Video Product Reviews

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Adobe After Effects 3.0 - The ultimate motion-graphics video effects package.

Adobe Premiere 4.0 - The most popular video-editing package for the Mac. Also read my review of the Premiere 4.2 update.

Adobe TextureMaker - A cool program for creating textures, including QuickTime-animated ones.

Boris Effects - Adds After Effects-like features to Adobe Premiere.

Electric Image Animation System - A legendary high-end animation and 3-D rendering package.

Instant Replay - A terrific QuickTime screen-recording utility from Strata.

KPT Final Effects - An outstanding collection of effect plug-ins for Adobe After Effects 3.0.

Media Paint - With this program from Strata, you can create QuickTime special effects by painting them directly onto your movies.

Multimedia Utilities - Good idea, bad execution -- a package of utilities from Motion Works. The bright spot: CameraMan, a first-rate QuickTime screen recorder.

Movie Flo' - A slick QuickTime special effects package from the Valis Group.

Connectix QuickCam - A low-end video camera for QuickTime movie-making and videoconferencing. (April 1996 update: The Color QuickCam is now available!)

Radius Telecast - A powerful but imperfect video-editing system.

SpigotPower AV - A compression/decompression card from Radius for AV Macs. Give your AV Mac full-screen, full-motion video for under $1000.

Targa 2000 - A four-star digital video system from Truevision.

Transjammer - A package of transition effects for Adobe Premiere.

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