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On the contrary: Over the last 12 months, one major player in the telecine market was acquired, and a relative newcomer to the film recorder market expanded its product family [...]

Although vendors of digital content creation applications strive to make their offerings as full-featured as possible, most acknowledge that they simply don't have the time or expertise in-house to incorporate [...]

Gone are the days when 3D animation producers had to spend several millions of dollars on a bank of mainframes and supercomputers and hire a cadre of high-level programmers to [...]

Turn on your television these days and you're bound to see content--everything from news and sports to promos, trailers, and credits--that have been enhanced with computer-generated text and digital video [...]

Ask vendors of digital ink and paint systems to describe this market, and most will say it's mature. But does this mean the market is in its golden years and [...]

www.softimage.com Developed by traditional animators at Digital Video (Rome) and sold through Softimage, Toonz is an exposure sheet-driven digital ink and paint programme used in film, commercial, video, and interactive [...]

www.animationstand.com When Linker Systems first began shipping Animation Stand, the software utilised the pure exposure sheet philosophy, and made the assumption that every frame would stand on its own. Over [...]

www.animaster.com.tw AniMaster is a modular, PC-based system designed for mass production studios. The software's Ink and Paint module enables animators to paint cel and ink lines, and it provides a [...]

www.digicelinc.com DigiCel was formed in 1999 by ex-employees of 2D animation software vendor AXA. Today the company offers a line of 2D animation software for beginning and professional animators. FlipBook [...]

www.celaction.com CelAction2D is a suite of integrated programs that allows animators to design 2D character models as resolution-independent vector graphics or scanned bitmaps, and animate them according to user-adjustable exposure [...]

Digital ink and paint systems were adopted by traditional animators with some reluctance when they first entered the market several years ago, but animation studios are now embracing the software [...]

www.cratersoftware.com Crater Software's CTP is a PC-compatible application designed for broadcast-quality animated series production. The software provides numerous painting features in its paint system, including the ability to separate line [...]

www.cambridgeanimation.com Cambridge Animation has been a major player in this market for more than a decade. Its Animo software is used for feature films, animated TV series, commercials, games, and [...]

www.hash.com Hash is involved in web 3D animation through ArcticPigs, a young Amsterdam-based company that's developing a web viewer for 3D content created in Hash's Animation:Master. The ArcticPigs 3D viewer [...]

www.newtek.com Although NewTek hasn't created any exporters for LightWave, LightWave users can export their creations to the web using several vendor-supplied exporters, including those from Hypercosm, Macromedia, and Electric Rain. [...]

www.realviz.com Currently, RealVIZ's ImageModeler and Stitcher support leading web 3D technologies. ImageModeler is a software program for building 3D models from photos. Stitcher is designed for creating panoramic images up [...]

www.softimage.com Softimage has developed an exporter to Shockwave 3D that's designed for use with SoftimageIXSI and Softimage I 3D. 'We are looking at the other formats,' says Michael Sheasby, director [...]

www.eonreality.com EON is a family of software for creating and distributing interactive, real-time 3D rich media. One of these products, EON Studio, is a development-tool for building interactive simulations. The [...]

www.electricimage.com Electric Image recently announced a free software update for its Amorphium Pro real-time 3D modeling, painting, and animation tool for professional design and web development. The update, Amorphium Pro [...]

Weaving dynamic 3D content into the web for interactive on-line experiences becomes easier than ever For the last several years, leading 3D modeling and animation software vendors have been keeping [...]

www.discreet.com Discreet offers the web studio set, a collection of CDs that ships with 3ds max 4. At press time, the CD set included integrated plug-ins and tools from Cycore, [...]

www.aliaswavefront.com Alias|Wavefront has developed on exporter plug-in that can transfer content from Maya into Macromedia's Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio software. The Maya Shockwave 3D Exporter plug-in, which began shipping in [...]

www.arius3d.com Arius3D is different from the other companies mentioned here in that it offers a 3D scanning solution rather than a 3D software product. According to Arius3D, it uses patented [...]

www.caligari.com Caligari is targeting the web 3D arena with the newest release of trueSpace 5.1, which now supports Macromedia Shockwave 3D and other web output capabilities. Caligari's new Shockwave 3D [...]

www.curiouslabs.com Curious Labs, the development team and publisher of the Poser 3D character animation and figure design tool, offers the Curious Labs Pro Pack, which uses the Viewpoint Experience Technology [...]

