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ARCHIVE NEWS: Friday, April 29, 2005
News: Zaxwerks brings Grace and Majesty to After Effects and Premiere
Zaxwerks, creator of the award-winning 3D Invigorator software, has today released a new plug-in called 3D Flag. The 3D Flag software can take any picture or movie and turn it into a realistic flag animation. The plug-in works inside of Adobe After Effects and Premier Pro.
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News: Apple Unleashes “Tiger” Friday at 6:00 p.m.
Mac OS® X version 10.4 “Tiger,” the next major release of the world’s most advanced operating system, will go on sale Friday at 6:00 p.m. at participating Apple® Authorized Resellers and Apple retail stores worldwide. All 105 Apple retail stores will host “Tiger World Premiere” events from 6:00 p.m. to midnight offering workshops and hands-on demonstrations of Tiger’s hottest features, plus giveaways at every store including a chance to win a PowerBook® G4, iPod® and more.
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News: FOR-A Introduces VPS-700 GINGA Switcher at NAB
Compact, Versatile SD Switcher Is Signal Processing’s “Big Bang”
FOR-A Corporation of America, a leading manufacturer of video and audio systems for the broadcast and professional video industries, introduced the next generation of its VPS series of switchers, the VPS-700 GINGA, during NAB 2005.
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News: BOXX Announces Powerful New Dual Core Processor 64-bit Workstations
New BOXX 7400 Workstations Deliver the Power of AMD Opteron Dual Core Processors for Outstanding System Performance and Reliability
BOXX Technologies, the leading workstation company offering systems that are as powerful as they are easy to integrate, announces the BOXX 7400 series of workstations featuring dual AMD Opteron™ Dual Core processors and the NVIDIA® nForce® Professional Media and Communications Processors .
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News: Adobe Photoshop CS2 Now Shipping
Highly Anticipated Upgrade to Adobe Photoshop Includes New Vanishing Point Feature, Camera Raw 3.0 Workflow Improvements, Smart Objects and Customizable Menus
Adobe Systems Incorporated today shipped Adobe® Photoshop® CS2, a major upgrade to the professional industry standard for digital image editing and creation. Available as a stand-alone software application or as a component of the Adobe Creative Suite® 2, also shipping today , Photoshop CS2 software is equipped with indispensable new features and simplified workflows delivering a greater level of power, precision and control to photographers, film, video and creative professionals.
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News: Adobe Creative Suite 2 Now Shipping
Adobe Photoshop CS2, InDesign CS2, Illustrator CS2, GoLive CS2 and InCopy CS2 Also Available Today
Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Creative Suite 2 software. Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium Edition integrates new full-version upgrades of indispensable design software -- Adobe Photoshop® CS2 , Adobe InDesign® CS2, Adobe Illustrator® CS2 and Adobe GoLive® CS2 -- with the all-new Version Cue® CS2. It also introduces the Adobe Stock Photos service , Adobe Bridge and includes the recently released Adobe Acrobat® 7.0 Professional. Adobe Photoshop CS2, InDesign CS2, Illustrator CS2 and GoLive CS2 are also available today as standalone software products. In addition, Adobe InCopy® CS2, a professional writing and editing program that integrates tightly with Adobe InDesign CS2 software, is shipping today.
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News: Adobe Video Collection Professional 2.5 Now Shipping with Photoshop CS 2
New Video Features Ideal for 3D Rendering and Advanced Compositing
Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the Adobe® Video Collection 2.5 Professional edition will now include Adobe Photoshop® CS 2 software, a major upgrade to the professional industry standard for digital image editing and creation. Adobe Video Collection 2.5 Professional edition includes Adobe Premiere® Pro 1.5, Adobe After Effects® 6.5, Adobe Audition® 1.5, Adobe Encore™ DVD 1.5, and now Adobe Photoshop CS 2 software. The addition of Photoshop CS2 will put even more power, precision and control in the hands of film and video professionals to create high-impact, broadcast-quality images and effects.
