Year: 2006

Nattress releases plug-ins for Silicon Color’s Final Touch

Posted by | Feb 7, 2006 | |

Nattress today announced the release of “Advanced Plugins for FinalTouch,” a suite of plug-ins that enhance the capabilities of FinalTouch SD, Finaltouch HD and FinalTouch 2k, and include, a de-interlacer, 2-Strip and 3-Strip Technicolor simulation looks and a suite a tools for dealing with chroma sampling issues from DV and HDV. All the plug-ins are written to take advantage of FinalTouch’s real time, GPU based ColorFX architecture. “Advanced Plugins for FinalTouch” is priced at US$495, and a demo version is also available.

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Faq-Mac launches Macs in famous places database

Posted by | Feb 7, 2006 | |

Our Spanish partners at www.faq-mac.com have launched a database of Macs appearing on television and movies. “Have you ever felt ‘weird’ because you can’t avoid pointing out a Mac appearing on TV or in a movie and crying out ‘Look! Austin Powers uses a Mac!!!’ If your answer is ‘yes,’ now you know… you are not alone. Our mission in MacMDB is create the biggest data base with movies and TV series images where any Apple product can be seen.

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Videocue, Videocue Pro 2.5 released

Posted by | Feb 7, 2006 | |

Vara Software today announced it is shipping Videocue and Videocue Pro 2.5, its complete tele-prompting, recording and publishing package for Mac OS X. Videocue enables users to create professional looking videoblogs and, for most weblogs, the software includes the ability to publish the result directly to a Videoblog. This release offers Universal Binary support for Intel-based Macs, and more.

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OWC drops prices on Mercury Elite-AL external drives

Posted by | Feb 7, 2006 | |

Other World Computing (OWC) today announced that it is lowering prices on its award-winning Mercury Elite-AL Pro FireWire 800/400 models. “The sleek external aluminum drives utilize the Oxford 912 Chipset and the leading hard disk mechanisms on the market to provide reliable, high performance storage. All Mercury Elite-AL models are EMC/Dantz Backup Certified.” Price reductions are as follows:

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Digital-Tutors releases Zbrush and Maya training

Posted by | Feb 6, 2006 | |

Digital-Tutors today announced the availability of its “ZBrush and Maya Integration” training kit, the newest release in an expanding library of interactive video-based training. Ideal for students, professionals, and companies using ZBrush as part of their creative workflow, “ZBrush and Maya Integration” provides a “unique approach to learning breakthrough concepts with over 5 hours of comprehensive training.” ZBrush and Maya Integration is priced at US$55.99.

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