Jo Weizenbaum died yesterday in Berlin.

We had the pleasure to meet him in person and he influenced our thinking about technology like no one else. He taught us about humanitarianism and that it will ever be a person, that solves a problem never technology.

Thank you Jo, we will miss you.

Dagmar and Mike

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Weizenbaum

We want to thank Mary Reardon, the director of Marketing and Publicityat CafeFX for her work on the copyright issues. Thanks to her the interview is online again.

So enjoy the read!

Cheers,
Dagmar

Due to some obstacles with the copyrights we had to take down the interview, but the team from cafefx and us are working on the stuff to get it online again.

Cheers,
Dagmar

FMX is the primary European meeting of the digital community. Presenting cutting edge digital entertainment, the conference addresses the interests of professionals in creation, production and distribution from all corners of the industry. Innovative approaches in the animation, visual effects and gaming industries create a focus for discussions about the convergence and future of digital entertainment.

Meet top names in the industry as they present their latest achievements, interview with recruiters searching for new talent and test hard- and software innovations directly with developers – all in an open atmosphere of qualified discussion and informal encounter. The level of knowledge and experience and the openness with which it is shared has made FMX a set date for cg professionals all around the world.

fmx/08 takes place from May 05 – 08, 2008 in Haus der Wirtschaft, Stuttgart, Germany.
www.fmx.de

- maybe some fun to meet friends - nothing like SIGGRAPH, but not too bad 

When you purchase exrTrader, you are doing this through our trusted partner Share-IT. After you placed your order there, you should receive an email from us (db&w) within 24 hours, depending on the time difference.
If you do not find such an email in your mailbox, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Sometimes our mails simply end up in a spamfilter.
The easiet way is the contact form (http://www.db-w.com/component/option,com_contact/Itemid,75/) on our webiste or just leave a personal message for me here in the forum. I will take care of the topic asap.

Thank you very much for your understanding.

Cheers,
Dagmar

When you purchase infiniMap Pro, you are doing this through our trusted partner Share-IT. After you placed your order there, you should receive an email from us (db&w) within 24 hours, depending on the time difference.
If you do not find such an email in your mailbox, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Sometimes our mails simply end up in a spamfilter. :'(
The easiet way is the contact form (http://www.db-w.com/component/option,com_contact/Itemid,75/) on our webiste or just leave a personal message for me here in the forum. I will take care of the topic asap.

Thank you very much for your understanding.

Cheers,
Dagmar

Dear users,

please note:

The only place to buy db&w products is Share IT(you will be directly linked to them, if you press the buy button on our webiste).  Any other vendor offering db&w products is doing so illegitimately and we won't see a single dime from them. If you are unsure about any offer, please contact us and we can help you out.

Thanks,
Dagmar

Hello Alex,

I strongly recommend to read our user manual carefully. Our unlicensed version only includes the fully functional OpenEXR image loader and saver and may be used for free. To use the complete exrTrader you have to register and pay (39 EUR (excl.Vat) or 49 USD).
The support for regsitered customers is free and we are always happy to help. So do many users here in the forum, too.
Since the OpenEXR file format is quite powerful, we can't provide usecases for any task that may occur.

To get more information about the power of OpenEXR, please have a look at http://www.openexr.com/ .

And as Mike as said training material will be added.

Cheers,
Dagmar

Dear users,

problems with the login occurred for several users. If your account seems to be problematic, too, please send an email
using our contact form:
http://www.db-w.com/component/option,com_contact/Itemid,75/


Thank you for being patient.

Dagmar

Thank you very much Zareh for your generous help here.

For the future we plan to offer a small compression service, that can be reached conveniently via our website. We will keep you informed.

Best regards,
Dagmar

We have discovered an issue with the basic OpenEXR Saver when running LightWave 9.0 on OSX - it basically doesn't save at all.

We're working on a fix and will release it a soon as possible. We're sorry for the mishap and hope you understand, thank you.

The exrTrader Layered Buffer Export is not affected by this issue.

Great images, Intuition! Really great work. Thank you very much for showing it to us! We want more!!!

Cheers,
Dagmar

On the 18th of September we will release our new product exrTrader.

exrTrader helps you to improve your compositng pipeline.
 
The exrTrader includes the following plugins:

 - standard LightWave Loader supporting RGBA
 - standard LightWave Savers, supporting all saveable image types except for palettized images.
 - a scene type master plugin for setting option for the image saver (settings are saved with the scene)
 - a image filter plugin that allows to save arbitrary buffers to a single OpenEXR file
 - a dummy saver, that does nothing but allows network render managers to see files saved by the image filter for render success checks.
 - and much more....

exrTrader is our first cross-plattform plugin, so we didn't ingnore Mac-users this time.

We promised an OSX version of infiniMap Pro and yes, there will be one soon. But since we depend on the JPEG2000 SDK from ERMapper (www.ermapper.com) in some parts, we decided to wait for their newest release, which is announced.

So we need to ask OSX users for a little more patience.

OpenEXR is an HDR image file format featuring:
Support for 16/32bit float and 32bit integer pixels
Multiple lossless compression schemes
Support by all major compositing packages
Storage of multiple, arbitrary channels in a single file

Our suite of plugins provides complete support for OpenEXR in LightWave 3D
Standard image loader and saver supporting RGBA
Image filter plugin to save arbitrary buffers
Limited region support and much, much more...

We are still in beta, but we will make it until the end of August!