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Occasionally an upgrade ditches the ‘ooh’, ‘aah’ new features for an expansive list of seemingly minor updates that combine to leave a wide smile on your face. One such release is Video Toaster 3, the latest version of NewTek’s live production system that the company now calls VT[3], but which UK reseller Onevideo calls Video Toaster 3.
U&I Software’s ArtMatic Voyager is a keenly priced, dedicated 3D landscape generator for Mac OS 9 and OS X that can produce scenes of stunning realism or worlds of fantastic imagination.
The top models in Fujifilm’s FinePix digital camera series have always set new standards for resolution and features, and the new S7000 is no exception.
The TAB is a curious little animation tool from the maker of Toonz – the previously Softimage-affiliated product that was used in the making of Spirited Away.
MotionBuilder is now available in two versions – standard and professional. The professional version of this real-time character animation suite is aimed squarely at filmmakers, while the standard version is set to take advantage of the desktop director market.
The MVX3i sits at the top of Canon’s range of single-CCD DV camcorders. Though primarily aimed at consumers, it does include some professional-level features, and even works surprisingly well as a still camera.
E-on Software, makers of landscape and environment rendering package Vue d’Esprit, has launched a new version aimed more at the professional 3D market. The prosaically named Vue 4 Professional seems to be an attempt by E-on to make Vue 4 Professional the 3D program everyone wanted Corel’s Bryce to become.
One of the most enticing new features in Combustion 3 is the built-in editing capability. The Edit tool exists as an operator (as Combustion calls its effects nodes) and creating edits is easy). However, as an NLE, the Edit operator offers less functionality than iMovie.
With users barely familiar with the new features in Max 5, Discreet has released yet another upgrade to its popular 3D animation system. There are ...
Minolta’s DiMAGE 7 was one of the first cameras to boast five-megapixel resolution back in 2001. We were impressed by its controls, lens and image ...
Professional photographers often complain that the biggest problem with digital cameras is that the results aren’t predictable. There’s no easy way to know how a ...
The Canon PowerShot A70 straddles the line between point-&-shoot and advanced camera, at an astounding estimated street price of only £255 plus VAT. Its small ...
Anark Studio 2 uses layers, inspector palettes, scenes, and timelines that will be familiar to anyone used to Director or Flash. Veteran users will notice that ...
MatchLight Digital Photography Toolkit 3.0 is a specialist system that helps photographers to match lighting conditions when compositing two images together. For instance, you may want ...
Sitting near the top end of Nikon’s CoolPix range, the five-megapixel (2,592-x-1,944-pixel) 5400 has a compact single-piece design with a magnesium body, high quality exposure ...
Canon’s PowerShot G-series digital cameras just keep getting better. These are its flagship ‘compact’ models, with full professional controls, excellent wide aperture zoom lenses, compatibility ...
Kodak’s DCS Pro 14n has the highest resolution of any digital SLR camera to date. Its 13.5 megapixels (4,500-x-3,000 pixels) produce file sizes of 38.7MB ...
PhotoRetouch Pro 2.5 is the latest upgrade to this professional still-image editing and enhancement package from Monaco-based pre-press software specialist Binuscan. You can think of ...
Olympus’s C-740 isn’t the first digital camera to have a 10x optical zoom, but it is the first we’ve reviewed that costs under £400. At ...
Ricoh is pitching its latest compact digital camera as a consumer/business crossover model based on fast shutter response, high multiple-frame rate, and close-in macro focusing ...
