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Adobe announces Audition 3 |
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Adobe Systems
ann-ounced Adobe Audition 3 software, a major new release of
the all-in-one solution for professional audio production.
Adobe Audition 3 is designed to give audio professionals -
sound designers, reco-rding and mastering engineers, and
musicians - a flexible production too-lkit for recording,
mixing, editing, and mastering audio. New features in-clude
VSTi virtual instru-ment support with MIDI piano roll, enhanced
spec-tral editing options, fast fade and crossfade cont-rols,
and advanced multi-core support. With new multi-core processor
sup-port and an optimized mixing engine, Adobe Audition 3 helps
users save time by allowing them to work with more tracks and
effects on the same machine.
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Boris FX ships Boris Blue 2.0 |
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Boris Blue
version 2.0 which provides an Avid AVX 2.0 plug-in option as
well as a slew of new image treatment filters for “front room”
design production. The Avid plug-in support brings 3D motion
graphics with OpenGL rendering to the editor’s desktop. With
Boris Blue 2.0, Avid edi-tors can create sophi-sticated titles,
transitions, and other 3D elements within their workflow
including imported 3D models and particle emitters right in the
Avid timeline. Boris Blue 2.0 provides 3D Camera improvements,
where it gives the ability to put a camera on a user-defined
bezier path and have a camera automatic-ally stay focused on a
particular object or point in the scene while anima-ting
through 3D space.
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Apple, the technology company that has
spawned many a cult, has unveiled its awaited new iMac syste-ms
with three new Apple applications in India. Acco-mpanied by
Wireless Apple Mouse, iMac is built on the Intel Core 2Duo
technol-ogy, with ultra-thin alumin-um Apple keyboard.
In addition to the iMac systems, the apps that the company also
presented the latest version of iPhoto & |
gallery for online photo and video sharing.
Darren Sng, software product marketing mana-ger, Asia Pacific,
Apple, shared “The ‘Event’ featu-re in the iPhoto enables users to
segregate their co-llection of photographs on the basis of the date
on which pictures are clicked. While the iMovie ‘08 intro-duces an
entirely new way to quickly make movies and share them online.”
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iMovie, .Mac with new web
gallery and 10GB online |
On being asked
about the target audience and
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Apple iMac systems |
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storage and iWork ‘08 with
new “Numbers” Spreadsheet.
The speciality of the new iMac line includes Intel Core 2 Duo
processors, ul-tra-thin aluminum Apple Keyboard, built-in iSight
video camera and iLife ‘08. In lieu of the regular peri-pherals
(keyboard and mo-use), iMac can also be used with the latest Apple
cordl-ess keyboard and mouse. The do also launched iLife ‘08, which
is a suite made up of iPhoto & iMovie, both seamlessly integrated
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how these products can be
useful for animators, Sng cleverly remarked, “As ani-mators need to
work with a large number of pictures and require to create new
sound effects every time, the iPhoto and iMovie will prove very
handy in their animation projects.”
Sharing about the iMac, Melvyn Chen, desktop pro-duct marketing
manger, Asia Pacific, Apple opined, “The latest iMac line comes
with enhanced and glossy graphics which ma-ke the images much clear
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of a picture.”
Another significant unv-eiling was of the iWork ‘08, which
features new versions of Pages and Ke-ynote word processing and
presentation applications. It also introduces an inno-vative
spreadsheet applica-tion called ‘Numbers‘, which introduces the
con-cept of intelligent tables on a flexible canvas, a new approach
that makes it easy to organize informa-tion, create calculations,
analyze results and make spreadsheets look as great as they work. |
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Autodesk launches new versions of Visual Effects
and Finishing Systems |
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Autodesk has announced
the 2008 releases of the Autodesk Inferno,
Auto- |
Autodesk visual effects
and editing/ finishing pipe-line. “Autod-esk’s
new
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desk Flame and Autodesk Flint visual effects
systems, as well as the Autodesk Fire and Autodesk Smoke
editing/finishing systems.
These new releases are offered on Linux-based PCs, making
Autodesk’s visual effects and editi-ng/finishing products more
accessible to both high end and mid range markets. The new releases
deliver open file systems, allowing for improved interoperability
with third party applicati-ons, as well as 100 percent clip
compatibility across the
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visual effects and edit-ing/finishing
releases will create new work-flow pos-sibilities, allowing custom-ers
to share media through-out their facility using eith-er direct
attached storage, storage area network (SAN) or network attached
storage (NAS) configurati-ons,” said Stig Gruman, vice president of
Advan-ced Systems,
Autodesk Media & Ent-ertainment. “This ability to interoperate
with all techn-ologies present in the post-production facility
greatly
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enhances collaboration and data management,
which in turn, opens up new markets, including mid range post
production and broadcast.”
In addition, the 2008 re-leases feature an updated user
interface (UI) that is streamlined across the pro-ducts, making it
easier for artists to switch between applications. The new UI also
provides the user with more tools on the desktop. Highlights of
Autodesk’s 2008 Visual Effects and Editing/ Finishing Systems |
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