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Autodesk Announces 2011 Finishing Products Autodesk rolled out the 2011 releases of its creative fi nishing products for visual effects, editorial fi 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) fi nishing workfl ow for TV and fi lm. Smoke 2011 features new tools for editing, viewing, and compositing stereoscopic 3D content. It provides a drag-and- drop conform of AAF or XML fi 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 Decem- ber 2009, Smoke for Mac OS X is gaining ground in Mac-based creative workfl ows by offering, for the fi rst time on that platform, an all-in-one editorial fi nishing solution. With integrated tools for editorial, conform, color correction, keying, tracking, painting, roto- scoping, compositing, and 3D visual effects, Smoke can reduce the need for editors to work with multiple applications to deliver higher-quality fi nished content. Smoke—priced at $14,995—is also available as a turnkey solution for the Linux operating system. PRODUCTS: POSTPROCESSING The 2011 releases of Flame and Flare, meanwhile, add new creative tools and help further integrate advanced 3D capa- bilities 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 fi 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 grad- ing workfl ows, with new support for grading of OpenEXR media fi les, RED workfl ow enhancements, and open management of grading metadata. The releases vary in price based on confi guration. 6 May 2010