Handheld Hollywood has the scoop that the excellent iPad slating app MovieSlate will work with soon to be released wireless Timecode Buddy for always perfect timecode.
Now it is not cheap, as the master is 675 pounds and the other unites are $245, but would then have perfect timecode all the way around, which means this would be an awesome smart slate. Just need a great case to keep your iPad safe on set.
Little Frog in High Def has an excellent article on the 10, or make that 9 things he will miss about Final Cut Pro 7 after moving to AVID and Premiere Pro.
I just needed to add a little rant here. It is the difference between using iOS and a Mac, and specifically iTunes. Now I have way too much to even be allowed to join the iCloud and have my music there. I have 35531 music tracks and 1091 movies.
It is easy to sort within iTunes, as first off I have a trackball and a scroll wheel so I can move through my playlists and movies very quickly on my mac, but it is way too much scrolling in iOS. Sure in some apps you can click on the letter to jump, but there needs to be a quicker way to scroll.
This is even worse in Apple TV. I have an Apple TV to be able to watch the movies on my HDTV instead of my Mac. To find a movie on my Apple TV I have to scroll through my 1091 items, which is slow and not very efficient. They need a quick ability to search or a way to easily pick starting letters.
On my iPad there needs to be a faster to jump pages. I have way too many apps, but I use them, and have them very well organized, but to get from the first to the last page takes a whole lot of scrolling. I want a way to quickly see all the pages and jump to where I want to go instead of just having to scroll.
iOS is great, but it needs work, and honestly it needs more functionality like Mission Control. Instead of the MacOS being more like iOS, iOS needs to be more like the Mac.
Honestly for me in an ideal world I would have a very powerful MacPro, that was expandable and more upgradeable. I am talking even new Motherboards and processors, so it could last years. I would be able to access it in my office for screaming fast speed and video editing especially, but it would have an online portion where I could access it all the time from other computers, say my iPad and a laptop. So I could use the apps there, and basically have dumb portals as my laptops and iPad that could access my main computer and run it’s apps and use it’s documents. And honestly I don’t want everything stored in the cloud, because I don’t trust it, I would rather have the main storage local for me.
Now that is a best case scenario, but that way I could have one computer and one file system, and I could use it from anything with an internet connection. Now this would require fast internet everywhere, and the end of all these internet caps on broadband and wireless.
Now I might not be able to edit completely remotely, but I should be able to do all of the basic things on my computer and work with my computer, and even do basic editing.
Who knows when the technology will be there, but hopefully before too long.
So the new iPad does pretty much totally rock, especially over my first generation iPad. And really it all comes down to the gorgeous screen. The screen looks absolutely amazing. It glows. Actually at first I didn’t think it looked that good since my wallpaper was showing my old wallpaper which looked pretty bad, but when I replaced it with a better image, wow, the whole thing pops!
And it is good to have more RAM as the thing just seems to run better.
Still missing not having Siri, especially since the dictation feature (which does OK) has to have an internet connection, so I don’t get why there is no Siri!
Still this is certainly the best iPad, though apps need to be updated. The wired magazine app has some jagged looking text, but then of course the apps will be so much bigger, so I wish it was 128GB, but 64 GB is certainly not bad, especially after having 24.
Glad to have it up and working, though it did take a lot of sorting to get my apps into place after having to use such an old restore, and I forgot how long backing up takes every time I sync the ipad with my desktop, but oh well.
And my wife loves having my old iPad 1. She is carrying it everywhere, so that is certainly a good thing.
Was all excited for today, stayed home from work so I would make sure that I would get my new 64GB iPad, but I have not been able to use it in 4 hours, and am having a nightmare time trying to restore it.
Unfortunately I have been syncing to the cloud with my iPad 1, and it seems that a restore from the Cloud does not work right. Instead all the apps get stuck either loading or waiting, and they never move forward. I seem to be able to install new apps, but I can only delete the old apps and if I try to re-install they continue getting stuck. And I have wiped it 2 times in hopes of trying again, but I seem to keep getting the same problem. I wonder if the cloud is down because so many people are restoring today?
