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Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 04:00 AM PDT



Over 200 next-generation filters re-engineered for 64-bit processing and OpenGL acceleration

Marlborough MA - April 12, 2010 - Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today announced Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE (BCC 7 AE). BCC 7 AE brings over 200 filters to Macintosh and Windows versions of Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro CS5, CS4, and CS3. The new release features 11 new filters including a 3-way color grade filter with built-in keying and masking tools, a new video noise reduction tool, a spline-based warp filter, an audio-driven keyframe generator, a new OpenGL particle engine, and still and video morph technology. Each Boris Continuum Complete filter has been re-engineered to take advantage of 64-bit processing and OpenGL acceleration.

"BCC 7 AE is the next generation of our award-winning visual effects plug-in suite," commented Boris Yamnitsky, president and founder, Boris FX. "Each filter harnesses the power of multiple 64-bit processors and modern graphics cards to deliver an interactive experience for editors and compositors. In addition, BCC 7 AE delivers highly sought-after technologies such as 3-way color grading, noise reduction, audio-driven keyframe generation, and still image and video morphing."

"BCC 7 AE is by far the most advanced release of BCC to date and represents a significant upgrade from earlier versions," commented Ned Soltz, Contributing Editor, DV Magazine. "OpenGL and 64-bit compatibility provide faster screen redraw as well as rendering. The new 3 Way Color Grade provides options for masking as well as motion tracking an area. And my favorite addition to the collection is the Beat Reactor technology, available within a number of the plug-ins, which sets keyframes to the clip's audio track. BCC users should not miss this upgrade. And for new users who may have shown some hesitancy in the past, now's the time to jump on the bandwagon. BCC AE is now a fully-mature 32 and 64 bit plug-in suite."

Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE New Feature Highlights

  • Adobe CS5 Support. Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE supports CS5, CS4, and CS3 under Macintosh OS X and 64-bit and 32-bit Windows operating systems.
  • BCC 3 Way Color Grade. provides a professional color grading process complete with three custom color wheels for pedestal/gamma/gain adjustment. The filter includes built-in masking and keying tools to isolate areas of secondary color correction. Separate color grading can be applied to the inside and outside of a mask, eliminating an extra compositing step.
  • BCC Noise Reduction smoothes out video noise using spatial and temporal information derived from the video clip - especially in dark areas of an image.
  • BCC Lens Blur emulates a popular lens blur or rack defocus effect where out-of-focus highlights of an image clip take on the shape of the lens shutter. The filter includes a gradient map layer to control the depth of focus.
  • BCC Lens Shape is a designer effect similar to a rack defocus effect where the shape of the bokeh can be imported from an external layer.
  • BCC Lens Transition is a wipe filter that applies a lens blur or rack defocus effect to the specular highlights of outgoing and incoming image clips.
  • BCC Beat Reactor automatically generates keyframes based on timeline audio. In addition to being available as a standalone After Effects keyframe generator, the Beat Reactor group is built into many existing BCC filters for easy access.
  • BCC Particle Array 3D creates a grid of particles oriented in 3D space. The filter fully supports After Effects' camera and lights.
  • BCC Pin Art 3D creates a pin board look based on a layer image.
  • BCC Warp is a spline-based warp tool that can be used to generate a wide range of distortion effects. Native After Effects masks are used to control the warps.
  • BCC Morph is a still image morphing tool designed to produce a smooth morph effect from one image to another similar image. The warps are guided by native After Effects masks.
  • BCC Video Morph is a video morphing tool designed to produce a smooth morph effect from one video clip to another similar video clip.
  • Other Enhancements include a split-screen preview mode for streamlined workflow and full support for Boris XML Transfer, an Adobe After Effects plug-in designed for seamless transfer of Apple Final Cut Pro program sequences to Adobe After Effects.

Pricing and Availability

Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE will be available in May 2010 for an MSRP of $995 USD. Owners of previous versions of Boris Continuum Complete AE may upgrade for an MSRP of $295 USD. Customers who purchase Boris Continuum Complete 6 AE as of April 12, 2010 will be eligible to receive a free upgrade to Boris Continuum Complete 7 AE.

