Another NAB ended and it’s time for summaries. There’s no doubt this was the quietest show I’ve been in and this is my tenth NAB. So it was good and bad at the same time. The up side is that it gave me a chance to catch up with many of my friends and colleagues including John Dickinson, Maltaannon, Aharon Rabinowitz, Jayse Henson and Mark Coleran just to name a few.
My sessions at the Post Production World conference were very successful (I hope) and I wish to thank everyone who took the time and money and participated. I hope it was worth it I sure had a great time teaching, and really appreciate the w

arm feedback you all gave me. It was pleasure to meet you all in person, and I do hope to see you next year and/or at up coming events during this year.

As for the show floor itself, I must say I haven’t seen new ground breaking products that will impact my digital life. Though, I will point out these 4 products which I found most interesting:

1. Trapcode Particular 2 which should be available this summer from Red Giant Software. you can watch a demo of the product here.
2. 3D Serpentine - A new plug in from Zaxwerks that create fanciful 3D noodles.
3. Matrox Compress HD accelerator board which encode H.264 video faster than realtime.
4. Adobe Story - a collaborative scriptwriting tool. There’s no product yet, but it does look very interesting, watch for a beta software soon at Adobe Labs.