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News: Autodesk Announces Three New Software Releases for the Mac
Growing Portfolio of Autodesk Creative Tools for Mac OS X To coincide with the annual Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Autodesk, Inc. announced today that it has expanded its portfolio of Macintosh 2D and 3D software tools for entertainment, multimedia and design professionals. The three new 2009 products for Mac OS X are Autodesk Toxik procedural compositing software, Autodesk Mudbox digital sculpting and texture painting software, and Autodesk ImageModeler image-based modeling and photogrammetry software. MORE. News: Announcing ProxyMill™ for Macintosh OSX A New Automated Proxy Builder for P2 and QuickTime Movies Imagine Products, Inc. announces the release and general availability of ProxyMill™ for Macintosh, a new automated video compression application for Panasonic [NYSE symbol: PC] P2 media. MORE. News: Tours by Sloan Selects Broadcast Pix™ 2 M/E Slate™ 5016HD Live Production System for Live Performances by Donny & Marie Osmond Broadcast Pix™, the company that redefined the production switcher as a live integrated production system, announced that Tours by Sloan, a live event production company based in Las Vegas, selected its Slate 5016HD switcher for use during live performances by Donny & Marie Osmond at the Flamingo Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. MORE. News: Craft Animations Launches 3D Animation Tools for Gamecaster's GCS3 Virtual Camera Control Hardware Time-saving Toolset Eliminates Need for Traditional Keyframing and Enables Real-time Cinematic Production Within Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya Imagine the ability to direct real-time virtual camera controls within Autodesk® 3ds Max® and Maya® with actual camera hardware. It's a director's fantasy that has now become reality with the release of Craft Camera Tools™ for GCS3™, a software and hardware bundle developed by Craft Animations™ AB and Gamecaster® . MORE. News: FirmTek is Now Shipping the SeriTek/SpyderHUB New eSATA converter allows up to two external eSATA hard drives to interface with a USB or FireWire computer port while supporting hardware RAID modes and adding Macintosh boot capability to eSATA enclosures. FirmTek, LLC, the world's leading developer of Serial ATA solutions for Apple Macintosh and PC computers, announced today at MacWorld the availability of the SeriTek/SpyderHUB. MORE. News: AJA Supports the Canon XH G1S with Software Updates for Io HD and KONA AJA Offers Unique 1080 VFR Support for the Canon XH G1S with Software Version 6.0.2 for Io HD, KONA 3 and KONA LHe AJA Video Systems, a leading manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, recently released version 6.0.2 software for the AJA Io HD, KONA 3 and KONA LHe products. With version 6.0.2, AJA has added support for the extraction of 23.98 fps video from a 1080i 29.97 fps HD-SDI signal. MORE. News: Discovery Communications Implements Front Porch Digital's DIVAdirector to Improve Access to Stored Content Front Porch Digital today announced that Discovery Communications has upgraded its DIVArchive content storage management system, one of the largest in the world, with the addition of DIVAdirector. MORE. News: Sound Devices CL-8 Controller Now Shipping Wave Agent Utility Software Upgraded To Accommodate Expansion Sound Devices announces that its CL-8 Controller, a mixing control surface companion to the company’s new 788T digital 8-track recorder is now shipping. The CL-8 is designed to provide additional capabilities to the 788T without significant increase in weight, making it adaptable to a variety of field productions. Along with the availability of the CL-8, the 788T has been upgraded to 12 recording tracks for all 788T users with the latest firmware. MORE. News: ATTO’s iSCSI Software Initiator for Mac® OS X provides Added Security and Enterprise-Class Features for Large-Install Environments New Xtend SAN Software provides CLI and Digest Support for OS X iSCSI targets ATTO Technology, Inc., a global leader of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments, announced today that its industry-leading iSCSI Software Initiator for Mac OS X, Xtend SAN has been updated with enterprise-class features to provide better security and automation for medium to large installations. MORE. News: JMR to Showcase Groundbreaking BlueStor PeSAN Storage Arrays and Desktop SAS/SATA RAID Products at the 2009 Macworld Expo JMR Electronics, Inc., a leading value provider of scalable storage systems for video and data intensive applications, will showcase their new line of Mac-compatible 16-bay BlueStor™ PeSAN™ RAID and 8-bay BlueStor 888™ storage solutions at the 2009 Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco, January 