Boris Continuum Complete 7 FxPlug for Apple Final Cut Studio and Apple Final Cut Express and Boris Continuum Complete 7 AVX for Avid editing and finishing systems are scheduled for release later in 2010. Customers who purchase Boris Continuum Complete 6 FxPlug or Boris Continuum Complete 6 AVX as of April 12, 2010 will receive a free upgrade to Version 7.

About Boris FX

Founded in 1995, Boris FX is the leading developer of integrated graphics and effects technology, delivering 3D compositing and vector graphic products for broadcast, post-production, film, and multimedia. Boris products have grown to serve millions of artists worldwide. The company's success lies in its ability to integrate and leverage technologies through strong partnerships with industry-leading developers such as Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Avid, Grass Valley, and Sony



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CS5 tutorials by Richard Harrington

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 03:35 AM PDT





Photoshop CS5: Extracting Images
In this video tutorial, Richard Harrington shows you how to use the brand new black & white adjustment in After Effects CS5.

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After Effects CS5: Black & White Adjustment
In this video tutorial, Richard Harrington shows you how to use the brand new black & white adjustment in After Effects CS5.

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Autodesk Media and Entertainment Selects Mellanox to Accelerate Multimedia

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 03:28 AM PDT



40Gb/s InfiniBand and 10 Gigabit Ethernet Networking Provides Artists and Visual Effects Editors with Real-Time Interaction for the Most Demanding Interactive Projects

(LAS VEGAS--April 13, 2010) Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MLNX)(TASE:MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end connectivity solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that the company's ConnectX®-2 Virtual Protocol Interconnect® adapter cards, supporting 40Gb/s InfiniBand and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and IS5030 40Gb/s InfiniBand switch systems with FabricIT™ fabric management software are included in Autodesk, Inc.'s applications: 2010 and 2011 versions of Autodesk® Smoke®, Autodesk® Flame®, and Autodesk® Lustre® creative finishing products. These Autodesk pre-configured systems provide digital artists and post-production professionals with fast access to file-sets as well as the power to accelerate on-the-fly rendering of in-session color grading decisions and HD and 2K real-time interactivity.

"We seek to increase value for our customers by providing creative finishing tools that grant greater control over final color and lighting effects, as well as improved workflows and efficiencies," said Marc Bolduc, product development manager, Autodesk Media & Entertainment. "The Autodesk pre-configured creative finishing systems help accelerate digital color grading and help collaboration using clustered CPUs connected via Mellanox 40Gb/s InfiniBand or 10 Gigabit Ethernet networking technologies, and provide faster access to data and extensive real-time interaction for demanding client-attended grading sessions."

"Digital effects manipulation, color grading, 3D rendering, and other staples of today's media production industry rely on rapid processing of enormous amounts of data," said John Monson, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. "By taking advantage of Mellanox InfiniBand and 10 Gigabit Ethernet networking, multimedia professionals can enhance productivity of creative finishing products like Autodesk Flame, Smoke and Lustre, gain faster access to media and large file-sets, thereby quickly gaining a return-on-investment on their Autodesk creative finishing systems."

Availability

Autodesk preconfigured creative finishing systems with Mellanox 40Gb/s InfiniBand and 10 Gigabit Ethernet networking is available today. To locate an Autodesk reseller, please visit http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/partner/search?id=1088201&siteID=123112.

About Autodesk

Autodesk, Inc., is a world leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering and entertainment software for the manufacturing, building and construction, and media and entertainment markets. Since its introduction of AutoCAD software in 1982, Autodesk continues to develop the broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art software to help customers experience their ideas digitally before they are built. Fortune 100 companies -- as well as the last 15 Academy Award winners for Best Visual Effects -- use Autodesk software tools to design, visualize and simulate their ideas to save time and money, enhance quality and foster innovation for competitive advantage. For additional information about Autodesk, visit http://www.autodesk.com.

About Mellanox

Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for servers and storage that optimize data center performance. Mellanox products deliver market-leading bandwidth, performance, scalability, power conservation and cost-effectiveness while converging multiple legacy network technologies into one future-proof solution. For the best in performance and scalability, Mellanox is the choice for Fortune 500 data centers and the world's most powerful supercomputers. Founded in 1999, Mellanox Technologies is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and Yokneam, Israel. For more information, visit Mellanox at http://www.mellanox.com.

