Year: 2008

Adobe has introduced Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
version 4.0.1 software, a major update to the
leading start-to-finish professional video
production solution. A pivotal component of Adobe
Creative Suite 4 Production Premium, Adobe
Premiere Pro CS4 version 4.0.1 leads the way in
delivering open, flexible post-production
workflows by providing virtually seamless project
exchange with Final Cut Pro, Digidesign Pro
Tools, and Avid workflows.

Zenoss (http://www.zenoss.com/), a provider of commercial open source
systems management and network monitoring software, has added a
native Mac OS X installer for the latest version of Zenoss Core, an
open source IT monitoring product.

Forrester Research reports Mac OS X currently accounts for 4.5
percent of the business operating system market. This figure has
nearly quadrupled since Forrester’s previous research 19 months
before.

Workamajig (http://www.Workamajig.com), Creative Management’s
software program for ad agencies and others in the creative and
design industries, has been updated to version 10.0.1.0 to support
Adobe’s latest version of Flash (version 10) and for Mac OS X 10.5.5
(“Leopard”) and Safari 3.2.

Workamajig’s Flash foundation, introduced in May of this year, forms
the basis for future upgrades.

Toolfarm (http://www.toolfarm.com), a source of content, community
and commerce for professional visual effects and motion graphics
plug-ins, has announced the availability of a repository of
information related to Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4).

The new Adobe CS4 upgrade has a variety of upgrade options that can
be reviewed at http://toolfarm.com/adobecs4matrix.html; Toolfarm has
also created a CS4 compatibility chart for all third party plug-ins
available for viewing at http://www.toolfarm.com/CS4plugins

Noise Industries, developer of visual effects tools for the
post-production and broadcast markets, has announced that FxFactory
has expanded host integration support to include the newly released
Adobe After Effects CS4. In addition to the expanded host support,
there are four new plug-ins for FxFactory Pro users.

The new plug-ins are packaged in the FxFactory Pro 2.0.5 update and
include Random Close Up, Whoosh, Cube and Upscale. The Noise
Industries team is also offering a brand new Pan and Zoom plug-in
FxPack.