5th - 9th. MORE. News: NewTek TriCaster™ Chosen to Produce and Live Stream 60th Annual Emmy® Awards for Technology and Engineering NewTek TriCaster™ to also produce and live stream Global Media Awards NewTek, Inc., manufacturer of industry-leading video and 3D animation products, today announced today that its TriCaster™ portable live production and virtual set system was chosen by TV Worldwide to produce and live stream the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences 60th Annual Technology and Engineering Emmy® Awards and the inaugural Global Media Awards at the Consumer Electronics Show 2009 in Las Vegas. MORE. News: JVC Joins Industry Leaders in CCTV Convergence Seminar at BICSI Conference in Orlando JVC Professional, in collaboration with Berk-Tek and Network Video Technologies will host a Pre-Conference seminar "Convergence to CCTV: The Path to IP" Seminar at BICSI on Monday, January 19, 2009 from 1:30 - 4:30 PM at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, FL. MORE. News: Foundry slashes Sparks prices as Autodesk revokes Development licence The Foundry, a leading developer of visual effects, image-processing and compositing software, announced today that effective immediately, it has significantly reduced prices on plug-ins for Autodesk® advanced systems, as it is no longer part of the Autodesk Authorised Developer Network programme and can no longer guarantee continued development or support. MORE. News: ATTO Technology Leading Provider of Storage Connectivity for Mac Environments Demonstrates Technology at Macworld High-Performance RAID Adapter and Storage Controller Top Product List for High Bandwidth Applications ATTO Technology, Inc., a global leader of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments, is demonstrating its newest technologies during the Macworld Conference & Expo. MORE. News: broadcastGEMs introduces broadcastGEMs Volume02: AEPro Series broadcastGEMs introduces it's second volume of highly customizable Adobe After Effects project files. These project files are uniquely designed by producers and designers to ensure that you get stuff that works in the real world. MORE. News: Film Workshops International to launch career training programmes in the UK and Mallorca The introduction of new digital and high definition technologies and software, along with the availability of many more content distribution avenues have created an expanded need for advanced training for creative professionals. To meet this demand, The Film Workshops International established 30 years ago in the USA by David H. Lyman, is taking a programme of professional workshops to Liverpool and the island of Mallorca this coming year. MORE. News: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 by PNY with 4GB of Frame Memory Delivers the Ultimate Graphics Technology for Workstation and Cluster Performance New NVIDIA Quadro® FX 5800 by PNY and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 by PNY provide state-of-the-art, high-demand graphics performance for a wide range of intensive styling, oil and gas exploration, broadcast and film, and scientific applications PNY Technologies® today announced the immediate availability of its new ultra high-performance graphic boards, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 by PNY and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 by PNY. Both of these highly scalable GPU accelerated solutions are also available in Genlock/framelock and HD-SDI versions. MORE. News: Smith Micro Software’s Consumer Group Announces Manga Studio 4.0 for Mac and Windows World’s Leading Comic and Manga Art Software Offers New Cutting Edge Color, Vector and Special Effects Tools for Professional, Ready-to-Publish Comic Art Smith Micro Software, Inc. Consumer Group today announced the availability of Manga Studio™ Debut 4.0 and Manga Studio™ EX 4.0, the world’s leading manga and comic art software used by professional artists and hobbyists to create professional, ready-to-publish comics and print cartoons from start to finish. MORE. News: NewTek TriCaster™ Selected by SportsLink to Produce and Live Stream Coverage of U.S. Army All-American Bowl Week Events Students to produce and live stream first Football University Youth All-American Bowl showcasing nation’s top seventh and eighth-graders NewTek Inc., manufacturer of industry-leading video and 3D animation products, today announced that SportsLink, a leading sports-marketing and management company, selected TriCaster™ portable live production system to produce and stream extended live coverage of the U.S. Army All-American Bowl Week. MORE. News: Apple Supports AG-HMC150 AVCCAM Camcorder's Highest-Quality PH Recording Mode With FCP 6.0.5 Update Panasonic announced that Apple’s new Final Cut Pro version 