Toolfarm's One-Day Sale Starts Monday!
From October 23 to 27, 2006, Toolfarm.com will feature one product a day for five days at 50% off the manufacturer’s suggested retail price. Each day the sale will last for 24 hours via the Toolfarm online store... that's midnight to midnight PST. Orders before or after the daily advertised sales period will not qualify for the discount – no exceptions will be accepted.
One Day Sale Featured Products - In no particular order
In this Issue
Maxon Upgrade Deals
We've gotten information on the price increases of Cinema 4D R10. If you buy Cinema 4D R9.5 now, you get a free upgrade for 30 days after r10 is released. This translates to a lot of dough. Want to know if you qualify? Click the product links below. It is expected to ship on October 31, 2006, and this offer is only good until it ships.
- C4D Studio Bundle - Buy R9.5 now and get FREE R10 upgrade. Save $500!
- C4D XL Bundle - Buy R9.5 now and get FREE R10 upgrade. Save $200!
- Cinema 4D Core - Buy R9.5 now and get FREE R10 and save $200
- BodyPaint - save $100
New Products & Upgrades
Motion Graphics & Editing
- RE:Vision Effects releases RE:Map 1.1! - an update to the ultimate kit of mapping and distortion tools introduced earlier this year.
- After Effects 7 PowerStart DVD - Terrific training from DVcreators.net. Watch some excerpts! We'll have many more new products coming from DVcreators.net in our next newsletter, so stay tuned!
- Red Giant Software Updates Plug-Ins for Intel and Power PC Macs, Final Cut Pro, and Avid AVX
- Digital Anarchy Releases Microcosm Codec 1.2 for Universal Mac Support
- Automatic Duck Final Cut Pro plug-ins now Universal - Pro Export FCP 3.0 and Pro Import FCP 2.0 updated to run natively on Intel-based Macs
- Media 100 Producer & Media 100 Producer Suite - Media 100 Producer is a full-featured software-only NLE that offers a mobile and scalable editing environment as well as FireWire I/O and Panasonic P2 acquisition capabilities. Media 100 Producer Suite includes a special version Boris RED which only works with Media 100 Producer.
Photoshop Plug-ins
- New Digital Film Tools plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop - Check out Digital Film Tools' Super Bundle for Photoshop, Digital Film Tools' Masking Bundle for Photoshop and Digital Film Tools EZ Mask for Photoshop.
- Vertus Fluid Mask - See, Click and Cut! No one makes it this easy.
3D Tools
- e-on Vue 5 xStream Bundle - a complete toolset for creating extremely rich and realistic natural environments and rendering them in 3ds Max, Maya, LightWave or Cinema 4D.
- GPU-Tech RTSquare 1.3 - a rendering plug-in for 3DStudio Max versions 6,7 or 8.
- Vreel Translucent Pro + Vreel Skin + WeightLifter Pro Bundle, Vreel Translucent Pro + Vreel Skin + PhotoMatch Bundle, Vreel Translucent Pro + Vreel Skin + WeightLifter Pro + PhotoMatch Bundle - Plug-ins for Cinema 4D
Other News
Review from Microfilmmaker Magazine: Creative Background Design
Microfilmmaker Magazine has a really lovely review of Creative Background Design for After Effects training by John Dickinson. The reviewer, Jeremy Hanke, had only seen the first two in the series at the time of the review, but the fifth title will soon be available!
Come see us at NAB New York!
Toolfarm's Forum Expert and
Apple Pro Apps guru will be presenting Tips 'N Tricks at the New York City Final Cut Pro User Group meeting
October 25th 2006, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM, Javits Center Room 1E19, 655 West 34th Street (11 Ave). We'll be participating in the auction with a copy of the Buena Fabuloso Gigante Bundle at the after party too!
Also, Toolfarm's Michele Yamazaki will be showing some plug-ins at the NYCFCP booth during convention hours. Stop on by and say hi.
Trapcode Beta fixes issues
New Trapcode Betas solve issue with Mac OSX version of GridIron Nucleo
Toolfarm Pro Tips
Ever get this Error? "After Effects error: opening file "%s". sound channel -- can't open Quick Time handler (-2004).
amitchel posted this terrific solution to the Toolfarm Expert Forums: "Here's a solution that worked perfectly:
Open Audio MIDI Setup from Applications/Utilities, and in the Audio Output section, change the Format to 44100."
New Final Cut Update
If you have downloaded the new updater for Final Cut Pro, Jim Geduldick, our resident Pro Apps expert, has added some useful info to our Apple Final Cut Studio Forum.
If you have any suggestions, tips or questions for Toolfarm, you can contact us at 415-462-1982, or email us. Thanks for being our customer!
Colin Sharp
VP Sales, Toolfarm, Inc.
www.toolfarm.com
415-462-1982
