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Toronto, Canada: July 9, 2012… eyeon Software Inc. announced today the shipping release of the highly-anticipated eyeon Connection® bridge to the AVID workflow. Strategically based upon AVID’s AVX2 architecture and eyeon’s 6.4 version release of Fusion™, Connection seamlessly opens the Media Composer®, Symphony™, NewsCutter®, and *Avid DS™ product lines to an infinite degree of creative possibilities.

Since Connection’s announcement at NAB 2012, the professional industry has seen an astounding response from the AVID community, including thousands of emails and forum posts:
“Eyeon Fusion Connection AVX plug-in will lead to a better world of node-based compositing from within an Avid interface”
“ka-boom! the nle war escalates, between... fusion and smoke”
“We have used Digital Fusion for years and have always wished our Avid would work like it in the composite modes with the tools of Fusion. We are excited.”
“eyeon Connection. Things are getting very interesting”
“I will 100% be checking it out because this is the game changer i think everyone has been waiting for.”
“Really smart move by Eyeon.”
“Fusion for Media Composer & Symphony is the big deal here.”
“It's very exciting to consider the possibilities. Having text burst into flame then morph into a supermodel--Fusion would definitely be my weapon of choice.”
“Adding Fusion to Avid is somewhat like the 'connectfx' nodal possibilities within Smoke2013, but still retaining the editing capabilities of Avid (e.g. Multicam, Audio Scrub, VO punch-in, 5.1 audio, Trimming etc).”
Key Features
•Supercomputing node-based VFX and Stereoscopic toolsets directly accessed in the AVID timeline, auto-populating AVID clips.
•Simultaneous use of software on systems or network, with concurrent editing/rendering.
•Drag-and-drop simplicity with infinite scalability via 64bit GPU-accelerated compositing and motion graphics.
•Unprecedented Particle generation and access to 3D environment and virtual extensions.
•Server storage and importing/exporting process eliminated.
•Dimension’s optical flow and disparity mapping technologies define a superior level of fix-it-in-post and Stereoscopic solutions.
•VFX processing via multi CPU and GPU.
•Advanced Fusion toolset includes Primatte5.
•Fusion 6.4 delivers transcoding lab controlled by AVID and Fusion.
•HDRI floating point color pipeline.
•ARRI®, RED®, Phantom®, and other native camera formats integrated.
Pricing and Availability
Connection with AVX2 support is included as part of Fusion and Dimension 6.4 at no additional charge for current subscription owners. Please contact sales@ eyeonline.com for more information.
* Avid DS support available upon AVID release of DS 11 QFE1.

Eyeon Fusion 6.3 disponible. Une vidéo montre ses nouvelles fonctionnalités :

Informations et téléchargement de Fusion 6.3 ici Press release en anglais : eyeon Speaks Deep Volumes with Fusion 6.3 Toronto, Canada: November 8, 2011… eyeon Software, a forerunner of visual effects software development, today announced the official shipping release of Fusion 6.3. Fusion's GPU-accelerated architecture and OpenCL supercomputing, as exemplified by the deep image volume technology, offers state-of-the-art VFX software advancements with this latest edition. Volumetric Lighting One of the most requested features within the Volume Fog Tool has been volumetric lighting. Adjusting 3D scenes within Fusion’s real time deep volume system and integrating the volumes directly into images with the World Position Pass tool provide an unsurpassed methodology for controlling light samples, scattering, asymmetry, and density. These volumes can be generated inside Fusion or imported via EXR. "Marvelous! Thanks guys!" ~ Pieter Van Houte, Director, Steak Under Water Color Science Advances in color handling and new color tools in version 6.3 make color matching, profiling, and working with diverse cameras and Digital Intermediate systems seamless. • THX® advances support for Fusion in their latest release of Cinespace™. • Fusion adds Academy Color Encoding Specification (ACES) linear color space to its color pipeline. • New automated color correction reversing and color grading capabilities. • Versatile 3D LUT creation, analysis, and design tools. “In reality, the whole feature set comes with a lot of new improvements that will impact us on a daily basis. Every time we get new release notes I get a nice warm feeling inside.” ~ Chad Capeland, Director R&D, Anatomical Travelogue LLC Primatte 5 Primatte 5 provides vastly improved auto compute and background color selection, background lighting adjustment, and hybrid rendering. Lens Distortion with the importing of data and a number of various lens models, the Lens Distort tool implements the 3D equalizer lens distortion model to invert or undistort an image. The data can then be imported into Fusion for the most accurate results. AJA Kona Support AJA Kona 3G playback support, including 4k and 48fps playback. “Awesome. Thanks for the hard work!” ~ Stefan Ihringer, Freelance Compositing Artist eyeon has pushed the development of Fusion 6.3 to possess an authentic 3D environment with camera/lighting support for leading 3D packages and one of the most powerful and intuitive 3D particle systems on the market. With hardware-accelerated 3D capabilities, you can now migrate from pre-vis to finals within the same application. eyeon's Fusion is a true synergy of 2D and 3D tools for precise compositing.

