Meet the fastest, most powerful video editing tool available. With Avid Media Composer 5 software, you can work with more formats and in more ways than ever before, and speed through common media barriers to get right to what really matters — telling a great story.

You’ve heard the buzz. You’ve read the blogs. The wait is finally over—the new releases are now shipping, so get ready to put the features you asked for in play. AMA support for QuickTime, RED, and Canon XF and HDSLR footage, HD-RGB support for full-quality finishing, and cost-effective monitoring solutions from Matrox, this release breaks down production and cost barriers for smoother workflow and budget relief.

Media Composer goes where other video editing systems leave off, giving you full-featured editorial tools, the fastest file-based workflows around, dependable media management, and innovative features that save you time — and money.

Edit the way you want, wherever you want, and in ways you never thought possible using
Media Composer.

In doubt about who’s who at Protel, what we do and how we can help? Get to know us a little better through this on-going series introducing the people of Protel.

Glenn works out of our Wellington office and has been with us for over four years. He is basically your go-to guy for everything video covering the central North Island to Stewart Island. Glenn’s all lights, cameras and action! When it comes to after hours if he’s not making movies he’s watching them. (With a growing library of over five hundred DVDs at home we wonder how he has time to shoot as well.) Glenn is a founding member of the successful Dog Films Collective, and produced and directed their movie “Balls and Chain” which won the Wellington Regional’s of this year’s V48 Hours Film Competition to compete at the Nationals. Awesome! On his breaks during the day (when he’s lucky enough to get them) you’ll often find him hiding in the lunchroom, head buried in a Sci-Fi or Fantasy novel. Coffee of choice: Latte large two sugars.

Protel is now supplying the NZ Screen Industry with GoPro cameras. Record hours worth of HD video with this small, lightweight and ultra-tough self-contained camera. Using the included mounting accessories there won’t be many places you can’t put it. Think of the possibilities; snowboard, handlebars, crash helmet, cockpit, rally car, hidden camera, diving, surfing, moto-cross, go-carting. With its 170 degree viewing angle and 5 megapixel sensor it simply is set and forget. The GoPro HD Helmet HERO camera in stock soon - $488

Move up from a Pro Tools LE to HD system and benefit from the power, performance and quality that makes Pro Tools HD so highly sought after. There has never been a better opportunity for Pro Tools owners to upgrade from almost any LE system to the power, performance, and quality of Pro Tools|HD. With Pro Tools|HD, you'll create bigger mixes, expand to higher channel counts, and use more tracks. And to ensure you'll have enough power to run these expanded mixes, Pro Tools|HD provides dedicated DSP processing to ensure the lowest latency and highest TDM processing power. Offer expires THIS WEEK on June 18, 2010.

Bring the VENUE live sound workflow to any MADI (Multichannel Audio Digital Interface) environment. With each VENUE MADI Option Card, you can send up to 64 channels of audio from your VENUE system to other MADI devices—including routers, digital mixing consoles, and mobile recording setups—and vice-versa. Simply install the card into a FOH Rack or Mix Rack to bring industry-standard MADI connectivity to VENUE.

Don’t forget, Avid is still offering sound professionals the opportunity to trade in an older analogue or digital mixing board and receive up to a 20% discount on new VENUE systems. Call us soon to discuss how we can work up the right VENUE configuration for your needs and help you save up to 20%. Offer expires THIS WEEK on June 18, 2010.

Having recently been in the US and wanting to check-out an iPad (as you do) I popped into a couple of Apple Stores and couldn’t help notice their shelves were loaded with G-Technology hard drives. It’s no small feat for a manufacturer to get product into an Apple Store so Apple is obviously very confident with the reliability, performance, support, and price that G-Technology delivers on. Not forgetting stylish as well. Protel represents G-Technology here and we carry an extensive range at all times. If it’s good enough for Apple Stores it’s good enough for us.

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