With the release of Mac OS High Sierra, Apple's Final Cut Pro 7 software will no longer be supported. And for Final Cut Pro 7 users who are looking for alternative editing software, Blackmagic Design has prepared a new video to help show how quick and simple it is to change from FCP 7 to DaVinci Resolve. Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve 14 can import timelines from Final Cut Pro 7, shares many of the same keyboard shortcuts, uses a similar editing and trimming model, and gives users far greater audio and color tools. Watch it on YouTube. [source]

The EDIUS.NET web site has published a new video revealing several new features in the upcoming (November 2017) EDIUS 9 version, Grass Valley's popular video editing software for Windows. EDIUS 9 will add enhanced support for HDR (incl. ITU-R BT.2020, HDR metadata export etc.), wider support for 10-bit RAW formats (RED RAW, DPX, CinemaDNG, C200 Cinema RAW Light), Ultra HD playback in 60p and 50p using third party hardware from AJA or Blackmagic Design; and more. [source]

San Francisco (September 20th), Austin (October 3rd), Boston (October 10th) and Atlanta-area (October 27th) cinematographers and filmmakers are invited to attend an exclusive first look of Panasonic's new AU-EVA1 cinema camera. The events will include the screening of short films shot with the new cinema camera, a question-and-answer session with the filmmakers and Panasonic cinema specialists, and hands-on demonstrations. Panasonic has also published the first official footage for the camera, here. [source]

Waves Audio is now shipping the Waves Torque Drum Tone Shifter plug-in, designed to enhance and re-pitch the tone of snares, toms, kicks or an entire kit, all with natural-sounding results that no traditional pitch shifter will allow. The Waves Torque plug-in is a precision drum tone shifter that will help users salvage mistuned drums, pitch them to a specific key and adjust their tone -- without retriggering or replacing, without the sonic artifacts introduced by traditional pitch shifters, and without losing body, timbre, resonance or attack. Driven by Waves' Organic ReSynthesis technology, Torque detects and analyzes the drums' formant, amplitude and carrier information, reassembles it, and allows users to manipulate the tonal and pitch characteristics, all while preserving the natural attack, resonance and duration of the original sound. Regular price will be 69 USD, intro pricing is 29 USD. [source]

Starting Tuesday, September 19, iPhone and iPad customers around the world will be able to update their devices to iOS 11, a major update to Apple's advanced mobile operating system, and the biggest software release ever for iPad. iOS 11 brings augmented reality and new professional capabilities to improve images in Photos and Camera. Siri is more natural and useful and a redesigned App Store makes it easier to discover apps and games. For details on how to update iOS devices, visit Apple Support. [source]

The new 9.0.1 point update for Blackmagic Design's visual effects software Fusion includes over 50 performance and stability improvements including better OpenCL performance, enhanced camera tracker and QuickTime metadata support, and more. [source]

Chaos Group released V-Ray 3.6 for Maya, a major update to its Academy Award-winning production renderer. Used on television and film projects like Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Stranger Things, this update introduces a new hybrid rendering system that maximizes GPUs and CPUs on high-end VFX productions. V-Ray's new hybrid rendering technology adds CPU support to its NVIDIA CUDA-powered GPU renderer. Now, with V-Ray Hybrid artists will have greater flexibility to render a scene using GPUs, CPUs or a combination of both. The rendered images will be identical, regardless of hardware. This allows artists to use any and all computing power, from high-performance GPU workstations to CPU render nodes. The new version also adds Maya 2018 compatibility; the ability to render individual lights or groups of lights as separate render elements, with full support for global illumination, reflections and refractions; automatic generation of ID mattes with support for transparency, depth of field and motion blur; support for shared GPU memory across NVIDIA NVLink-compatible graphics cards; and more! V-Ray 3.6 for Maya is a free update for all V-Ray 3.x customers. [source]

Adobe revealed advancements to its Adobe Creative Cloud video tools and services, at IBC 2017. The new capabilities coming later this year to Adobe Creative Cloud for video include the access of Motion Graphics Templates in Premiere Pro, through Adobe Stock and Creative Cloud Libraries; Character Animator 1.0 with changes to core and custom animation functions, such as pose-to-pose blending, new physics behaviors and visual puppet controls; virtual reality video creation with a dedicated viewing environment in Premiere Pro; flexible session organization to multi-take workflows and continuous playback while editing in Adobe Audition; and more. [source]

Blackmagic Design today announced Ultimatte 12, a new real-time hardware compositing processor for broadcast-quality keying, adding augmented reality elements into shots, working with virtual sets and more. Ultimatte 12 is available immediately from Blackmagic Design resellers worldwide for $9,995 US and features entirely new algorithms and color science, better edge handling, greater color separation, amazing color fidelity and better spill suppression than ever before. The advanced 12G-SDI design also gives Ultimatte 12 customers the flexibility to work in HD today and switch to Ultra HD when they are ready. [source]

This September, Foundry is offering up to 30% discounts off some of their best-selling toolsets. Due to start on 18th September 2017, this promotion will run for two weeks only: 30% off new perpetual licenses of the 3D modeling, texturing and rendering toolset Modo and digital 3D painting and texturing software Mari; or 20% off your first seat of Nuke, Foundry's powerful visual effects platform (the 20% discount is offered for Nuke, Nuke X, or Nuke Studio as well as for the virtual reality plug-in Cara VR). [source]