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Kool Tools: LiveGrade

Kool Tools: LiveGrade

Posted by | Jul 21, 2015 | , |

Pomfort’s LiveGrade, a Mac OS X compatible tool gives DITs and DOPs a better control of their images and simplifies the color workflow on set and in the dailies process, now offers more functionalities to adjust and to compare looks directly on set.

LiveGrade is used in all kind of commercial, TV and cinema productions and removes creative and technical limitations commonly associated with color grading workflows. It allows users to import and export looks in 3D LUT, ASC-CDL, ALE, Alexa Looks and XML file formats.

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Canalys: Apple ships 4.2 million watches


Canalys: Apple ships 4.2 million watches

Posted by | Jul 21, 2015 | , |

Apple became the world’s leading vendor of wearable bands in the second quarter of 2015, according to Canalys (www.canalys.com) estimates.

With 4.2 million shipments, it easily overtook Fitbit, Xiaomi and all the smart watch vendors, despite the Apple Watch’s significantly higher pricing. Apple has done an excellent job designing its WatchKit SDK [software development kit], which it delivered “quickly and comprehensively,” says the research group.

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Output Factory for InDesign can now add serial numbers to file names

Posted by | Jul 21, 2015 | , |

Zevrix Solutions has released Output Factory 1.5.32, a feature update to its output automation solution for Adobe InDesign.

Output Factory lets users automatically print & export multiple InDesign files with an array of time-saving options. The software offers batch processing, export as single pages, variable file names, layer versioning, preflighting and more. The new version lets users automatically add sequential serial numbers to the variable names of exported output files.

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