6.0.5 software now incorporates support for the professional PH recording mode offered in its AG-HMC150 handheld AVCCAM camcorder. The enhanced PH recording mode is exclusive to the AVCCAM HMC150 and provides exceptional quality 1080 and 720 recording in an AVCHD format at bit rates up to 24Mbps. MORE. News: JVC to Unveil World's First Acquisition Product for Final Cut Post Production at Annual MacWorld Final Cut Pro User Group SuperMeet in San Francisco JVC Sponsors Its Fifth FCPUG SuperMeet JVC Professional kicks off the 8th Annual Final Cut Pro User Group SuperMeet with the introduction of the world's first video acquisition product developed for Final Cut post production on Wednesday, January 7th. MORE. News: Final Cut Editor Dean Gonzalez Teams with Director Mark Teitelman to Create Dramatic Promos for NFL Network's "Thursday Night Football" Theatrical Promos Feature Iconic NFL Imagery by Modern Dance Company Pilobolus Final Cut Editor Dean Gonzalez recently teamed up with Director Mark Teitelman to complete two breathtaking promos for the NFL Network's exclusive presentation of Thursday Night Football, featuring storied AFC rivalries . MORE. News: Matrox Introduces PowerDesk for Mac Software Features Enhanced Desktop Management Control Across Multiple Displays Matrox Graphics Inc. today announced the availability of PowerDesk for Mac, a new desktop management software for Graphics eXpansion Modules used with Apple® Mac systems. MORE. News: MXF4mac launches first wave of Avid MXF support For the first time native media files from Avid systems are directly accessible by QuickTime in Mac OS X. The new release of MXF4QT Import provides extensive support for various Avid OP-Atom formats including all DNxHD variations. MORE. News: NVIDIA Releases Version 2.1 Beta of the CUDA Toolkit and SDK NVIDIA has announced the availability of version 2.1 beta of its CUDA toolkit and SDK. This is the latest version of the C-compiler and software development tools for accessing the massively parallel CUDA compute architecture of NVIDIA GPUs. MORE. News: DAZ 3D Boosts Performance with Carrara 7.0 Updated Features Enhance All-in-one 3D Solution for Realistic Figure Posing, Animation, Modeling and Rendering As the demand for an efficient, feature-rich and cost-effective 3D toolset expands, DAZ 3D™ responds with the release of Carrara 7.0™ , the latest version of its popular all-in-one 3D modeling, animation and rendering solution. MORE. News: da Vinci Appoints Industry Veteran Russ Chesley to Director of Worldwide Strategic Accounts da Vinci Systems, a subsidiary of JDS Uniphase Corporation , announced today that Russ Chesley, a 30-year entertainment industry veteran, has joined da Vinci as director of worldwide strategic accounts. Chesley will help da Vinci respond to emerging trends and challenges within the industry and will work to strengthen the company's strategic partnerships and accounts. MORE. News: LaCie Ethernet Disk: Up to 6TB in a Rack-Mounted Backup Appliance LaCie today introduced a new version of its award-winning Ethernet Disk, a network-attached storage device featuring a capacity increase of up to 6TB in a 1U 19" rack form factor. Designed by Neil Poulton, it is the most compact all-in-one rack-mounted backup appliance operating in heterogeneous ecosystems. MORE. News: Digidesign Ships Pro Tools 8 Software Provides everything needed to create, compose, score, record, mix, produce and broadcast in single application. Digidesign®, a part of Avid Technology, Inc. , today announced the immediate availability of Pro Tools 8 software, the company’s highly-anticipated, next-generation music creation and audio production software. MORE. News: Noise Industries Rolls Out FxFactory Awards Competition Editors and Visual Effects Artists submit their best FxFactory projects and win BIG! Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast markets, announced the launch of the FxFactory® Awards 2008 contest. Designed to showcase the best in FxFactory visual effects design, contest applicants can submit their favorite visual effects projects via the Noise Industries web site starting December 15, 2008. MORE. News: Digital Ad Pioneer Jason Zada Shoots Adidas Soccer Campaign With P2 HdD Cams Director Teams AJ-HPX3000s and AJ-HPX500s on Wide-Ranging Ads Featuring adidas-Sponsored Major League Soccer Teams San Francisco-based director/writer Jason Zada, whose prominence among digital content marketing producers dates back to the early days of the Internet, shot a five-episode web series and three 30-second broadcast spots for adidas with AJ-HPX3000 native 1080p P2 HD and AJ-HPX500 2/3” shoulder-mount P2 HD camcorders. MORE. News: Holiday Movies Twilight, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Others Come to Life With Autodesk Technology Visual