Mellanox, BridgeX, ConnectX, InfiniBlast, InfiniBridge, InfiniHost, InfiniRISC, InfiniScale, InfiniPCI, and Virtual Protocol Interconnect are registered trademarks of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. CORE-Direct, FabricIT, and PhyX are trademarks of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. Autodesk, AutoCAD, Flame, Lustre and Smoke are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. Academy Award is a registered trademark of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.




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RAPID 2010 Conference & Exposition

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 03:15 AM PDT



Event Information

RAPID 2010 Conference & Exposition
Disneyland Hotel
Anaheim CA USA
May 18, 2010 to May 20, 2010

Description

RAPID is North America's Definitive Additive Manufacturing Event and is co-located with the 3D IMAGING Conference and Tradeshow. It attracts innovative leaders that are advancing manufacturing processes and providing tools to bring product to market faster. The combination of informative technical sessions, workshops and the industry's premier tradeshow brings buyers, sellers and end-users of design, prototyping, tooling, direct manufacturing and 3D imaging technologies together in an environment that facilitates networking and business.

This year's event, held in California for the first time, exposes additive manufacturing technologies to new users and industries. It offers technical sessions addressing several industries and applications including:

• Aerospace & Defense
• Arts & Entertainment
• Medical/Dental
• Sports & Recreational Equipment
• Casting
• Motor Vehicles
• Rapid Manufacturing
• 3D Imaging



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NVIDIA Quadro Unleashes High Resolution Real-Time Video Editing in Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 03:01 AM PDT



NAB 2010, LAS VEGAS (LVCC – Lower South Hall, #SL 5629) — April 12, 2010 —NVIDIA today announced that a range of NVIDIA® Quadro® professional graphics solutions are certified by Adobe for Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 software, and truly unleash the real-time video editing and effects processing capabilities of Adobe Premiere Pro® CS5.

This breakthrough version of Adobe Premiere Pro leverages the parallel processing architecture of NVIDIA GPUs and their hundreds of cores to allow film and video professionals to work unconstrained. Users can now create compelling, multi-layer projects with a virtually limitless number of HD or higher resolution video clips, then apply sophisticated visual effects and color correction, while still being able to view the output instantly.

By utilizing NVIDIA Quadro solutions, productivity is enhanced many times over by eliminating the wait for preview renders any time a change is made, and by being able to view projects at full resolution without skipping frames.

"Adobe CS5 with Quadro graphics is a godsend for production pros," said Matt Silverman, creative director/partner at San Francisco-based Bonfire and Phoenix Editorial. "When you add NVIDIA GPU acceleration to Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, the performance gains and time savings are enormous. There's simply no comparison between using CPU acceleration versus GPU acceleration. I can stack more layers and effects without affecting real-time playback, meaning I can be that much more creative in less time."

A cost-effective NVIDIA Quadro-based workstation with Adobe video software now enables film and video professionals to achieve the performance and creative freedom previously reserved for dedicated edit suite systems costing upwards of $100,000.

"With Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine, we are redefining the non-linear editing workflow with industry-leading performance acceleration that will deliver big productivity gains for our users," said Simon Hayhurst, senior director, product management for Digital Video and Audio Group at Adobe. "Performance and fidelity gains coupled with support for a range of NVIDIA cards deliver new capabilities for all professional workflows, enabling users as diverse as post-production studios, corporate videographers, film production, newsrooms – even video hobbyists – to tell their stories easily, with higher impact."

"If time is money, Adobe Creative Suite users just hit the lottery," said Andrew Cresci, NVIDIA general manager, vertical market solutions. "Breakthroughs of this nature are rare. With Adobe software running on NVIDIA GPUs, productivity increases, creativity is unconstrained, and creative professionals win."

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium, which includes Adobe Photoshop® Extended, Adobe® After Effects® and more, and Adobe Premiere Pro with the new Adobe Mercury Playback Engine that taps into the parallel processing capabilities of NVIDIA GPUs, is fully supported by a range of NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics solutions. Products certified by Adobe for professional use include the Quadro FX 5800, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX 4800 for Mac, Quadro FX 3800 and Quadro CX.

For information about NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics solutions recommendations on optimized workstations designed for Adobe Creative Suite 5, visit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/builtforadobepros.html.

Follow NVIDIA Quadro on Twitter: @NVIDIAQuadro.

