Jeff Benjamin at 9 to 5 Mac has a good article on all the new features.
Great to see them still updating Final Cut, though i still have a list of bugs they haven’t as of yet addressed.
And it really needs to catch up on text editing and AI transcription features, that Premiere and DaVinci both have.
From Jeff Johnson of Underpass App Company, this works in safari in iOS and Mac.
This app stops Javascript from running on pages, and I use it to block sites that make you turn off content blockers before you can view the site.
I know sites need revenue, but random ads only annoy me, and some of that is that I edit commercials, so I know the tricks and they just annoy me! So i block them and making me turn off my content blockers annoys me even more!
This takes a little effort and a little work, but it does what it says (and some pages break when you stop the scripts), and I love it.
I love Procreate and have wanted a good animation app.
A must read on Apple Silicon and why it needs less memory than intel.
From William Galalgher at Apple Insider. I have not been too impressed with Stage Manager so far, so any improvements will be welcome.
Having a new M2 Ultra Studio, and always using 2 monitors to edit, makes this an issue close to my heart. Especially because to fix it, you must set you mac to Display have separate Spaces, which means you can’t have windows party between 2 windows and you are forced to have a dock that switches between the 2 windows (seemingly at random) and menus confusingly on both windows.
The current workaround is posted on Adobe Community from a question by Igal Hect.
From Kyle Plumadore an Adobe Employee.
I have a quick update for anyone experiencing poor playback performance on M2 Mac Studio Multi-display setups. We’ve identified an issue where disabling the MacOS system setting “Displays have separate Spaces” under “Desktop & Dock” degrades playback performance. By default this setting is enabled. We’re still working on an official resolution but in the meantime you can try re-enabling that setting as a workaround (requires system reboot to take effect)
Kyle Plumador, Adobe Employee
I have a quick update for anyone experiencing poor playback performance on M2 Mac Studio Multi-display setups. We’ve identified an issue where disabling the MacOS system setting “Displays have separate Spaces” under “Desktop & Dock” degrades playback performance. By default this setting is enabled. We’re still working on an official resolution but in the meantime you can try re-enabling that setting as a workaround (requires system reboot to take effect)
And with the issue not fixed in Sonoma or in Premiere, I think this is going to go on for a long time, and I HATE IT.
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.
