Try Boris Blue 1 now! Boris Blue is a 3D compositing and motion graphics solution based on the award-winning Boris Red plug-in. This standalone application provides unprecedented 3D creativity with real-time performance to accelerate your workflow. Although it hasn't yet shipped, Blue already won a Vidy Award at NAB 2005 in recognition of outstanding achievement in the advancement of the art and science of video technology.

Want to be one of the first to try Blue? Boris FX is offering a public beta of Blue. This free download is your chance to try this exciting new product and provide us with valuable feedback. Your participation is important. So, don't delay. Download now and send us your feedback before the public beta build expires April 1, 2006: http://www.borisfx.com/products/blue/beta.php

Blue is a Windows-only application that requires specific OpenGL cards. Go here to see if your system supports Blue: http://www.borisfx.com/products/blue/requirements.php



Key Blue Features:

* Adjust parameters with interactive real-time playback, including streaming video and audio.

* Powerful new 3D Particles use any shape as a particle while emitters can contain multiple particle types.

* Extrude text, custom splines or imported EPS files with custom bevels and surfaces.

* 3D Model Import preserves individual geometry groups, texture maps, and bump maps.

* Sophisticated Materials include Texture Maps, Bump Maps, and Dynamic Reflection Maps.

* Vertex Deformers provide true 3D warping of 3D objects.

* Image Processors and Generators include keying, tinting and toning, distortions, and transitions.

* Masking, compositing, and motion blur provide precise control and RT performance.

* Hardware Accelerated rendering lets you export High Quality movies FAST.

EditShare will unveil the next generation (version 4.0) of its award-winning EditShare family of systems at NAB2006 (Booth SL1410).

Available by the end of Q2 2006, EditShare version 4.0 will bring users a host of new productivity enhancing features, including:

* Support for uncompressed HD over 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Editors can now finish uncompressed HD projects on the same NAS storage they use for lower resolution editing. With this new development, EditShare continues to prove that it can give users the simplicity of a NAS with the power of a SAN.

* Faster hardware and larger hard drives. EditShare now takes advantage of the latest Hardware RAID cards and hard drives for cutting edge performance. As always, EditShare's RAID 5 architecture achieves the throughput editors need, while also providing efficient data protection without having to rely on wasteful mirroring.

* A new highly-scalable architecture that allows multiple EditShare units to be installed on the same network, and then coordinates the units so they can be accessed easily by editors and administrators as if there were just a single server. This means that EditShare will be able to scale to storage sizes of 100 TB, 200 TB and beyond, while still maintaining all the simplicity and convenience of a smaller NAS.

* A new "Mount Manager" that simplifies connecting EditShare's "Media Spaces" to editors' workstations. A small EditShare "client program" now allows editors to browse all Media Spaces to which they have access and remember what was selected for fast and easy log on next time. In addition, on Windows workstations, editors can select what drive letter to assign those Media Spaces and the system will also remember the selections for next time;

* Support for legacy Avid systems, including Symphony and Meridian-based Media Composers - as well as DS Nitris.

* An enhanced and improved administrator's interface that streamlines set up of Media Spaces and users. Of particular note, is a suite of innovations that make managing accounts and Media Spaces a simple task for large schools and universities that might have hundreds of users who change from semester to semester.

* Support for mirrored Operating System drives for added security