Lightworks 2010 beta

Here's the another editing software from Editshare. Well, it is soon to be OPENSOURCE software.
It is only for Windows 7 but the company will release OSX and Linux version in 2011.

New Nvidia Quadro Graphics Card for Mac

Nvidia Quadro 4000 for Mac

New Fermi technology finally brings to the Mac pipeline.

It has 2GB of video ram. Even if Apple tends to promote AMD graphics card, most VFX softwares prefer NVIDIA Quadro cards. It is a great news for Mac users who use Adobe After Effects, Foundry Nuke/Storm, Autodesk Smoke, Davinci Resolve. Let's see how it goes with Apple Support.

Trapcode Particular for NUKE

Particular, developed by Trapcode and distributed by Red Giant Software is now released for Foundry NUKE. This plug is probably one of the popular plugin for After Effects artists. The Foundry even posted the tutorial clip which is done by Steve Wright. Since NUKE is becoming the industry standard package, I think other plugin companies will follow Red Giant and Genarts.IMHO, I wish NUKE supports importing audio files like After Effects or Shake.

Storm Beta is coming.

Storm by The Foundry, who developed Furnace, Ocula and Nuke, is coming in November 2010.
It will be beta release until February 1, 2011. Based on fxguide podcast/RED centre, it will be the RED only version of software but sooner than later it will be expanded for other formats such as Arri Alexa, Canon HDLRs. It looks like you can basic digital grade and debay your footage and send to FCP vice versa. I hope it eventually work as DI suite like Davinci Resolve or Lustre. The foundry is already well known for image science so let's see how it goes.

http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/storm/try/