Malcolm Owen has an article at AppleInsider on Thunderbolt 5 details leak via deleted Twitter photo by Intel Executive. So pretty exciting, especially since it keeps the USB C form factor and doubles it's speed from 40Gbps to 80Gbps. Already I love being able to use Thunderbolt 4 hubs on my Mac, and hopefully the new Mac Pro will use Thunderbolt 5 for impressive speeds from it's ports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udx268hCnb0 Jim Thacker at CF Channel has an article on Multi-Frame Rendering in the After Effects Beta. This is super exciting, as After Effects has basically run at the same speed forever. It likely won't be released fully until the next big trade show, where Adobe will move it from the beta channel.
Phil Rhodes at RedShark News has an interesting article on the Glocal Chip Shortage and how it is affecting the industry. I would bet it is pushing back the Apple Silicon pro releases as well. Sure they won't be big sellers but why waste their chips where there won't be huge sales. And even if Apple is designing it's own chips, it isn't manufacturing them themselves, so...
Sami Fathi at Macrumors is reporting that the latest Beta of MacOS Monterey includes Live Text for Intel Macs. 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.
Jose Adorno at 9to5Mac is reporting that a leaker says that Apple will release one more Intel Mac Pro and it will be based on the Intel Ice Lake Xeon W-3300. Not only would this give a nice boost to the Intel Mac Pro line, it would make up for the fact that they made a modular machine that could be easily upgraded and never bothered releasing a single upgrade for it. And as the article says they are also working on the Apple Silicon version of the MacPro, which will likely be a smaller version of the MacPro, more like a Cube, and it will likely not be upgrade-able, so it would be smart for Apple to release one more upgrade-able machine before they dump the idea of upgrade ability all together. It seems likely that the Apple Silicon based MacPro will be like every other Apple Silicon with soldered Memory, and fixed gpu on the motherboard, and without the ability to run an external GPU. Now hopefully that also ends up being shown in the price which should be allot less than a fully loaded Intel MacPro, but I doubt it will still be considered inexpensive.
Bradley Chambers at 9 to 5 Mac has an article on the latest update to the Backblaze app for Mac. They have increased the threads from 30 to 100 and reduced disk load by 80% which can be nothing but good. I moved to BackBlaze when my previous backup went corporate only. Now it took me a year to get my backup (and I haven't backed up most of my video files which are just too big) but I use this and time machine to know that my important files will be safe. Once you lose a hard drive you will always run a couple of backup solutions and having them run better is always a good thing.
Toolfarm, the plug-in seller has posted it’s top 5 plug-ins for under $99 for various software. For Premiere Pro, Davinci Resolve, AVID, Final Cut Pro X, Audio and various 3D packages. Always good to see lists of inexpensive plug ins.
Jason Snell at the awesome six colors blog has a great article on the fact that you are not backing up enough. And it is true, you need to be backing up in every way possible and with local and cloud based copies, just in case something happens. I use both Time Machine and Backblaze and even with that I can't backup everything. I don't have a drobo to be able to backup everything locally (my video is on a RAID 5, so if a drive fails I should be able to recover that, but even my Backblaze took the better part of a year to backup everything I had set to backup. Losing a drive one or a whole computer will be the lesson to get you to start backing up, but you need to backup as much as you can and as often as you can, preferable constantly!
CanonRumors is reporting that they are hearing from a reliable source that Canon is working on a $799 full frame camera body! And that could mean a sub $1000 with lens, and with a $100 lens adapter you can use your EF and EF-S lenses. Wow, that would be really amazing. Of course canon has really given up on amazing video in their cameras when they really started it in DSLR, so it likely wouldn't be a video power house, but would really push full frame EOS-R as the standard. Maybe someday BlackMagic will update the EOS-R, letting you use R and EF and EF-S lenses.
Neat Video the creator of the best Noise Reduction software out there has updated it's software to version 5.4.6. It has expanded AMD support, optimization for Apple's M1 chips, and support for the latest Adobe releases. You can read about the changes here. Neat Video is incredibly good and they keep getting better and faster, the only rival is noise reduction in the Studio version of DaVinci Resolve, but I have found they are great companions, and tend to work on software that the other doesn't do well on. I try out one and then switch to the other if that one isn't working as well. And I have Neat for Premiere Pro and After Effects as well.