AVID Media Composer and Apple Mavericks

From AVID themselves, they do not support Mavericks with Media Composer 7, though they are working on it.I know Apple must have purposely made Mavericks work with Final Cut Pro 7, but it still works and Premiere Pro CC and CS6 work just fine, so AVID had better get on the ball here.Of course they have till December with the new MacPro (which will likely coincide with a new version of Mavericks), but that means no new Macs will run AVID until they update!

Diet Update, and Warriors Diet

Haven't done a post surgery update in a while, so I figure it is about time. Was doing pretty well on the 8 hour diet for a while, though I plateaued and gained some weight back even, though I have continued doing the diet. And eating well on it, most days with 2 light Chicken salad's a day with Bragg's low salt dressing cut further with Vineyar. My last big job was a lot of stress though and I just couldn't do 12 hours a day, 6 days a week! And with that even on the diet i stopped losing weight again even with walking every morning. So I recently had the Flu, and hadn't been that hungry, so for the last week I have switched to basically eating a single meal a day, though with some snacking around then, maybe a 2-3 hour eating period, and I lost 2 pounds. The next day the same, and a pound and a half yesterday. And I have still been eating a salad for dinner, though also some dessert and some crackers, but not much more than I would have eaten at just dinner.  I am going to see if I can keep this up for a little while at least. I guess it is called the Warriors diet and is essentially a 4 hour window to eat in versus 8 on the 8 hour, though most people eat the same calories as they would if they were eating 2-3 meals and I am eating quite a bit less. No matter what it is supposed to lose fat, even with same colories, though not necessarily weight. Supposed to watch Cholesterol though, but that is for eating all your cholesterol at one meal, and I am eating so much less. Anyway, we shall see as I trying this. Probably gain a lot back if I cheat over the weekend though.

Yes Final Cut Pro 7 runs in OS X 10.9 Mavericks

Yes I upgraded to Mavericks and ran Final Cut Pro 7 last night, and yes it runs and plays back. Haven't done extensive testing, but it does seem to work. And it has to have been on purpose as even After Effects CC had an update to make it work right in Mavericks, but Final Cut Pro 7 without an update still seems to work.

Apple has released New iPad’s

Apple has updated it's iPad to the iPad air and the iPad Mini to Retina display, keeping the prices and adding 128GB models for both. No fingerprint identifcation, but both look amazing, especially the Air weighing only 1 LB! That is .4 of a pound lighter than my iPad 3, which is admittedly too heavy! I would so love an AIR!

Apple to release new Mac Pro in December

Apple has finally given more info on the MacPro and it will be released sometime in December. Still no word on customization prices, but the Quad-Core starts at $2999 and the Hexa Core starts at $3999 and can go up to a 12 core. And we have seen that the Graphics cards are either Dual AMD FirePro D300's with 3GB of VRAM, dual AMD D500 with 3GB of VRAM or Dual AMD D700 with 65GB of VRAM, but no price on the D700. All include 256GB of PCIe SSD Flash Storage, but can be upgraded to 512 or 1 TB which will be necessary if you plan on installing Windows since it requires an internal install so look forward to a partition.I still want my next computer to be Mac, but I really would prefer NVIDIA Titan cards for Graphics!

OS X Mavericks is out and it’s Free!

Yes Apple has been lowering the price of it's upgrades of late, but I did not think they would go free! Awesome! Microsoft must be shaking in their britches today if they are not expected to make money from their OS Upgrades anymore!