Mac Industry News:

from Creative Mac.com:

Shave and a Haircut for LightWave Coming to Mac
Hair plugin developer 'just about there'


QPS Ships 240 MB SuperDisk
USB drive formats standard floppies at 32 MB

Human Software Updates Classic Frames
New version supports portrait and landscape modes

Sony To Ship 4.1 Megapixel, $800 Camera
DSC-S85 offers 14-bit A/D conversion

Toon Boom Studio OS X Public Beta Launches
Company sponsors animation contest during beta period

Boris FX 6 Gets Natural Filters, New Compositing Tools
New Pro and Standard versions support multiprocessing Macs

LiveStage Pro Gets Flash 4, QuickTime 5 Support
New version gains cross-platform support

Review
Apple Final Cut Pro 2.0
Nonlinear editing system for Macintosh
by Stephen Schleicher
First off, by way of introduction, I should note that I'm not a Mac guy. I'm not prejudiced against the Mac, but I'm not going to praise a piece of software just because it runs only on the Macintosh. I've edited on the Mac and Windows in the past, and I've experienced systems ranging from Avid and DPS to Media 100 and Adobe Premiere in a professional capacity.

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Tech Tip
Creating Scalable Photoshop Text for After Effects
Vectors in After Effects 5
by David Nagel
Compositors and editors faced with the prospect of creating text in their compositions often rely on applications like Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand, rather than creating the text directly in programs like Apple Final Cut Pro or Adobe After Effects. Why? The text tools in NLEs and compositing applications are simply too time-consuming. Plus, creating text in a graphics application is quite simple.

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Preview
Infocomm 2001
The drive toward digital continues with Vegas product debuts
by Peter H. Putman
There will be plenty of new products at Infocomm this year, and a majority of them will have digital interfaces—digital switchers, PanelLink and DVI inputs, and even a unique IEEE-1394 switcher. No surprise, because the pro A/V market is slowly going all-digital, just like its broadcast counterpart.

There's still a place for analog interfaces, but the writing is on the wall—digital is coming, and you'd best get with the program.

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