The JFK Birthday Sale
HALF OFF One Day Sale May 29th!

Mark it on your calendars! If you've been holding off on an important addition to your creative arsenal, next Thursday May 29th, is the time to stock up! Read more about the sale here.

Save Half Off of These Products:

• Red Giant Software Magic Bullet Suite - The full suite of tools includes Magic Bullet Looks (w/ Misfire), Frames, Colorista, and Instant HD.
• Digieffects Bundle - Includes Delirium, Aurorix, Berserk, and Damage.
• Boris FX Final Effects Complete AE 5.0 - 100+ Plugins from transitions to particle generators.
• Boris FX Final Effects Complete 5.0 FxPlug - FxPlug version for Final Cut Pro and Motion.
• Boris FX Final Effects Complete 5.0 AVX - For Avid XPress Pro, Media Composer and Symphony.
• Imagineer Systems Mocha and Mocha AE, Node-Locked and Floating Licenses - Throw your point tracker away- generate solid 2D tracks on difficult shots.
• NewBlueFX Plugins for Premiere Pro, Avid, Vegas and More!

Need a friendly reminder? Sign up for Toolfarm SMS Instant Message Alert reminders and we'll send you a text message on the morning of the sale!

Class on Demand/Digieffects Offer

Class on Demand has created a new Training/ Plug-in Bundle with Digieffects. They will include a free download of Digieffects Simulate: Illuma (shipping 6/4) for free with any purchase of the titles below- a $99 value! Class on Demand will include the Camera plugin package in the following COD titles:

• Basic Training for Adobe After Effects 7
• Basic Training for Adobe CS3 Production Premium
• Basic Training for Final Cut Studio 2
• Complete Training for Final Cut Pro 6
• Complete Training for Boris RED 4
• Boris Basics, Tips & Tricks

This offer will end on August 31st, 2008.

Maxon Spring Special - Cinema 4D + Module Offer

Buy Maxon CINEMA 4D R10.5 (core) and get the Cinema 4D Module of your choice for just $1,195. This offer expires Monday, June 30th, 2008.

The choice of Add-on Modules includes:

New Products and Updates

Visual Effects Plug-ins (AE, Combustion, Nuke, etc.)

CoreMelt Imageflow Fx for After Effects works with After Effects CS3 or After Effects 7.0 on Intel or G4/G5 Macintosh computers.

Oak Street Software VKey2 Quicktime Component and FxPlug plug-in is a tool for keying out, or removing a single color background from frames of a movie, or any digital images; especially suited to keying 4:1:1 (low color resolution) video formats. Recently enhanced for spectacular keys!

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Standalone Software

Media 100 12.5 - Expands on the systems workflow acquisition options and finishing capabilities with support for HDV formats and multi-channel audio input.

Silhouette FX v3.0 - If it has to do with rotoscoping or paint, it's in here! In addition to a fully stereoscopic workflow, v3 adds planar tracking, X-Splines, comprehensive keyer, 64-bit versions, and a lot more.

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More new products

Professional Video Templates Royalty-Free Music libraries have been created by professional musicians exclusively for Professional Video Templates. Loops can be employed with programs such as Soundtrack or Garage Band and if needed they can be optimized to be used with any loop-based software.

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Point Updates

• The Foundry have found and fixed some DirtRemoval and WireRemoval bugs in Furnace 4 for Shake and a free maintenance release is available for all of Furnace 4 customers.This update is provided free of charge for all customers running Furnace 4 for Shake. Download now

New Content at Toolfarm.com

A Conversation with David Torno and Brandon Parvini about Flight of the Conchords 'Ladies of the World'

Michele Yamazaki interviews David Torno and Brandon Parvini about Flight of the Conchords' 'Ladies of the World' video they just completed.

It's incredibly funny and has a cool 70s style to it. They rotoscoped the faces of The Conchords onto stunt skaters. They talk about the challenges they had with the project and how they used lots of digital tools to make this really impressive video.

Check it out!

Mocha AE Tutorial

Ross Shain, Vice President, Sales & Product Specialist at Imagineer Systems, walks you through how to use mocha AE, a state-of-the-art planar tracker, with Adobe After Effects.

• Download a free demo of mocha AE
• More on mocha AE in our Plug-in Finder
• Purchase mocha AE

Free Training Video Series: Adobe Premiere Pro with Boris Plug-ins

Check out this new training video to learn more about Boris plug-in filters inside Adobe Premiere Pro. Stay tuned for Parts II and III which will cover PixelChooser and Transitions.

