From Wayne G at OWC Rocketyard.
The $3000 over the MacStudio to be able to use some PCI cards (but not video cards) just doesn’t seem worth it to me. If I had the money, sure, but I would have to be pretty loaded.
Yea, I would consider more if my monitors could handle HDR better, but without that, I guess I could monitor on my iPad pro.
You can read about it at AppleInsider or also the Thunderbolt experts at OWC.
I love that it will continue using the USB C port, but the fact that it allows so much more power scares me as it means hubs will be even more expensive, and I use so little in powered from the ports. I would love the speed though, and even better for video, so you could get better resolution at higher frame rates.
And you know this will show up in an Apple product first, maybe the next Mac Studio? That would make sense to me.
So Apple has announced the iPhone 15 Pro, and it has some pretty interesting video features, from being able to record to an external hard drive (at higher rez) better low light, and later this year it will be able to shoot Spatial Video for the Apple Vision Pro.
Coming later this year, iPhone 15 Pro will add a new dimension to video capture with the ability to record spatial video for Apple Vision Pro. Users will be able to capture precious moments in three dimensions and relive those memories with incredible depth on Apple Vision Pro when it is available early next year in the U.S.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/apple-unveils-iphone-15-pro-and-iphone-15-pro-max/
So it will be able to shoot 3D footage? Or is it 2D with a depth map, like Portrait mode, which could be very exciting for compositing.
I was actually wondering if they were going to use the depth map of portrait mode to make 3D photos for the Vision Pro since you can already make them 3D in Facebook, and since it is Apple photos, Apple must be able to do that as well.
From Evan Selleck at Apple Insider.
I haven’t tried out Final Cut for iPad, I can use Final Cut Pro, very well in fact, but I don’t like it, and I don’t want to pay a subscription for it.
From Evan Selleck at Apple Insider, a great article on expansion chassis for Macs.
With the ridiculous $3000 for a Mac Pro over a Mac Studio, these expansion Chasis may seem a good choice for those not needing the PCI speed so much (for super fast storage).
From Joe Rossignol at MacRumors, this is exciting news, though I hope they add it to Mac as well, so it can be added to Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, since those are my editors of choice.
I really agree with this. I was someone who bought Final Cut when it came out and got a refund after 2 weeks, but years later when the program was better I bought it and learned it and got really good and made a list of thoughts and bugs, many of which have not been fixed all these years later.
And it insane that they haven’t given FCP Enterprise features and started using it on their shows for Apple TV, but without a big investment in time and money it really isn’t made for that.
They will keep it around, and have brought out a feature cut (and subscription) version on iPad, but they really aren’t pushing it, like they were with FCP 7 when they had actually overtaken AVID.
Filmic PRO is easily the best app for shooting video for iOS. WIth many essential features such as shooting flat and working with stabilizers. I would say anyone shooting on the iPhone should be using FiLMiCPro. It is just too bad it had to go subscription.
As a former owner of FiLMiCPro I get a download from within the app of FiLMic Legacy which has all the old features, but won’t keep being updated, so will stop working before too long, but at least it works for now, and a discount off the subscription.
The Update does look great, and the subscription model had better mean a steady stream of new features (I would love them to figure out how to get 23.976 if that is even possible). And I love the manual control sliders vs the wheels it previously was.
I just honestly hate subscriptions, especially on IOS. I already have to have he full Adobe Suite, I have Maxon’s Red Giant Suite, and a few others, and I don’t need IOS ones.
Honestly I hope EU regulators get on this and force Apple to be able to sort the store by purchase vs subscription.
