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A Free Set of Tools for Knoll Light Factory Pro

Introducing Knoll 3D Flare (Beta), a new free set of tools that allows you to easily create Knoll Lens Flares in After Effects 3D space. This add-on for
Knoll Light Factory Pro 2.5 in After Effects includes fantastic features like Edge flare-ups, color linking, Z-depth intensity, and full 3D obscuration.

Features

• 3D Camera Aware: Link a lens flares to a 3D Light's XYZ position.
• Z-Depth: Distance of flare from camera effects flare's intensity.
• Color Linking: Light color effects flare color.
• Intensity Linking: Light intensity effects flare's intensity.
• Multiple Lights: Apply to every light in your comp.
• World Scale: Control the amount of flare scaling relative to a light's distance from the camera
• Edge Flareup: As flares near the edge of the comp they automatically brighten and flareup replicating natural lens phenomena.
• Full 3D Obscuration: All 3D layers in your composition can be used to obscure the flare. As the 3D light travels behind a layer, the flare dims and goes out.
• Full RGB Obscuration: As the flare passes behind one or many semi-transparent layers, it mixes the layer colors into the flare.
  

System Requirements: Adobe After Effects (CS3, CS4) + Knoll Light Factory Pro 2.5

Quick Links

• Watch a tutorial on Knoll 3D Flare. (pops)
• Download Knoll 3D Flare.
• Download a trial version of Knoll Light Factory Pro
• Buy Knoll Light Factory Pro 2.5 (New $399, $99 Upgrade)
  

Reasons to Buy Knoll Light Factory

• Used in movies such as Avatar, Transformers 1 & 2, The Day After Tomorrow, the Star Trek series, and Dreamgirls.
• Designed by Academy Award-winner John Knoll, visual FX supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic.
• GPU acceleration delivers blistering render speeds.
  

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Steve Forde, president of GridIron Software, said that the GridIron Flow public beta 3 will expire on July 1st. Get the GridIron Flow public beta 3 here while you can. More news to come on Flow.

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A public beta of BCC 6 AVX for Avid editing and finishing systems is now available! Get It Now

BCC 6 AVX brings nearly 200 filters to Avid Media Composer, Avid NewsCutter, and Avid Symphony. The new release features 15 new filters including Extruded Spline, Layer Deformer, Cartoon Look, Lightning, and Swish Pan. In addition, BCC 6 AVX delivers unique workflow enhancements such as the ability to animate a BCC filter in Adobe After Effects and transfer the animation to the Avid timeline – while preserving After Effects keyframes.

Labels: Avid, AVX, Boris, Boris Continuum Complete, public beta

Check out the New Tutorials for Flow. Flow is still in public beta. You can download the beta here: Toolfarm Demos. Look under Standalone for the Flow Beta.

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A public beta of BCC 6 FxPlug for Apple Pro Video Applications is now available!

BCC 6 FxPlug brings over 200 filters to Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Final Cut Express. In addition to new features included with the recently-released BCC 6 AE for Adobe - such as Extruded Text, Splines, and Shapes - BCC 6 FxPlug takes advantage of Apple FxPlug's real-time architecture for simultaneous live previews of dozens of preset transitions, glows, and color and film look effects in a newly-designed effects browser window. Code-named "Popcorn", this new technology delivers the best of Boris on Apple's FxPlug platform.

Have feedback regarding the Public Beta? Please e-mail publicbeta@borisfx.com

Note: Customers who purchase BCC 5 FxPlug or BCC 5 AVX now will receive a free upgrade to Version 6 when it is available.

Labels: Boris Continuum Complete, FxPlug, public beta

The Ozone 4.0 Open Beta is a free, fully functional version of Ozone 4.0. Download it here.

With the Open Beta, you can:

e-on's Ozone 4.0 supports 3ds Max, Maya, XSI, Cinema 4D or Lightwave
• Create entirely new atmospheres. Includes 150+ modifiable presets
• Includes 140+ customizable cloud shapes
• Animate the atmosphere, the clouds and the sun
• Render images with no size limit
• Save and export your work

The Open Beta of Ozone 4.0 is a free, non limited version of Ozone that you can use as much as you like for the duration of the beta period. You may not use the Open Beta after the product is released commercially.

