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| for would-be multimedia produc- 01.08.96 The Newsweekly for Macintosh Managers VOLUME 10 NUMBER | ATl readies low-cost, multipurpose board $300 card does video, graphics a price tag of only $300 ona raft of multimedia features, including video digitizing, QuickTime and graphics acceleration, and en- hanced colors and resolution. In addition, ATI will offer a $150 MPEG daughtercard and an ex- ternal TV tuner box that plugs into the XClaim MM, each priced at about $150. All three pieces are due by June “For $600 total, it’s a pretty good poor man’s multimedia stu- dio,” said Rick Doherty, director of The Envisioneering Group See ATI, Page 140 By Carolyn Said Having champagne tastes on a beer budget hasn’t been an option ers. Buta new multifunction PCI card from ATI Technologies Inc. may make multimedia affordable even for entry-level users. The XClaim MM, which ATI will debut at Macworld Expo in San Francisco this week, will put Big Island to spin out YoYo: Telephony tool uses Caller ID By Joanna Pearlstein personal information managers. By Joanna Pearlstein In an effort to prove that verti- cally oriented computing isn’t just for the rich and power- hungry, Apple will release this summer a PowerPC Performa in a new tower design, sources said. Instatower, the code name of Apple’s first tower-style com- puter for the entry-level con- sumer, will reportedly use either a 100- or 120-MHz PowerPC Infrared receiver Volume at >< 4x CD-ROM awe —— Flopy disk drive Apple to raise low-end tower Instatower: Apple's first consumer tower 603e processor and will have three 7-inch PCI slots. An Insta- tower with 8 Mbytes of RAM, a 1.2-Gbyte Enhanced IDE (Inte- grated Drive Electronics) hard drive, quadruple-speed CD- ROM drive and a 15-inch moni- tor is expected to cost less than $2,000, sources said. The CPU’s enclosure report- edly places connectors on top, See Instatower, Page 140 100- or 120-MHz 603e A new company wants to make Geared toward the small- dealing with your phone calls office, home-office market, YoYo child’s play. At Macworld Expo is a $149 hardware-software this week Big Island Communica- tions Inc. will show YoYo, a tele- phony product that screens and routes calls and integrates with combination that attaches to a computer's ADB port and to a phone; it is expected to ship this March. YoYo uses Caller ID to 3 PCI slots 2 expansion bays 110 ports on top, rather than in back, of CPU identify incoming calls and trigger designated actions associated with that call. The device works with Centrex but not PBX sys YoYo can look up the number of an incoming callin a contact manager and display the caller’s information. Or, it can send Caller ID informa- tion to a pager so the user can respond to the call immediately. The software works See YoYo, Page 140 YoYo uses Caller ID to trigger contact look- ups and indicate a caller's identity. NEWSPAPER SECOND CLASS Complete system less than $2,000 Power will offer Microsoft’s suite By Mark Hall and David Morgenstern Power Computing Corp. hopes to link its name with Microsoft Corp’s in a deal that would marry Microsoft Office to se- lected PowerWave and Pow Curve clones. Despite a Microsoft denial, sources said an agreement will be announced this week at Macworld Expo San Francisco. | To begin this quarter, Power Office makes a bundle will sell PowerWave and the new PowerCurve machines on ana la carte basis, with Office preloaded on the hard drive. The company will continue to include Claris- Works and Intuit Inc,’s Quicken. However, Dave Meltzer, Mi- crosoft group product manager for Macintosh applications, said, “The official news is that there is no agreement.” Despite the denial, sources in- sist that the deal is signed and will be the first bundle of Office on the Mac. A source familiar with the contract said Microsoft “got a See Power, Page 142 Show Picks Going to expo? Here's the stuff you won't want to miss See Page 6 1995: Year of | the Clown MacWEEK roasts 1995, ayear that kept an en- tire industry in stitches Web sites and Windows and clones, oh my! Mac managers review their 1995 experiences See Page 46 In Reviews > After Effects 3 glows > MiniCad 6 overflows > PageMill needs to grow See Page 79 Expo news flash Check out late-breaking expo product announce- ments See Page 139 Kodak and Fuji focus efforts on digital cameras By Kelly Ryer Two big names in photography are looking to make low-cost digital cameras a focal point of Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Eastman Kodak Co. and Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. Inc. will bring their | offerings to the masses this week. Kodak's Digital Science DC-50 succeeds the company’s first hand- held camera, the DC-40. The new model, which will cost about $979, adds a zoom lens and a slot for Type I or II PC Cards; Kodak also said it has significantly enhanced "s image quality. (0's image sensor, op- See Cameras, Page 142 the came et a Sa ee Pc a omputing In rues Fastest MacOS Nystem Ever aUMiraPowerPt GU4 Fast PC! and NuBus Expansion Accelerated 64-bit PCI Video and Fast SCS 3 Front Accessible Drives for optional Quad-Spin (4X) CD-ROM, lomega Zip, lomega Jaz, or SyQuest EZ-135 Easily upgradeable Plug & Play CPU daughtercards featuring the PowerPC 604 at 120, 132 and 150MHz Fast PCI 3-slot expansion Need NuBus? 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Four days of products, par- ties, back-room politics and general chest thumping about all things Mac. The show’s venue, Moscone Center, is — to paraphrase a certain $35 million defensive back — Apple’s house. Surely with the Mac big top in town, unit shipments at record levels and a slew of third-party products on the horizon, Apple should be starting the new year with a bang. But before Mac aficionados get caught up in the revelry and pop open the bubbly, they need to own up to some sobering facts. This week is merely a respite; the next 50 could be crippling. [i If anything, the company [7 staggers into 1996, groggy from a long list of troubling ills: the lack of a clear, com- pelling message; mistakes in forecasting demand; discord in the executive ranks; shrinking margins and profits; the failure of two Apple-IBM Corp. joint NEC debuts compact LCD displays ¢ SyQuest SyJet packs 650-Mbyte, 1.3-Gbyte removable cartridges * Coolscan turns IT Show Picks: Macworld exposed ¢ Symantec unveils updated utilities © Vendors uncork Ultra SCSI speeds ¢ ON Location serves up net data ¢ The latest Jaz arrangements Macromedia enters image-editing picture * Opcode tunes up Studio Vision Pro ¢ Infini-D STFMail debuts at expo * PowerBuilder for Mac ships ¢ Open Transport update gets the bugs out ¢ FirstClass for Mac to ship in spring State of Mac Management: Managers toughed it out in 95 — will the loyalty continue? Macromedia adds new tools, revamped interface to xRes image editor. See GA, Page 20. Mac managers got Web fever, but clones left them cold. See Special Report, Page 46. Table of Contents PAGE 3 What the new year will bring for Macs. See MacinTouch, Page 97. DEPARTMENTS & OPINION 100 Mail Order 114 MarketPlace 68 SPECIAL REPORT The Year in Review: While we can’t say it was a great year, at least 1995 wasn’t boring. 