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Autodesk, Smoke on the Mac: Maurice Patel & Marc Hamaker

Autodesk, Smoke on the Mac

Autodesk Smoke is billed as a comprehensive creative editorial system, offering visual effects capabilities. Smoke features a powerful 64-bit architecture and industry-leading tools for conforming, editing, audio, paint, tracking, character generation, graphic design, and visual effects creation in the Action 3D compositing environment, as well as Master Keyer and Colour Warper technologies.

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Blackmagic Design Releases HyperDeck Shuttle 2

The new HyperDeck Shuttle 2 now records Avid DNxHD files to SSD for 5 times longer recording!

The new HyperDeck Shuttle 2 now records Avid DNxHD files to SSD for 5 times longer recording!

Adobe confirms Creative Suite 6 (CS6) will ship in first half of 2012

Upgrades open to CS3 and CS4 owners too

Adobe recants statement saying only CS5 and CS5.5 owners will get discounted upgrades, opening it to CS3 and CS4 owners too.



Adobe will offer CS6 at special price for CS3 and CS4 owners

Creative Suite 5 won't be necessary for CS6 upgrade, Adobe says

Adobe will offer a direct upgrade path to Creative Suite 6 to customers who own CS3 or CS4 after all, it has announced.

Apple could dump AMD for nVidia graphics processors in next gen Macs

AMD could be dumped, report claims

Apple could be about to switch back to nVidia GPUs for its next generation of Macs, according to reports.

Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve Lite now Includes Unlimited Color Correction Nodes!

Download free of charge

Unlimited color correction nodes allow customers to use multiple color correctors for more complex and creative grading and is a dramatic boost in power over the previous version of DaVinci Resolve Lite that was limited to 2 nodes. Adding more than 2 color correction nodes was the top requested feature by DaVinci Resolve Lite colorists.

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