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APRIL 2001
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NEWS
•APRIL
2, 2001 Roxio,
the software division of Adaptec, has started shipping Toast 5 Titanium,
the latest release of the company's CD authoring software. The nbew
version offers a number of new features, including the ability to
burn to multiple drives simultaneously, support for DVD-R media
and Video CDs and burning directly from iTunes on the Mac. It also
has the ability to burn CDs in the background and has automatic
MPEG encoding capabilities. Read
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•APRIL
2, 2001 Sony
has started shipping a portable CD-RW drive that's powered by batteries
and can also act as a standalone CD and MP3 player. The new Digital
Relay drive uses a USB interface to connect to Macs (and Windows
machines) and weighs in at 11.9 ounces without battery, 15.2 ounces
with. Read
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•APRIL
2, 2001 Iomega
has started shipping its new Predator CD-RW drive with FireWire
connectivity. The new drive offers write speeds of 8x, rewrite speeds
of 4x and read speeds of 32x. The write speed is double that of
its USB drive, and the read speed is about five times as fast. Read
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NEWS
•APRIL
2, 2001 Macromedia
has announced that it will release the next version of its vector
illustration tool, FreeHand 10, for Mac, Mac OS X and Windows concurrently.
This makes FreeHand 10 not only the first professional vector illustration
program for OS X but also the first application to be released for
all three systems at once. Read
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NEWS
•MARCH
30, 2001 Dukane
has announced the XGA ImagePro 8750, a DLP projector that's compatible
with all Macs with plug and play operation, according to the company.
The 270 Watt SHP (Super High Performance) lamp provides 1,300 lumens
of on screen projection light with a contrast of 400:1 and 2,000
hours life for the lamp. Read
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NEWS
•MARCH
29, 2001 StageTools
has announced MovingPicture 2.0, a plugin for a number of NLEs and
compositing applications for Mac and Windows. MovingPicture is a
tool for documentary and industrial filmmakers to pan and zoom on
high-resolution images. It takes scanned images up to 4,000 pixels
and allows for repeatable pans and zooms directly from a nonlinear
editor’s timeline. Read
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NEWS
•MARCH
29, 2001
Aurora Video Systems has released an update to the software driver
for its Igniter video capture and editing boards. Version 3.1 adds
support for Apple Final Cut Pro 2.0 and Adobe Premiere 6.0. It also
offers full support of YUV color processing, so it renders without
scaling, conversion or clipping, according to Aurora. Read
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NEWS
•MARCH
28, 2001 Pinnacle
Systems today unveiled a system that will bring realtime editing
and effects to Apple's Final Cut Pro 2.0. The standard-definition
version of CineWave is schedule to ship this summer. Read
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NEWS
•MARCH
28, 2001 Microsoft
today released version 7 of its Windows Media Player for Macintosh.
The new player supports digital rights management and the newest
Microsoft codecs, including Windows Media Audio and Video 8, which
were also released today. Read
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NEWS
•MARCH
27, 2001 NewTek
announced today that LightWave 6.5 for Mac OS X final release is
available for download immediately on their Web site. Mac OS X shipped
in final form this last weekend. Read
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NEWS
•MARCH
26, 2001 Maxon
has announced the soon to be released version 7.0 of Cinema 4D XL,
its flagship modeling and animation package. The company says release
7 will focus on render quality and that "both the advanced lighting
technology and the render engine have been improved almost beyond
recognition." Read
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NEWS
•MARCH
23, 2001 CValley
late yesterday started shipping version 4 of its FILTERiT plugin
for Adobe Illustrator 8 and 9. The new version is available only
for the Macintosh, with a Windows version expected in May. Read
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NEWS
•MARCH
22, 2001 Kodak
today announced a 6 megapixel SLR in its line of DCS digital cameras.
The new DCS 760 uses Kodak's 6 megapixel camera back built on Nikon's
flagship F5 Pro digital SLR camera body. In addition to the back,
Kodak has also built in an ISO range of 80 to 400 (pushable two
stops), a burst rate of 1.5 frames per second and a burst depth
of 24 frames. (The camera will actually buffer up to 24 shots at
6 megapixels each before writing to the PC card.) Read
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