Avid Media Illusion
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
.
Avid Media Illusion was a digital nonlinear compositing software by Avid Technology targeted at the film and television markets. It ran on Silicon Graphics workstations. The main features were paint, compositing, image manipulation and special effects.
Contents |
[edit] History
Illusion was originally developed by Parallax Software under the name "Advance". Avid later bought Parallax, and renamed "Advance" to "Media Illusion". The software was discontinued on December 6th 2001, officially due to lack of resources to support it any further. A special version of Illusion is now integrated in the 3D animation package Softimage XSI (Softimage is owned by Avid)
[edit] Features
Media Illusion featured distributed rendering using multiple CPUs. Several specialized plug-ins were available from Sapphire, The Foundry, Primatte and Ultimatte, among others.
[edit] Development
[edit] Release history
| Version | Hardware | O/S | Release date | Price | Significant changes (selected) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Media Illusion 4.0 | ? | IRIX | 1997 | ? | ? |
| Media Illusion 4.5 | O2 and Octane | IRIX | 1998 | $24,800 for O2, $31,000 for Octane | ? |
| Media Illusion 6 | ? | IRIX | December 6, 1999 | $24,800 |
|
| Media Illusion 6.1v8 | O2,Octane, Onyx 2 | IRIX | 2001 | $24,800 | ? |
[edit] See also
 |
This graphics software-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
