Apple has released Final Cut Pro X 10.0.8, an update to its video editing suite. The code adds several minor features, such as support for Sony’s XAVC codec up to 4K resolution, and the ability to display ProRes Log C files from ARRI ALEXA cameras with standard Rec 709 color and contrast levels. Time-reverse clips [...]
Autodesk has unveiled the latest version of its 3D modelling, animation and rendering suite, Maya 2014. The new version offers improved display technology, accelerated modeling workflows, robust new systems for handling complex data, and new creative toolsets. A new Modeling Toolkit panel presents a streamlined environment that enables artists to access new selection, transformation, and [...]
E-on Software has released LumenRT Studio 4, an upgrade of its 3D rendering tool. The software inserts 3D models into natural environments, and exports the results as stills and videos for use in presentations. Users can add animated animals, humans, vegetation, and water, as well as skies and appropriate interior and exterior lighting. Version 4 [...]
Cloud storage service Dropbox has released a significant update of its Mac client, bringing the software up to v2.0. The core change is the addition of a new drop-down interface, as accessed from the Menu Bar. The app should now also offer faster filesharing, including the ability to accept or reject shared files from the [...]
Native Instruments is now shipping KOMPLETE 9, an upgraded version of its instruments and effects bundle. The new edition incorporates 33 instruments and effects modules, including six new ones, namely the MONARK monosynth and the BATTERY 4 drum sampler. A variant of the bundle, KOMPLETE 9 ULTIMATE, gathers together all 65 KOMPLETE options in a [...]
Microsoft is offering students in US colleges access to the educational version of Office 365 at no charge. The free three months of access Office 365 University, doubled to six months after sharing the offer on Facebook, also includes an extra 20GB allocation of SkyDrive cloud-based storage and 60 minutes of Skype calls each month. [...]
Ableton has launched Live 9, a major update of its flagship music production software. Among changes in the suite are Session automation — the ability to record automation in real-time within a clip — and a overhauled browser, which locates instruments, effects, samples, and plugins within a single view, and supports dragging and dropping folders [...]
A Mac version of Editshare’s Lightworks video editing suite will be on display during April’s NAB show, the company has announced. The port is already on a delayed schedule, and may still have more time to go, since Editshare hasn’t made any mention of alpha or beta tests. The company is, however, shifting to a [...]
Oracle has released a new version of Java 7, Update 17. The patch is being released early, Oracle says, to cope with a security hole that is being “actively exploited by attackers to maliciously install the McRat executable onto unsuspecting users’ machines.” The vulnerability was made public late last week. It also fixes a second, [...]
Earlier this year, a major update to Manga Studio was released with a new UI and 64 bit support. But there has been a program that many fans of Smith -Micro Comics tools have been waiting for since they got to see the beta of it at Comic-Con last year. That tool is MotionArtist. The release [...]
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