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News: BakBone Announces Industry's First 64-Bit Backup and Recovery Solution for Mac OS X Tiger Environments
BakBone Software™ , a global provider of data protection software, today announced a comprehensive data protection server solution for Apple's Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger. BakBone is the first backup and recovery solution provider to announce 64-bit support for Tiger, and has successfully completed initial compatibility testing between BakBone's NetVault software and the Tiger platform.
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News: Apple Upgrades Power Mac G5 Line
New Power Mac Features Dual 2.7 GHz Processors & Mac OS X “Tiger”
Apple® today unveiled the fastest, most powerful Power Mac® G5 desktop line ever, featuring dual 64-bit PowerPC G5 processors running up to 2.7 GHz and including Mac OS® X version 10.4 “Tiger,” the world’s most advanced operating system. The new Power Mac G5 line delivers higher performance graphics options with more memory and built-in support for Apple’s breakthrough 30-inch Cinema HD Display on the 2.7 GHz model. The new line also includes larger hard drives, a faster 16X SuperDrive™ with double-layer support and 512MB of memory across the line.
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News: Apple Reduces Prices on Cinema Displays
Apple® today announced that it has made its award-winning line of widescreen flat panel Cinema Displays more affordable than ever by reducing the price of the 20-inch model to just $799 and the 23-inch HD model to just $1,499. In addition, Apple’s new 2.7 GHz Power Mac® G5s and 1.67 GHz 17-inch PowerBooks now feature built-in support to directly drive Apple's groundbreaking 30-inch Cinema HD Display, saving customers hundreds of dollars.
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News: Imagineering Institute Is Expanding
The Imagineering Institute is pleased to anounce the hiring of Michal Carlino as the Director of Operations. As Director Of Operations Michael will be handling the day to day operations of The Imagineering Institute.
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News: Birns & Sawyer Purchases 25 Panasonic AG-HVX200 Camcorders
Birns & Sawyer, Inc. , a premiere rental and sales firm serving the motion picture industry, has placed an initial order for 25 AG-HVX200 DVCPRO HD P2 hand-held cameras, the world’s first 1080i/720p/480i multi-format camcorder.
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News: Abel Cine Tech to Host Panasonic Post NAB Open House in New York City
Spotlight on Show Hit, AG-HVX200 DVCPRO HD P2 Handheld Camcorder
Prominent film, HD and digital camera equipment supplier Abel Cine Tech Inc. will present a Panasonic “Post NAB” open house Wednesday, May 11, at its New York City location, 609 Greenwich Street, 5th floor , noon – 6 pm.
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Siggraph 2005
News: SIGGRAPH 2005 Announces Best of Show Award and Jury Honors for the Computer Animation Festival
ACM SIGGRAPH today announced the Computer Animation Festival's Best of Show Award and Jury Honors winners for SIGGRAPH 2005, the 32nd International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, being held 31 July through 4 August 2005 in Los Angeles, California.
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News: Digital River Provides E-Commerce Infrastructure for Adobe Stock Photos
New Adobe Service Enables Creative Professionals to Purchase Royalty-Free Images Through Adobe Creative Suite 2
Digital River, Inc. , a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, today announced it is providing the e-commerce infrastructure for the new Adobe® Stock Photos service. Working with Adobe Systems Incorporated, Digital River built the international e-commerce infrastructure for the new stock photography service available in Adobe Creative Suite 2 applications. Digital River is processing the online orders from the new Adobe Stock Photos service where consumers can purchase more than 230,000 royalty-free images from well-known stock photo companies.
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Illustrator CS 2 Overview
 | Inside Illustrator CS2: Live Paint
Creative Cow Leader Franklin McMahon demonstrates the new Live Paint feature in Adobe Illustrator CS 2 which makes coloring vector images a snap.
Adobe Illustrator CS, Product Overview |
Illustrator CS 2 Overview
 | Inside Illustrator CS2: New Features
Creative Cow Leader Franklin McMahon examines some of the new features in Adobe Illustrator CS 2 including the control palette, underline links, custom work spaces and exports such as SWF, SVG and PDF.
