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My name is Gavin Rawlings. I am the co-founder, director of photography and editor at Venture Films in Australia. I entered the industry professionally in 2008 after attending film school and I have been using ShotPut Pro since 2014. When I was younger I always loved going to the cinemas and watching films. I always […]

Imagine Products opened its doors in 1991 and in those 27 years there has been a sea of change in the technology and methodology for video acquisition and distribution. For example, back in 1991 the term ‘multi-media’ had just been coined and there were great debates on what that meant and how emerging digital manipulation […]

It’s the 10th anniversary of ShotPut Pro! We’re celebrating 10 years of making life easier for anyone who’s responsible for digital media files – and reflecting on the past. At the time we invented ShotPut Pro, affordable HD video was just coming into being. Prior to that, everything was tape-based. Expensive cameras were recording to […]

Before reading this blog post, please consider reading Parts 1 and 2: Part 1: You’re Settled on LTO/LTFS, Now what?  Part 2: Advanced LTFS Software Can be the Key to Success. It’s time to get back into the LTO discussions! LTO 8 has been shipping for a few months now, here’s the skinny: So basically, […]

Speed, speed, speed. We talk about it all the time in our blogs because it’s one of the top concerns for our customers. Everyone is looking for the fastest technology to get the job done. Today’s blog is no exception! Let’s talk about Thunderbolt 3. At a max speed of 40 Gbps it’s no real […]

I recently read (most of) a white paper put out from Imagen about Cyber Security (- it was 36 pages, give me a break!) There was a lot of great information in, which I will paraphrase below. If you care to read the white paper, you can find it here! Know Your Enemy – there […]

By now all Apple users have heard and (hopefully) upgraded to 10.13.1 to avoid the security issues present in 10.13. So what heck actually happened and what did Apple have to say. Let’s take a look: Many of us got a notification on the morning of Wednesday November 29th that we needed to do an […]

“Three years after raising its curtain on operations, Bloomington-based Pigasus Pictures is making its mark, with one award-winning feature film to its credit and another with growing expectations set to wrap up production within a month. And the firm’s two young Hoosier founders say they’re ready to accelerate production even faster. The company’s early success […]

THIS IS A MULTI PART BLOG. AS MORE BLOGS ARE POSTED, LINKS TO THOSE POSTS WILL BE INCLUDED IN THIS BLOG. BEFORE READING FURTHER, WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO BEGIN WITH:  CHECKSUMS AND VERIFICATION PART 1: THE 5 W’S WHICH DEFINES WHAT A CHECKSUM IS AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT IN THE MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY. CHECKSUMS AND […]

Here’s the good news – ALL Imagine Products applications are High Sierra compatible. But before you hit that update button, let’s take a quick look at what High Sierra is and what you can expect. From Apple: New technologies at the heart of the system make your Mac more reliable, capable, and responsive – and […]

This week in the news we all learned of the discovery of the USS Indianapolis WWII battleship in the Pacific. The news footage was amazing, and of course reminiscent of Titanic’s wreckage found by similar technology back in 1985. In 2000 we were selling a product called The Executive Producer ® (TEP). It was a […]

Imagine Products® Announces myLTO™ New LTFS Copy Application From the Creators of ShotPut Pro™ INDIANAPOLIS — August 10, 2017 — Imagine Products, Inc.®, publisher of applications for backing up, viewing, sharing, transcoding and archiving video assets, has released myLTO™ a new LTFS copy software. From the creators of ShotPut Pro 6, and with a similar […]

With the new activation, we’ve gotten this question more than once so clearly I thought to myself… “Self, we should write a blog – cuz it’s super easy.” On the first computer, click DEACTIVATE under the application menu, just above Quit. That releases the license for use elsewhere. OR If you no longer have access […]

The recent flurry of news and controversy over History Channel’s purported ‘new’ evidence and ensuing Docudrama regarding a theory about Amelia Earhart’s disappearance brought back memories about our company’s involvement in the search. Amelia Earhart was an American aviation pioneer who disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean during an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight in 1937. […]

The new Apple File System (APFS) has been in beta for a while now and Apple enthusiasts everywhere expect it very soon. But what exactly can we expect and what’s the point? The point is that the APFS will run on WatchOS, iOS, tvOS and macOS making the whole Apple universe more scalable and a […]

This is a multi part blog. As more blogs are posted, links to those posts will be included in this blog. Before reading further, we encourage you to begin with Checksums Part 1: The 5 W’s which defines what a checksum in and why it’s important in the media and entertainment industry. For Part 2, […]