Serving novice, educational, professional, independent, broadcast, commercial, government, and corporate clients.  We don’t just sell equipment, we sell solutions, workflows and training.

Great Northern Video is an Apple, AJA and Avid professional dealer.  Our turnkey systems are currently in use in hundreds of production companies, government, broadcasters, ad agencies, cable access stations and schools throughout New England.  Our Non-Linear specialist has worked as an editor, consultant, beta tester, instructor, and integrator of editing systems for well over a decade.  If you have questions or need training, we can help.  We have trained and consulted for every range of customer from independent to professionals working in the broadcast field.  We also have the lowest training rates in the country at $300 for half day and $600 for a full day.

Not only do we sell editing software and hardware, we also configure and test every systems we sell.  Need installation?  We can install your system at your location and tie in to existing infrastructure.  Need a post production workflow?  How does it all work together?  We can provide you with numerous solutions for archiving, process, etc to streamline your production workflow.

Final Cut Express 4: adds support for the latest AVCHD cameras, mixing of SD and HDV content in the same timeline, includes iMovie '08 import, and access to hundreds of fx plug-in’s, cinematic effects and filters, all at a lower cost.  Final Cut Express 4 no longer includes Soundtrack Pro. 

Our Price only $180.00

Apple Final Cut Studio 2 is a feature rich toolset that offers you editing, sound design, title effects, compositing, particle effects, DVD authoring, compression software, and a world class color correction suite.  No other software package comes close to the robust tools that Final Cut Studio 2 has to offer.

Our price only $1,145

AJA Io HD is the latest in the award-winning Io family of products, effortless, transportable plug-in solution to working with HD and SD in Final Cut Pro 6 on a Macbook Pro or Mac Pro computer. With a single FireWire 800 connection, Io HD supports the amazing new Apple ProRes 422 Codec‚ natively, in hardware, to bring production-quality HD editing to laptops! Io HD is the only device in the world that supports Apple ProRes 422 and Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) in hardware, enabling true 10-bit editing on an Apple laptop. With this high performance hardware and codec, you can work on the road with 720 and 1080 HD, all in full-raster 10 bit 4:2:2 and in realtime!

Our price only $3,014

Training:

Great Northern Video also offers in-house and on-location training in Final Cut Studio, Avid, and Adobe products.

Final Cut Studio 2 Beginner, intermediate, and advanced professional.

Avid Media Composer / Xpress Pro beginner, intermediate and advanced professional.

Adobe Photoshop for beginners and intermediates.

Adobe Lightroom / Apple Aperture / iPhoto basics including image correction.

How to go from PC to Mac.

Numerous other training sessions available, just ask.

Training rates are $300/ 3 hours + Travel   $600/ 5 hours + Travel

Tools for Editors:

AJA Data Rate Calculator allows you to determine how much storage you need based on the format and resolution you are working with on your system.

Download: AJA Data Rate Calculator

Perian allows you to natively playback and export Flash SWF files directly from Quicktime.

Download: Perian

DIVX for MAC allows you to playback DIVX files on your MAC.

Download: DivX for Mac

Flip4Mac allows native playback of Windows Media Files within Quicktime.

Download: Flip4Mac

www.creativecow.com (a forum based problem solving site).

www.kenstone.net (a tutorial based site covering everything from editing to encoding for the web).