There’s no question that this Mac is fast. Rendering Digit’s usual test scene on the dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 – a multiprocessor-aware task that favours CPU processing power – took 32 minutes and 32 seconds with two processing threads. That’s almost 20 minutes faster than the same task running on a 1.6GHz G5.
Cleaner used to have the market for professional-level encoding software pretty much sewn up. However, the last couple of years have seen Cleaner being passed ...
Everyone talks about the market upheavals and price drops in the 3D market, but it's compositing that has gone through the greatest change in the ...
Just about every vector illustration package these days features ‘real-media’ art effects, and various stretched and repeated picture brushes. This leaves Expression, originally launched in ...
The Chromatte system from Reflecmedia is designed to make it easier for everyone to own their own chroma-keying facility – and the company has just ...
WireFusion 3 is a tool for developing dynamic Web presentations. It uses an arrangement of objects and connections to create behaviours for components in the ...
The XM2 is the bastard offspring of the popular XM1 and the ubiquitous XL1s DV camcorders. It builds upon the hand-held body of the XM1, ...
German developer CGS Publishing Technology International will be an unfamiliar name to many designers, as this is its first Mac product. It’s been around since ...
Premiere 6.5 is a mixed bag. It has some important new features that, on their own, justify the cost of the upgrade. However, there are ...
Messiah:animate is a standalone tool for 3D character-animation; it doesn’t replace your main 3D application, or plug into it.
Messiah:animate does its best to look friendly. ...
Using seven different colour inks, the Epson Stylus Photo 2100 raises the bar for high-end inkjet photo-printers. Epson adds “light black” to the cyan, light ...
SceneWeaver is a tool for assembling photo-realistic 3D environments for Macromedia Shockwave 3D and Director 8.5 projects.
It takes photographic stills, panoramas, or complete spheres, ...
In a bid to maximize its product’s market, Gestel has released its powerful NURBS surface modelling and rendering system, SolidThinking 5.0 LT. The company’s range ...
The Phaser 8200N is an affordable choice for groups of creatives who need a full-featured, networkable colour printer but don’t require an expensive colour laser ...
ProCoder will be instantly familiar to anyone with experience of Discreet Cleaner. The user imports files, sets the output parameters, and leaves it to go. ...
After a long period of consistently failing to keep the Windows and Mac versions of CorelDraw Graphics Suite in sync, Corel now looks like it ...
Of the top 3D modelling and animation packages, 3DS Max has been the most widely distributed. However, recent price drops from its competitors have left ...
The Cintiq 18X is Wacom’s latest interactive pen display, which lets you navigate, design, sketch and write directly on the screen. Not only is it ...
The Coolpix 5700 is Nikon’s first contender in the popular long-zoom class of digital cameras. It’s amazingly compact, looks fabulous, and really delivers the photographic ...
Matrox pioneered the sub-£1,000 real-time editing system with the RT2000 back in May 2000 (reviewed in Digit 23), but since then, the RT2000 – and ...