Under $1000 for a way to monitor 1080p with worldwide frame rates using thunderbolt

Allan Tépper at the Pro Video Coalition has a great solution for monitoring video using thunderbolt and a Sony KDL-40BX420E, which will work with US power and supports, both PAL and NTSC frame rates as well as 23.976 and 24 FPS. Very very cool. The monitor is grey market in the US, so he also recommends a third party warranty. This is a inexpensive and great solution for monitoring.

How to Fix Shockwave Flash crashes in Google Chrome

I found this article at How-To Geek after having a lot of trouble with my personal copy of Chrome I am using at work (I use Chrome Portable in a password protected disk image that I cary on a USB Key, and of course my LastPass installs all use Google Authenticator for login anyway) since it has a much newer version of flash.

I did switch it up and disable the local copy of Chrome instead of my browser version, and I have stopped getting the Shockwave crash, though it has done nothing for my issues with Amazon Cloud Player, that I have been having (and recently documented).

EDIT: Ha, didn’t work. Maybe I do need to disable Chrome’s Flash Plug In.

VideoCopilot Element 3D 1.5 Announced!

VideoCopilot announced the free update to Element 3D, v1.5 which includes a real-time glow feature and will be out next week! Woohoo!

And they say 3D shadows won’t be till version 2, but this still sounds awesome.

Just having started playing with this plug in recently I have been blown away by it’s power! This makes Invigorator Pro 3D seem useless, with it’s antiquated interface and slow as can be rendering.

Red Giant Price Drop

Red Giant Software has made significant price drops on their software, of up to 50%. You can now get the entire suite for $899 down from $1740.

And check out these prices on individual software.

Great deals.

I love there software and have been using it for many years.

2012 iMac faster than Mac Pro with Radeon HD 5870 in DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro CS6

Bare Feats has run the tests, and the 2012 iMac 27″ 3.4GHz Core iMac with 32GB of RAM and the GeForce GTX 680MX GPU actually does beat the MacPro in Resolve and Premiere Pro, but that is a MacPro with the Radeon HD 5870 GPU. Not really a fair test unless you have an NVIDIA CUDA card in the MacPro. As the MacPro still beats the iMac in 2 out of 3 CPU tests.

I have a feeling my non Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 4096 MB would slaughter the iMac in anything CUDA aware, which would be Premiere Pro, After Effects or DaVinci Resolve.