Adobe Illustrator CS, Product Overview |
Illustrator CS 2 Overview
 | Inside Illustrator CS2: Live Trace
Creative Cow Leader Franklin McMahon goes over the new Live Trace feature in Adobe Illustrator CS 2.0 that helps create bitmap images to vector illustrations.
Adobe Illustrator CS, Product Overview |
Flash
 | Flash Video Basics: Part Four
Creative COW leader Lee Brimelow moves on to implementing a scrubber and progress bar in this fourth installment of his series on Flash video basics.
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Photoshop CS2 Overview
 | Inside Photoshop CS2: New Tools
Creative Cow leader Franklin McMahon goes over some of the new features and tools in the brand Photoshop CS2 including type previews, spot healing, red eye removal, creating menu sets, video output and web galleries.
Adobe Photoshop CS, Product Overview |
Photoshop CS2 Overview
 | Inside Photoshop CS2: Adobe Bridge
Creative Cow Leader Franklin McMahon shows the new Adobe Bridge, the file browser that works between Photoshop and the rest of the Creative Suite 2 Programs.
Adobe Photoshop CS, Product Overview |
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NAB 2005 Report
 | Confessions of a Zaxwerks Booth Buddy--NAB 2005
The following article by Creative COW leader Jon Okerstrom contains his impressions of NAB, from a newbie's perspective. Buried in the story are some tidbits about the upcoming release of ProAnimator 4 (really cool stuff!) and some other hints of things to come.
Zaxwerks, NAB 2005 |
HUGE
 | HUGE HMV-FCR 800-M
CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Joaquin Gil writes a beefy review for us. Read on to see why he says, "Good stuff performs as it should, works smoothly. It does not pretend to be all things to all people. Does what it is supposed to with effectiveness, even with elegance. The HUGE HMV-FCR 800-M FIBRE CHANNEL MEDIA VAULT meets and exceeds all expectations, and I am known to be picky. There is a dual model and the top capacity is four Terabytes. You are forgiven if you are starting to drool. Luckily the cure is not expensive. The relation of Dollars to Gigabytes that HUGE handles is justly famous and envied. At the last NAB they had the best density per dollar I've known of, and they were playing 2K film out of three of these 4Gb drives, something no one else even approached. I want more of these babies around."
Product Reviews, Storage |
NAB 2005 Report
 | NewTek's TriCaster™
CreativeCOW leader, Robert Wilson says of NewTek's TriCaster™: Smothering Doubts with Awards, "This years NAB delivered on the promises of bigger, better and cooler. NewTek's TriCaster™ came away as the coolest of them all and for good reason: it's insanely fantastic."
NAB 2005 Report |
NAB Preview
 | NAB Preview: What to See, Where to Go, How to Survive!
NAB 2005 shows every sign of being, once again, in the boom years. Every indication from accommodation bookings to event attendance suggests that this will be the year that NAB comes back from the doldrums. People are ready to talk business and spend money again. In this article, Philip Hodgetts tells us where to go, what to see and how to survive.
NAB 2005 |
Combustion
|  | Runaway Training: Combustion Underground Training DVDs
In this article, CreativeCOW.net contributing editor Jim Harvey reviews Combustion Underground Training DVDs by Lee 'Rod' Roderick from Runaway Training. Read the review to find out why Jim gave this training 5 COWs.
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Premiere Pro
|  | Premiere Pro 1.5 Studio Techniques
CreativeCOW.net leader and contributing editor Tim Kurkoski gives rave reviews to Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 Studio Techniques by Jacob Rosenberg and published by Adobe Press, 504 pages, June 28, 2004, ISBN: 0321220528. Tim says, "If you use Premiere Pro, and your name isn't Jacob Rosenberg (or possibly Tim Kolb), you should look at this book. In fact, you should probably buy it. Jacob, well known for his in-depth Total Training videos, has written the most comprehensive book about Premiere Pro available. From top to bottom, almost everything about Premiere Pro 1.5 is covered in this book and the accompanying DVD, from setting up a computer for editing to exporting for DVD."
Adobe Premiere, Book Reviews |
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