79 REVIEWS Adobe After Effects 3.0 © Graphsoft MiniCad 6.0 ¢ KPT Final Effects 3.0 © PageMill 1.0 ¢ MacBench 3.0 ¢ Forum ¢ Year in Reviews 97 SOLUTIONS Although digital cameras are migrating to the photo mainstream, film isn’t on its way out. 40 Editorial 97 MacInTouch 40 Second Decade 142 StockWatch 42 Letters 146 Mac The Knife 42 Mac Manager ALSO INSIDE 144 Ad Index 944 Product Index MACWEEK INSIDER JON SWARTZ The calm before the storm ventures, Taligent Inc. and Kaleida Labs Inc.; a projected loss during Apple’s tradi- tionally profitable Christmas quarter; and rumored layoffs of up to 2,000 employees. All this has sent industry observers scrambling to re-evaluate the company’s future. Apple stock was downgraded in December by Hambrecht & Quist Inc. of San Francisco and Standard & Poor’s Corp. and Moody’s Investors Service Inc., both of New York. And analysts are betting the company is a likely takeover target for IBM, Oracle Corp., Hewlett- Packard Co. or Sun Microsystems Inc., among others. Even as Apple gains ground in home personal computer sales, its profits are anemic. The company supposedly is focused on gaining market share — and it registered a modest gain last year, accord- ing to Dataquest Inc. of San Jose, Calif. But it also misread demand so badly that in mid- 1995 it had a backlog of orders topping $1 billion. (That figure has since been cut to $600 million.) All the while, Apple public relations has adopted a bunker mentality with mantralike chants of “No comment, no comment.” All this prompts the question: Can Apple withstand the next 12 months? Of course it can. But first it needs to face cold, third-party software development; and continue technical innovation, particularly in Power Macs, Copland, OpenDoc and Internet-related products. Others suggest Apple should buy an- other big company, such as the former NCR Corp., and thus force its way into the corporate market. A vocal minority recommends the hiring of a managerial hard reality and get its superstar — Compaq’s executive house in order. . . Eckhard Pfeiffer or Although Apple has in. This weekis merely a nel Corp's Andy novative technology, = 7 Grove — but such peo- customers, brand name Fespite from Apple’s ple already have good and cash, company a “jobs and show little morale and managerial = WOe@S; the Next 50 sign of looking for em- talent seem to have +» ployment opportunities. dropped to an all-time low. There have been two reorganizations within eight months, and four senior exec- utives have departed. Compare that with the relatively stable management teams at Microsoft Corp., Compaq Computer Corp. and Gateway 2000 Inc. Ideas on how to fix Apple’s problems are hard to come by. Based on interviews with developers and analysts, I think Apple needs to take advantage of its considerable name recognition in the home market and broaden its distribution strategies to in- crease market share; beef up support for “could be crippling. ‘Apple faces a chal- lenging year, but it’s had uphill struggles before (remember 1985 and 1990, for instance?). It has always managed to persevere, which it can thank its sterling technology and loyal customers for. Butit also needs to change its mind-set from “create the products and then find the customer” to “pick its cus- tomers and then create the products.” Otherwise, it could be a long year. 0 Jon Swartz is business editor for MacWEEK. He welcomes feedback at jon_swartz @macweek.com. 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Box 10634, Riverton, N.J. 08076-0634. Second-class postage paid at New York and additional mailing offices. Printed in U.S.A. Canadian GST registration number is R140496720. PAGE 4 NEC debuts LCD displays Compact monitors are only 6.7" deep By Joanna Pearlstein Bringing displays with smaller footprints to the desktop, NEC Technologies Inc. this week will announce two monitors that use active-matrix color LCDs. The multisynchronous analog displays are smaller, lighter and consume less power than compa- rable CRT-based monitors. Be- cause of low yields in LCD pro- duction, they are also close to 10 times the price of comparable CRT monitors. LCD monitors are primarily used in situations where space is at a premium. The $3,999 12-inch MultiSync LCD200, due in March, and the $5,999 13-inch MultiSyne LCD300, due this month, weigh 8.8 pounds and are 6.7 inches deep; they consume 30 and 40 watts of power, respectively. The LCD200 sports a dot pitch of 0.24mm, and the LCD300 has a each dot pitch of 0.20mm. The LCD200 supports resolu- tions of up to 1,024 by 768 pixels, the LCD300 up to 1,280 by 1,024 pixels. The displays are Energy Star- and MPR II-compliant. “They have used the highest quality LCD display that they could get,” said Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Associates, a consulting firm in Tiburon, Calif. “More importantly, they made it behave exactly likea monitor. ... That's no small feat.” Peddie said the dis- plays’ prices are “getting closer to reality.” He said increased manufacturing capacity for LCD displays and higher de- mand could eventually drive prices down At the January, 1995, Maeworld Expo in San Francisco, NEC an- nounced the LCD 1280, an $11,755 13-inch LCD display that required a Radius graphic card (see Mac- Slim and trim, NEC Technologies’ LCD300 is a 13-inch, LCD-based display that weighs 8.8 pounds and is 6.7 inches deep. WEEK, Jan. 16, 1995, Page 7). This year’s crop of LCD monitors can use the Mac’s built-in video. The LCD 1280 will be phased out when the LCD 300 is released. NEC. Technologies Inc. of Boxborough, Mass., can be reached at (508) 264-8000 or (800) 623-4636; http://www.nec.com. Tektronix phases in new printer By David Morgenstern Tektronix Inc. this weel world Expo will rele Ph: at Mac- a new + 550 color laser printer that a next-generation Matsushita engine, a sp dier controller and longer-lasting consumables. The new $6,995 printer is ex- ternally identical to the $8,995 Pha duced a year ago. The 550 uses a 32-MHz AMD er 540, which was intro- Nikon to show Coolscan II By Kristin Balleisen Nikon Inc. will test drive its latest | slide scanner for entry-level users, at Macworld Expo this week. Due in mid-February, the 24-bit Coolscan II LS. mated $1,195 street price. It is a single-pass RGB scanner capable of imaging film at resolutions up to 2,700 dpi; the device is based on the same single CCD (charge-coupled device) linear array as the previous model, the Coolscan LS-10- The Coolscan II can scan a 29- Mbyte image in 80 seconds at 2,700 dpi. Nikon said that the new Coolscan processes the signal in analog rather than digital mode for better image quality. 20 will have an esti- The device can accommodate film up to 23.4mm by 35.4mm. A feature called phase contrast detection, previously available only in Nikon’s higher-end scan- ners, allows the device to focus in less than five seconds. The Coolscan II LS-20 boasts a smaller footprint than its predeces- | and sor — 5.9 by 10.6 inches weighs 4.2 pounds. The device will ship with Nikon Scan image- processing software, which dou- bles as an Adobe Photoshop plug- in, and Storm Software Inc.’s Easy- Photo image-editing software. Nikon Inc. of Melville, N.Y., is at (516) 547-4355 or (800) 526- 4566; fax (516) 547-0299. 