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New: NewTek Announces Latest Release of LightWave 3D® 2018
LightWave 2018 boasts a streamlined workflow with an extensive list of artist friendly capabilities including, all new physically based rendering architecture, and wide range of additional improvements.
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Podcast: Digital Production Buzz End of Year Episode with Michele from Toolfarm
Each year, Larry Jordan does an end of year review on his show, Digital Production Buzz. In December 2017 he featured Ned Soltz, Randi Altman, Jonathan Handel, Philip Hodgetts, Michael Kammes, and James DeRuvo, and Toolfarm’s Michele Yamazaki. What did these media mavens think were the most important or prevalent pieces from 2017? Listen to find out!
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News: The Making of ‘The Ningyo’ with Chaos Group V-Ray
How Two VFX Artists Created an Award-Winning Short Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film in their Living Room
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Inspirations: Showreel/Demo Roundup 2017
We have compiled some of our favorite showreels and demo reels from 2017. Take a look, get inspired, start creating!
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Midweek Motivations: Predictions for 2018 with Lots of Inspiration
Now that 2017 is almost over, it’s time to peer into our HD holographic 360° VR crystal ball to 2018. What changes and innovations do we see happening in the coming year? Read our 2018 forecast and find out!
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Update: Digital Anarchy Transcriptive 1.0.3 – Improved UI, Import YouTube captions
This small update to Transcriptive offers a few cool new features and some important bug fixes, focused mostly on Premiere 2018.
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2017: A Year in Review | VFX, Video, 3D, and VR Software
2017 was not all that much of an eventful year for software, unless you’re talking about 360° VR software. Here’s a look back at some major releases and trends in our microcosm.
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Update: Avid Pro Tools 12.8.3 – Optimized for High Sierra
Version 12.8.3 of Pro Tools has been optimized to work with High Sierra (10.13.2), and introduces new video file support for post-production workflows, making it the fastest, most powerful Pro Tools software for Mac.
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Update: 3D-IO Flatiron 2.31 for 3ds Max – Now Supports Redshift 3D
Flatiron now comes with Redshift 3D full scene texture baking support, with this small update.
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Update: Red Giant Trapcode Suite 14.0.4 – New Features and Bug Fixes
In this free update to Trapcode Suite, OBJ Sequences will now animate in the Particular Designer and Form Designer. Plus they’ve added a few more bug fixes for Form and Particular.
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Plug-in Compatibility: Final Cut Pro X 10.4
We’re keeping an ongoing list of compatibility and non-compatibility with the latest release of FCP X 10.4. If you know of plug-ins that are not compatible please let us know.
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News: Red Giant PluralEyes and FCPX 10.4 – Important Compatibility Update
Red Giant has reported that PluralEyes 4 now currently compatible with FCPX 10.4 with a free update.
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News: Upcoming CINEMA 4D Update – Support for eGPUs on Mac
If you’re running Cinema 4D on a Mac, a new C4D update, due in January, has the potential to give you a massive performance boost with compatibility for external graphics cards (eGPU’s).
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Review: Final Cut Pro X 10.4 First Look – Larry Jordan
Larry Jordan had the chance to work with the pre-release versions of Final Cut Pro X (10.4), Compressor (4.4) and Motion (5.4) that have recently been made available. He explains what’s new, what’s better, what hasn’t changed and more, to help you decide is it’s worth upgrading.
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New: FxFactory Pro 7, Includes Premiere Pro Improvements and More
FxFactory 7 brings big performance and usability benefits to all of their plugins in all video apps, with a special focus on Premiere Pro. As with all new versions of FxFactory, this is a free update.
