included in
the box. Switching between
the Beats Audio mode and
the normal HTC sound en-
hancer is easy, as the phonewill automacally re up the
Beats prole when the head-
phones are connected, with
a lile icon appearing in the
nocaons bar at the top of
the screen. From here it’s an
easy step to disable or ena-
ble the sound enhancement,
although there’s sll no op-
on to skip tracks from the
nocaons bar, just pause
the tracks and hop into
the main music player. The
quality of the Beats Audio
enhancement depends on
your taste in music. There’s
no doubng that sounds are
crisper, but the level of bass
is much, much higher than
many people will have expe-
rienced with normal head-
phones.
The HTC Sensaon XE in In-
dia is at a price of Rs. 36,145.
If you’re in the mood for an
HTC Android phone and are
trying to decide between the
HTC Sensaon and the Sen-
saon XE, it should be a no
brainer. The XE looks nicer,
sounds beer and (hopeful-
ly) lasts longer, so we suggest
you keep it in mind if you’re
due an upgrade.
Key Features
Weight and Dimensions:
The phone weighs 151 g. The dimensions of the
phone are 126.1 x 65.4 x 11.3 mm.
Display:
The phone has a 4.3 inch qHD touchscreen (540
x 960) with 16 M colors. To handle touchscreen
eaily, certain features like Proximity Sensor for
auto turn off, Multi Touch input method, Acceler-
ometer sensor for UI auto rotate, Gyro Sensor,
HTC Sense UI and Touch Sensitive Controls are
also added.
Camera:
The phone captures crystal clear pictures (3264 x
2448 pixels) with the 8 MP autofocus camera and
dual LED Flash. It can record HD videos (1080p,
30fps). There is a front focus VGA camera present
for video calls.
Audio:
The phone features a Beat Audio prole with audio
manipulation technology. You need to have Beats
Headphones to actually feel it and a pair of ear-
buds is already included in the box. It is easy to
switch between Beats Audio and normal HTC Sound
as the phone pops up the Beat Prole when the
Beats earphones are connected. The sound in Beats
Audio mode is crisp but has high bass level. It is
also present in videos too which is quite impressive.
Processor:
The phone is powered by a 1.5GHz dual core pro-
cessor, Adreno 220 GPU, Qualcomm MSM 8260
Snapdragon with 768 MB RAM.
Connectivity:
The phone features GPRS, EDGE, Bluetooth 3.0
with A2DP, GPS and micro USB 2.0, with speed up
to 14.4 Mbps in HSDPA band and up to 5.76 Mbps
in HSUPA band.
Memory Status:
There’s a 4GB internal memory, only 1GB is avail-
able for users. Can be increased up to 32GB using
micro SD card.
Price: Rs. 36,145