0 RISC processor and comes with 8 Mbytes of RAM, which provides 600-dpi resolution. It has print speeds of 3.5 and 14 pages per minute for CMYK color and black-and-white output, respec- tively; a special CMY mode boosts color speed to 5 ppm, Tek- tronix said. A $1,195 16-Mbyte RAM card and an $800 firmware upgrade let the printer offer 1,200-by-1,200- dpi resolution. The 550 can out- put 1,200-dpi color and mono- chrome pages at 1.8 and 7 ppm, respective! The firmware upgrade also en- ables several utility functions, in- cluding job collation. The 550 uses a PostScript Level 2 interpreter and supports Color- Sync 2.0, Pantone and TekColor color-management — systems. It comes with parallel and SCSI ports; an Ethernet card is $595. The device ships with a 750-sheet input tray. Tektronix Inc. of Wilsonville, Ore., is at (503) 682-7377 or (800) 835-6100; fax-back (503) 682- 7450; http://www.tek.com. Oo By David Morgenstern SyQuest Technology Inc. will give users a peck at SyJet, its next- generation removable hard drive, this week at Macworld Expo. Expected to ship in the first quarter, the drive will use new dual-platter 3.5-inch cartridges with capacities of 650 Mbytes and 1.3 Gbytes, about 30 percent higher than the media of lomega Corp.’s forthcoming Jaz drive. SyQuest said the drive is expected to cost $499; the high- and low- capacity cartridges will cost about $95 and $65, respectively The company said the new ast SCSI-2 drive will offer an average access time of about 16 milliseconds and a sustained data transfer rate from 4 to 7 Mbytes per second. It will use a 256- Kbyte RAM buffer. SyQuest SyJet drive blasting into future 01.08.96 MACWEEK The SyJet is not backward- compatible with SyQuest’s previ- )- and 105-Mbyte media nor with 135-Mbyte cartridges used in its low-end EZ135 drive. “The specs are good, but SyQuest needs to get the drive out as soon as possible to maintain its market leadership,” said Stan Corker, an analyst at International Data Corp. of Framingham, | Mass. Corker said lomega’s delays | in releasing Jaz drives in volume afford a break to SyQuest. “The company has a lot of incumbent users to leverage. The door is still open, but the window will close quickly when the Jaz ships.” SyQuest Technology Inc. of Fremont, Calif., can be reached at (510) 226-4000 or (800) 245-2278; fax (510) 226-4102; http://www. syquest.com. ous 27 a eee By Kelly Ryer Apple plans to ship new versions of its Apple Media Tool and Apple Media Tool Programming Environment this month. At $495, the object-oriented Media Tool is aimed at nonpro- grammers who want to create cross-platform interactive titles. The Power Mac-native Version 2.0 will add support for Quick- Time VR, custom color palettes, AppleScript and QuickTime 2.1. Other new features include drag-and-drop of media elements, a new user interface browser, flip- book animation and sounds with longer durations than justa single screen. Media Tool 2.0 will also be a ee E af (Bes f/m [arm Apple readies Media Tool 2 Users of Ver- sion 2.0 of Apple's object- oriented Media Tool will be able to drag and drop media ele- ments, such as QuickTime VR movies, into multimedia applications. able to create cross-platform run- time titles for the Mac OS and Windows. Upgrades are $149. The companion application for engineers is the Apple Media Tool Programming Environment. Also Power Mac-native, Version 2.0 will require a subset of Macintosh Programmer’s Workshop, which will be included with the $995 soft- ware; upgrades are $195. New fea- tures include a consolidated class library, dynamic compiling and linking, and faster build times. A bundle of the Apple Media Tool and the Apple Media Tool Programming Environment is $1,195; bundle upgrades are $295. APDA is at (800) 282-2732. ¢ | i ; | | 7 High-speed Internet access for your whole office is finally a no-brainer. i { Netop ra makes Thtew nel access tast and easy Netopia rnakes Taternet access fast and easy yrakes Internet access +f and easy Netopia . Nafipie makes Tnternet cecess fammmnd €as¥ bod Casy Net opia makes Inter net accesr £a . “ Netopia Moker Trternet acceSt fo eqsy Netopia wokec Internet acces 4 J easy Netop ia makes Internet access 44 aa Netopia makes Internet cece ss F ‘e sare the property of th r Copyright © 1995 Farallon Computing, Inc. 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GRAPCICS Even though we're in the throes of the NFL playoffs, Macworld Expo attendees this week will be jostling each other around moni- tors to see digital video advances, not touchdowns. Truevision Inc.’s Targa 2000 PCI video digi- tizing card will turn Pro with a new daughtercard upgrade that adds Betacam compatibility. Meanwhile, Data Translation Inc. will offer Media 100 qx, which bundles a digital video card with Adobe Premiere for less than $5,000. And, getting even cheaper, miro Computer Products Inc. will introduce miromotion DC20, a $1,199 digi- tal video card bundled with Pre- miere. On the video software frontier, Premiere itself has turned 4.2, with new CD-ROM production features, and Avid Technology Inc. will showcase an upcoming version of its Video- Shop software, which will in- clude edit-decision lists. As always, snazzy designs and cool colors will predominate at graphics applications demonstra- tions. Adobe will ship Illustrator 6.0 at the show; Deneba Software will still be showing Canvas 5.0. When it ships (by March) the pack- age will have support for multipro- cessing and QuickDraw 3D. Not to be outdone, Macromedia Ine. will show off FreeHand 5.5 and xRes 2.0. Improved image han- dling for large files and support for Web graphics formats top the list of new xRes features. Meanwhile, Live Picture Inc. will demonstrate Version 2.5 of its image-processing application Live Picture, formerly distributed by MetaTools Inc. The update packs import and export of EPS files, support for Apple’s ColorSync 2.0, and better alpha-channel controls. Headlining at the Fractal De- sign Corp. booth will be Painter 4, which shipped in November, adding a PostScript drawing layer and mosaic tile painting. In the 3-D space, Ray Dream Inc. will add animation and clip models to its 3-D tools with its $499 Ray Dream Studio. Elsewhere on the floor, Apple will draw specta- tors to its PCI-based QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card. Lining up to support QuickDraw 3D will be Microspot USA Inc.’s 3D World and Specular’s new Infini-D 3.1. Specular will also ship Version 2.0 of its LogoMotion package. Matrox Graphics Inc. is ship- ping its MGA Millennium board, which accelerates QuickDraw 3D as well as 2-D graphics. Multimedia producers _ will want to get a look at mTropolis 1.0, the multimedia-authoring tool now shipping from mFactory Inc. Setting the tempo for audio, Op- code Systems Inc. will exhibit Stu- dio Vision Pro 3.0 in Apple’s booth. The MIDI sequencing software adds integrated digital audio recording and can convert data from audio to MIDI and back. InVision Interactive Inc. add to the show floor noise with its new CyberSound VS software- only synthesizer and its 500-plus sounds. Plug-ins from In Vision are among those that now work with Macromedia’s newest incarnation of SoundEdit 16. Version 2 of the digital audio recording and editing package adds compression en- hancements and batching controls. will CPUs It probably won't be the last time this happens, but the newest Mac- intoshes at Macworld Expo won't be from Apple. Power Computing Corp. will show off its new lower- end PowerCurve series, which fea- tures the 120-MHz PowerPC 601 