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Mac Industry News:
• Insider Releases FontAgent Pro
Utility offers font management and repair
• Digital Anarchy Ships Aurora Sky, Psunami for Final Cut Pro
Plugins generate sky and water effects
• Macromedia Intros Contribute
Company also promises Mac OS X performance enhancements for Dreamweaver MX
• Human Software Releases Squizz 4.0
Photoshop plugin offers distortion tools
• Graphic Converter Updated
New version gets bug fixes, enhancements
• Eovia Ships Carrara 3D Basics
Version 3.0.1 gets bug fixes, performance improvements
• Square Box Updates CatDV Pro
Version 3.0.1 gets bug fixes, performance improvements
• Profound Effects Releases Avid Plugin
PE Transfer offers new blending options for video tracks
• Apple Intros 1 GHz PowerBook
iBooks and PowerBooks get makeovers
• Extensis Updates Intellihance Pro
Photoshop plugin supports Mac OS X
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Performance benchmarks for the current G4 lineup
Everything about the current lineup of Macintosh G4s should make them at least mildly superior to the previous lineup of desktop G4s ... in theory, anyway. They have faster chips, dual processors all around, faster bus speeds and, of course, DDR memory. And those are only the obvious advantages. But does theory hold up to practice in the Mac universe? We tested the entire lineup of current G4s--from the dual 867 MHz G4 to the dual 1.25 GHz G4--against the previous generation and found some fascinating results.
Stained glass, blinds and windows
This week's download is a somewhat more utilitarian collection of shapes for Adobe Photoshop. The set consists of 52 custom path-based shapes for use with Photoshop 7 (only!) for Mac and Windows. The shapes include window panes; stained glass panes, frames and details; and variations on horizontal and vertical blinds for use in compositing.
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Is LiveStage Professional Totally Hip?
We're going to turn our attention this time to a program that doesn't just enlist QuickTime as part of a larger interactive authoring solution, it makes QuickTime itself the entire interactive authoring solution, exporting fully interactive .mov files, ready for playback in the QuickTime player on Macintosh or Windows. The guilty party? Totally Hip's LiveStage Professional 4.
New PowerBooks with another creative edge
In the long-ago, far-away epoch before the advent of DV and FireWire, notebook computers were good for one thing: showing your friends and colleagues that you had enough money to afford one. Those of us wizened enough to remember all the way back to, say, the 1990s recall (as best we can in our senility) machines that could run little more than word processing programs, though many of us certainly did try to integrate them into our professional work. (Believe it or not, I was an editor putting out a weekly print magazine on a PowerBook Duo 210. It didn't last long ... the Duo, that is.)
Tweak your video for surprising results
Everyone wants their video to look more like film. There is no way to make your video look exactly like film because of the inherent differences between the two media, but with some tweaking, you can emulate the look of film transferred to video. This tutorial discusses five tips for shooting on DV to make it more film-like.
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