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.Path Duplicator, to duplicate Paths for $14.99.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!)And Locations for $29.99 to create 2D and 3D Geolocations on a map.
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).
Today only Red Giant is having a 40% off sale on all there products! Just enter 2012BSF40 at checkout and you will get the discount, which applies to all products including upgrades! This is a great deal and I love their suites of FX as is. So if you don't have them today is a great time to catch up.EDIT: And it now goes till 10 AM Pacific this Wednesday 12-12-12, so you have a couple of more hours.
Video Copilot has released a new Element 3D tutorial, this one on Image Based Lighting in ELement 3D. Otherwise using an HDRI environmental map to simulate the lighting of a 3D scene.
Took until just as I was going to bed last night to get it working correctly.Basically when I opened any program in the Creative Cloud Suite it told me my Trial Version had expired and that I had to either license the software or quit. It would show my correct e-mail address, but then ask me for a serial number (which I don't have since I am using creative cloud). And not let me use the software without it.Finally I tried telling it I was not myself, and re-entered my e-mail address and password, and then it logged in and re-licensed the creative suite.Scary bug, especially since I lost use of the suite for a weekend. Now maybe I could have got on tech support and got it figured out sooner, but I hate talking to Adobe's tech support in India, as I feel that unless I get it promoted to someone in the states that I am never going to get the problem solved.
Adobe has released new presets for Adobe Media Encoder CS6. These include ProRES codes for Mac, Kindle Fire and Nook presets as well as MXF encoding Presets.Nice, I always make my own ProRes Presets, but this could be helpful.
Noise Industries has upgraded the FxFactory to 4.0 and added Premiere Pro CS 6 Support. I have a ton of their compatible and free plug ins, but don't actually own this suite (always thought it was a tad expensive), but this gives me one more reason, as I have moved from any version of Final Cut and now prefer Premiere Pro (though I of course still have Media Composer which works with very few plug ins).