News

Sgdvtutorials.com offers five free templates for the VisDOM VisTitle subtitling plug-in for EDIUS - designed primarily for creating corporate videos - as well as a 26-minute tutorial describing how to modify them. The templates can be downloaded here and the video can be found on YouTube

1 May to 30 June 2020

Buy now – and save up to EUR 450

Discover the gems of nature in your own backyard and capture these moments in beautiful images. ZEISS offers you the ideal equipment for this. What’s more, you can save up to EUR 450 when you purchase selected lenses and binoculars during the ZEISS Discovery Weeks.

Purchase one of the selected ZEISS lenses or binoculars during the promotional period. ZEISS will transfer the cashback refund directly to your account.

Register the lens or binocular online and enter the product serial number. Upload a picture of the receipt and the label, and enter your bank account details.

All information and the terms and conditions of participation can be found at: www.zeiss.com/discoveryweeks and www.zeiss-discoveryweeks-cashback.de

After a forced shutdown caused by the current pandemic, the doors of the Angénieux Cinema Optics laboratories are once again open, where the legendary brand's top cinema lenses are created. Thegiant Optimo Ultra 12Xzoom lens was the first to leave the production chain, the service department and the spare parts warehouse have also been reopened, so it is now possible to receive lenses for repair again... A unique look under the hands of Angenieux opticians here.

Thenew LightWave 3D 2020 brings a large number of new features including two new methods for rendering global illumination technologies ("Brute Force" and "Irradiance Cache"), new "Principled Hair Material" and "Artist Friendly Control Hair Shader" shaders in the FiberFX plug-in, support for Partio (Houdini) particle objects in LightWave OpenVDB tools, animation improvements (e.g. the ability to change the Rotation Order of individual skeleton elements and save this setting to the scene file), "Local Action Center" feature in Modeler for easier simultaneous modification of geometric groups, Tone Mapping (new Pixel Filter), improvements for Environment Light, improved Scene Editor and FBX import, improved OpenGL shaders for more real-time scene preview, faster and higher quality SSS (sub-surface scattering) shader output, and a new iOS and Android app to monitor the progress of calculations.

Until May 31, 2020, you can purchase an upgrade to version 2020 from any previous version at a discounted price!

Thenew update 9.52.6031 for the NLE software EDIUS contains several fixes related to exporting ProRes MXF files, timeline display, freezing of the program when exporting long and complex projects, slowdown in the QuickTitler panel for some fonts and other aspects of the program (full list of fixes here). Download the update here. When updating plug-ins (ProDAD, NewBlue etc.) and drivers (e.g. Blackmagic Design) it is recommended to use EDIUS.NET Manager.