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For additional product news and information, visit CGW.com SOFTWARE specialty construction—to produce profes- sional, 2D layouts and plans. Previously known as Project Cooper, a technology preview from Autodesk Labs, AutoCAD Freestyle is now available for download from Autodesk for $149; the Autodesk eStore is selling the electronic download for $79 for a limited time. Autodesk; www.autodesk.com/estore WIN CAD Okino Modules Okino Computer Graphics has released its V5.3.2 set of JT PLM/MCAD bidirectional import and export converter modules. With the JT converter modules, users can import and export geometry, hierarchy, materials, and texture-mapping data to native JT disk-based MCAD, aka DirectModel, files. Users can also import PMI graphical data and then re-export to compatible Okino export file formats, such as SketchUp and U3D. Okino built the modules on the official JT Open Toolkit from Siemens AG, ensuring the consistency of JT files across the enterprise and throughout the PLM supplier chain. JT, suitable for use through- out a product development life cycle, supports various file sizes and multiple tessellations and levels of details—from compact files with facet data to rich files that hold associations to the original CAD information, assemblies, product structure, geometry, attributes, metadata, and prod- uct manufacturing information. Okino Computer Graphics; www.okino.com WIN Freestyle Features Autodesk has launched AutoCAD Free- style, its 2D drawing software package for creating professional-looking drawings and sketches, layouts, and plans that can be shared. The software is designed to offer a simplified user interface and to require no training. AutoCAD Freestyle enables a variety of users—from hobby- ists and do-it-yourselfers to professionals working in home improvement, garden- ing and landscape design, and light or VIDEO Timeline Translation Automatic Duck has upgraded its Media Copy and Pro Import AE timeline integra- tion solutions. Media Copy now enables users to read and manage Avid bins and project files, simplifying the editing work- flow. Pro Import AE 5.0, the latest version of the company’s timeline translation tool for Adobe After Effects, offers compat- ibility with Adobe’s Creative Suite 5 from Adobe and support for Motion 3 and 4 project import. Version 5.0 also features DPX/Cineon sequence support from Final Cut Pro; support for MXF4Mac and other MXF QuickTime components; updated third-party, plug-in translations; the option to replace Final Cut Pro proxy media with R3D files; and improved text import with font, color, size, and style info. Now avail- able, Media Copy 3.0 is priced at $95 and Pro Import AE 5.0 is priced at $495. Automatic Duck; www.automaticduck.com WIN MAC Sweet Plug-in Noise Industries’ development partner SugarFX has updated its Video Wall plug-in with new video and 3D options, auto-animation features, and other capa- bilities. Video Wall 2.0 with keyframable parameters enables users to twist, bend, and animate multiple images and videos for unique wall effects. Users also gain added complexity modes, including Stan- dard, Advanced, and Expert modes and presets for creating more intricate presets and effects. Video Wall is an FxFactory- powered plug-in designed to extend the visual effects capabilities of Adobe After Effects CS3/CS4, Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, and Apple Final Cut Express. Video Wall 2.0 is a free update for Video Wall 1.0 users and available for $69 via the Noise Industries Web site. Noise Industries; www.noiseindustries.com WIN MAC Production Playback Shotgun Software and Tweak Software have released an integration package combining their VFX and animation production tools, Shotgun and RV. Shot- gun is a flexible, scalable Web-based project management system for digi- tal production studios, whereas Tweak Software’s RV is an image and sequence viewer for VFX and animation artists. The combination is intended to help studios track, organize, play, and review their work quickly and easily. The integration module enables users to move between the programs quickly, launch Shotgun- aware playback from anywhere in the pipeline, load neighboring shots to see shots in context, display Shotgun meta- data in the RV player, easily Trim or reveal handles and slates, and swap in high-res frames, QuickTime movies, or alternate media. The new integration module is provided at no additional cost to users of both products. Shotgun Software; www.shotgunsoftware.com Tweak Software; www.tweaksoftware.com WIN MAC LINUX STEREOSCOPY Stereoscopic Suite Eyeon Software announced Stereoscop- ic Site Licensing, designed to provide studios with a roadmap to affordable GPU rendering. A site license of multi- ple tools—such as Fusion, Rotation, and Render Nodes—is intended to provide greater creativity and workflow efficiency. Rotation 6.1 combines with Fusion 6.1, for example, to introduce new tools for roto- scoping, keying, and color management for shot prepping, touch-up, tracking, and depth-map generating for stereo conver- sion. Eyeon’s Stereoscopic Site Licensing is priced at $9995 for two Fusion 6.1, 10 July 2010 79 Data © Siemens AG.