Effects Enhance Storytelling in Fantasy Films, Historical Dramas and Animated Movies Across multiple movie genres and filmmaking techniques, this year's holiday blockbuster movies demonstrate the wide-range of entertainment that is shaped with Autodesk, Inc. software. Filmmakers are using Autodesk's animation, visual effects and color grading tools to enhance their creative process and enable sophisticated storytelling. MORE. News: Paragon Studios Brings Sound And Picture Editing Under One Roof Nashville Audio Post-Production Facility Unveils New Picture Edit Suite Paragon Studios, an industry leader in audio, broadcast and film post-production, recently put the final touches on its brand new state-of-the-art picture editing suite. This addition creates a multi-faceted studio that now allows for all picture and sound post-production needs to be completed at one single location. MORE. News: Matrox Announces Support for Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium and the Windows Vista 64-bit Operating System on Matrox Axio LE and RT.X2 Realtime HD and SD Editing Platforms Matrox® Video Products Group today announced that software release 4.0 for the Matrox Axio™ LE and RT.X2™ family of HD and SD editing platforms will support the recently released version 4.0.1 of Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Production Premium and Adobe Premiere® Pro CS4 software. MORE. News: Avid Introduces Next-Generation Avid Active ContentManager Version 3.0 creates more efficient news workflow by extending news content to Web and wireless devices Avid Technology, Inc. today unveiled Avid Active™ ContentManager 3.0, a solution for broadcasters looking to simplify multi-channel news workflows and create more revenue opportunities by broadening the delivery of content to the Web, wireless devices and other IP-based distribution points. MORE. News: Panasonic Offers Scene Files To Expand Users’ Creativity With P2 HD Camcorders New Web Site Allows Easy Downloading of These Creative Tools Panasonic Broadcast announced that it has developed a wide range of scene files for its popular line of P2 HD camcorders to expand users’ shooting capabilities . MORE. News: Small Tree Communications to Introduce GraniteSTOR abcSAN at Macworld Expo 2009 Shared Storage Technology Ideal for Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools and Photoshop Users Small Tree Communications, designer of cost-effective networking and shared storage products for professional video and audio editors, will introduce abcSAN, the second member of its GraniteSTOR family of shared storage products, at Macworld 2009 . MORE. News: Autodesk Now a Member of Epic Games' Integrated Partners Program Autodesk HumanIK Animation Middleware and Autodesk Kynapse AI Middleware Integrated into Epic's Unreal Engine 3 Autodesk, Inc. and Epic Games, Inc. today announced that Autodesk has become a member of Epic Games' Integrated Partners Program . This has allowed Autodesk to integrate its Autodesk HumanIK animation middleware with Epic's Unreal Engine 3 . MORE. News: Autodesk Software Shapes Super Heroes, Open Worlds, Epic Battles and More in Top Holiday Games Autodesk, Inc. has announced that most of the top games hitting the shelves this holiday season have been created with Autodesk products. Autodesk technology helps game developers execute their creative vision from start to finish. MORE. News: Sonnet Fusion™ DX800RAID Includes SAS Expander; Supports RAID 5 and RAID 6 8-Drive Video Storage System Supports Fast, Cost-Effective Expansion to 16 Drives and More Sonnet Technologies today announced the immediate availability of the Fusion™ DX800RAID, a high-performance, eight-drive RAID SATA storage system with a built-in SAS expander that enables connection of up to 16 eight-drive enclosures to a single Sonnet RAID controller. MORE. News: Rustic Kitchen Combines Panasonic AW-HE100 Pan/Tilt/Zoom Cameras and AV-HS400A Live Switcher for Production of Lively Cooking Shows Panasonic HD Cameras and Switchers Add Spice to State-of-the-Art, In-Restaurant Broadcast Television Kitchen Studio Rustic Kitchen Bistro and Bar recently invested in Panasonic AW-HE100 integrated pan-tilt-zoom cameras, AG-HVX200 P2 HD camcorders and AV-HS400 multi-format video switchers to serve up its weekly live cooking shows in high definition. MORE. News: Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld Apple® today announced that this year is the last year the company will exhibit at Macworld Expo. Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the opening keynote for this year’s Macworld Conference & Expo, and it will be Apple’s last keynote at the show. MORE. News: ATTO’s ExpressSAS H30F SAS/SATA Host Adapter named a YES CERTIFIED by Novell ATTO Delivers SAS Connectivity Solution for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Open Source Environments ATTO Technology, Inc., a global leader of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments, today announced that the ATTO ExpressSAS H30F SAS/SATA II Host Adapter has received the Novell® YES CERTIFIED compatibility designation with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, Service Pack 1. MORE. News: NVIDIA First to Offer Full Support for OpenGL 3.0 Drivers Provide Developers with Full Support for OpenGL 3.0 API and GLSL 1.30 Shading Languages Further demonstrating its leadership and commitment to OpenGL and the standardization process, NVIDIA® today released fully supported drivers for OpenGL® 3.0 for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux on its select GeForce® and Quadro® solutions. MORE. News: UCLA Deploys da Vinci Revival™ to Restore Award-Winning TV Classics for DVD da Vinci Systems LLC, a subsidiary of JDS Uniphase Corporation , today announced that its Revival™ image restoration system enabled the UCLA Film & Television Archive to restore episodes from two classic television series, "The Shari Lewis Show" and "Mister Peepers." MORE. News: New York Jets Gear Up for Wide-Ranging Production with Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 Master Quality 1080P Camcorders Enjoying an outstanding season, the New York Jets are now documenting their panoply of successes on and off the field with Panasonic master-quality P2 HD camcorders. The team’s Broadcasting and Multimedia Production department recently purchased two AJ-HPX3000 native 1080p one-piece camcorders, along with P2 drives and media and a DVCPRO HD VTR, all of which will serve a new post-production facility located at the Jets’ Florham Park, NJ headquarters and training center. MORE. News: Small Tree Communications Provides Shared Storage for Post-Production on Nickelodeon's "My Family's Got GUTS!" Technology Increases Performance While Saving Production Company Tens of Thousands of Dollars Small Tree Communications, designer of simple-to-install, cost-effective networking and shared storage products for professional video and audio editors, recently provided an inexpensive workflow solution to Five Alts Productions for post-production on Nickelodeon’s new extreme sports competition show, “My Family’s Got GUTS!” MORE. News: RE:Vision Effects releases DE:Noise for OFX now available for Nuke, Fusion and Toxik! RE:Vision Effects today released its acclaimed DE:Noise plugin set for Nuke, Fusion and Toxik. DE:Noise is a plugin set that removes excessive noise and artifacts in one easy-to-use tool. It handles spurious frame-to-frame defects ranging from fine digital and electronic noise to blotchy spots . MORE. News: Telestream’s Episode Desktop Media Encoder Now Available for Windows Episode Version 5.1 release introduces cross-platform support, enabling fast, high-quality, easy-to-use transcoding between virtually any format – for both Mac and PC users Telestream today announced an important milestone for its Episode® Series media encoding software products. Previously only offered on the Mac platform, version 5.1 extends Telestream’s Episode and Episode Pro desktop encoding products to the Windows operating system. MORE. News: Canon’s professional 3-CCD HD camcorders are a top choice for affordable HDTV program production Inspired storytelling, superior HDTV production values, and prudent budgeting are essential elements in the competitive world of producing innovative programming for today’s cable networks. For Varuna Entertainment, achieving these goals is made easier by using Canon’s XH G1 HD Camcorders to capture dramatic, challenging, and often dangerous footage for two of their latest cable “reality” series. MORE.    The visual effects issue of Creative COW Magazine is filled with ideas, inspiration, techniques and projects from the world of visual effects. Featuring some of the top artists from television and film, the issue takes you inside the incredible visual feast that you see in Warner Bros' ``Pushing Daisies`` -- arguably the most beautiful television world ever created. Then go into the world of invisible effects, looking at the magic created that the audience will never see -- and why these kinds of effects are often more important than the visual and special effects that wow audiences. Also in this issue is an artist who shows how to improvise effects in the production crucible of on-set production -- meeting the needs of the production that weren't planned or storyboarded. Learn the power of shadow effects in your lighting. And in this issue, you will also learn about depth of field converters and the state of Blu-ray production today. This may be our very best issue yet. You decide. Download  
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