OWC’s RocketYard wish list for WWDC 2026

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https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/98472-my-macos-wish-list-for-wwdc-2026/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-macos-wish-list-for-wwdc-2026 And what I would like. *Fix Liquid Glass without fully getting rid of transparency. So much transparancy is a drag on the computer and the fact that turning it off doesn’t improve performance means it is being rendered and covered when you reduce transparency. This should not happen. *Improve Apple Mail, I agree Apple Mail needs work. Its search is awful, often missing stuff. And the fact that it’s dark mode, doesn’t affect html e-mails which every web based browser manages to do is frustrating and a huge eye sore. *Yes, all around improved search would be great. *Yes Natural language for to dos and calendar items is huge. I used Fantastical for a couple of years, and loved it, but refuse to keep paying another subscription. Apple needs this feature! *Yes More Intelligent window tiling and management! Currently using 3rd party tools for this. *A return of FireWire for DV tapes! I know it won’t happen, but it sure would be great! *Keep my computer private I don’t want AI sending my data anywhere. And honestly I don’t really want AI on my computer except maybe local instances that scan my photos for items to search. I just don’t use it except in my editing software.

PVC on AVID at NAB 2026, on AVID opening up and adding Gemini

https://www.provideocoalition.com/nab-2026-avid-is-opening-up-and-gemini-might-help/ Hmm, I mean good for sure. I want AVID to start catching up. They were so slow to adopt Apple's new Architecture, and their program still feels like it was written in the dark ages. It is great that it is going to script able with great customization. And of course built in transcription is great. Of course I have never run into AVID in the wild on a system that was running the latest and greatest. Rental edit systems are usually really old and stable and with an ancient version of AVID that looks pretty similar to current AVID. Of course to run on modern computers it needs to be a newer version now so maybe those days have changed. I would love to see AVID take a page from Blackmagic and do some quick innovation and add the latest and greatest features before it is an afterthought. It is funny I just saw this article, way after NAB, and I hadn't even thought to think about AVID at NAB. I am a skilled AVID editor, but I just don't prefer it to either Premier or Resolve.

PVC articles on Premiere Pro Color Mode

https://www.provideocoalition.com/why-adobe-rebuilt-color-from-scratch/ https://www.provideocoalition.com/color-mode-vs-lumetri-whats-different-and-why-it-matters/ I still need to spend some time in Colorado mode and will certainly learn it, though these articles do seem to be much more from Adobe’s perspective than a true review of the differences. These are pretty pro color mode, and how amazing it is, and how much better it is than Lumetri. It actually makes me more reticent about it. I watched all Adobe’s videos and was most disturbed that you basically pick an overall look first then work on the rest instead of balancing your shots first. Seems like they are teaching the wrong method for any high end workflow, or anyone who wants to delve deeper into color correction in the future.

Adobe Premiere April 2026 (version 26.2)

the Premiere Beta new color feature has been getting all the news but the latest update has something I have wanted for ages! Here are the new features at Adobe, Show video and audio waveforms in the viewer! I have been requesting this since I saw it in DavInci and just fell in love with it! This will save so much time! A new set of effects from Film Impact! Wow that was fast! Apply Sharp or Smooth modes in Object selection . Navigate with a sequence index, a spreadsheet style view of your timeline! Relink Media after with smart search Global Audio Mute. Marker support in search. Content credentials in export.

PVC on Premiere’s Color Mode now in Beta

https://www.provideocoalition.com/burning-questions-about-adobe-premiere-betas-new-dedicated-color-mode/ I haven’t had a chance to play with this yet, but I watched all the videos from Adobe on this. It does look impressive in what it can do,as someone who is proficient at DaVinci and was proficient in Apple Color where Lumetri came from., the complete lack of standard Color controls does throw me off. And the huge to hue type controls instead of color wheels was never my thing, but I guess it will be here. I will play when I get an and I will be able to use it, but I am always weary of a totally new interface for something that everyone previously knew how to do, without having a manual mode with scopes and wheel and such doesn’t seem optimal, but then i guess I can just export to DaVinci if I don’t like it!

Creative Video Tips on Latest DaVinci Beta 21

As always Creative Video Tips has some amazing videos on the latest update! https://youtu.be/RcUWOiLkNu4 https://youtu.be/gGY-47HwD4w?si=SgMsiV2mupFAPy1x https://youtu.be/CXYc0i47JXQ As always Chadwick at Creative Video Tips is the best! An honestly I am so excited for the Photo page, as being able to use the full DaVinci color correction suite on photos seems like such an amazing idea. I hope they bring the Photo page to the iPad version!

9to5Mac on making Updates one click further

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https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/15/ios-26-4-moves-app-store-updates-heres-how-to-open-them-fast/ So we have to click one more time to get to app updates as of iOS 26.4, WTF! Why make it less efficient Apple? Honestly this is one of my biggest pet peeves! Things should be made more efficient over time, not less and a single click more of always worse design!

Is the MacBook Neo the perfect Mac to run my MacStudio from the other room

The new MacBook Neo Apple just released the MacBook Neo for $599 with 256 ssd and 8gb of ram or $699 with 512 ssd and Touch ID on the keyboard. It is a real entry laptop built on a iPhone chip, so it is not going to be as snappy as as an M5, but from early bench marks, it is almost an M1 Air (Faster single core slower multi core) Personally since I became a professional editor I have worked off a pretty fully loaded desktop Mac (even if my current is an Mac Studio M2 Ultra with 192 Gb of RAM and the top GPu offered at the time) that has always been more powerful than any laptop (though the latest M5 MacBook Pro is certainly a very pro machine even if it can’t match the thermals of a desktop machine or screen size of an external monitor) and expensive enough that I couldn’t afford my desktop and a laptop. So to work I had to be at my desk. And that is mostly fine, but sometimes it would be nice to be able to work from the couch or while watching my toddler out on the porch… And for years I have used Jump Desktop to VPN onto work computers and make some changes from my Mac or my iPad Pro, but having a keyboard would be an improvement. And the Neo’s 2408x1506 is at least better than hd, even if 13 inches is a pretty big downgrade from my dual 32 inch monitors. Sure it is only 500 bits bright and no backlight on the keyboard, but I think I can used to that. Now the display is only sRGB instead of P3 so no color correction, have to use my iPad Pro for that. The worst part is i probably would want the upgraded model just to get the 512Gb hard drive, because I have a 4 TB in my Mac Studio and I am always fighting it being full even with my iTunes library and basically everything else not being stored on it. And while I might like Touch ID, I have never used it on my Mac since I use an ergo keyboard (that will take getting used to as well). An Indidgio would match my iPhone 17 For that price it just seems like a great companion to my Mac Studio. And it would let me try out Tahoe, since the fact that Tahoe kills FireWire has kept me from upgrading my Mac Studio. Honestly this is the longest I have ever waited on a major update, but since I also hate Liquid Glass so much I don’t feel as if I am missing much. I have wanted something to act as a VON front end to connect to my Mac, and was looking at google devices, but this seems perfect!

The Peacock app still sucks, especially with commercials

I have peacock and mostly watch the Olympics on it, and have for quite a few Olympics and the app has always had the same issues, especially with long Olympic events. If you pause a long event sometimes when you come back it jumps back to the beginning, which is a huge issue because you can only fast forward by jumping ahead 10 seconds at a time and you are forced to rewatch all the fixed commercial breaks! Especially problematic with 2+ hour events! And the worst part is the issue has persisted year after year! It is so annoying I will often just give up on events, because it is so frustrating!