Personally I am not sure I will ever use it, thought it sounds very cool. The thing is I currently run 2 27″ monitors, an iMac Pro and a second display, and for an possible Mac Studio I have been considering moving up to 2 Ben Q 32″ displays. As it is, I have no room to fit my iPad on my desk and will have less with bigger monitors, still would be nice if I was running just one monitor.
You would think it would be so much easier at this point, but AVID is still so slow to respond. I mean there won’t be Intel Macs at all soon. Come on AVID, get on the ball. I know they are always slow with updates, but come on. And yes I know that AVID has to have systems that work on so many systems to keep going, but if you get a new license you only get recent versions anyway.
Honestly even with all the recent updated whenever I get on AVID I feel like I have stepped into the past and not in a good way. Even getting footage from DaVinci Resolve is not as simple as it is with Premiere. I know backwards compatibility, but AVID users really need to try out Premiere Pro with Productions and a single compression format (like ProRES) and see how well Premiere runs.
I would love to upgrade to Monterey, but so far I have heard only that Adobe Video versions 2021 and 2022 work with it, and the head editor at the company I am working at is still working with 2019. I was actually surprised that 2019 still worked on Big Sur, but it d\id, but I only upgraded to Big Sur very recently.
And it is usually always safer to wait for the .1 released, though it sounds like Monterey is doing pretty well so far, with a few niggles because of it’s built in VPN that screws with some programs.
I haven’t gotten to play with shotcuts yet as I haven’t moved to Monterery because the company I am working for still runs Premiere Pro 2019 and it is doubtful that it runs on Monterery and even if it does it will likely be not that stable. Not like I want to be running Premiere Pro 2019 anyway, basically I don’t want to live without the new caption feature when running Premiere Pro.
And this means it is time for the awesome deep dive review with Andrew Cunningham at Ars Technica. This is always the way to learn the ins and outs of the new system, and I always look forward to the article, and have been reading them for every OS release for so many years.
I would love to upgrade, but I always have to wait. Before you upgrade you should always check out what apps might have issues and to find out I always check out the forum at MacRumors, which has a post with a sticky at the top with Apps that are working and not working. Now it doesn’t do version numbers, so it will almost never answer my most pressing issue, which is what versions of Premiere Pro will work on the new OS (yes the new version works). Now it does seem better than most OS upgrades, but some apps are still having issues or sure.
I have companies that work completely on 2019 (which you can’t even install and should not be using anymore), and I don’t know how you run a newish MacPro on that old of an OS, but I digress.
This is great news. I have to say I really hated that Apple was already disabling features for non-Apple Silicon Macs. And while they are still doing that, this is one of the features I was most likely to want of the missing features. Honestly they should have feature parity until at least their is a Pro Apple Silicon released. And sure they have specific new hardware in M1 and Apple Silicon, but it isn’t like you couldn’t write something to let Intel run this, as they have proved here.
And it is on by default, though you can return to the new method if you want to (but why would you). She is also reporting that the tab bar will make a return on iPad OS 15 in a future beta.
I had posted about this and was using it in Safari Technology Preview in Big Sur. A new version hasn’t been released, but I will take a look at it once it comes out, to see if it is improved. Now if only Apple would add the option of tree style tabs, ha one can only dream.
Now I am running the new Safari within Big Sur in the Safari Technology Preview, and I am on an iMac Pro with a second 27″ monitor, so 2 27″ monitors running at 2560×1440. To me the new safari is only trying to save space, but doing it at the cost of usability.
This is current safari’s bar with 3 tabsAnd Monterey’s Safari with 3 tabs, you already lose the title of the web site.Current safari with 9 tabsMonterey with 9 tabs, much less legible and even worse with no ICO filesBig Sur Safari with 15 tabsMonterey with 15 tabs, already you can see tabs stacking on top of each otherAnd 18 tabs in Big Sur Safari
The tabs in Monterey become illegible and hard to find too quickly and all so the tab bar can take up less space. All well and good for a small screened laptops users, but useless for large displays! And even more useless for power users who have lots of plug ins which also take up space!
And you can’t even activate the old functionality in Safari, only the new tabs are available.
And this is Firefox with Tree Style tabs. They are always legible and you can have so many of them. Once again, maybe not so good for a small laptop, but for a big monitor it is essential. If only firefox would have a true dark mode and allow me to get rid of the light title bar at the top, but at least it means you can read the web site title. Still I wish I could turn the top tabs off and just have tree style tabs.
Of course there is also Vivaldi, which has tree style tabs built in. It is a gorgeous and fast browser, built on chrome, while I would prefer Firefox for it being a different engine and the most customizable browser.
And that isn’t even the worst of it. If you have Safari at default settings, when you switch tabs you get the tabs changing color based on the web site. For some web sites, it isn’t so bad, but for others…
Look how it changes, especially when it hits BBC news, this is completely distracting.
Luckily you can turn this off in advanced tabs.
Just make sure to check Never Use Background Color in Toolbar.