I decided to try from my October Backup via iTunes, but took half an hour for iTunes to do anythign with it, it kept balking and saying it seems an iPad, but doesn’t recognize it.
Took a while, but I finally got my new iPad to connect to iTunes via cable and do a restore from an old backup to the computer. It is from October, but hopefully it will work. What seems promising is that now the iPad says Restore in Progress with a shot of water and clouds. It is taking about 20 minutes, then I assume it will start installing apps. We shall see, but I am have already turned off cloud sync for my iPhone and gone back to syncing to my computer, and will do the same to the new iPad if I can manage to restore the thing to any semblance of where it once was.
OK, now it is restarting, and we have the firmware or update screen on the iPad.
And am on the App install stage. 240 Apps, so this could be a while. Hopefully they will install.
UPDATE:
Yes, restoring from the computer worked, so either iCloud is messed up or not working right as too many people are using it now, anyway I am moving back to local backups, as it is more secure and actually seems to work!
Am having to add all the apps since October, wow that is a lot of apps, and will be a lot of sorting, but oh well.
I can see why friends did in store pickups as it took until 3:15 PM to get here! Youch!
Looks pretty sweet, but is currently syncing and since my sync is with iCloud I am sure it is going to take forever, so I am leaving for work in a minute and hopefully it will be done when I get home.
And I am setting up my old iPad on Kelly’s computer, so she will have it when she gets home.
Woohoo, new iPad.
One the day of the new iPad release I got my shipment from Marware and got my new Ecovue case for the newest iPad.
I have one of there cases for my iPad 1 and totally love it, and after I found out that M-Edge does not have custom printed cased with magnets (they have them without) for the new iPad I went for another Marware, and it is a great case.
They have a variety of cases for the new iPad, but I went for the EcoVue, which is what I had, and it is even better now. 
It even includes a pen and an elastic to hold it on the side. It has a space for the camera to fit through , they moved the place to put the iPad in to the side with the top on it so it won’t fall out, and it has a little stand for having it prop up on a desk.
This is an excellent case, and well worth the price of $54.99.
Well the case fits awesome, the magnets work well. This is an awesome case. I highly recommend it.
It is out for delivery, but I am still waiting unfortunately. Am doing work from home, but have a lot of work to do at work too! Damn I want my new toy! At least my current boss is cool enough to let me stay home today to wait for my new iPad.
DenVog, LLC has updated it’s excellent outlining tool Index Card to version 3.0.
What’s New in Version 3.0.0
• Column view: Displays stacks in columns. Scroll independently. Great for TV writers, and those that like to view act breaks vertically.
• Stack count indicator: Displays how many cards a stack contains
• Selectable font size for cards on main corkboard (small – 5 lines of text, medium – 6 lines, large 7 – lines)
• Preview: See what your compiled project will look like
– Open In… : Send Simple Text or RTF file directly in another iPad app, without needing to use mail or dropbox. Great for working on a plane!
– Print: Send your file to AirPrint enabled printer
• Text Selection options:
– Selecting a URL (including http://) presents Open in Safari option
– Selecting an email address presents Mail Composer option
– Word count for selected text displayed in popover
• Forward Delete: Extended keyboard button enables delete to the right of the cursor
• Label memory: The last selected label will be the default for new cards
• Stats: Displays Project count, Card count for entire app (accessed via Info button on menubar)
• RTF export font now matches screen app display font
• Navigate to previous card from a new card (when working on a new card, swipe left-to-right)
• Editing screen background matches user setting
FIXES & ENHANCEMENTS
• Onscreen keyboard will no longer partially cover the last line of text, when Long Text is set to OFF
• Changes in progress will be saved if you leave the app while editing screen is still open (didn’t tap Cancel or Done)
• Adding a new card while viewing back of card notes, will flip you to the front of the new card, ready for typing in Title
• Tapping the button for a popover that is already visible will dismiss it
• Selected item count now displayed in title, instead of individual buttons
• Select All / None toggle button for quicker selection of cards
I am looking forward to try this out, as I have already outlined a screenplay on this app and loved it. This is an excellent app all the way around.
Just evil, I want it now! Ha!