Follow @KLAssociatesPR

NEW MAGIX Rescue Your Vinyl & Tapes Version 3.

Rescue Your Old Hits – Fast, Easy to Use and with Perfect Sound Quality!

UK, February 7th 2011, MAGIX AG, One of the leading international providers of software, online services, and digital content, has announced the release of Rescue Your Vinyl & Tapes Version 3.

Rescue your LPs, cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes to CD before it is too late! The music you own on analog media is in more danger than you think – scratches, dirt, day-to-day use and warping can render your old music collection useless. MAGIX Rescue Your Vinyl & Tapes Version 3 is the perfect solution for music recording, restoration and burning with only 3 simple steps to digitally rescuing your music.

MAGIX Rescue Your Vinyl & Tapes Version 3 includes a phono pre-amp, cables and adaptors and cleaning software, meaning that connecting your record player to your PC is easy, allowing you start digitizing your music straight away. New features include effective functions for removing coughs, claps and other noise directly in the editing track, and the ability to keep track of your project with just one click. The improved info box and user interface means that there are countless additions and explanations, and the increased number of presets allows for a faster workflow with DeNoiser and StereoFX.

Features:

• NEW! Intelligent user interface: Use only the presets that are really needed.
• NEW! Direct Spectral Cleaning in the track. Remove individual coughs, claps and other noises simply by circling them with the pen tools and deleting them.
• NEW! Fit Button: Keep track of your project with just one click.
• Improved Info Box with countless additions and explanations.
• Improved User Interface
• Even more presets for a faster workflow with DeNoiser, StereoFX etc
• Hi-fi stereo cable and adapter included
• External sound card and high-quality phono pre amp – all in one.

Price & Availability:

MAGIX Rescue Your Vinyl and Tapes Version 3 is available now for SRP £59.99 inc VAT from Amazon, PC World and Currys and other stockists of high quality software.

Follow @KLAssociatesPR

Reallusion's CrazyTalk Animator Evolves 2D Animation with Digital Puppets & Interactive Motion Control

Reallusion, Inc., an award-winning developer of video creation software for real-time 3D animation, announces, CrazyTalk Animator, the revolutionary 2D Animation desktop studio designed for professionals and aspiring animators with a fast-paced pipeline for creating advanced 2D cartoons.

Why is CrazyTalk Animator Unique?

2D cartoon animation is used by almost all design teams in every professional art studio. Usually animators need to have enough skills to draw characters from scratch. They also need to be experienced in key-frame animation, motion logic and other crucial aesthetic concepts. Reallusion’s CrazyTalk Animator now changes the way you work with 2D Animation, with its innovative character generation and puppet control. Creating 2D animation has never been this quick and fun as now literally anyone can animate - with amazingly good results every time!

CrazyTalk Animator, the next-level of 2D Animation, focuses on total animation production with actors, props, scenes, camera & a complete time-line for precision animation.  Anyone with the ambition to make their own custom cartoons, e-learning media, short-films or commercials can create studio-level animation with CrazyTalk Animator.

CrazyTalk Animator is the 7th version of Reallusion's award-winning 2D facial animation technology with a 10^th Anniversary mega-upgrade offering total 2D actor puppeteering and unparalleled automatic lip-synching. The real difference with CrazyTalk Animator and previous versions of CrazyTalk is you get full characters with a talking head and full-body motion, plus full interactive staging for props and scenes.  

CrazyTalk Animator allows you to combine your actors on the stage with props, special effects, text and scenery to set up your scenes and record all the action with the live camera. Ultimate precision editing and animation is provided by CrazyTalk Animator's time-line with deep access to every character and prop in the scene.

Main Features:

1. Fast Drag-&-Drop Scene Build-up & Animation

2. Easily Create Full-body Actors from Photos

3. Flexible Character Composer for Cartoon Design

4. Precise 2D Sprite Editor for Ultimate Actor Performance

5. Real-time Actor Animation Puppeteering & Auto Lip-Sync

6 Complete 2D Animation with Actors, Props, SFX & Real 3D Camera

CrazyTalk Animator is a great match for ambitious beginners, educators, video editors and all users that need a total 2D Animation solution with deep character creation and performance animation tools to create media for video production, web, e-learning & broadcasting.

CrazyTalk Animator website + video gallery:

http://www.reallusion.com/CrazyTalk/Animator

Price & Availability:

CrazyTalk Animator is available from http://www.Reallusion.com in Standard Version - £39.99 & PRO version £159.99. A fully-featured free trial for Windows PC users is available for download from http: http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/animator/animator_trial.aspx

Boxed version from Amazon

Follow @KLAssociatesPR

Ricoh Introduces the New CX5

Offering High-speed Focus with a Hybrid AF System

Compact digital camera with 10.7´ optical zoom (28-300 mm)

RICOH COMPANY, LTD. (helmed by president and CEO Shiro Kondo) will be releasing its newly developed CX5 digital camera model with its wide-angle, high magnification 10.7´ optical zoom (28–300 mm) lens, which has a higher autofocus speed due to the use of Ricoh's new hybrid AF system.

