This has been rumored, but to see it in action, wow. So with Mac OS Catalina, you can use a feature called sidecar, and have your iPad extend your Mac Screen and use the Apple Pencil. Goodbye Wacom tablet, you can now use the Apple Pencil and iPad to draw right on images!
Wow, I really can’t wait for this! This is a game changer for Photoshop!
The new 6K Apple Retina Display is insane looking, and having the cheesegrater on the back in a nice touch. HOLY SHIT!
1000 nits of brightness and 1,000,000 to 1 contrast ratio! XDR, ProDisplay XDR!
And Rotation for Portrait mode! WOW!
Again, going to cost a mint!
Yup $4999, a fucking mint, and $5999 for the higher end one!
OK, so HOLY SHIT!
The new MacPro looks like a Cheesegrater, and while it doesn’t support NVIDIA, it looks powerful as shit. Room for 4 32 GB Video Cards, and a Video Processor card! And up to 1.5 Terrabytes RAM! And over a gigahert of power! FUCK ME!
And realtime 8K color correction with FX in DaVinci! WOW!!!!
And it looks like a cheesegrater! And a rack mounted version!
This thing looks amazing, though is literally going to cost a mint!
OK Starting at $5999 is not a bad actually!
And I just got an iMacPro as my old MacPro finally died, so won’t be getting one any time soon, but OMG!
So Y.M. Cinema Magazine has a supposed leak of an internal slide showing info on the new modular MacPro 7,1. And not only is it powerful, but it has 3 pci slots, thunderbolt 4, and NVIDIA support! If this is true, holy shit!
I will be sad no matter what since my 4,1 passed and I now have an iMac Pro, but this bodes very well if it is true.
So The Week is back on Apple News+, though I can’t access it. And it isn’t in the News+ section, neither under The Week or Week. It does seem to be available, from it’s liked section in News, but I can’t access the issues.
I can’t download any of the available issues though. When I try to I get this message:
This is an awesome article with some great tips I didn’t know and that will certainly speed up my editing. This should be read by all Premiere Pro editors. A must read!
So I was excited for Apple’s News+ magazine service and signed up for the free month after doing the math on my current subscriptions, and the $9.95 Apple News Plus. It was released on March 25th, and it is April 25th, and already it seems the service is already losing magazines! AND I DON’T SEE THIS REPORTED ANYWHERE ELSE! My biggest selling point was The Week magazine, which I have read for years, but as of now, The Week is no longer available!
In fact when I look at the lost today it seems there are only 109 magazines, though that is not including the couple of newspapers that show up differently, but is far short of the release list that MacStories put out that shows 251 magazines! In fact the magazines that used to be split into 2 pages are all on one page now in the app!
And the service while cool, does have issues. The Apple news app always opens to the news portion and you have to select news+ which is very slow to load. And after selecting to download the magazines I want to read only a select few show up in the My Magazines section. Shouldn’t all the ones I chose show up? Why should I have to go back to the full list to find the magazines I already chose to download? And what about notifications? I get tons of news notifications, but not a single one for when magazines show up! I just have to keep looking to see. This is not user friendly at all.
And why does my phone have different magazines than my ipad? Why is the xbox magazine on my phone, but not my ipad, honestly WTF!
In one month half the magazines are gone, and the news+ should have it’s own dedicated app with notifications of new issues, or this service just isn’t worth the cost! Especially if it is going to keep losing magazines at this rate!
Obviously the most exciting new features is the content-aware fill for video in After Effects.
I am pretty excited to try this one out, as the results from the demos look impressive, but I think it will work best with moving footage so the pixels exist somewhere.
And the new expression engine in After Effects looks amazing.
I can’t wait to try that out.
For Premiere we get the Freeform view as a kind of visual storyboard.
This is pretty neat, though not a mind blower for me.
And the new rules and guides will make placing things much easier.
Pretty neat. And Faster Mask tracking will always be helpful.
Overall some cool new features, though I am hoping for more stability overall.
Now I use Firefox as my primary browser, and I have for years. I have enough if my life in google because I use a gmail account, and google search is too much of my life so I don’t want to use Chrome, even if it is marginally faster. And Safari I don’t really use on my mac, because I use Firefox, but I have to use it on my iPad and my iPhone.
9 to 5 Mac has pulled images of the rumored Powerbeats Pro headphones out of ios 12.2. It looks the rumors are true and they remove the wire and charge in their case. I have the previous versions of these and think it is a huge mistake. I think the cable is a feature! It keeps them together and you can take them off and let it hang around your neck! Sure the around ear pieces keep them in your ears better, but I still knock them out once in while! And these had better be truly waterproof!
Also with my orevious ones sometimes the bluetooth messes up, will this now happen more often with individual ears? I think this a downgrade. I do hope they have actual waterproofing now though@