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MoviePack 3.0 review

If you’ve a long memory you may recall advertisements in Digit about 18 months ago looking for beta testers for an unknown video-editing package called ...
- Topics
- Photoshop,
- Animation,
- Cameras,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Apps,
- Photography,
- Video,
- AIST
FAST Purple review

Purple is one of the first of the new breed of professional-only DV editing systems. FAST already has a couple of DV products, DV.now and ...
- Topics
- Animation,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Apps,
- Monitors,
- Video,
- FAST
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 ...
- Topics
- Animation,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Illustration,
- Photography,
- Programming,
- UX & Web Design,
- Vector,
- Video,
- Web
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 ...
- Topics
- Animation,
- Software,
- Programming,
- UX & Web Design,
- Vector,
- Video,
- Web,
- Beatware
combustion* 1.0 review

It used to be easy to differentiate the two sides of Discreet’s product line. If it had some fire-related name (such as flame*, inferno*, flint*) ...
- Topics
- Photoshop,
- Animation,
- Cameras,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Photography,
- UX & Web Design,
- Vector,
- Video,
- Graphics Domain
iSpace 1.0 review

iSpace is the latest creation from Caligari – makers the 3D modelling, rendering and animation app trueSpace. iSpace is a Web authoring package, but not ...
- Topics
- Animation,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Fonts,
- Typography,
- UX & Web Design,
- Web
Maya 3.0 Unlimited review

It only seems like last issue we were looking at Maya 2.5 and now Alias|Wavefront has gone and released yet another version. Maya 3 is ...
- Topics
- Photoshop,
- Animation,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Alias|Wavefront,
- Techex
Speed Razor 2000 X review

By all rights, Speed Razor 2000 should be a pile of shoddy tosh. After the huge hype and failure of the white elephant Millennium Dome, ...
- Topics
- Animation,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- UX & Web Design,
- Video,
- Siggraph 2009
Adobe LiveMotion 1.0 review

Many ecommerce companies are jockeying for customers by creating increasingly sophisticated Web sites. If you’re looking for a way to make your site more consumer-friendly, ...
- Topics
- Photoshop,
- Animation,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Illustration,
- Life & Style,
- UX & Web Design,
- Vector,
- Web,
- Adobe
Softimage|XSI review

The moon has turned blue, pigs are flying and the application formerly known as Sumatra is finally here. We’ve waited four years for Softimage|XSI, and ...
- Topics
- Animation,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Life & Style,
- UX & Web Design,
- Softimage,
- Tyrell
Adobe Illustrator 9.0 review

Just when you thought the software industry had settled into a cynical routine of annual don’t-need upgrades, Adobe hits back with an update to its ...
- Topics
- Photoshop,
- Animation,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Illustration,
- Life & Style,
- Printing,
- UX & Web Design,
- Vector,
- Web,
- Adobe
Video Toaster NT review

NewTek really made its name with the original Video Toaster, a machine that made video-editing simple and, above all, affordable. Trouble was it ran on ...
- Topics
- Animation,
- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Apps,
- Video,
- NewTek,
- onevideo.net
Cinema 4D XL 6 review

Cinema 4D XL 6 is a watershed product for Maxon, as it finally puts the program right up there with any other pro animation package ...
- Topics
- Animation,
- Cameras,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Monitors,
- Photography,
- UX & Web Design,
- Video,
- HiSoft,
- Maxon
NewTek LightWave 6 review

Well, it’s finally here: NewTek LightWave 6.0 is shipping, and Digit has its hands on one of the first full versions to land in Blighty. ...
- Topics
- Animation,
- Software,
- Illustration,
- UX & Web Design,
- NewTek,
- onevideonet
Matrox RT2000 review

Digital video not only killed the analog star; it stomped on the remains as well. Digital-video tools have been around for a while, but the ...
- Topics
- Photoshop,
- Animation,
- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- UX & Web Design,
- Video
Macromedia FreeHand 9 review

It’s been two years since Macromedia released FreeHand 8 with some excellent new creative tools, but the announcement of FreeHand 9 still came as a ...
- Topics
- Photoshop,
- Animation,
- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- Illustration,
- Photography,
- UX & Web Design,
- Vector,
- Video,
- Web
Speed Razor 4.5 SE review

In the quest to be the first with groundbreaking technologies and areas of content creation, it is easy for companies to leave their old users ...
- Topics
- Animation,
- Business & Career,
- Hardware,
- Software,
- UX & Web Design,
- Video,
- Web,
- Siggraph 2009
Carrara 1.0 review

The 3D software market is in turmoil. Radical new technologies, coupled with plummeting prices and new entrants, mean this is one of the most dynamic ...
- Topics
- Animation,
- Cameras,
- Software,
- Photography,
- MetaCreations
MetaCreations KPT 6 review

If a futuristic Darwin was to look back at the late 20th Century, he may be tempted to chart the evolution of humans not from ...
- Topics
- Photoshop,
- Animation,
- Cameras,
- Software,
- Photography,
- UX & Web Design,
- Video,
- Web,
- MetaCreations

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