Blackmagic Design today announced the new Cintel Audio and KeyKode Reader accessory for its Cintel Film Scanner, which lets customers scan audio and KeyKode information along with images from the scanner, all in real-time. The new audio and KeyKode reader accessory is available for 3,495 USD from Blackmagic Design resellers worldwide. The reader features a magnetic audio head or deep red LED illumination supporting 16/35mm cyan, high magenta dye, silver optical or 16mm magnetic audio tracks, with advanced optics, electro-formed slits, and precision mechanical adjustments for azimuth to deliver the best possible audio capture with incredible high frequency response, perfectly synchronized with the video. [source]

Foundry announced its plans for SIGGRAPH 2017, beginning the conference with its sold out Foundry All Stars event which will play host to special guests Industrial Light & Magic, Weta Digital, Marvel Studios, Sony Pictures Animation, Animal Logic, Double Negative, Blur, Spin VFX and id Software. Over the course of three days, Foundry will be showcasing its industry-leading software at the Foundry booth 309, including its highly anticipated new products Elara and Bunsen. Elara, the innovative cloud-based VFX platform -- giving an edge to independent professionals and small to medium-sized studios -- will be launched in open beta at this year's event. Foundry will also be showcasing the latest demo of Bunsen, a new product focused on the AEC space that provides the foundation for building unified and scalable enterprise visualisation pipelines. Through a powerful rules-based workflow, Bunsen aims to reduce the complexity often associated with scaling up the quantity and fidelity of VR, AR, and pre-rendered 3D content produced in CAD pipelines. [source]

Ftrack, a scalable cloud-based project management solution for the media & entertainment industry, announced major updates to help content creators and video producers streamline multiple productions. The company renames the current offering of ftrack to ftrack Studio and announces a new streamlined product for review and approvals, ftrack Review. ftrack Studio delivers improved planning features providing a bird's-eye view of every project and department across the studio. Attendees at this year's SIGGRAPH can get a demo of ftrack Studio and upcoming ftrack Review at the ftrack booth (#223) from August 1-3. The company is offering ftrack Studio for 25 USD/month per user and ftrack Review for 15 USD a month per user. [source]

E-on software announced the immediate availability of the pre-release of its Carbon Scatter and CloudFactory Ozone 2017 suite of plug-ins, for customers with a valid maintenance plan. To focus on the company's core technologies, and ensure better customer support and user experience on its flagship solutions VUE and PlantFactory, e-on software also announced that in 2018, it will discontinue development of Carbon Scatter and CloudFactory Ozone. The 2017 releases, expected to ship in Q3 2017, will be the last for the suite of plug-ins; support will continue at no cost until September 2018. The instancing technology plug-in Carbon Scatter 2017 for 3ds Max, and Maya, with native support for Mental Ray and V-Ray, and for Cinema 4D features multiple Global EcoSystem Layers, that can be saved as EcoPainter Brushes; PlantFactory and VUE vegetation models (.tpf and .veg) directly in Carbon Scatter EcoSystem populations; and up to 4x lighter data footprint within saved scenes, and quicker loading/saving of scenes. Real-world atmospheric behavior modeling plug-in CloudFactory Ozone 2017 is compatible with Maya, 3ds Max, Softimage, LightWave, and Cinema 4D hosts, and now features auto-scale clouds with altitude; the option to easily load/add cloud layers using a single button; optional automatic sun softness computation, based on atmosphere parameters; and a "Improve Low Quality Consistency" parameter to better preview atmosphere looks while rendering at a lower resolution. [source]

Surf into major savings on Academy Award-winning Mocha. You can get 25 % off Mocha Pro and Mocha VR for Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, and OFX hosts, including The Foundry's Nuke, Blackmagic Design's Fusion, and more. Limit is one product purchase per customer, and the offer ends Monday, July 31st at Midnight PDT. More here. [source]

Until July 24, you can get hold of two of the most acclaimed virtual instrument libraries from Steinberg by saving 50 % on The Grand 3 and HALion Symphonic Orchestra. This offer is available exclusively through the Steinberg Online Shop. Enter the following coupon code in the shopping cart (the deducted price will only be displayed during checkout after you have entered the code): CLASSIC2017. [source]

Release 18 SP3 enhances the stability and performance of Cinema 4D, and also optimizes functions in the areas of modeling, data exchange and the user interface of Cinema 4D. New in Service Release 3 is a direct menu connection to Google's cloud rendering solution Google Zync, which enables 3D artists to utilize the computing power of Google's massive IT-infrastructure to significantly speed up rendering and work cost-effectively. UK-based animation studio Scorch Films used Cinema 4D and Google Zync to create and render a stunning VR project for a French car maker Renault. Scorch Films was hired to stage their models Megane, Zoe and Clio in an impressive way and Google Zync made it possible to cope with the massive rendering effort of the 4K VR project. Read a story about this project here. To get an overview of all enhancements and bug fixes included in Cinema 4D Service Release 3, check the SP3 changelist PDF. [source]

After having released Nuendo 8 only weeks ago, Steinberg just released the Nuendo 8.0.15 maintenance update, including a few minor fixes, but more importantly, offering support for the Video Decoder for Avid DNxHD. The Video Decoder for Avid DNxHD is an Avid-licensed codec that is required when importing and playing back Avid DNxHD videos with the video engine introduced in Nuendo 8. The Video Decoder for Avid DNxHD is available as a download purchase (29.99 EUR incl. VAT) through the Steinberg Online Shop. The Nuendo 8.0.15 maintenance update and documentation is available from here. [source]

The new 3.5 update now is free for all V-Ray 3.x for Revit customers and comes with Revit 2018 support as well as Chaos Group's Adaptive Lights Technology rendering scenes with multiple lights up to 8 times faster. The new version also adds over 500 fully customizable, photorealistic materials; interactive atmospheric depth and haze rendering; Material IDs to up post-production; V-Ray Swarm enabling to use any networked computers as render nodes, including Mac and Linux machines. [source]

Antelope Audio announced availability of Orion Studio HD -- the latest addition to its professional audio interface lineup, and the third to offer full Pro Tools HD and Native DAW compatibility via HDX and USB 3.0 connectivity offering zero-latency streaming and processing of 24-bit/192 kHz audio (alongside a full library of real-time FPGA effects, high-end clocking and conversion, and much more). [source]