processor. Expect to shell out about $1,700 for a model that includes 8 Mbytes of RAM, an 850-Mbyte hard drive and quadruple-speed CD-ROM drive. In addition, Power Computing will show the PowerWave series, the 120-, 132- and 150-MHz 604-based machines that can use both NuBus and PCI cards. Those machines cost be- tween $3,199 for a base 120-MHz model and $5,499 for a loaded 150- MHz model. Also on display at expo will be DayStar Digital Inc.’s Genesis MP, the first multiprocessor Mac clone. The $24,999 six-slot ver- sion of the Genesis MP will be on hand at DayStar’s booth. Apple’s booth won’t be empty. It will have its new PowerPC 603e- based PowerBook 5300 series and PowerBook Duo 2300, as well as the new 33-MHz 68LC040-based PowerBook 190. The desktop user will find Apple’s PCI Macintoshes: the 75- or 90-MHz PowerPC 601- based Power Macintosh 7200; the 100-MHz 601-based 7500; the 120- MHz 604-powered 8500; and the 120- or 132-MHz PowerPC 604- based 9500. Performa fans can see Apple’s 100-MHz PowerPC 603-based Performa 6300, as well as the 75- MHz 603-based Performa 5200 and 6200. Apple will also demon- strate its newest DOS Compati- bility card, a PCI card with a Pen- tium processor. A DYNAMIC DUO ~ File Cait siyle Format_window i ‘Adobe Systems Inc. will showcase synergy between Illustrator 6.0 5 and PageMill. The Illustrator 6.0 upgrade, shipping at the show, lets users drag and drop images into PageMiill, the company’s newly acquired Web authoring tool, also shipping now. Illustrator 6 also offers Drag and Drop with Photoshop; support for TIFF, PICT, _ GIF and Portable Document Format; and Adobe's new API for plug- ins. The new version also boasts built-in color separation, the capa-_ bility to page patterns ona Pr ot oxo assien Mac users on the go will have a flock of PowerBook products to evaluate at the expo. PowerBook 500-series. owners secking a PowerPC speed bump should stroll by Newer Technology Inc.’s booth, where the company will be showing a daughtercard boasting a 117-MHz PowerPC 603e processor. Also on hand at Newer’s booth will be the Color- Palette, a $275 16-bit color video card for the PowerBook 190 and 5300 series, as well as the Newer Floppy MicroDock, a minidock for the PowerBook Duos. Show goers will get a charge from Battery Technology Inc.’s new $99 external battery charger, the MC-SC 1950. VST Tech- nologies is unveiling several new products for the new PowerBook 190 and 5300 series: the VST Ex- pansion Bay Hard Drives, some internal batteries for the new PowerBooks, as well as the AIR- plex Mac, VST’s wireless 14.4- Kbps fax modem. PowerBook users seeking modems for their PC Card slots will find vendors have swarmed the Mac market with new offer- ings. Among those vendors are Best Data Products Inc., Global Village Communication Inc., Megahertz Corp.-and Viking Components Inc. Megahertz will also show its new AllPoints wire- less PC Card. You'll have to go to Apple’s booth to find AirGo Commun- ications Inc., a subsidiary of Dayna Communications — Inc. AirGo will display the AirGo Phone System, which combines a cellular phone and a 14.4- Kbps fax modem on a PC Card. The PC Card can be placed in a PowerBook for use as a fax modem or in the cellular phone handset for use as a cellular phone. GaTEwaAVvSs Macintosh networking compa- nies promise to speed things up at this year’s expo. Sonic Systems Inc. will usher in a fam- ily of Fast Ethernet devices, in- cluding dual-speed 10/100BASE. T cards for NuBus and PCI Macs, an ecight-port 100-Mbps Ethernet hub, and an Ethernet- to-Fast Ethernet bridge. Asanté Technologies Inc. will spot- light its Fast Ethernet products and ship Ethernet PC Cards and communications slot cards. Dayna will add to its Blue- Streak line with a Fast Ethernet See Show Picks, Page 8 After failing to program his VCR for the last time, Tiny welcomed the simplicity of his HP ScanJet scanner. Introducing the HP ScanJet 4c From set up to start up, from \ software installation to image capture, the HP ScanJet dc makes the whole scanning process easier. 2400-dpi en hanced resolution (600-dpi optical), internal 30-bit color, and 1,024 levels of gray pro duce documents that are rich. detailed, and impactful. 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Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc ©1996 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved, 01.08.96 MACWEEK MTROPOLIS MULTIMEDIA TOOL SHIPS ® file Edit Format Arrange Object View Window Ply Contr Seon Shared Seene Bot Miri Newly shipping is mTropolis 1.0, the object-oriented multimedia-authoring tool from mFactory Inc. The $4,995 mTropolis creates multimedia projects such as this interac- tive game, where the chess pieces battle hand-to-hand with swords. fea sectn 1 fe UGG tare tection iy oe ser centr ee HB Oe ome cit Bo mo tocnaay Show Picks bridge and 10/100BASE T LC card. On the ISDN (Integrated Services Digi- tal Network) front, Farallon Computing Inc. will unveil a single-user ISDN addi- tion to its Netopia family of Internet de- vices. The company will also demonstrate its recent update to Timbuktu Pro. After years of waiting, Mac database developers will finally get their mitts on the shipping version of PowerBuilder for Mac. Powersoft Corp. plans to show off the pop- ular database application-development tool. Claris Corp. plans to make a big to-do over its recently released and much-antici- pated update to FileMaker Pro, which now goes from flat-file to relational. The $199 FileMaker 3.0 upgrade comes with 40 predefined templates. From Page 6 ProVUE Development Corp. is crossing its fingers that the relational version of its own database, Panorama, will be ready by show time. EveryWare Development Corp. will present an Open Database Con- nectivity version of Tango — its graphical development tool for integrating the com- pany’s Butler SQL database with StarNine Technologies Inc.’s WebStar Web server and Bolero, Every Ware’s upcoming ap- plication for logging information from WebStar into any databa: STF Technologies Inc. will show a new version of FaxSTF, as well as its new STF- Mail PowerTalk client, and FaxSTF Net- work Edition, a network fax system. Supra Corp. will tout a new version of its fax soft- ware, FAXcilitate 2.0. A new domain name server (DNS) will be among several new products and up- grades making appearances at InterCon Systems Corp.'s booth. Along with Inter- Server DNS, the company will show up- dates to TCP/Connect II, InterServer Pub- lisher and NFS Propuctiwity OCR technology gets sharper at this expo as Caere Corp. launches OmniPage Pro 6.0 for Macintosh, a major update of its OCR soft- ware. The $499 native Power Mac program features OmniPage Guide, which incorpo- rates Apple Guide to provide interactive as- sistance to users, and True Page technology, which maintains the original format of scanned pages. Xerox Corp. will unveil its TextBridge Professional 3.0 OCR software that offers improved page-segmentation and document-recomposition capabilities. WorldSoft U.S. will show its recently shipped WorldWrite 3.0 word processor. The $99 WorldScript-savvy application will be bundled in a number of Apple's foreign-language software kits. Accounting enthusiasts need look no further than Intuit Inc.’s QuickBooks 4.0 and QuickBooks Pro 4.0. The upgrades, which feature a new customizable inter- face and integrated