About NVIDIA
NVIDIA awakened the world to the power of computer graphics when it invented the GPU in 1999. Since then, it has consistently set new standards in visual computing with breathtaking, interactive graphics available on devices ranging from tablets and portable media players to notebooks and workstations. NVIDIA's expertise in programmable GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel processing which make supercomputing inexpensive and widely accessible. The company holds more than 1,100 U.S. patents, including ones covering designs and insights which are fundamental to modern computing. For more information, see www.nvidia.com.





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ParticleFlow For Packshots

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 02:52 AM PDT



In this video tutorial Anselm von Seherr will shows you How to use ParticleFlow to create Packshots.

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Adobe CS5 Global Launch

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 02:36 AM PDT



Today at 15GMT Adobe hosted the Adobe CS5 global launch. It was opened by Shantanu Narayen - the President and Chief Executive Officer of Adobe Systems Incorporated. He said: "The Adobe CS5 is a phenomenal release which enables you – our customers to create without boundaries while speeding the creative process from concept to execution. In addition to providing great design tools we also focused on helping you to achieve maximum impact by reaching the broadest number of customers possible. In fact this is the goal of Flash Player 10.1."

The presentation was carried on by John Loiacono – Senior Vice President and General Manager of Adobe. He emphasized introduction of "Omniture content measurement and optimization services". Beginning his speech he said: "We are wildly excited to introduce the new version of Creative Suite, not because it is full of new great tools and features, but because these features are complemented by capability to solve real end-to-end workflow challenges. Today's creation may start with great tools but it has grown to much more than that. Workflow consists of creation of content, delivery of the content, viewing of the content on various kinds of devices, and finally testing and optimization of the content as you begin the cycle all over again. Omniture content measurement and optimization services will enable you to measure your contents performance either a book, an article, a web page or whatever you create on whatever device it can be used on. Thus it is not just about creation of great content anymore, but it's about ensuring that you can optimize the content. The first phase of this integration will appear in Adobe CS5 with much more to come".

Also John Loiacono presented Flash Player 10.1, which "provides uncompromised viewing of expressive applications, content, video on multitude gadgets".

For delivery of content he presented Flash Media server, Scene7 – Adobe dynamic video and image hosted service, and a new offering called Business Catalyst – the service for small to medium business, which provides integrated solution for web posting, e-mail marketing and customer analytics.

But now let's get to the tools provided by Creative Suite5.

First of all it was mentioned that CS5 provides dramatic time saving for every-day tasks, blazing fast performance including 64-bit for Mac, entirely new mercury video engine and also "eye bleeding cool features that will make your work stand out in the crowd".

The presentation was divided into several sections devoted to:

  • Adobe Creative Suite 5 for Design
  • Adobe Creative Suite 5 for Video Production
  • Adobe Creative Suite 5 For Web
  • Adobe Creative Suite 5 for Photography
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.1
  • Omniture Integration into Adobe CS5 Tools
  • New CS Live Online Services
  • Business Catalyst Online Business Platform for Web Designers

Now let's have a glance at the most interesting aspects of these products as announced by Adobe.

Adobe CS5 for Design.

Adobe Evangelist Terry White demos the hottest new CS5 features for designers, including new features in Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5, InDesign CS5, and Flash Catalyst.

  • Adobe Photoshop CS5 provides easier selection and moving of objects. Once you have selected and removed an object you can let Photoshop fill the gap in. It will intelligently figure out what would be there if the removed object had never existed in the image and then it will fill in the space. It looks amazing and must be really time saving.
  • Adobe Illustrator CS5. One of new features presented is the possibility to easily handle dashed lines. With one tap of a button dashes which don't line up with the corners are perfectly repositioned so that to line up with the corners.
  • CS review is one of SC life services. You can easily share your comments online right from within your application.
  • Adobe InDesign CS5. You can see your animation and videos right within your application and test them without the need to leave InDesign.
  • Adobe Flash Catalyst is a new product which provides a new way to create interactive content. You can create interactive content from your native Photoshop or Illustrator files without having to write codes. So if you are a designer you now have possibility to create your websites without a need to hire a developer.

Adobe CS 5 Production Premium.

