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Adobe Ships Creative Suite 5
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Breakthrough Interactive Design Tools and Innovative Online Services Maximize Impact of Creative Content and Digital Marketing Campaigns
SAN JOSE, Calif., — April 30, 2010 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of the Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 product family, the highly-anticipated release of the industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. With more than 250 new product features, the Creative Suite 5 product line brings exciting full-version upgrades of flagship creative tools and workflow enhancements to designers and developers — enabling the creation, delivery and optimization of content across media for greater impact and results.
The Adobe CS5 product family is powering the creation of content and applications for the upcoming releases of Flash® Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR® 2, which are optimized for high performance on mobile screens and designed to take advantage of native device capabilities for a richer, more immersive user experience. Featuring integration with online content and digital marketing measurement and optimization capabilities for the first time, Creative Suite 5 products include access to signature Omniture® technologies, to capture, store and analyze information generated by websites and other sources. Adobe Creative Suite 5 products also integrate with Adobe CS Live*, a set of five innovative online services that accelerate key aspects of the creative workflow and enable designers to focus on creating their best work (CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time). Read More→
CS5 is coming! Be there or be square!
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You've been wondering when the day would come, and here it is! Announcing: Adobe CS5! Join us online for a global launch of CS5 as we show you what's new. Take part with the Adobe online community for a real-time conversation where you can post comments and ask questions along with people from around the world as you watch. http://bit.ly/cs5signup_v
Although I am still under NDA, there are some awesome features in this suite! Such as #$%$##)%@@ and #$%^(^&_# !!!
Remember to tune into my live show from NAB too! I will be interviewing Simon Hayhurst from Adobe!
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@TOOLFARM APPOINTED WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTOR FOR VIDEO COPILOT
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Provider of unique plug-ins and artistic tools looks to Toolfarm.com to expand sales presence; enhancing the one-stop shop experience for visual effects artists
San Francisco, CA – March 24, 2010 – Toolfarm.com Inc., the leading source of content, community and commerce for professional visual effects and motion graphics plug-ins, announced today its distribution partnership with Video Copilot, expanding its range of online software and service offerings for the creative community. Video Copilot is recognized among visual effects artists for its progressive web presence, offering high-quality tools for motion graphics and visual effects. In addition to delivering powerful and distinctive tools that amplify artistic creation and capabilities, the unique website also offers free tutorials in various facets of post-production.
Toolfarm.com, which serves the global creative community, will carry Video Copilot's entire list of plug-ins and animation footage products, including Twitch, for creating virtual chaos and stylistic video effects in After Effects®; Optical Flares, a 3D lens flare creation studio for After Effects; and the Action Essentials series, their live action pre-keyed HD footage. Read More→
VIMEO LAUNCHES ADVANCED STATISTICS FOR PLUS MEMBERS
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Site Provides In-Depth Analysis of Users’ Videos Including Embed Data, Daily Volume & Geography
NEW YORK, March 2, 2010 – Vimeo®, an operating business of IAC [NASDAQ: IACI], launched its new Advanced Statistics feature today, which provides Vimeo Plus members with detailed information on the playback of their videos. Plus members can now see video analytics broken down by date range, geography, and embed location.
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Oxford Film Festival – An Eye Opening Experience
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I recently had an opportunity to accept an invitation to the Oxford Film Festival to be on a panel and to do a workshop. This was my first journey to one of the smaller festivals on the circuit. I must say going to this festival was definitely an eye-opening experience for me.
See for many years I only saw festivals such as Sundance, Cannes, Toronto as festivals filmmakers such as myself would want to go to. Why? Because that's where the buyers were. Not only were they great festivals but distribution and sales reps were there. To be quite honest I always thought the smaller festivals were a bit of a waste of time. Boy was I wrong.
Lucky for me on the van ride from Memphis to Oxford I was joined by a charming fellow named Chris Holland. Not only is Chris a cool guy but he is all knowing in the realm of film festivals. He even wrote a book about it: Film Festival Secrets. During my stay there we had a lot of time to hang out together at events and he really drilled in my head the importance of small festivals for filmmakers. Read More→
Cinedeck Debuts Industry’s First Camera-Mountable, Extremely High Quality Recording, Monitoring, Playback and Editing Device
NEW YORK, NY (February 9, 2010) -- Cinedeck (www.cinedeck.com) today announced the debut of the world’s first camera-mountable, HDMI/HDSDI recording, monitoring, playback and editing device for the production community. Designed by cinematographers for cinematographers, Cinedeck defines an entirely new category of extremely portable, affordable, platform agnostic, cinema-grade recording and monitoring solutions for anyone with an HDMI or HDSDI camera.
Cinedeck is:
Extremely Portable: measuring 5”x8”x3.5” and weighing less than 4 pounds, Cinedeck is camera-mountable and stores (with all cables and accessories) in a space no larger than a shoe box; Read More→
VIMEO EXPANDS ITS VIDEO PLAYBACK CAPABILITIES WITH LAUNCH OF HTML5 PLAYER
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NEW YORK, Jan. 21, 2010 – Vimeo®, an operating business of IAC [NASDAQ: IACI], today added a second playback option for all of its members who use the Chrome or Safari browsers with the public beta launch of its new HTML5 player.
“We are committed to providing our users with high quality viewing options,” said Andrew Pile, Vimeo Vice President of Product and Development. “Many of our members asked for HTML5 support and we listened. We look forward to seeing the results of this beta test.” Read More→
NewTek Launches HD Portable Live Production System
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NewTek TriCaster™ TCXD300 offers HD/SD live switching, live HD virtual sets, live HD streaming and more
SAN ANTONIO – NewTek Inc., manufacturer of industry-leading video and 3D animation products, today announced that it has launched TriCaster™ TCXD300, a product that redefines portable live production with benefits that include high definition and standard definition (HD and SD) live multi-camera switching, full HD streaming, live HD virtual sets, HD titling, HD digital disk recording, HD editing, audio mixing, efficient workflow, multiple effects layers and much more.
"NewTek TriCaster TCXD300 represents a breakthrough in portable live production, allowing users to more successfully engage audiences, deliver messages and events, build brands and create new revenue streams. Customers can now produce network-quality HD or SD output, access unprecedented effects and layering capabilities, and take advantage of the most powerful virtual set technology available," said Andrew Cross, executive vice president, engineering, NewTek. "As the newest member of our TriCaster product line, this system combines industry-leading performance and ease-of-use to suit the diverse goals of producers ranging from beginners to seasoned professionals." Read More→
Fuze Movie Solves Challenges of Remote, Distributed Review and Approval Workflow with Collaborative, Synchronized Shared Media Experience
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (January 19, 2010) – Fuze Box (www.fuzebox.com) today announced it is entering the content creation and post production marketplace with the launch of Fuze Movie. Fuze Movie is a real-time collaborative media review and approval solution created specifically for editors, VFX artists and digital media designers faced with the challenges of collaborating with numerous remote, and often widely distributed colleagues and clients. Combining an industry-unique frame accurate media player with seamless real time collaboration capabilities, Fuze Movie creates a cost-effective, efficient and easy digital media review and approval workflow experience for users.
Leveraging Skype as its communications backbone, Fuze Movie effectively eliminates the frustrations and inefficiencies of collaborating across distributed workgroups by creating a real time shared workflow environment for anyone with a computer and an Internet connection. Fuze Movie is based on the highly acclaimed review and approval solution, syncVUE, which was acquired by Fuze Box in 2007. Michael Buday, the industry renown editor who created syncVUE, is now the Company’s chief software designer and principal developer of Fuze Movie. Read More→
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