Some news has come out today about Autodesk’s Smoke product coming to the Mac OSX platform. From FXGuide:
We haven’t been able to say anything up until now as we strongly respect our Non-Disclosure agreements as beta testers, but the rumors are true: there is definitely smoke for mac in Autodesk’s future. According to Autodesk, they will be “showing a technology preview of its industry leading Autodesk Smoke editorial finishing software running on the Mac OS X platform” at the Inter BEE 2009 conference in Tokyo. Inter BEE is a high-end post production conference in Japan, similar to NAB in the United States and IBC in Europe. “This will be the first time an Autodesk finishing product has been designed to run on the Mac platform,” says Autodesk.
Shortly afterwards, AutodeskPR‘s Twitter account had the following:
Autodesk reveals Smoke 2010 on Mac will sell for $14,995 US SRP
Definitely not cheap, but it’s great to see Autodesk developing a native product for the Mac.
Absolutely ridiculous. The current Mac OS is the most unstable platform I’ve ever had the displeasure to work on plus the limited gfx options for Mac doesn’t help matters either. I can’t understand why Autodesk wouldn’t want to release a software only option for a Linux box (Fedora would be great) or a least port it to the far superior and more stable Windows 7.