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Ben Houston is the founder of Exocortex Technologies in Ottawa, Canada. The company specialises in developing plug-ins for Autodesk software. More information about Exocortex can be found here: http://www.exocortex.com/
First, he exports a Thinking Particle system with Exocortex Crate into an Alembic format. He then shows how to import the Alembic format back into 3ds Max, Maya and Softimage.
3DS Max Thinking Particles to Maya and Softimage via Alembic from Exocortex on Vimeo.