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Curious Labs Releases Poser Pro Pack Update
Second service release supports 3ds max 4, fixes bugs

Kensington To Ship Trackball with TouchSense
Input device provides tactile feedback

Media Lab Releases PhotoWebber 2.0
Tool converts Photoshop files into Web pages'

Toshiba To Ship 4.2 Megapixel Camera
New $1,000 model to be shown this month

Adobe Stands Behind PageMaker Upgrade Price
A clarification on PageMaker 7.0 pricing

Propellerhead Releases Recycle! 2
Latest groovemaker offers realtime previews, ASIO support

EI Offers Electric Image Plus DVD Training for $199
dvGarage releases 3D Toolkit to provide 3D 'building blocks' for users

Review
Matrox RTMac
Capture and realtime editing board for Final Cut Pro 2.0
by David Nagel
Last week we took a look at Final Cut Pro 2.0, the non-linear editing system from Apple. In it we reported that one of its most beneficial features over version 1.x was its real-time capabilities. Of course, you're not going to get real time out of the software alone; you need hardware to do that. So this week we're going to take a look at the card that brings realtime to Final Cut Pro 2.0—the Matrox RTMac.

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Tutorial
Postprocessing in Studio Artist
Using autorotoscoping tools on 3D animations
by David Nagel
We've spent a lot of time of the painting tools in Synthetik Studio Artist. There's still a lot more to cover in that area, but I thought we'd take a detour this week to look at one of Studio Artist's major features—its rotoscoping capabilities.

When you think of rotoscoping, you probably think of labor-intensive techniques used to remove wires from movie scenes or to clean up mattes or to perform some other technical clean-up job. Or maybe you think of Max Fleischer and his original rotoscope device, wherein an "artist" would trace over the individual frames of a live-action sequence to produce cartoons like Gulliver's Travels or Popeye the Sailor or Superman.

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Users Forum
Creative Mac Users Forum
June 17
From: RJ
Subject: Internal CD-R
I just got a MacG4 533Mhz with the internal CD burner.
Anytime I put in blank CD it says to initialise or eject. I'm totally new to this CD burning thing. What do I do next? When I try to initilaise the Mac crashes.
Help.
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