You are welcome to use the Open Beta for commercial work, provided that you purchase a full license of the product as soon as it is released commercially (even if the work was done with the Open Beta).

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Steve Forde of GridIron Software says "Today we announced when you will finally be able to download a product that has been in the works for a VERY long time. It's an ambitious app - and has had its fair share of challenges to say the least. But its potential - and the way it has come together have been SO worth it."

I've seen it demo'd a few times and I don't think Steve is exaggerating a bit. We'll keep you up to date with announcements on Flow, especially when you can get it!

Labels: GridIron Flow, public beta

Achieving new levels in animation, illumination, hair and fur, rendering and workflow

SAN ANTONIO, Texas – August 7, 2008 – NewTek Inc., manufacturer of industry-leading 3D animation and video products, today announced the release of LightWave® v9.5 for Windows®, a major update to its award-winning 3D application, LightWave 3D®. LightWave v9.5's new capabilities include FiberFX, a complete hair and fur solution, a new lighting system and many improvements to animation, rendering and workflow. The update is available to registered owners of LightWave v9 series at no charge. SIGGRAPH attendees can see LightWave v9.5 demonstrations at NewTek booth #159.

"With so many features and enhancements in LightWave v9.5, users suggested that we could release it as v10. Customer feedback has been positive," said Jay Roth, president of 3D division, NewTek. "LightWave is the application choice of Emmy® winners, and is seeing increasing use in feature film projects. With this new version, the LightWave community is experiencing a renaissance."

A highlight of LightWave v9.5 is FiberFX, a proprietary polygonal fiber modeler for creating realistic hair, fur and feathers. It provides artists with a full suite of tools to model and style each fiber, create volumetric shadows, render-in reflection and refraction and more.

LightWave v9.5 also offers improved rendering quality and speed, with major upgrades to the radiosity sampling system and interpolated modes. Also, there are new disk-based caches for radiosity: the Static Cache, for animations where only the camera moves; and the Animated Cache, where any element of the scene can move. Both types allow the user to pre-render the cache and apply the solution when doing the full scene render – either locally or across a render farm. LightWave radiosity can now be rendered at reduced resolution and applied to the full size final render, providing a higher quality output with even faster render times, a huge benefit for today's time-pressured production environment.

LightWave v9.5's IK and animation system includes numerous improved character animation controls. Adding to LightWave's z-axis bones, artists now have joint-type bones, which is more familiar for users of other programs with joint-based metaphors. It also adds a "stretchy bones" capability to LightWave.

The lighting system is now a plug-in API, allowing third parties to create custom lights and lighting plug-ins. IES lights have been added with a thumbnail preview of the luminaire with other information and controls. Also available are new size-selectable spherical lights and dome lights.

LightWave v9.5 allows the import and export of FBX and Collada scenes and objects. This greatly improves compatibility with other 3D applications, as you can now seamlessly transfer meshes, rigs, materials and animation information. The LightWave OBJ I/O plug-in now provides extended import capability for this file type.

LightWave v9.5 Update Includes:

Character Animation Enhancements

• Hair and Fur System
  
• Collada, FBX and OBJ I/O support
  
• Enhanced IK and Animation Systems

Lighting, Rendering and Surfacing Enhancements

• Lighting System is now an API
  
• IES, Spherical and Dome Light types
  
• Enhanced Area and Linear Lights
  
• Faster and higher quality GI Rendering
  
• Disk-Based GI Caching
  
  Static Cache (only the Camera moves)
  Animated Cache (anything moves)
  
  
• Interpolated Soft Reflections/Refractions for Node-base surfacing
  
• Oren-Nayar Shading Option for Many Materials
  
• Optimized Materials and Shaders

SDK and LScript Improvements

• Light Plug-in Class for Third Party Lights and Light Plug-ins
  
• SDK Support for New GI Functions and Disk Cache
  
• SDK Support for New IK and Animation Capabilities

UI and Workflow Enhancements

• Composition Tool Overlays in Camera View
  
• OpenGL GLSL Enhanced View for New Lighting System
  
• Audio Waveform in the Graph Editor

NewTek will be providing a free trial edition of LightWave v9.5 on disc and by download. Artists should note that there are now more than 24 hours of free LightWave training at www.lightwave3d.com, in addition to an extensive library of printable tutorials.

