Automatic Duck Announces the Release of OMF Composition Import for Use With Adobe After Effects 5.0.

Business/Technology Editors

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2001

OMF Composition Import Revolutionizes Workflow For Avid(R) System

Editors and Graphic Designers Importing Projects Into Adobe After

Effects 5.0

Market newcomer Automatic Duck, Inc., a Seattle, WA, based software development company targeting the nonlinear editing and effects industry, announces the release of their premiere application OMF Composition Import(TM), a plug-in for Adobe(R) After Effects(R) 5.0. OMF Composition Import revolutionizes the workflow process used by Avid system editors and graphic designers who import projects into Adobe After Effects 5.0.

OMF Composition Import streamlines the previously time consuming process of importing projects into Adobe After Effects from Avid nonlinear editing systems. In one simple step, OMF Composition Import transfers an entire Avid system timeline into Adobe After Effects 5.0 and imports all the media necessary to perfectly recreate a project.

As an experienced Avid system editor, Wes Plate, Automatic Duck, Inc. President and software co-creator, identified a tedious daily process and went to work to fix it. "We created OMF Composition Import to make the work of today's editors faster and easier, to allow them to focus on their ideas and not on the process, and ultimately to become more creative. It will change the way people work."

Instantaneously, OMF Composition Import reconstructs an Avid system timeline. Supported effects like dissolves, superimposes, flops, motion effects, and more, are seamlessly translated into the After Effects 5.0 equivalent. With the strength of OMF Composition Import, even the most complex projects import with amazing ease-as collapsed layers in the Avid timeline automatically become nested compositions in After Effects 5.0.

" OMF Composition Import offers such significant workflow improvements, that any Avid system editor using Adobe After Affects 5.0 will benefit from taking advantage of this plug-in." said Steve Kilisky, senior product manager for Adobe After Effects.

Availability and Pricing

OMF Composition Import by Automatic Duck, Inc. is scheduled for availability in Q2 2001. Pricing for OMF Composition Import will be $495 US MSRP. It will be available for purchase through the Automatic Duck website at http://www.automaticduck.com or through Toolfarm, Inc. at http://www.toolfarm.com.

(c)2001 Automatic Duck, Incorporated. All rights reserved. OMF Composition Import is a trademark of Automatic Duck, Incorporated. Adobe and After Effects are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Avid is a registered trademark of Avid Technology, Incorporated. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All pricing is listed in U.S. dollars and does not include tax or shipping.