The Canon EOS 5D Mark III has gotten a firmware update to 1.21, FX Guide has the news.
This is exciting as it enables uncompressed HDMI output! So you get uncompressed 4:2:2 8 bit video to an external recorder! And with it’s anti-aliasing this becomes a powerful video camera! Still not the EOS-1D C, but still pretty amazing.
Michael Kammes on AVID Media Composer 7 and what it means for you.
His thoughts do seem to jive with mine, that this version is somewhat disappointing. Yes you don’t often need to finish above HD, but it would be great to be able to, especially for future proofing (and how often do you see a new version of Media Composer being used in an edit bay, places tend to stick with a version for a long time), and especially when Final Cut Pro 7 could do it so long ago. I guess they want you to buy DS to finish with true resolution independence.
LUT support is great, and it is good that it is finally included.
And instead of background rendering we get watch folders? Useful, but not all that useful!
Wacom has released the touch sensitive Cintiq 24 HD Touch, which is only not awesome in that it costs $3699!
I so want one. I do hope the rumors of a Wacom tablet that can be used as a Cintiq come to fruition, because I will use that instead of my iPad for many things.
11 months and been meaning to give a surgery update for a little while now. Am doing very well in some ways, and not so good in others.
If you have been reading I started to try and jog for part of my morning walk, and that was going very well for about a week, then things started to go badly. I already have a bad knee, from when I was hit by a car when I was 7, and it went very bad again, to the point of me wearing a brace again, which I have tried not to do for years (as it seems to make it worse over time). And now my left hip (opposite of my knee) has been killing me for a week, even making it hard to sleep (having a knee on one side and a hip on the other does not help at all). I think I just pushed it too hard too fast.
I am still walking though, followed by sit-ups some hand weights and a kettle bell (just about 15 minutes worth) and then taking the subway to work. And I am sure that is part of the problem. The stairs are great exercise, but I carry 3 big bags, backpack with lunch, big bag with 2 large water bottles, and my briefcase with ipad and kindle and pens and stuff. So a lot of stuff. Plus all that and the lurching of the train means I could have pulled something.
And it is likely the bags over my scar that have made it a bit sore of late. And it is still pretty pink, so can’t see sunlight as of yet. And yes it is sensitive but the multiple bags really can’t be helping. Still using a pillow in the car to keep it from being rubbed.
And this will likely continue for the next 3 months, as I will be working in the same building, and pulling 12+ hour days and 5+ days a week, which means I will be really really tired soon! Wish I could get a break before this next big job starts, but it seems unlikely that will happen now, even though I could really use the break.
Overall am doing well though. Walking is not so hard (other than the other problems), but I am still getting pretty tired going up the big hill, though I no longer stop (unless it is to see the voles or ground squirrels that litter the Veterans center lawn).
Am at my lowest weight yet since my high, which is 241.9 after getting up to 258.5.
Doctor said cholesterol is high, and so is uric acid, so could have gout. Am eating salads every day for lunch and dinner, though am not good on weekends, but hopefully it will go down without further meds, as it would suck to be weaning off heart meds only to go on cholesterol meds. And am trying cherry supplements to try and lower uric acid so I don’t get gout like my father and grandfather.
Are there any recessive genes I did not get?
Maximum PC is reporting that NVIDIA is going to produce a whole line of TITAN cards.
There will be a higher end Titan Ultra:
This SKU will reportedly utilize all of the GK110’s 15 SMX clusters, giving it an edge over the regular Titan which has one cluster disabled with a total of 2,688 CUDA cores and 240 TMUs. As as result, the Titan Ultra will boast the full quota of 2880 shader cores and 256 texture units. Further, as opposed to the original’s 837 MHz clock speed and 206-Watt power appetite, the Ultra will have a 950 MHz clock speed and a 225W TDP
And a TITAN LE:
it will reportedly have 2496 CUDA cores, 208 TMUs, 40 ROPs, 320-bit DDR memory interface, 5 GB of GDDR5 and a 180-190W TDP
I would totally love an ULTRA TItan, as that is just a sick amount of CUDA.
Ronen Bekrman has a tutorial on doing realistic 3D cloth. Pretty fantastic stuff!
