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.
Read about it at creative pro, with ideas of what to replace the missing functionality with. I had no idea they had done this, and am not too happy about it. Wonder what it means for the rest of the apps?
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 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 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.
DIY photography has the news. Better news for Windows Users (as CS2 won’t even run on Mountain Lion on Mac). Now they need some basic free web versions of things like Photoshop to draw normal people in, and if you could log in and use better versions if you had the CS6 suite… One can dream.
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.
Today only Toolfarm is having a 25% off sale on all VideoCopilot Software. I can’t recommend anything more highly than Element 3D, and their lens flares plug in is awesome too.
Some new scripts up at AE Scripts.
BAO Distortion Selector, to control the zone corrected by distortion for $49.99.
OBJ Vertex Export for $14.99.
2 – Sided Layer for $9.99 (Something I could use very very often!)
Adobe has released updates to Photoshop and Illustrator for those with HiDPI and Retina displays, such as the new MacPro Laptops. The Adobe Illustrator Blog has more on the Illustrator update.
And the Mac Performance Guide says that the new Photoshop is 13% faster than the previous version! Nice!
Great news for those with Retina displays, but I likely won’t be one of those for a long time. I still use my MacPro and am hoping for a new one and a large Retina display, say 24 inch would just be too expensive for a very very long time. Still great to see Adobe keeping up though (and this will be awesome for Premiere Pro once it is updated for those with the 15″ Retina MacBook Pro).