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Products: Autodesk

Oct 1, 2006 12:00 PM, By Dan Ochiva

Upgrades for everyone

Autodesk's Media and Entertainment division just grows and grows. Factor in recent purchases such as the Alias product line, and the annual round of upgrade notices threatens to overwhelm even the most capacious email boxes.

But don't worry; here's a quick tour of the introductions you might have missed: At IBC 2006, Autodesk partnered with HP to enable companies in the Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) Sparks program to develop plug-ins that work with the new 64-bit versions of Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk Maya, so that creatives can handle greater amounts of data and create more complex 3D scenes; the latest updates to Autodesk Maya 8 software puts the focus on performance improvements and data management tools; Autodesk 3ds Max 9 also gets a boost in its data wrangling abilities — helped in part by its new 64-bit architecture — and scales to bigger production teams; and collaborative workflow improves in Autodesk Lustre 2007 along with realtime color grading capabilities via the latest generation of GPUs. Finally, Inferno 2007, Flame 2007, Flint 2007, Fire 2007, and Smoke 2007 offer expanded interoperability and improved data management, including support for the Autodesk Wiretap 2007 API, which enables remote project management and third-party file exchange. Also, there's full AAF support, making it easier to conform projects posted on Avid systems as well as greater support for Apple Final Cut Pro XML. www.autodesk.com

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