Virtual sets have been slow to take off, but since prices have dropped and reliability and realism have improved, the market may be set for a boost Since it was [...]

NLE systems are becoming less expensive even as more and better features are offered. So do high-end systems still have a place in the market? The state of the non-linear [...]

If you judge the market only by the number of players, the scanner, recorder and telecine market is fairly small. But the vendors profiled below sell products that most post [...]

While the market for newsroom automations systems is mature in the US and Europe, industry players say there is lots of room for growth in Asia Walk into most newsrooms [...]

When the Matrox Video Products Group officially formed in 1989, it was focused on developing video add-in boards designed to compete with Truevision's then popular TARGA series. Although the company's [...]

As digital content creation becomes more prevalent and complex, so too does tracking such content. There are now a variety of digital asset management systems, with a corresponding, range in [...]

Broadcasters have slowly but surely started producing HD programming, and have been stocking up on the latest in HD cameras, lenses, and VTRs to produce such conten At an average [...]

Real-time capabilities of DVEs, character generators, and graphics systems are allowing users to develop more creative and compelling effects, titles, and graphics without having to worry about the time factor [...]

Prosumer non-linear editing systems promise to be able to do as much as higher cost systems. They deliver, as Audrey Doyle finds out, but not at the same speed as [...]

Compositing has traditionally been a difficult step in the post production process but ease of use and lower prices of new systems have made this procedure easier to handle Hardly [...]

Thanks to the photorealistic characters in such movies as the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and even to the characters in films like Shrek, whose highly stylised stars were nonetheless [...]

Of all the effects software available today, After Effects is arguably the most popular. Developed by CoSA, purchased by Aldus, and acquired by Adobe in 1994, After Effects boasts a [...]

Ask animation software vendors what the convergence of 2D and 3D means to them and you II get a few answers depending on which side of the fence they're on. [...]

The market for high-end non-linear video editing has been active over the last 12 months. In fact, vendors who develop and sell products in this space cite numerous trends that [...]

Ask most vendors of virtual set technology to describe what business has been like over the last year, and you'll probably hear the same word over and over: steady. Indeed, [...]

Vela's RapidAccess MediaMachine is an all-in-one-unit DVD-RAM archiving system that integrates Vela's RapidAccess video server with ASACA's TeraCart Series DVD-RAM library system. A unique solution, according to Vela, MediaMachine offers [...]

The Key-MediaWorks system from Keyvia (formerly Keops Broadcast) is an integrated digital asset management environment that enables broadcasters to acquire, create, manipulate, store, archive, retrieve, transmit, and display their digital [...]

Sony's PetaSite asset management system provides nearline storage, operating under the control of Omnibus automation software and transferring files to Pinnacle servers for play-to-air. In a typical configuration, the Pinnacle [...]

Omneon's Networked Content Server System is a networking and shared storage infrastructure designed for television and Internet companies. The system, which incorporates IEEE-1394 packet switches, network adapters, Fibre Channel storage [...]

Odetics Broadcast, a subsidiary of Odetics, offers the AIRO 9.0 Automation System, an integrated media management and delivery solution that provides automated acquisition and cataloging functions and supports extended media [...]

Announced at NAB in April, SGI's StudioCentral Library 3.0 digital asset management system is targeted at enterprise-wide deployment, in that it's engineered from the ground up to scale to global, [...]

Encoda provides technology solutions that are designed to help broadcast facilities manage all of their assets -- both on air and in the building. The company was formed in September [...]

A scalable Windows solution, the Dalet Plus Asset Manager comprises TCP/IP networking, an SQL database, Dalet and third-party servers, and a series of modular software components that integrate seamlessly and [...]

Asset management at television stations is not a new concept. Historically, as soon as an asset -- be it a commercial, a show, a promo, a station ID, or the [...]