With the new CX5 model, AF focusing times are decreased to as low as 0.2 sec. for both wide-angle 28 mm and telephoto 300 mm, up to half as short compared to the CX4, using Ricoh's unique new hybrid AF system.This ensures that you reliably capture the image you were waiting for, never to miss another good shot again.

Using super-resolution technology, the CX5 also allows (1) recording of images with improved resolution using the "Super-resolution" setting and (2) telephoto shooting at up to 600 mm equivalent with minimal degradation in image quality using "Super-resolution Zoom."

Furthermore, in addition to the new Cooking, Fireworks, and Continuous Golf Swing scene modes, the CX5 has improved features that make shooting photographs even more fun through the use of super-resolution zoom during Zoom Macro mode shooting and other functions. The CX5 is an even more enhanced compact digital camera that was designed based on the concept of it being "a tool that you will find yourself wanting to use every day."

Available in three colours: Black, Silver, and Pink.

Follow @KLAssociatesPR

STM BAGS RELEASES JET LAPTOP BACKPACK

Be Organised with the Super Streamlined Jet Laptop Backpack.

London, UK, January 25^th 2011 - Leading Australian bag manufacturer, STM Bags has announced the release of the jet laptop shoulder bag. Carry and protect your digital gear with the jet laptop backpack.

With room for your laptop, iPad, mobile and paperwork, the jet ensures that you will always be organised. Two front zippered pockets hold quick access items such as cords, travel documents and keys, whilst the main front compartment houses an organisational panel. The laptop section suspends your notebook in high-density foam and soft, brushed fleece and the integrated iPad slip pocket is lined in soft, brushed nylex.

The backpack suspension has tuck away waist straps, an adjustable sternum strap, and comfortable air-mesh padding throughout to ensure it is always a comfortable carry. Available in black and in two sizes to fit most 15” and 17” laptops.

Learn more by visiting http://www.stmbags.com

Features

• High density foam padded laptop section lined with soft brushed nylex
• Organisational panel with integrated iPad pocket lined with soft brushed nylex
• Protective neoprene sunglasses pocket
• Quick access pocket for passport/tickets, keys, pens, etc
• Additional front pocket
• Sternum strap and tuck away waist straps
• Integrated phone pouch on shoulder for easy access

Price & Availability:

The STM jet is available now at the following prices:

Medium: £64.95

Large: £69.95

For stockist information please go to: www.stmbags.com

Follow @KLAssociatesPR

 

 

Laplink® Releases Complete Disk Imaging Solution

Imaging Software for Complete System Backup and Restore

London, 10^th January 2011, Laplink Software, Inc., the leader in PC migration software, today announced the release of Laplink DiskImage™- advanced Backup and Recovery to protect users from unforeseen data loss.

Laplink DiskImage protects PCs with a perfect copy (image) of all the applications, files and settings. Users can also use it to quickly and easily restore that image and recover damaged or lost files due to corrupted systems, viruses, hackers or other malware. It can even restore to a PC with different hardware using the Hardware Independent Restore feature. 

Using Laplink DiskImage™ doesn’t just secure data, but the entire PC, including the operating system. When an image is restored, the old PCs setup is restored along with the data regardless of whether it is onto the same PC or onto another one. Laplink DiskImage™ is the perfect solution to protect against unforeseen data loss.

Laplink DiskImage™ now features PCmover Image Assistant™. This allows for users to restore the image (or hard drive contents) of an old PC to a new one without overwriting anything, even the new operating system. No other imaging software has this capability because if you use any imaging software on the market today to restore an old image to a new PC, it will overwrite everything, including the new operating system. This makes Laplink DiskImage the most complete disk imaging solution available.

PCmover is the #1 best selling migration solution in the world, and is the only software that moves programs, files and settings from an old PC to a new one. Laplink has also been recognized for many years as an expert in file transfer and synchronization technology.

Additional Key Features:

·         Easy-to-Use Create images and perform restorations with the easy-to-use one click wizard.

·         Hardware Independent Restore your entire image to any PC regardless of hardware.

·         Operating System Independent Restore an image (or actual hard drive contents) to a new PC without overwriting your operating system. Includes full selectivity, undo option and more.

·         Boot CD Easily repair and restore your Windows system, applications and files directly from the boot CD, even if your operating system won’t start.

·         Advanced Burning Store your image on CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray Discs® or external media.

·         Automated Incremental Imaging Automatically create full or incremental images of your PC, even while in use.

Price & Availability:

Laplink DiskImage™  is available now at SRP £29.99 from amazon.co.uk. and play.com