After Effects 6.0 review
For many editors, compositing tools such as After Effects are a largely unknown area – too complicated to create all but the most basic motion ...
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Quadro FX 2000 review
The new Quadro FX cards from NVidia are based on the company’s GeForce FX architecture. They take over the top spot in their workstation graphics ...
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Softimage|XSI 3.0 review
The Softimage name is legendary in 3D. It’s been around since the beginning, and has been popular among film-effects studios for years. Now with prices ...
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LiveStage Pro 4.0 review
LiveStage Professional (LSP) is a media-integration tool for adding polish to content prepared in other packages. Users may want to customize movie presentations by adding ...
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Universe 5 review
Universe is a 3D application featuring tools for modelling, animation, and rendering. Like NewTek LightWave, it comes as two separate programs: Modeller, for creating models; ...
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ColdFusion MX review
ColdFusion has always been a powerful Web-application server. Its simple tag-based programming environment and built-in functions have made it an obvious choice for developers more ...
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Video Toaster 2 review
You get a lot for your money with Video Toaster 2 – essentially a live-production studio on a PCI card. The £2,200 price tag includes ...
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Maya RTA review
Director 8.5 brought a powerful 3D engine to the Web. What it didn’t bring was an effective way to create content for that engine. The ...
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Axelcore 1.5 review
As a Web designer, I’m used to creating content in bitmap- and vector-graphics applications, and using Web-creation tools to build sites. I’ve also work with ...
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Xenturi Studio One review
Complexity is not always a good thing. The power and precision of today’s top authoring tools means that you can create stunning pieces of all-singing, ...
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After Effects 5.0 review
After Effects 5 – available as Standard Edition and Production Bundle – is the biggest overhaul to date of Adobe’s popular video-effects application. The most ...
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Hypnotizer Suite review
Interactive streaming video is this year’s professional Furby. Everyone wants it, but when you get it, you realize it can’t do nearly as much as ...
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Media 100 i review
This year’s Web buzz phrase is likely to be interactive streaming. This involves video pieces that contain chapter points for easy navigation of long programmes ...
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Character Studio 3.0 review
In my opinion, 3D Studio Max without Character Studio is not complete. As a former LightWave user, it was Character Studio that made me jump ...
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BBEdit 6.0 review
BBEdit is famed for its strong text editing features, ease of use, low memory requirements, and as a great companion editor to the likes of ...
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Macromedia Flash 5 review
Macromedia’s vector-animation tool Flash totally dominates the field of Web-enhancement technologies, bringing a rich mix of animation, audio and sophisticated interactivity to the meagre palette ...
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e-Picture Pro review
With the recent arrival of LiveMotion from Adobe, there is currently much interest in the sphere of vector-based animation tools, and the inevitable comparisons between ...