Autodesk Cleaner 6.5 Quick Overview

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This video is open to the general public. It quickly overviews some of the basic features of Cleaner 6.5 by Autodesk, the developer of popular 3D modeling application Maya. It also shows how to use Cleaner 6.5 to compress a QuickTime movie (H.264) into a Windows Media Video file. Note that this free version of video does not contain audio commentary. Continue reading →

Mac Software Review: Episode 4.3 and Episode Pro 4.3

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A few weeks ago, Telestream, the developer of Flip4Mac (QuickTime WMV component) has updated its Mac-only applications Episode and Episode Pro to 4.3, respectively. So what do these Mac applications do? Episode is a compression suite. It’s similar to Sorenson Media’s Sorenson Squeeze. Episode contains many compression profiles. And it supports many multimedia formats such as MOV, AVI, MPEG and WMV. Continue reading →

Blizzard Entertainment Announcing StarCraft 2

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Blizzard Entertainment, the developer of World of Warcraft and Warcraft III, has announced that the company is currently developing a new game called StarCraft II. StarCraft… It is one of the first real-time strategy game. Since the PC version of Microsoft and Ensemble Studio’s Age of Empires was released on October 26, 1997 and StarCraft is perhaps the second old economic-based real-time strategy game (PC version released on April 1, 1998). In a sense, StarCraft is the space version of Age of Empires. In StarCraft, you collect resources, built factories and produce battle units just as in Age of Empires. Continue reading →