Via General Specialist, we’ve learned that you can get a full copy of the Poser 5 3D modeling / figure posing and animation tool for Windows and Mac. Hurry, as the offer ends tomorrow (Friday September 9): Free Poser 5 Offer I just picked up my free copy and have some details on how to […]

Adding to the flood of new computer audio interfaces this summer is the Mbox 2 Pro from Digidesign, filling a gap left long ago by the old Digi 001. If you need some extra channels for Pro Tools LE and the M-Audio interfaces leave you cold, this could be a good choice, though I’d take […]

Laptops as bio-hazard? Dust problems in the desert? Just stick them in a miniature “clean room” environment. Chris Martinez of effect69 writes us with details: Worried about dust and dirt? PowerBook got an alien plague? This should help. Burning Man 2006: Hope & Fear the Future When we were asked to play on the playa, […]

Legendary composer Wendy Carlos remembers Bob Moog in a moving set of recollections, music, and documents, including the music and thoughts she shared in a gathering in North Carolina shortly after his death last year. She goes far beyond Switched on Bach to talk about a long relationship with the instruments and their creator in […]

SM Pro has released a “passive summing mixer” that mixes eight analog audio channels to two. The idea is that digital summing, as performed in software, will cancel certain sound components and result in a less detailed mix after mixdown. The PM8 passive summing mixer does this for you in the analog domain, theoretically resulting […]

Freeframe, that great open-source video effects plugin system for your favourite VJ app or NLE (and championed by developers from VJamm and Resolume) now comes in a new flavour: After Effects! BigFug (an active FreeFrame plugin developer) has released a beta of the After Effects Freeframe Host. It’s, well, free while in beta. The full […]

Freeframe, that great open-source video effects plugin system for your favourite VJ app or NLE (and championed by developers from VJamm and Resolume) now comes in a new flavour: After Effects! BigFug (an active FreeFrame plugin developer) has released a beta of the After Effects Freeframe Host. It’s, well, free while in beta. The full […]

Sony have released an update to their Movie Studio line. Doting grandparents, soccer mums, beginner vidcasters, and mobile visualists rejoice! Notable updates from the previous Vegas Movie Studio include: HDV support/Capture 77 new effects 50+ more transitions Primary colour correction (anyone know what that means?) 5.1 surround sound mixing Limited edition Sony Pictures Sound Effects […]

This video is technically from the same crop as the post-apocalyptic roundup, but it’s so fantastic it deserves its own post. Machinima, made in Trackmania Sunrise. 1K Project II. myFlash = new FlashObject(‘http://www.gametrailers.com/umremote310.swf’, ‘swffile’, 480, 409, 8); myFlash.altTxt = ”; myFlash.addVariable(‘umid’, 12321); myFlash.write(); Beautiful. via Ticklebooth

This video is technically from the same crop as the post-apocalyptic roundup, but it’s so fantastic it deserves its own post. Machinima, made in Trackmania Sunrise. 1K Project II. myFlash = new FlashObject(‘http://www.gametrailers.com/umremote310.swf’, ‘swffile’, 480, 409, 8); myFlash.altTxt = ”; myFlash.addVariable(‘umid’, 12321); myFlash.write(); Beautiful. via Ticklebooth