Autodesk Smoke 2013 for Mac is priced at only $ 3,500.

So here comes the next blast message: Autodesk Smoke 2013 for Mac is priced at only $ 3,500. Before we tell about a new miracle thingy from NAB, we want to dig a few words of explanation in history, so that everyone will notice here what that means. The range of products from Autodesk is not easy to see through. In the field of editing / compositing there are many programs that are actually the same engine around former Discreet Logic products emerged. So there / was there Flame, Flare, Flint, Inferno and Smoke already on the former MIPS SGI workstations, and these products are presented at times THE compositing / editing platform for visual effects in the upmarket area of u200bu200bmedia dar. but also to corresponding prices: According to Wikipedia 1995 Flame license cost about 175 000U.S. dollars, or about 450,000 U.S. dollars, if you wanted to have the right to SGI workstation. Flint was the stripped down version of Flame, for smaller studios, Inferno for a larger version of Hollywood movies. Flare is a software-only version also slimmed down slightly. And we know Flint was again stripped down. PIC1 Flame spring came the time the leader in many Hollywood blockbusters to use, among other things Titanic and Armageddon. Autodesk bought in 1999 Disceet Logic with its products and leads the product line ever since. The success of his descendants was originally Flame us strongly tied to SGI, but eventually lost the workstation market completely to Intel / AMD. And in the operating systems on Windows, Linux and Mac. Although veterans this as unlikelywould be formulated, based on the success of SGI hardware in the first place to more easily combine CPU power with very high GPU power, the SGI's heyday was extremely expensive. With the rise of Nvidia and AMD-ATI performance were those available on PCs. And in the run-time by better and better bus systems such as the recent PCI Express can also be used with enough bandwidth. What remains now is PIC2L of Flame and Co., was a lot of know-how of how to use the GPU for compositing and editing in real time, inserting the field very effectively. A theme to which dare to cut the smaller systems from Adobe, Apple and Sony just. Autdesk in April 2006 finally on Linux, SGI IRIX was not dissimilar. At that time the company applied for this step so that 3D compositing underLinux / Nvidia with a shock 20 times faster than the SGI workstations were. 2010 Autodesk responded then for its upscale clientele with Flame Premium, a Linux-suite from the Smoke (editing), there is Flame (compositing) and Lustre (color grading), and offers pretty impressive GPU real-time effects. Announcement at a price of $ 125,000. Similarly, Autodesk has since tried the Mac market for a Smoke-OSX version about $ 10,000. It must be said that even Smoke compositing and color grading functions from the other products owned, just not everything for everyone in Flame Premium. Since then, Apple had shocked the market with Shake for professional compositing systems (by then almost completely withdraw from the market) and the same game again in ColorGrading segment did with color, the high-end market is in tremendous movement. Sun DaVinci surprised last year from the absolute grading professional GPU market with its software versions for $ 1,000 and was just the smoke competitor www.slashcam.de/news/single/Pre-NAB-Knaller- -IFX - Piranha under-1-000-dollar-u-9808.html (IFX Piranha) also announced at the competitive price of $ 1,000. And that's where we stand now: Smoke for the Mac gets even more features of his Hollywood and advertising industries-tested siblings and will be even much cheaper. As an all-in-one application that is no longer required roundtrip Smoke 2013 is thus in direct competition with Adobe's Production Premium. PIC3LDie Schluesselfeatures Smoke are: A track-based editingWorkflow, which is supported by a node-based stack effect (ConnectFX) and brings a lot of Flame tools. So you have the timeline is not in a compositing program, or in a grading suite to change, it's all integrated. The included effects include a true 3D compositor, the Color Warper for grading and color matching, the Master Keyer and a true 3D stereoscopic workflow. As media hub will also normal cry, semi-professional formats are supported directly. This is Smoke explicitly run on iMac and MacBook Pro, as long as a powerful storage system is attached via Thunderbold. What makes us a little suspicious, is the lack of mention of the Big Mac Pros, which for Smoke certainly much more appropriate would. That leaves room for speculation about the future of Apple workstations. Whou003chtmlu003e white, perhaps needs to Autodesk for SGI umsatteln here again soon. But that is likely due to Linux in the case of the cases pose any major problem. A real problem is the time of delivery: Only in the autumn, you can buy Smoke 2013 for the Mac. But one thing is definitely with this announcement already clear: 2012 video editing scene really concerned will change profoundly. Oh, and while we write, it is in this case have come a first-hand-on-article online. And you can enter in a list at Autodesk to be notified when in June 2012 Before Trial version is available to download. Bilder zur Newsmeldung:  more infos at bei usa.autodesk.com deutsche Version dieser Seite: Autodesk Smoke for Mac 2013 kostet nur noch 3500 Dollar.