The choices of the newest Mac Studio M4 Max or M3 Ultra a strange choice

So Apple updated the Mac Studio for the first time since the M2 version, but they certainly made a strange choice with the base model being an M4 Max, but the high end being an M3 Ultra. Making the lower end model actually faster than the high end model for single core operations. And the M3 Ultra is upgraded from the M3 Max with Thunderbolt 5, and GPU numbers that match the m4 max at least in core count.

It seems that Apple is going to skip the Ultra connector in some series, but then maybe they should think about skipping every other generation so they can match Max and Ultra to the same generation so the higher end chip isn’t slower in single processor operations. Nor have less possible memory or memory bandwidth.

I run video and with memory and videos sharing RAM I need as much as I can get, and $1600 for 256 GB is about all I could swing, as $4000 for 512 GB is insane. Damn Apple charges allot for RAM. And $4600 for 16 TB’s of hard drive space, OMG!

My last Mac Studio was over 7K and the next one will likely be more, just hope it lasts over 7 years!

CUT/DAILY 437: File Naming and why it is so important

CUT/DAILY #437 : Be Conventional. Is all about the importance of file naming correctly, and I 100% agree.

Every project needs a simple and effective naming convention for tracking everything, and it should be followed exactly on every job.

Every company I work for doesn’t follow any naming conventions and it is literally insane. Literally I am not even given consistent job numbers or names, ever.

And the naming should be matched with file structure on the hard drives.

Without organization going back will always be hard, but with it finding stuff is easy.

Oh no Mozilla, ads and AI?

From Mark Surman at the Mozilla blog:

Growing Mozilla — and evolving our leadership

I know that losing Google’s paid search money is basically all of Mozilla’s income, but ads and AI aren’t the answer. I would guess that anyone using Mozilla is blocking ads, and AI in a browser is just not worth paying for? I mean Mozilla’s current AI summarizes web pages, but is that a money maker? I mean really? AI costs money to run so you have to pay for it, and I just haven’t seen where AI in a web browser is going to make Mozilla enough money to survive.

And Mozilla needs to survive as there is Chrome/Chromium which you can’t trust cause it is Google, Safari, which is Apple so they will never allow Mozilla’s level of customization, and Mozilla, which makes no money.

PVC on LumaFusion v5.2 doubles video/audio track support

LumaFusion v5.2 doubles video/audio track support

Awesome, great news. LumaFusion is a real editor for iPad that works with a timeline like Premiere or Avid and not Final Cut. And it gets better all the time.

Still it also makes me wish that BlackMagic would just release all the DaVinci Resolve pages on the iPad app, instead of having to use keyboard shortcuts to launch them, because then the iPad would have a real editor.

PostPerspective interview with Colorist Mitch Paulson on Grading Alien: Romulus

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Another great interview from PostPerspective.

Interesting, and I mostly enjoyed Romulus, in fact much more than I thought I would. A mix of fan service and good movie making, but with some huge plot holes that Lee me from really loving it.

Like if they went and found the Alien from Alien, where do all the face huggers come from? They come from a. Queen right? If they also went to LV426 to get them why would Wayland Yutani have sent colonists? And if it was to get them infected just send some prisoners.

And they just aren’t able to use dead actors so why bother? It looks awful!