GenArts is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Sapphire Plug-ins version 2 for After Effects and compatible products including Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Autodesk Combustion, and Eyeon Fusion. The new version features over 30 new effects, plus many new parameters and improvements to existing effects in the package. In addition, version 2 includes support for the latest versions of all After Effects and compatible host applications including Adobe CS4 and the "Smart FX" API, plus support for Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard.
Avid Media Composer now supports Xsan, StorNext and NFS-based storage with SAN Fusion 1.5, allowing project and media sharing like Unity or ISIS.