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3ds MAX
3d Studio MAX is a breakthrough modeling , rendering and animation software developed by Autodesk for Windows NT 3.51 or later operating system. With MAX comes a new level of productivity , capability and customizability.
Some of the new features of MAX include the following:
  • New updated user interface to provide greater flexibility and power.
  • New operating system (Windows NT) that provides a greater level of power
    and expandability than the older DOS platform.
  • New modeling commands and editing commands.
  • The Stack. The Stack is a list of modifiers applied to a piece of geometry. You can go back and change and applied modifier at any time. This gives you parametric modeling capabilities.
  • New multithreaded render to take advantage of multiprocessing.
  • New Matrial Editor and matrial types. The new interface and types provides you with just about all the matrial types you could ever need.
  • New Track View dialog box to control and edit animation sequences with ease.
  • New plug-in architect called Core Component Plug-In technology. Plug-in can now take over any part of the rendering pipeline , including modeling , rendering , video display , and so on...
  • HEIDI shaded display technology. Now you can work in real-time shaded environment that can take advantage of hardware acceleration from special video cards based on the GLint ship.

Space Warps: To facilitate the animation of scene-based
special effects (i.e., black holes, explosions, etc.),
a class of core component plug-ins called "Space Warps"
has been incorporated into 3D Studio MAX.
These plug-ins let users define sets of objects and modify them
collectively in real-time, in shaded mode, as users transform them.

When working with MAX, you will undoubtedly notice a large number of different file types that you can use. This appendix lists and describes the file extensions you will see with MAX.
  • 3DS. 3D Studio 4.0 for DOS file formats.
  • AVI. Microsoft Audio/Video Interleave animation files.
  • BMF. Filter DLLs (dynamic link libraries)
  • BMI. Bitmap import DLL. System file necessary to be able to import any type of bitmap.
    Bitmap import plug-ins will have tis extension.
  • BMP. Microsoft Windows bitmap file format.
  • BMS. Storage DLLs
  • CEL. Old image file format from Animator Pro.
  • CFG. Configuration files for various aspects of MAX.
  • DLC. Standard controls DLL for MAX<./EM>
  • DLE. Object Export DLL. System file necessary to export objects to other formats.
  • DLI. Object Import DLL. System file necessary to import objects into MAX.
  • DLL. General DLL.
  • DLO. Object primitive library in DLL format.
  • DLR. Plug-in rendering DLLs.
  • DLT. Material DLLs.
  • DXF. Drawing exchange format file. Used for importing and exporting files to and from other CAD programs.
  • EPS. Encapsulated PostScript file format.
  • FLC. Kinetix high-resolution animation format.
  • FLI. Kinetix low-resolution animation format.
  • FLT. General filters used in MAX.
  • GIF. CompuServe image file format.
  • HDI. Graphics interface drivers for working with the HEIDI render.
  • HLP. Windows Help files.
  • INI. Initialization files to set startup parameters for use every time MAX is launched.
  • JPG. Highly compressed image file format.
  • LOG. Log files to track certain events such as network rendering.
  • MAX. 3D Studio MAX scene files.
  • PRJ. 3D Studio 4.0 project files
  • PS. PostScript file format.
  • RLA. Wavefront image file format.
  • SHP. 3D Studio 4.0 shape files.
  • TGA. Targa image format. Supports 16-, 24, and 32-bit files with compression.
  • TIF. Tiff image file format. Supports grayscale, 8-, 16-, 24, and 32-bit files with compression.
  • TTF. True Type Fonts.
  • VP. Video Post sequences.
  • WAV. Sound files.
  • WRI. Microsoft Write files.
  • YUV. Yuv image file format. This is a file format used for component video
    recording with devices such as the ACCOM WSD.
  • ZIP. Compressed archive file formats.


Adobe Premiere

Adobe Premiere program is software that
brings the world of digital movie-making to the desktop.
Adobe Premiere works with Microsoft Video for Windows and QuickTime for Windows software, and lets you record, create, and play movies from
video, sound, animations, photographs, drawings, text, and other material
using your IBM or IBM-compatible personal computer.
Microsoft Video for Windows and QuickTime for Windows are
system utilities that let you integrate audio and video in Windows applications.
You can play movies created in Adobe Premiere in any application that supports these formats, or output movies to videotape.

Here are some files it read and write:

Type of clip:File formats:
MovieVideo for windows (.avi)
QuickTime for windows (.mov)
FilmStrip (.flm)
AnimationAutodesk Animator (.flc, .fli)
Autodesk 3D Studio (.flc, .fli)
#Targa (.tga)
#Windows Bitmap (.bmp, .rle, .dib)
#tiff (.tif)
Still ImagesAdobe Photoshop (.psd)
Windows bitmap (.bmp, .rle, .dib)
Macintosh PICT (.pic, .pct)
Windows Metafile (.wmf)
TIFF (.tif)
PCX (.pcx)
Targa (.tga)
AudioAudio Interchange (.aif)
Windows Waveform (.wav)

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