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“Smoke on Mac – that is the optimal finishing solution for our customers,” says Jürgen Firsching, Managing Director of dve GmbH. “As an experienced Apple Solution Expert in the post-production and broadcast market and now once again as an Autodesk reseller, we are pleased that Autodesk is now using our market experience to give customers the best offer for Smoke on Mac.”
Autodesk Smoke on Mac is extremely fast 64-bit editing and finishing software that connects editing, colour correction, 3D, compositing, titling and finishing as a creative hub. Smoke on Mac allows users to switch easily between the individual work areas. Jürgen Firsching: “It is reliable, saves time, offers every creative possibility and is production-safe.”
Autodesk Color Management now gives dve customers using Smoke on Mac the ability to use 3D lookup tables (3D LUTs) as in Autodesk Flame, Autodesk Flare and Autodesk Lustre. This allows the colour and lighting decisions for material from editing to be adopted efficiently – costs and time for renewed colour and lighting work fall noticeably.
Smoke on Mac is 100% compatible with Autodesk Flame for finishing and visual effects. Timelines, clips and metadata can be processed without difficulty using Autodesk Lustre. There is also a transparent workflow with Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid Media Composer software. Smoke on Mac supports all important digital formats including RED Code RAW, Panasonic P2, Sony XDCAM HD, Apple QuickTime, Adobe Photoshop, multichannel OpenEXR and Autodesk FBX software interchange format.
For the launch, dve GmbH is offering attractive “Smoke is back home” bundles comprising Apple Mac Pro computers and Autodesk Smoke on Mac. Immediately after sales activities began, the first Smoke on Mac was sold to Hubbert von Sonntag Filmproduktion GmbH in Mülheim/Ruhr.
Autodesk is a worldwide leading manufacturer of 2D and 3D design, engineering, media and entertainment software. More than 25 years ago, Autodesk established a leading role in the software market with its AutoCAD design and drawing software. Today, examples including Autodesk Smoke on Mac, Autodesk Flame, Autodesk Flare and Autodesk Lustre, together with Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Combustion and others, are prerequisites for creating high-quality visual effects in the media and entertainment market.
Today, Autodesk offers more than nine million users and companies of every size affordable access to technological innovation and success.
Since 1998, dve Digital Video & Effects GmbH has provided
technology and workflow consulting for broadcast, film and video post-production as a systems house. It supports customers from consultation, configuration and installation through to maintenance and support for hardware and software systems. Systematic training to qualify employees completes the offering. As a systems house, dve offers hardware and software solutions for audio,
asset management, broadcast, compositing, editing, encoding, grading, 3D, high-speed storage networks, and archive and backup solutions.
dve was founded in 1998 by Jürgen Firsching and Michael Stein. The company
employs 12 people and is a distribution partner for market leaders Apple, Avid,
Autodesk, Cinetal, Digidesign, DVS, Harris, IRIDAS, The Foundry, Pixelfarm and
Quantum. With eleven years of experience, dve has well-founded knowledge of every issue concerning workflow solutions for film and television production.
Alongside its Munich headquarters, customers are supported by a sales office in
Düsseldorf. The employees of dve Digital Video & Effects GmbH come from the real production world. Their practical background means they are highly familiar with
customers’ everyday requirements. Their production experience
ranges from news and magazine production through industrial and corporate films, television and theatrical feature films, to 2K and 4K DCI post-production. Fast
post-production networks (SAN, NAS), high-end compositing and colour correction are dve’s core areas. Every area of post-production is therefore covered. Through specialist training and certification by the respective manufacturers, dve continually expands its employees’ expertise and can offer exclusive solutions individually tailored to customers. This specialist expertise provides both freelancers and large productions or television broadcasters with a customised solution. dve’s capabilities range from editing systems, asset and project management, render farms, SAN and RAW through to stereoscopic workflows.