Numerous visual effects projects benefited from LightWave's world-class capabilities such as "Iron Man," "The Dark Knight," "Hancock," "Jumper," "The Ruins," "300," "The Guardian," and Visual Effects Emmy-winning "Battlestar Galactica." LightWave has been used in other hit shows, including, "The Sarah Connor Chronicles," "Jericho," "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "CSI Miami," and "Dogfights."

Pricing and Availability

LightWave v9.5 for Windows is available now as a free update to registered LightWave v9 owners. The LightWave v9.5 Mac open beta program is currently available until upcoming final release. LightWave v9 owners can participate by registering at: http://register.newtek.com/. LightWave v9 is available now at the suggested retail price of US$895. Registered owners of LightWave v8 or earlier can upgrade to LightWave v9 for US$395. For more information or to purchase, please visit newtek.com or call NewTek Sales at 800-368-5441, for international inquiries dial +1-210-370-8000.

About NewTek

With headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, NewTek is an Emmy® Award-winning and leading provider of full-featured animation and special effects tools, video editing, live production and presentation, including LightWave 3D®, LightWave Rendition^TM for Adobe® Photoshop®, TriCaster^TM, TriCaster PRO^TM, TriCaster STUDIO^TM, TriCaster BROADCAST^TM, VT[5]^TM, SpeedEDIT^TM and 3D Arsenal.^TM

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About cineSync:

cineSync is a remote review and approval tool based on Apple QuickTime technology. By synchronizing the timeline and playback of movies, you can quickly and efficiently view your work at the same time with anyone anywhere in the world.

Build a playlist of movies, scrub to a point in a movie, playback a movie, draw on the screen with your mouse, circle and point to areas using the drawing tools – all synchronized in real time with everyone else in your review. You can also navigate through your playlist using Text Markers ('Bookmarks'), transfer your movies using a built-in FTP client, and save your drawings for future reference.

cineSync offers an unparalleled user experience, making it possible for your clients to participate in a review session without needing their own account. All they need to do is download a small self-contained package, and login using a key that is unique per-review session. Movies are never transferred through the cineSync servers, ensuring that your reviews are secure, and your media never leaves the privacy of your own file servers.

Features/What's New in the Pro Version:

• Run multiple simultaneous sessions.
• Use without an internet connection in offline mode.
• Run in Full screen (see above).
• Play stereoscopic QuickTimes (with synchronized convergence controls).
• Apply soft or hard masks in any aspect ratio.
• Perform synchronized colour adjustments.
• Apply 3D LUTs to loaded movies and still images.
• Switch between anamorphic and standard aspect ratios.
• Zoom and pan to specific areas of interest.
• Control cineSync Pro from the command line.
• Run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (Suse 9.3, Ubuntu 7.10, CentOS 4.4 and Fedora Core 5).

Pricing: cineSync Pro pricing starts at USD$5,000 for a 12 month, 10 user multisession account.

Pre-order special Offer!

As a special offer, available until the full release on May 26, we are offering the opportunity to purchase cineSync Pro at the discount subscription rate of USD $4,000 for the first 12 months.

You will also receive:

• Preferred development and support.
• An account and license starting from the date of purchase and valid until May 26 2009.
• The option to buy further blocks of 10 users at the same discount rate (until May 26).
• A free upgrade of any existing cineSync account (purchased prior to March 19 2008) to cineSync Pro for the remainder of its subscription period.

You can download the current beta version of cineSync Pro here. cineSync will be demoing at NAB booth #SL9522.

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