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Thursday, 21 August 2008

IBC: Final Cut User Group meeting details revealed

Jonny Evans

The event is expected to be the largest gathering of Final Cut Pro users and digital filmmakers on the planet during IBC week.


Monday, 18 August 2008

Toon Boom Studio 4.5 released

Digital Arts Staff

Toon Boom Animation has released Toon Boom Studio 4.5 and its Toon Boom Studio Importer to Flash (TBSi). This latest version enables users to create photo animation and live-action cartooning. Additional new features include a better integration with Photoshop files, extended ease of use, the ability to print, more export options to iTunes and YouTube as well as the import of Flip Boom and Animation-ish projects.


Friday, 15 August 2008

Western Digital new My Book Mirror Edition

Cliff Joseph

New Mirror drives offer capacities up to 2TB


Friday, 15 August 2008

LaCie’s Little Big Disk Quadra

Cliff Joseph

Compact drive provides high performance for video professionals


Friday, 15 August 2008

FxFactory effects plug-ins released for After Effects

Peter Cohen

FxFactory 2.0.4 includes more than 300 visual effects plug-ins designed for real-time performance. Capabilities include blurs, color correction, distortions, glows, half-tones and stylization filters, generators and transitions.



Friday, 15 August 2008

Verbatim launches new hard drive

Cliff Joseph

New Verbatim drives help keep you in the black – in more ways than one


Thursday, 14 August 2008

Boris Continuum visual effects plug-ins now available separately

Digital Arts Staff

Boris FX has released the Boris Continuum Units family of visual effects plug-ins, which makes filters from its Continuum Complete collection available separately. The first three Units are available immediately: Pan and Zoom for documentary-style animation, UpRez for resizing of image clips from SD to HD, and Chroma Key for pulling keys.


Tuesday, 12 August 2008

Six-bay MacBook/iBook battery charger debuts

Peter Cohen

Oncore's battery charger lets you charge up to six MacBook or iBook batteries at a time.


Wednesday, 06 August 2008

FXhome adds batch-processing chromakey software

Digital Arts Staff

FXhome has released PhotoKey Batch, a standalone version of its popular chromakey photography product that has been developed to fulfil the specific requirements of event photography. Aimed at semi-pro and professional photographers, PhotoKey Batch provides rapid, multi-image, high quality greenscreen and bluescreen compositing.


Wednesday, 06 August 2008

FxFactory adds Adobe After Effects support

Digital Arts Staff

Noise Industries has released an update for its FxFactory plug-in system for Apple Final Cut Pro and Motion that allows the plug-ins to be used inside the Mac OS X version of Adobe After Effects CS3.


Wednesday, 06 August 2008

Adobe warns over bogus Flash Player installers

Jeremy Kirk

Hackers are trying to dupe people into downloading malicious software labeled as Adobe's Flash Player, prompting a warning from the company.


Monday, 04 August 2008

Red Giant takes Digital Anarchy video venture

Jonny Evans

Red Giant Software has agreed to acquire the video plug-in range belonging to Digital Anarchy.


Thursday, 31 July 2008

Apple: 'get ready for MacBook and iPod shortage'

Jonny Evans, Macworld.co.uk

As a number of new products come on stream, Apple is warning resellers that many of its core products may be in short supply in the next few weeks.


Thursday, 31 July 2008

Mac clone maker hires Apple-beating law firm

Gregg Keizer, Computerworld

Three attorneys at Carr & Ferrell were listed on the Monday stipulation, including Colby Springer, Christine Watson and Robert Yorio, a partner at the firm, Yorio and Springer were among the lawyers who represented Burst.com in its patent-infringement case against Apple that started in 2006.


Thursday, 31 July 2008

Apple warns of MacBook shortage, new products loom

Jonny Evans

Apple warns resellers of limited supplies of MacBook, MacBook and iPod, as product transitions closing in.


Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Rumour: Apple MacBook trio receiving massive upgrade

Jonny Evans

New MacBooks and MacBook Pros will offer a glass multi-touch trackpad, with support for gestures; and will be much thinner and lighter than before, looking more like a MacBook Air, report claims...


Monday, 28 July 2008

Second Mac clone maker set to sell systems

Gregg Keizer, Computerworld

"They can't make a copy [of Mac OS X], but the ultimate consumer of our computers will have to purchase a copy, so Apple's not being harmed here," Tom added.


Monday, 28 July 2008

Iomega offers backup bundle with external drives

Kathleen Lau, ComputerWorld Canada

Iomega is rolling out its external hard drives, targeted at consumers and small to medium-sized businesses, with a downloadable software bundle that integrates Retrospect Express local backup and recovery software, and Mozy online backup service.


Thursday, 24 July 2008

Slick iMovie plug-ins maker 'graduates' to Final Cut

Peter Cohen

Gee Three is now offering SlickFX plug-ins for Final Cut Express and final Cut Pro. The plug-ins offer Final Cut users transitions, effects, filters and generators for US$99.


Friday, 18 July 2008

Final Cut Pro Users Group 'supermeet' comes to IBC

Jonny Evans

Final Cut Pro Users Group plans to organise the European equivalent of an IBC 'Supermeet' around the show, a grass-roots user event for both Mac and PC video professionals that has become the highlight of NAB in recent years.


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