business-management capabilities, are priced at $119 and $189, re- spectively. At the same time, Peachtree Software Inc. will demonstrate an elec- tronic bill-payment system of Peachtree Accounting for Macintosh. The system is scheduled to ship in the first quarter of 1996. BestWare will showcase M.Y.O.B. Accounting 6.0 for Mac, a $69 update that includes a report customizer, job- management functions and help guides. Capitalist and entrepreneur alert! Big Software Inc. will have Big Business 2.0 ready for investment. The new package adds enhanced features for Internet access, secu- rity and international use. It is priced from $379 (one user) to $1,999 (10 users). For the statistically minded, Spreadware will demonstrate Version 4.0 of Spread- ware Statistics Menu. The new version of the spreadsheet, priced at $229, includes new charts such as Dot Plot, X-bar, R chart and Pareto chart. Micro Planning International Inc. is showing Micro Planner X-Pert 2.4 and Micro Planner Manager 1.4, which now in- clude selective archiving, schedule analysis options and faster launch times. The pro- grams are $1,995 and $695, respectively. PERIPHERALS Attendees chilled from winter can find warm tones from several new color laser printers. Tektronix Inc. will debut its Phaser 550, which will raise color laser’s resolution | ceiling to 1,200 by 1,200 dpi. Users can also | check out Digital Equipment Corp.’s 600- dpi Colorwriter LSR 2000; it’s on display in several booths, including Adobe's. The printer uses a 100-MHz Fiery XJE controller | that has many features found in Electronics for Imaging Inc.’s stand-alone RIPs. CalComp will widen color options with three GT-series plotters that provide 360-dpi CMYK color and 720-dpi black-and-white output. The models will include the 24-inch 5324 GT, the 36-inch 5336 GT and the 36- inch 5336 GT/PS, which comes with an in- ternal PostScript Level 2-compatible RIP. SyQuest Technology Inc. will introduce its SyJet drive, the company’s answer to Iomega Corp.’s Jaz removable storage drive. Slated to ship by the second quarter, the SyJet will use 650-Mbyte and 1.3-Gbyte car- tridges. Users will find Jaz internal drives and arrays in the MicroNet Technology Inc. and ProMax Technology Inc. booths. Pushing the boundaries of SCSI perfor- mance, a number of vendors will introduce Wide Ultra SCSI cards and devices for PCI-based Macs. Adaptec Inc. has a new dual-channel Wide Ultra PCI card as well as an Ultra software enabler for its Power- Domain Fast and Wide SCSI-2 card. ATTO Technology Inc. will demon- strate Wide Ultra versions of its Express- PCI cards as well as its Ultra-based Silicon- Disk II, the next-generation of the company’s RAM-based solid-state drives. FWB Inc. will take the wraps off its UltraSCSI JackHammer PCI card and a new line of Wide Ultra SledgeHammer RAID systems offering capacities from 2 to 24 Gbytes. ProMax will also show its forth-_ | coming line of Ultra arrays. Sony Corp. of America and Panasonic Communications & Systems Co. will un- veil new CD-Recordable systems. Attendees on the lookout for new scan- ners will find both high- and low-end de- vices. Agfa, a division of Bayer Corp., will debut its new Horizon Ultra scanner, which replaces the Horizon Plus. Linotype- Hell Co. will show Opal, a new $9,900, large-format flatbed scanner. It will use a dual-lens technology that can scan up to 12- by-17-inch images at a resolution of 400 by 800 dpi and 6-by-17-inch images at up to 800 by 1,600 dpi. Nikon Inc. will show its entry-level CoolScan II LS-20 slide scanner that will offer 2,700-dpi resolution. Storm Tech- nologies will debut its $249 EasyPhoto 600- dpi color scanner package. Users with deep pockets can take out MacWEEK 01.08.96 PAGE9 ANIMATED WEB PAGES Apple Internet Connection Kit, which shipped in November and includes Netscape Na or. little as 1.5 Kbytes in size. DeltaPoint Inc.'s WebVision Animator will let users build small multimedia files that play back on the Web through a Netscape Navigator plug-in. Authors will be able to synchronize sound to the action, interlace video files and create interactive buttons — all without programming. Thirty sec- onds of WebVision animation is expected to be as Developers will be able to pick up a beta of Cyberdog, Apple’s OpenDoc-based Internet suite, due to ship in May. StarNine Technologies Inc. and its parent company, Quarter- deck Inc., will share a booth where StarNine will be showing an Open Transport version of its Web server, WebStar, and Quar- terdeck will demo Quarterdeck Mail, which used to be StarNine Mail, which used to be Microsoft Mail for AppleTalk networks. For users who like freebies, CE Software Inc. will give away WebArranger, its new PIM studded with Internet hooks. WebArranger allows users to ch through bookmarks by word and organize them within multiple folders. CE will also have Quick Mail 3.6 on dis- play. Elsewhere, Aladdin Sys- tems Inc. will CyberFinder, a utility to orga- nize and connect Internet book- marks from the Finder. Publishing houses eager to get their services up on the Web will demonstrate their checkbooks for the latest LCD moni- tors at the NEC Technologies Inc. booth. NEC’s LCD 200 and LCD 300 are 12-a 13-inch multisynchronous displa cost $3,999 and $5,999, respectively. Attendees can put their fingers on three new input devices from Datadesk Interna- tional Inc. It will unveil a keyboard with a built-in trackpad; a stand-alone trackball; and Lil’BigBoard, a small-footprint key- board with features of an expanded model ONTERNET A menagerie of tools for getting into and get- ting noticed on the Internet will be at the expo, including PageMill, the HTML editor now in Adobe’s hands, and SiteMill, the Web site-management tool acquired at the same time. SiteMill, which includes Page- Mill, will allow users to manage hyperlinks between Web pages. It will ship this month. DeltaPoint Inc. will make its foray into the Internet realm with WebVision Ani- mator, a multimedia authoring program and Netscape Navigator plug-in designed for animating Web pages. SoftQuad Inc. will show HoTMetaL Pro 2.0,an HTML editor that has a built-in rules checker that helps Web-page developers conform to HTML 2.0 standards. Macromedia’s Mac version of Shockwave for Director, a new tool for playing interac- tive movies on the Web, will be demon- strated in the company’s booth The Apple Internet Servers, which now come with PageMill, will get lots of attention in the Apple booth. But MacDNS, long-awaited from Apple, is still under wraps. End users can get their hands on the geta chance to see Corp’s Internet System 10 Web ser tion, Based on an Apple Internet Server 9150, the System 10 increases the provided RAM to 40 Mbytes and comes with NetDog, a native Power Mac application that allows the secure transfer of complete publishing jobs over the Web. Netcom On-Line Communication Ser- vices Inc. and Pipeline will be showing their proprietary Internet clients. Both will be available in the first quarter. White Pine Software Inc. will demo its color version of Enhanced C Me, an Internet-based video teleconferencing sys- tem to be released in the first quarter. While making its Macworld San Fran- cisco debut this week, SoftArc Inc. will un- veil a new Mac client and Mac server for its FirstClass e-mail s for designing FirstClas Farallon will feature its