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Discreet shows Flint on Linux

Post, May, 2004

MONTREAL -- At NAB, Discreet (www.discreet.com) announced that its Flint visual effects system will soon be available on the Intelbased IBM IntelliStation Z Pro workstation running Linux. Flint system is designed to provide broadcasters and post production companies with a cost-effective, high-performance system for interactive motion graphics and visual effects design. The company's Smoke 6 system is already available on the Linux operating system.

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Flint offers mixed resolution architecture, advanced conform capabilities and realtime 4:4:4 video. Version 8.5's tools are based on Discreet's Flame and Inferno visual effects systems.

Tools include: sophisticated paint, text, audio, compositing, warping, morphing and motion graphics capabilities; Action, Discreet's interactive 3D graphics design and compositing environment; Batch and Schematic views for building and visualizing complex multi-layered composites. The Flint system also supports Discreet's Burn network rendering solution.

Flint 8.5 system for Intel-based IBM workstations running Linux is currently in beta and is expected to ship in July.

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