Maxon Cinema 4D Review by Mathew Schirado

"MAXON's character tools get better each release, and for a high-end 3D app, nothing out there easier to pick up quickly. I'm all about the ease of use. It blows LightWave 3D out of the water."

• Read the full review
• Purchase Maxon CINEMA 4D R10.5

Other Industry News

• 2d3 will be attending Siggraph in August and is looking for material for their showreel. Their preferred formats for footage are Quicktime movie, AVI or frame sequence, but they can accept Beta SP/Digi Beta. Footage is needed as soon as possible with a deadline of around July 11th, 2008. Please contact Elaine Ormes for more information.
• AutoDesSys Previews bonZai 3D at AIA 2008. BonZai 3D is a new 3D modeler developed to fill in the demand for a quick, easy, simple but, most importantly, geometrically robust approach to 3D. AutoDesSys expects to start public Beta testing soon.

In This Issue

• New Products & Updates
• Toolfarm News
• Sales & Special Offers
• Other Industry News
• Plugged-In Podcast
• New Demos at Toolfarm!

Sales & Special Offers

Special Offers

Sorenson Squeeze Free Training offer: Sorenson Media is including a FREE Squeeze 5 Training DVD ($99 MSRP) with any upgrade or full version purchase of the following: Squeeze 5 for Flash, Squeeze 5 for Flash Pro, or Squeeze 5.

GenArts Sapphire Special Upgrade Pricing: Upgrade within 90 days of the single box purchase, and apply 100% of the box price toward the full package. If upgrading between 91 and 120 days from the initial box purchase, 50% credit may be applied toward the full package.

cineSync Pre-Release Offer: purchase cineSync Pro at the discount subscription rate of USD $4,000 for the first 12 months.

Toolfarm News feeds

Industry News & Updates
Video and effects news as it happens, plus new products, demos and tutorials.

Inspirations News feed
See the coolest new videos on the web

Podcast Update

Plugged-In Podcast Show 21: NAB Special is online!

One of the biggest Plugged-In podcasts ever, Show 21 NAB Special Edition! Keith Larsen and Alan Spaulding talk to dozens of guests:

• Rob Birnholz, Absolute Motion Graphics
• Zax Dow, Zaxwerks
• John Dickinson, Motionworks
• Harry Frank, Gray Machine
• Jim Tierney, Digital Anarchy
• Wes & Harry Plate, Automatic Duck
• Dan May, BlackMagic Design
• Stephanie Joyce, SmartSound

• Kristi Prost, Larry Jordan Associates
• Jay Ignaszeski, Tek Serve
• Kevin Fischer, Lite Panels
• Kevan O'Brien, Adobe
• Ben Syverson, DV Garage/PixelCorps
• Brendan Cass, Quantum
• Dan Montgomery, Imagine
• Marco Solario, Cinesoft
• Francisco Scartozzi, Matrox
• Frank George, Roland
• Jeff Greenberg, Philadelphia FCPUG
• Greg Clarke, Open Television Network
• Damon Hampson, Peachpit Press
• Jim Davis, LaCie
• Justin McCarthy, Albatat
• Jon Schilling, CalDigit
• Peter Wiggins, Ricardo Silva & Nancy Schopoff, Noise Industries
• Norman Zeledon, GMax Storage Solutions, LLC
• Sharon Cedars, Lynda.com
• Roger Mabon, G-Tech
• Steve Forde, Gridiron Software
• Chris Heffner, Other World Computing
• Simon Hollingworth & Victoria Battison, BlackMagic Design
• Bernie Mitchell, Silver Platter Productions

Got production or post-production questions?
Call Plugged-In Toll-Free line!
877.809.8145

Free Stuff at Toolfarm!

Free Plug-in! Noise Industries CoverFlux by idustrial revolution

Bring the popular look of Cover Flow (in iTunes) to your projects with the latest FxFactory freebie by idustrial revolution. CoverFlux FxPlug is available immediately for Final Cut Pro 6, Motion 3 and Final Cut Express 4 (FxFactory & Leopard need to be installed).

New Free Demos

Try a vKey2 demo! Oak Street Software vKey2 is a new keyer that is FxPlug, so it works in Final Cut Pro and Motion, and also a Quicktime Component.

Whatcha waiting for? Download some free demos!

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