Elemental Accelerator showcased at SIGGRAPH 2009

Plug-in offers 11x speedup of h.264 encoding in Premiere Pro CS4

At SIGGRAPH 2009, the Elemental Accelerator 2.0 plug-in for NVIDIA Quadro graphics cards can be seen at PNY Booth #2017. It was also announced that Hewlett Packard's HP Z workstations have been outfitted with the CUDA based plug-in to enhance and speed up processes in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.

Lenovo ThinkStation S20 workstation

Mid range workstation supports up to three hard drives, 12GB RAM

The Lenovo ThinkStation S20 is the company's mid range workstation that works well in a variety of creative environments, be it video and special effects creation to CAD and animation. Configured with the right graphics card, the unit will fit well in any creative environment. The S20 is larger than most mid-tower cases, and sports ample room inside for user upgrades.

Content Insider #116 --Security

Data Security - A Balance Between Convenience, Privacy, Stupidity

Software and hardware manufacturers have introduced and continue to develop some of the best computing and online security solutions to protect you and your content from being not just compromised but stolen and used. Lose your hardware and yes it is a pain but it can be replaced. Lose your data and your identity can be used in the blink of an eye. The best and most expensive security solutions in the industry seem to be useless against relentless thieves and your own stupidity or careless action.

HP EliteBook 8730W

Mobile workstation with power

Hewlett Packard has been known for years for its solid workstations. The company has been an innovator when it comes to content creation machines, even supplying its own designed graphics adapters in the late 1990s to power its visual systems. When the company decides to enter the market, it does so with a lot of thought, offering systems that are unique from what is currently available from its competitors, yet still remaining price competitive. The company's latest mobile offering is such a system.

The Great After Effects Mac/Windows Smackdown: CS4 Edition

Re-running the benchmarks to see which OS runs AE better

Last summer I got curious. With the advent of Intel Macs, Boot Camp, and Universal builds of After Effects, for the first time it was possible to forget about all the Intel vs. PowerPC benchmarks that had been run to that point and effectively remove hardware from the equation, focusing solely on the OS and how well AE was tuned to it. XP took the prize back then, but I'm curious again, and with Mac OS X Leopard, 64-bit Vista, and After Effects CS4 at my disposal, it's time to find out where things stand today.