Netopia Internet routers. Each unit will support TCP/IP and AppleTalk and have a built-in NT-1 con- nector with a U interface for connecting to an ISDN line, an EtherWave port, a Local- Talk port, a PC Card slot and an AUI (at- tachment unit interface) Ethernet port. UrouoTes Symantec Corp. will demonstrate two new utilities at its booth this week: an upgrade of DiskLock, its security utility, and an up- date to the com s font utility, Suitcase. Version 4.0 of DiskLock and DiskLock Administrator, available now, lets admin- istrators set up multiple users on a single machine with unique passwords and levels of access. Symantec’s Suitcase 3.0 upgrade, which is due in March, is now Power Mac- native and supports QuickDraw GX fonts. KenteMarsh Ltd. will start the new year with an upgrade to its NightWatch II secu- rity utility. NightWatch 2000 will ship at the expo. FileGuard 3.0 and FileGuard Re- mote 3.0 top ASD Software Inc.’s new product list in the new year. Due to ship this month, the security software upgrade will add a graphical interface, which in- cludes Drag and Drop support. The new version will pack more detailed logs for ad- ministrators; the upgrade will also let ad- ministrators print all logs and configura- tion screens. Attendees will also get a glimpse of the latest in CD-Recordable software Mac Engineering Inc. will release its full- featured Discribe 1.0 CD-R authoring software. Network managers can check out Dantz Development Corp.’s $49 CD-R Driver Kit, which supports Sony Corp.’s double-speed CDU920S recorder. Developers will get to see rival Java de- velopment environments from Natural In- telligence Inc., Metrowerks Inc. and Symantec. Programmers will be able to pick up a free beta release of Natural’s sys- tem, code-named Roaster, at the tem and a new utility forms. MACWEEK EXPO REPORT And, even if you don’t make it to San Francisco this week, you can stay up on the news through ZDNet/Mac. The MacWEEK Report as well as late- breaking news stories will be posted in the Mac- WEEK forums on CompuServe and eWorld and on the Web at http://www.zdnet.com/~macweek/. show or on Natural’s Web site. The expo will also be Syman- tec’s first chance to show off MacWEEK Report,a | Version 8, Release 4 of its C++ special show daily for Power Mac development en- print edition wil vironment. Microsoft Corp. will show Visual C++ 4.0 for the OfraRies tothe Mac;,which shipped in Septen= minute news, re- ber. Quasar Knowledge Sys views, tech analyses | tems Inc. will demonstrate the and commentary. newest version of its Smalltalk- Lock tex ton the Agents as well asa pre-release of showflooronTues- | the native Power Mac version. 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Pace 14 01.08.96 MACWEEK Ultra SCSI takes off with expo launches By David Morgenstern Mac storage will pick up speed at Mac- world Expo this week when several ven- dors take the wraps off Wide Ultra SCSI cards and drives for PCI Macs. > Adaptec Inc. will introduce a Mac version of its PowerDomain 3940UW, a Catc MACWORLD ict er. dual-channel Wide Ultra PCI card. The $549 card is slated for release in February. In other news, Adaptec said it recently shipped an Ultra software enabler for its PowerDomain 2940W Fast and Wide SCSI-2 card (see MacWEEK, Nov. 13, 1995, Page 8). > ATTO Technology Inc. will unveil Wide Ultra versions of its ExpressPCI se- ries, which are expected in February. The single- and double-channel models will cost $445 and $945, respectively. A dif- ferential version has not yet been priced. 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Replacing ATTO's SiliconDisk PRO series, the drives come with two sets of Wide Ultra ports that can provide age data transfer rate of up to 40 Mbyt second, the company said. The units offer an average access time of 0.02 milliseconds. The devices come in capacities of 64 Mbytes to 2.4 Gbytes. The 64-Mbyte con- figuration costs $9,995; an 832-Mbyte model is $81,995. > FWB Ine. will debut a new Wide Ultra card and high-performance arrays. Expected in February, FWB’s UltraSCSI JackHammer PCI card will cost about $429. The company’s initial card will be a differential model; single- and dual- channel versions with 68-pin connectors are slated for the second quarter, FWB said. In addition, FWB will display new Wide Ultra models in dge line of RAID systems. The devic: have capacities of 2 to 24 Gbytes. A 2- Gbyte system will cost $2,139; an 8-Gbyte version will be $4,639. Ultra is the next-generation ver- sion of the SCSI standard. Also known as Fast-20, eight-bit and 16-bit Ultra offer maximum data transfer rates of 20 and 40 Mbytes per second, respectiv said real-world data transfer performance will depend on the implementation in a particular device, the data block sizes mov- Vendors ing over the bus and potential slowdowns from cabling problems. Adaptec Inc. of Milpitas, Calif, is at (408) 945-8600 or (800) 959-7274; fax-back (408) 957-7150; http://www.adaptec.com. ATTO Technology Inc. of Amherst, N.Y., can be reached at (716) 691-1999; fax (716) 691-9353; atto@localnet.com. FWB Inc. of Menlo Park, Calif., is at (415) 833-4616; fax (415) 833-4653; info@ fwb.com; http//www.fwb.com. ( Datadesk debuts new input devices By David Morgenstern Putting users in touch with their data, Datadesk this week will debut three new models in its line of input devices. The units are expected to ship in February, the company said. Similar in size to Datadesk’s 15-by-5.5- inch TrackBoard, the new TouchBoard includes a built-in touchpad instead of a touchball. The street price of the keyboard is expected to be about $109. The company introduce Lil’BigBoard, a keyboard that integrates a numeric keypad. The board will have a street price of about $79, Datadesk said. Both new keyboards will offer a row of colored function keys and ship with a set of multicolor key tops that can be used on the Command, Control, Enter and Option keys. Datadesk will also show TurboBall, a new stand-alone trackball priced at about $49. Datadesk of Bainbridge Island, Wash., is at (206) 842-5480 or (800) 994-6788; fax (206) 842-9219; datadesk @aol.com. will also Color blends look airbrushed, printed on the only desktop color laser with continuous tone. Legal-size. Gorgeous! Incredibly precise color accuracy. Full-page or tabloid-bleed. True to the numbers! Info-rich report graphics on plain or glossy paper. Up to 4 pages per minute! 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The new version is a re- vamp of the company’s ON Location text-searching utility, last updated more ‘ch- Building on the previous version’s se: ing capabilities for local files, ON Location for Networks creates an index for the text in server-based files using the Networks Server Indexer, the first of the product’s three modules. The software can index any processing, graphics and desktop publishing documents. Users can set the module to ta get documents created by spe tions as well as update indexes automatically when the server is idle. According to ON, the size of indexes are applic than two years ago. Since 1985, VersaTerm has delivered a high quality, award-winning communica- tions solution that is rich with features yet surprisingly inexpensive to own. 