Un tutorial en anglais pour Eyeon Fusion permettant de créer grâce aux particules un effet de feu réaliste.

Dans ce tutoriel, l'auteur, Theodore Groeneboom, utilise 2000 particules de départ. Pour étudier le comp plus rapidemment, tout en gardant l'effet escompté, vous pouvez abaisser le nombre de particules à 200, cela fonctionne bien.

Lien pour ce tutoriel ici.

Une vidéo en anglais montrant comment recréer de l' ambient occlusion dans Eyeon Fusion.

Fichier Quicktime de 40 Mo disponible ici

GenArts a acquis les renommés plugins SpeedSix.

En anglais / In english :

 GenArts Inc., the leading provider of digital visual effects software for the film, broadcast and video industries, announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SpeedSix Software Limited. As of today, all SpeedSix employees will join the GenArts team and remain in the UK. In addition, SpeedSix's renowned Monsters and Raptors visual effects will be sold and supported in their current form alongside GenArts Sapphire, creating the industry's most compelling family of state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects software.

The acquisition is part of GenArts' aggressive growth strategy fueled by last year's investment from Insight Venture Partners of New York. CEO Katherine Hays took the reins in June, 2008 and announced her intent to accelerate the company's growth via acquisitions and strategic partnerships.

"We're excited to announce the acquisition of SpeedSix as an initial step in our growth plan," Hays said. "For over 12 years, GenArts has built a reputation for visual effects that inspire our customers to create the Academy Award-winning magic that has thrilled and delighted audiences around the world. We believe that the creativity and passion of our combined company will allow us to achieve new heights with our technology while leveraging our complementary businesses to create unequalled value for our customers in the years to come."

SpeedSix's Monsters and Raptors plug-ins feature powerful tools including retiming, particle effects, lens distortion matching, fire, and organic fluid backgrounds. Monsters and Raptors have been used throughout the film and video industry to create effects for some of the most popular movies, television and advertising produced in the industry.

Steve Hayes, Director of SpeedSix commented, "We've always admired GenArts and the outstanding reputation they have built over the last decade. We share their commitment to deliver the highest quality, most organic and most original visual effects tools in the world. We're proud to be joining the GenArts family and look forward to working together to create exciting new products that allow filmmakers and vídeo artists to explore the limits of their imagination and create the entertainment experiences that continue to amaze us all."

About GenArts
Founded in 1996 in Cambridge, Mass., GenArts, Inc. is the premier provider of digital visual effects for the film, broadcast and video industries. GenArts Sapphire equips digital artists with a collection of over 200 state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects such as: Glows, EdgeRays, LensFlare, Lightning, FilmEffect, Warps and Textures. The effects seamlessly integrate as software plug-ins into leading editing and compositing systems from Adobe, Apple, Avid, Autodesk, Assimilate, Digital Vision, Eyeon, FilmLight, The Foundry, Quantel and SGO.

Sapphire has become the industry standard for high-end visual effects creation by providing unrivaled image quality, a unique organic look, and ease of use. They have been used extensively in an array of television programs, music videos and feature films, including Iron Man, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Hulk, Spider-Man 1, 2 and 3, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars - Episode I, II and III, Sin City, The Matrix trilogy, X-Men 1, 2 and 3, Titanic, Lostand CSI.   www.genarts.com.

ZDefocus de Sapphire:

Une courte vidéo pour un test de matchmoving. La sphère "organique" et la structure métallique en début de séquence ont été rajouté en 3D sur cette vidéo. Logiciels utilisés : Andersson Technologies LLC Syntheyes ( lien vers Syntheyes version d'essai) et Eyeon Fusion 5 ( lien vers Fusion version d'essai ).