FXGuide has the news on this awesome new video card. 2880 CUDA cores and 12 GB of memory! A workstation class card if there ever was one. Way too expensive for normal use though! AnandTech has some great comparisons on this new wondercard.Until I have a really big company to afford something like this I would still like a GTX TITAN.
The awesome ZBRUSH digital sculpting program has been updated to 4R6, and Renderosity has the news.
Adobe has released the Output Module for Adobe Bridge CC.
Planet 5D has the good news on the MoVi 10 shipping on August 15th, and the MoVi 5 priced at $4999!
Planet 5D has the news on this one, where you can now give the Canon Eos 5D Mark 3 14 Stops of Dynamic Range. Pretty damn impressive!
Chris Zwar at the Pro Video Coalition has 2 posts on 13 plug in you may have forgotten about in Adobe After Effects.Part 1 is here.Part 2 is here.
Apple has updated it's pro audio app Logic Pro to Logic Pro X and lowered the price to only $199. I am not an Audio so I can't speak to if they pulled a Final Cut Pro X and nuetered their pro software with a crappy new interface, but at least one review from The Loop doesn't seem to think so.
Dave Torno at the Pro Video Coalition has released more of his After Effects Training.13 is on his ExtendScript Development Utitlity14 is on Processing Text Strings15 is on Keyframes
Now I sweat by Extensis Suitcase Fusion as a great font management tool and love it's auto font activation (though I do wish they would make a plug in for After Effects), but right now Extensis Suitcase Fusion 5's autoactivation plug in is crashing Photoshop CC so it won't launch.Here is my crash log which I am posting for Extensis to see, and hopefully fix the issue.
Arstechnica is reporting that Acer one of the leaders in Thunderbolt is dropping it for at least the next year. The entire new MacPro is dependent on Thunderbolt to act as it's expansion, since it has no user addable PCI slots. So you must use expensive Thunderbolt expansion to add accessories to your new Cylinder MacPro. The thing is that so far Thunderbolt support is pretty underwelming. There are some good raid enclosures, but almost nothing for just hard drive housings for your old drives, and everything else is very expensive. In fact there are very few PC motherboards with Thunderbolt, and none with support for Dual Xeons, so it is very very niche!Everyone is betting on USB 3, which is almost as fast (and plans on getting even faster, and has backwards compatibility), which every PC has, and yes the MacPro has a few ports, but not enough.And Thunderbolt is not really a PCI replacement. It is fast, but not nearly as fast as PCI, so you can't say put an external NVIDIA video card for CUDA support. It would just be too slow.And without PC support it will always be a very Niche product.Makes me think if I want to stay with Mac I will have to do a Hackintosh, which are notoriously unstable, but could at least run windows easily, and have everything I want internally instead of in a spiderweb of external expensive thunderbolt peripherals!I don't want to have to move fully to windows, but even now I am running bootcamp. And Windows 8 boots faster on my Mac than Mac OS X, and I can build a PC with almost all the expansion I want within a single case with a single power cord. I mean I already have such a serious snake of power cable is am surprised it doesn't trip the fuse more often!