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Current users of ON Location can upgrade to the Server Indexer for $299; a 10-user pack of both clients costs an additional $299. ON Technology Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., can be reached at (617) 374-1400 or (800) 767-6683; fax (617) 374-1433; info@ on.com; http://www.on.com. New CD-R drives roll into market By David Morgenstern Several storage vendors recently unveiled new CD-Recordable systems and software. > Sony Electronics Inc. this week will introduce Spressa, its new double-speed recorder. The $1,895 system will come standard with a l-Mbyte RAM cache and CD Creator for the Macintosh, Corel Corp.’s new authoring software. > Philips Electronics North America Corp. recently released its CDD2000 recorder. The $1,395 SCSI-2 unit records at double speed and plays at quadruple speed, Philips said. The Vulkan authoring software from Aachen, Germany-based CeQuadrat GmbH. Philips said the system supports Hierar- chical File System, CD-ROM XA, CD Bridge, digital audio and Video CD for- stem comes with mats. It offers multisession, incremental- packet, track-at-once and disc-at-once writing methods. > Ricoh Corp. recently pulled the rug out from under the price of its RS-1060C CD-R recorder. Previously priced at $2,495, the system now sports a $1 price tag. It ships with Incat Systems Soft- ware Inc.’s CD Workshop software. Sony Electronics Inc. of San Jose, Calif. can be reached at (408) 432-1600 or (800) 352-7669; http://cons3.sel.sony.com/SEL/ cepg/index.html. Philips Electronics North America Corp. of San Jose can be reached at (408) 453-5129 or (800) 235-7373; fax (408) 453- 0680; http://www.pps.philips.com. Ricoh Corp., Peripheral Products Divi- sion, of San Jose can be reached at (408) 432-8800, Ext. 5326, or (800) 955-3453; fax (408) 432-9266. verDomain OW Accelerate your PCI Bus with SCS The Apple® Power Macintosh” is fast. 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SuperCard is a registered trademark and the Allegiant “A” logo and logotype are trademarks of Allegiant Technologies, Inc. The MacUser Editors’ Choice Award, The Eddy Award, and the form and likeness of the Eddy statue are trademarks of Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. Visit fllegiant at Macworld Expo Booth #1533 MacUser NO-RISK OFFER FOR MACWEEK READERS aP (ClPayment enclosed. (Bill me later. Do you currently use a PowerBook”? (J Yes []No NO POSTAGE NECESSARY IF MAILED: IN THE UNITED STATES (erence BUSINESS REPLY MAIL —s FIRST-CLASS MAIL PERMIT NO. 66 BOULDER, CO a — POSTAGE WILL BE PAID BY ADDRESSEE EE eee a Peseecreeter ey MacUser Boerne} = a PO Box 52461 Boulder, CO 80323-2461 MacWEEK 01.08.96 N Ews PAGE 19 By David Morgenstern A pair of vendors this month rolled out new arrays and drives based on lomega Corp.’s movable cartridge mechanism. > MicroNet Technology Inc. released Array2000J, a two-drive array. The $1,275 unit has ity of 2 Gbytes and 1 Gbyte used with sets of 1-Gbyte and 540- Mbyte media, respecti drive can also be used sep arately. The array uses a version of the MicroRaven RAID software controller that offers data mirroring and striping. The soft- ware tracks cartridges and lets users identify cartridges in a batch operation, MicroNet said. According to the company, a striped array can have a sustained data transfer rate as high as 5.3 Mbytes per second. The 4-inch- | high Array2000J enclosure has a 10-by-5-inch footprint. It comes with two I-Gbyte cartridges. In addition, MicroNet released a $625 Jaz module for the com- pany’s DataDock storage system (see MacWEEK, May 8, 1995, Page 4). It also shipped a $550 in- company’s New arrays from Jaz ensembles MODEL MODEL CONFIG. PRICE CONFIG. PRICE ternal Jaz drive for the Quadra. The arrays use a Trillium soft- | _ §eg9 5/40 «$425 PowerMac 87700 $1,300 800 series and Power Mac 8100, ware controller that provides inter 8500 and 9500 models. RAID mirroring and striping | | LEI 480 $350 > ProMax Technology Inc. re- capabilities. ; PowerMac 8100/80 8/250 $1,550 : Mei 5/80 $450 cently delivered new two- and ProMax also shipped an inter- fc 5 oF PowerMac 16/1GB $2,250 four-bay Jaz arrays. The $1,395 nal Jaz drive that costs $545. si 580 $300 2-Gbyte PR-2000 array uses two MicroNet Technology Inc. of Sront00 cD Jaz drives and offers a sustained Irvine, Calif., can be reached at | Mi ee 16268 $2500 data transfer rate of 7.6 Mbytes (714) 453-6100; fax (714) 453- | | Quadra 610 e160. $550 sto0/1t0cD per second. 6101; http://www.micronet.com. 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PAGE 20 Graphics Applications © Publishing ¢ Multimedia 01.08.96 MACWEEK Image editor tied in with rest of line By Kristin Balleisen Sticking its foot in the image- editing door, Macromedia Inc. this week will unveil xRes 2.0 at Macworld Expo. xRes, which the company ac- quired last year when it purch Fauve WEEK, Sept. 4, 1995, Page 4), will ship in early February for $699. The new version will boast a revamped interface with a strip of quick buttons for basic operations such as cut, copy and paste, as alized tasks such as applying filters and ad- justing brightness and contrast. According to Macromedia, the new version of xRes will also feature enhanced brushes that emulate natural media. The upgrade includes more than 40 preset brush styles — includ- ing chalk and quill pen — new By Matthew Rothenberg Developers of presentation graphics are using the Photo CD format from Eastman Kodak Co. of Rochester, N.Y., to help them focus on the bot- | tom line when calculating time, cost and disc requirements of their productions. Professional users of the digital-image technology said Photo CD lets them shoehorn images quickly and inex- | pensively into their disc-based Macromedia revs xRes: Face lift tacks on tools Macromedia Inc.'s rewrite of xRes packs new contrast, saturation and noise brushes, as well as new texture brushes and natural surfaces. retouching brushes, and a beefed- up collection of textures and tex- ture brushes. The company said Version 2.0 makes it easier for users to handle large files by letting them do high-resolution editing of image details on the fly, a feature that Photo CD stakes claim among pro presenters productions while avoiding pricey scanning services. According to Fred Bahr, presentation graphics manager with Graphics Unlimited Inc. of Minneapolis, his company’s Photo CD system has taken the place of traditional scanning methods when generating elec- tronic content on Macs and Intel-standard PCs. “We use it in our production process for integrating images See Focus On, Page 22 resembles Live Picture from Live Picture Inc. of Soquel, Calif. xRes 2.0 also supports multiple levels of Undo, Macromedia said. Thanks to Macromed Open Architecture (see Mac- WEEK, Dec. 11, 1995, Page 18), xRes 2.0 users can now draw on third-party Adobe Photoshop plug-ins and Macromedia Xtras, the company said. While earlier versions of the product supported filter plug-ins, Version 2.0 sup- ports Acquire and Export mod- ja’s new See xRes, Page 22 By Kelly Ryer Macintosh-based musicians seek- ing closer harmony audio and MIDI formats can turn to the latest version of Studio between Vision Pro, Opcode Inc.’s MIDI sequencer and audio- editing software . Version 3.0 of the $995 applica- tion features audio-to-MIDI and MIDI-to-audio conversion. It also offers customizable mixer consoles that can handle up to 256 channels, a new digital signal processor (DSP) menu with