Adobe Evangelist Jason Levine shows off cool new CS5 features for video pros, including the powerful tools in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, After Effects CS5, and more.

  • Adobe mercury playback and rendering engine offers breakthrough performance in HD production workflow. It is developed for native 64-bit application, which is Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.
  • After affects is now a truly 64-bit application. From now how much you can RAM preview depends only on how much RAM you have on your system.
  • Rotoscoping in Adobe After Effects CS5 is much easier and faster. Revolutionary Roto Brush changes the process of rotoscoping dramatically. There is no more need to painfully slowly draw masks frame by frame – After Effects will do it for you just in seconds.
  • Adobe Photoshop CS5 among other new features provides very natural and realistic painting tools.

Adobe CS5 for Web

Adobe Evangelist Greg Rewis shows off powerful new capabilities for web designers and developers in Adobe CS5, including features in Flash Professional CS5, Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, Adobe Flash Builder 4, and Adobe Flash Catalyst.

  • Adobe Flash Professional CS5. Now to change contents or size of several textboxes you don't need to do a lot of copying and pasting. You just link these textboxes together and when you shorten one of them the text flows from one textbox to another. And it works not only with roman language texts but also with vertical and right-to-left texts like Japanese.
  • Coding environment of Flash CS5 is improved. You can just click to "tell" the Flash that you would like to do your editing right there in Flash Builder 4 and Flash will hand off the code to Flash Builder 4. And when the coding is ready you just click a button to package things up and go to Flash Professional, where you can do your export. And you're not exporting just from web anymore, but from a variety of screens, including iPhone.
  • Adobe Photoshop CS5 has a lot of great new features for web-designers. One of them is that with a simple click of a button you can turn text images into real 3D objects with full control over them: you can turn them around, you can change the depth and scaling and control the texture. And all this without knowing 3D!
  • Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 allows you to check how your page will look in targeted browsers. And the BrowserLab allows you to choose from the great variety of Browsers.

Adobe CS5 for Photography

Adobe Evangelist Julieanne Kost demos magical new Photoshop CS5 features that will be invaluable not only to photographers, but also to designers and web and video.

  • There is a new handy panel in Photoshop for browsing and viewing files.
  • Handling HDR images became much easier. For example, you can with one click delete blurred areas made by the object which were moving between exposures. And you even can choose the exposure which you want Photoshop to pull the image from.
  • Noise reduction is improved. Image maintains its detail and contrast while reducing the noise.
  • Lens correction is an interesting special effect. It allows to automatically apply correction based on a camera and a lens used.
  • There is an option of painting from photograph or from scratch. And for the first time ever you can realistically blend colors using a new mixer brush tool.
  • Puppet Warp is a new amazing tool. With it you can choose points on an object and make natural distortions.

Adobe Flash Player 10.1

Danny Winokur, senior director of business development for the Adobe Flash Platform, walks you through how Flash Player 10.1 allows your content to reach your customers wherever they are.

- It allows the consumers to enjoy a complete web experience on a widest variety of devices than ever before – not only desktops and laptops, but also on netbooks, tablets, smart phones and even television.

Omniture Integration into Adobe CS5 Tools

Adobe senior director of product management Lea Hickman demonstrates how Adobe is delivering some of the power of Omniture to creative professionals in Adobe CS5 by integrating Omniture services directly into the creative workflow.

New CS Live Online Services

Adobe Evangelist Terry White demonstrates Adobe CS Live, a new set of five online services that accelerate key aspects of the creative workflow. CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time.

Business Catalyst Online Business Platform for Web Designers

Adobe director of product management Bardia Housman demonstrates this new hosted application for building and managing online businesses.

Adobe CS5 – User Video

In the end of the presentation John Loiacono summarized: "With CS5 you have the tools, let's see what you can do with them"





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Preview Adobe Premiere Pro CS5

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 01:53 AM PDT



Studio Daily has just previewed one of the new CS5 product :Adobe Premiere Pro

"Adobe Creative Suite 5 (CS5) has plenty of enhancements, but Premiere Pro received the biggest upgrade of all. Now Adobe's rock-solid editing software takes a step into a new era, running only on 64-bit operating systems such as Mac OS X and Windows Vista or Windows 7. Premiere Pro's been drastically improved, to such a profound extent that it could save you dozens of hours on every project you produce."

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