OWC released its Accelsior 8M2, a speed demon PCIe SSD with capacities of up to 64TB

The OWC Accelsior 8M2 is a backwards compatible PCIe 4.0 expansion card for Windows PCs, Mac Pros (2019 model)m Linux workstations and PCIe expansion systems. It uses the total bandwidth of the latest PCIe technology and has a highly efficient heat dissipating design to provide ultra-reliable speeds up to 26,000MB/s.… Read More OWC released its Accelsior 8M2, a speed demon PCIe SSD with capacities of up to 64TB

December 1, 2021February 11, 2022 ζ Ophiuchi

Soon AI-created multi-angle, multi-focus images and videos from a single image will be Sci-Fi no more

Remember the days of the Lytro camera? That camera allowed you to take a picture and adjust the focus afterwards as often as you liked. Now, a machine-learning algorithm is making it possible to do the same and more.… Read More Soon AI-created multi-angle, multi-focus images and videos from a single image will be Sci-Fi no more

May 9, 2021 ζ Ophiuchi

Review: Aputure Accent B7c cinema grade light bulb

Aputure recently released the Accent B7c, a mains power and battery operated 7W RGBWW colour-mixing LED light bulb. It’s the first product in the new Accent family of LED lights built for filmmakers. The B7c features a standard E26/27 fixture but unlike typical household LED bulbs, the lamp uses cinema grade LEDs to reproduce skin tones with CRI and TLCI values of 95+ and a tungsten SSI score of 85.… Read More Review: Aputure Accent B7c cinema grade light bulb

October 19, 2020October 19, 2020 ζ Ophiuchi

Yanobox Storm: Procedural 3D in a plugin for FCPX and Motion, Premiere Pro and After Effects

Yanobox recently released a brand new procedural modelling plug-in, called Storm. The plug-in that is available via FxFactory works with After Effects, Final Cut Pro X, Apple Motion, and Premiere Pro. The term procedural modelling covers a number of techniques in computer graphics to create 3D models and textures from rules. For example, fractals and generative modelling are both procedural modelling techniques. In the case of Storm, the rules can be configured using parameters. Storm is built around a self-contained rendering engine, has multiple noise generators and supports volumetric and directional colours.… Read More Yanobox Storm: Procedural 3D in a plugin for FCPX and Motion, Premiere Pro and After Effects

October 12, 2020October 12, 2020 ζ Ophiuchi

Yanobox Motype 1.5 improves particles, adds animated shutter

Titles, who doesn’t need them? And who doesn’t want them to be at least a bit appealing, drawing attention to what follows? Yanobox’s Jean Marc Noel, who we all know as the chap behind Yanobox Nodes 2 and Mosaic, has upgraded Motype with better particles, an animated shutter and a smart preset browser, and has made Motype 1.5 a lot more exciting in the process.… Read More Yanobox Motype 1.5 improves particles, adds animated shutter

September 11, 2020September 11, 2020 ζ Ophiuchi

Vectoraster 8 adds animation and it’s awesome

Vectoraster is a graphics utility that allows you to create custom vector halftones and line rasters. The dark areas of an image become points, while the light areas become white space.… Read More Vectoraster 8 adds animation and it’s awesome

September 8, 2020 ζ Ophiuchi

Create video walls the easy way with Griddy for FCPX

FxFactory’s Griddy is an excellent way to create video walls and multi-story projects in Final Cut Pro X in a very simple way with a large number of creative possibilities. Griddy is usable in almost every situation where you’d like to have multiple clips playing at the same time in their own frame.… Read More Create video walls the easy way with Griddy for FCPX

June 30, 2020July 1, 2020 ζ Ophiuchi

CoreMelt PaintX review

PaintX is a plug-in by CoreMelt that allows you to directly paint onto your footage. That opens possibilities for removing power lines, adding graphics or changing colours and structures from footage, either all of it or on specific frames.… Read More CoreMelt PaintX review

May 4, 2020 ζ Ophiuchi

FxFactory Progress Bars v2

Luca Visual FX Progress Bars v2 is a pack of 20 generators and eight effects, including an object tracker. They provide a wide variety of progress, loading, processing bars and rings as well as gauges and hi-tech motion graphics to overlay over any media. It’s distributed by FxFactory.… Read More FxFactory Progress Bars v2

February 12, 2020 ζ Ophiuchi

Is Red Giant Universe 3.1 a Yanobox Nodes 3 competitor?

Universe, Red Giant Software’s subscription-based plug-in for Adobe After Effects and seven other NLEs and compositing apps, has been updated to version 3.1 and incorporates some interesting new modules.… Read More Is Red Giant Universe 3.1 a Yanobox Nodes 3 competitor?

October 1, 2019October 13, 2019 ζ Ophiuchi