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Autodesk Announces 2011 Finishing Products Autodesk rolled out the 2011 releases of its creative ���nishing products for visual effects, editorial ���nishing, and color grading��� Flame, Flare, Flint, Smoke, and Lustre���which offer new creative tools and improved interoperability, and introduce an end-to-end stereoscopic 3D (S3D) ���nishing work���ow for TV and ���lm. Smoke 2011 features new tools for editing, viewing, and compositing stereoscopic 3D content. It provides a drag-anddrop conform of AAF or XML ���les from Apple Final Cut Pro or Avid Media Composer, and has native in-application support for RED RAW media and H.264 QuickTime. Launched in December 2009, Smoke for Mac OS X is gaining ground in Mac-based creative work���ows by offering, for the ���rst time on that platform, an all-in-one editorial ���nishing solution. With integrated tools for editorial, conform, color correction, keying, tracking, painting, rotoscoping, compositing, and 3D visual effects, Smoke can reduce the need for editors to work with multiple applications to deliver higher-quality ���nished content. Smoke���priced at $14,995���is also available as a turnkey solution for the Linux operating system. PRODUCTS: POSTPROCESSING 6 May 2010 The 2011 releases of Flame and Flare, meanwhile, add new creative tools and help further integrate advanced 3D capabilities with a new GPU-based pixel-shader rendering pipeline that helps improve the quality of rendered results and enables support for new texture mapping and lighting effects. Included is a new Substance procedural texture library with at least 100 near-photorealistic textures that can be applied to 3D objects, 3D text, or surfaces; native in-application support for RED RAW media and H.264 QuickTime; and support for individual rendering layers when soft-importing OpenEXR media ���les. The versions also support a number of 3D compositing enhancements. Lustre 2011 features S3D capabilities that enable advanced creative look development by helping to give colorists control over color and lighting effects in both stereoscopic and standard grading work���ows, with new support for grading of OpenEXR media ���les, RED work���ow enhancements, and open management of grading metadata. The releases vary in price based on con���guration.