s eral plug-ins for nondestructive editing and a feature for adjust- v- ing the tempo of audio tracks. According to Opcode, an in- strumentalist could use the Audio-to-MIDI feature to trans- late a recorded musical phrase to MIDI, adjust an individual off- key note, listen to the changes and translate the segment back to Opcode Systems revamps MIDI apps audio. The DSP plug-ins work on a copy of the original file and include common editing func- tions such as Normalize EQ and Sample Rate Version 3.0 is compatible with Digidesign Inc.’s Pro Tools III and TDM, as well as Yamaha Corp.’s CBX-D3 and D5 and Apple’s Manager for Power Macs. Upgrades from Version 2.0 are $129.95 each. In related news, Opcode has also upgraded its $495. Vision MIDI sequencer to Version 3.0. Li 3,0 includes new mixing consoles Reverse, Conversion. Sound Studio Vision Pro, Vision and support for Apple’s Sound Manager. Upgrades to Vision 3.0 are $99.95 each. Opcode Systems Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif, is at (415) 856-3333 or (800) 557-2633; fax (415) 856- 3332; http://www.opcode.com. Opcode's Studio Vision Pro 3.0 fea- tures two-way translation be- tween audio and MIDI for- pee ee ee enon cara 3 mats and drag- and-drop edit- ing in the Track Overview | window. Betacam comes to Truevision PCI video card By Carolyn Said Truevision Inc.'s Targa 2000 PCI card is turning Pro. The company has released a daughtercard upgrade that adds Betacam compatibility to its PCI video-digitizing card. The up- grade provides 72 resolution as well as component, RGB and YUV support on the board. Other features include si- See Truevision, Page 22 -by-486-pixel | By Kelly Ryer Helping to flesh out the range of 3-D graphics accelerators avail- able to owners of PCI Power Macs, a Canadian company, Ma- trox Graphics Inc., this wv is slated to ship its MGA Millen- nium board, which accelerates QuickDraw 3D as well as 2-D graphics. The MGA Millennium comes in two configurations: a 4-Mbyte board priced at $649 and an 8-Mbyte board for $999. Matrox said the MGA Mille- nium combines the company’s Matrox PCI card does 3-D new 64-bit MGA 2064W chip with a new RAM type called Window RAM and an optimized PCI-bus design. 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Using Macs, Furgang built a script that played off a Photo CD system, including a front end that covered general hazards with a voice narration. Armed with a handheld controller, the presenter could then select specific areas of the refinery process. According to Furgang, the BP test pro- ject “showed that Kodak Photo CD could be used easily and cost-effectively for train- ing with high-quality images.” The com- pany continues to use Photo CD for gener- ating safety presentations throughout its Ohio refineries, Furgang said. The bottom line Charles Corsello, vice president of market- ing with Video Messenger Co. of Stamford, Conn., said his company was also eyeing the bottom line when it adopted Photo CD technol- ogy for the closed- circuit advertising systems it designs for hotels, re: au- rants and retail e: tablishments. Video Messenger uses Kodak's Build It and Arrange It authoring software on a Power Mac 9500 to move digital images of merchan- dise and services into Photo CD’s base resolution of 512 by 768 pixels for display on_ television “Frankly, Photo CD’s base level has more pixels than we've got” on a TV set, Corsello said. Until high-definition televi- sion becomes widespread, “trying to get more pixels [out of a television display] is like trying to milk a bull.” Customers who purchase Video Messen- ger’s hardware and photo discs can then done on the Mac. monitors. compose their own text to accompany the images. “By using Photo CD as the storage device for digital imaging, we can hold 700 to 800 images on disc,” Corsello said. “The biggest knock on multimedia is the expense to the average guy on the street,” Corsello said. “He cannot afford $8,000 to $10,000 for a multimedia system.” Accord- ing to Corsello, Photo CD enables Video Messenger to provide its service for Truevision From Page 20 multaneous } or PAL video output separate from the desktop display, 16-bit audio, and hardware Motion-JPEG com- pression and decompression Both the Targa 2000 and the Targa 2000 Pro bypass the Mac for video processing. 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From Page 20 | The board, which runs on Power Mac- intosh 9500, 8500, 7500 and 7200 models , ships with 16 Mbytes of RAM and 4 Mbytes of video RAM. Targa 2000 for PCI Macs is $5,795; the Pro daughtercard is $2,500 for current users. The PCI board with daughtercard is $7,995. In related news, Truevision has released a package of new transition accelerations for the Targa 2000. The board currently accelerates two Adobe Premiere transi- tions; the free update will bring that num- ber to seven, including acceleration of the Preview function. Truevision Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., can be reached at (408) 562-4200 or (800) -2656; fax (408) 562-4065; fax-back (800) 729-2656; info@truevision.com. Cleaning up with Photo CD: Graphics Unlim- ited saved time and money on scanning by swapping traditional methods for a Kodak system. Images for this presentation were | lect motion video — not to project on video “long-term produc- tion costs that a 150- room hotel or small restaurant Owner can live with.” For exam- ple, customers can commission custom photo discs for about $10 per image plus the price of the disc, Corsello said. Critical focus Despite users’ gen- eral satisfaction with Photo CD, profes- sionals had a few crit- icisms of the technol- ogy. At the top of the list were the limita- tions of its built-in color correction. “We generally open scans in [Adobe] Photoshop,” Graphics Unlimited’s Bahr said. “We do have to work with the images themselves, but if you know what you're doing on the desktop, it’s quite easy.” | Video Messenger’s Corsello said his company also uses Photoshop, not Photo CD, for color correction. “The Kodak soft- ware is very limited and not as easy as Photoshop,” Corsello said. “Why. step down from a Cadillac to a bicycle?” However, according to Bob Seitz, chief technology officer with Visual In Seitz Inc. of Rochester, Kodak has made great strides in color management. “When we started using Photo CD [in 1991], a number of things were problematic, such from YCC arly pro. ponents of easier color management and made our own systems. [However, now] these processes are becoming automatic.” Besides constraints on color controls, | Corsello said, Photo CD offers limited control over sound, and — most signifi- cantly — does not support digital video. In s conversion Seitz said. “We were fact, Corsello said, his company is looking to MediaMogul CD-I authoring software from OptImage Interactive Services Co. of West Des Moines, Iowa, because of its sup- port for MPEG compression, which is un- available via Photo CD. “With MPEG, we can do thousands of | images,” Corsello said. “They're not as good | resolution, but we don’t want to do any- thing really fancy. We want to be able to se walls but to put it up in a shoe department where customers can look up and see Michael Jordan [using the merchandise].” xRes From Page 20 ules, and users can now scan images di- rectly into xRes. 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