Now I sweat by Extensis Suitcase Fusion as a great font management tool and love it's auto font activation (though I do wish they would make a plug in for After Effects), but right now Extensis Suitcase Fusion 5's autoactivation plug in is crashing Photoshop CC so it won't launch.Here is my crash log which I am posting for Extensis to see, and hopefully fix the issue.
Premiumbeat.com blog has a great post on the 10 new Premiere Pro CC features that a Final Cut Pro 7 Editor will Love. This is a must read!
Adobe has updated Adobe Configurator 4, and it is available from Adobe Labs. It is a preview, but lets you make custom panels for Indesign and Photoshop! Very very cool.Now if only you could sync them through Creative Cloud so you could always have your custom panels with you!
Steve Hullfish at the Pro Video Coalition has posted his top 10 new Media Composer Features, and info on the new Audio Features.
Filmmaker IQ has posted this tutorial on how to extrude text in Cinema 4D Lite included with Adobe After Effects CC. It is about 12 minutes long.
Video Guys has a good post as to why to chose NVIDIA and Quadro for the creative Cloud.Personally I want to see a really good Quadro vs GeForce comparison, especially something like a GTX Titan, and throw in AMD as well to see the OpenCL performance and really see which is best.
Rich Young at PVC is reporting on this and how to install it if you have Creative Cloud.Personally I hate this. DVD Studio Pro is already dead, and ancient and now Adobe's disc making software is gone too. Sure we can use the old version, but it will never be updated again? That really sucks! This is a very Apple ish move, and I personally don't like it. Yes digital delivery is huge now, but there is still a time and place for disc based media as it looks better, and with 4K on the horizon, it will be sticking around in one form or another for a long time.
David Torno at the ProVideo Coaltion has released more lessons on After Effects ExtendScript.11 is on building a floating guiAnd the 2 part 12 is on building a Dockable GUI
I couldn't locate the option in Photoshop, so I started searching and found the answer on one of Adobe's Blogs.Note: we removed the option in preferences to point to a “Additional Plug-Ins Folder” in Photoshop CC as it caused more problems than it solved.Now here is something I completely don't agree with as this folder made it so much easier to upgrade versions, as you could keep your 3rd party plug ins in a separate folder, and just point the new version at them. SO MUCH EASIER THAN HAVING TO GO THROUGH YOUR PLUG INS FOLDER EVER UPGRADE AND MIGRATE STUFF! Annoying adobe, very annoying!
The EditDoctor has an interesting article on how recent NVIDIA drivers have literally doubled the performance of Quadro's for Premiere Pro.And this is why I worry about the new MacPro. OpenCL acceleration is not nearly as fast as CUDA on the PC, and the Mac has always had a far inferior OpenCL installation. Multi GPU's are incredibly hard to code for and only give moderate performance enhancements on even the most mutli-GPU aware games on the PC, so they are only for the most hard core of gamers. The only exception to this is a Maximus configuration from NVIDIA which is a Quadro with a TESTLA card (the non-consumer version of a Titan), which has incredible power and speed and really can use both processors. This all leaves the new MacPro in the code. Most software won't be coded for multiple AMD GPU's and even if they are the performance increases are usually pretty modest, and OpenCL can't touch CUDA! So why made a new "pro" machine without the option for CUDA? The only argument I can see if form over function, and that seems to be what the new MacPro is all about!