Bart at Creative Impatience has the news that Adobe Anywhere is an Enterprise Only solution! It takes not one, but 4 servers to run! YOUCH!!!! And that works for 6-8 editors! And it requires 25-50 Mbps connection!I was very excited about this, but not anymore. This is way too high end. They need to do at least iChat Theater so you can edit remotely with Premiere Pro like you could with FInal Cut Pro 7!
Richard Harrington over at Creative Cow has posted 2 free Adobe Premiere Pro Plugins.A simple mask with rectangular or elliptical masks.Anda a Vignette plug in.Both are from Creative Impatience. They also have a Feathered Crop and a Power Window plug in available.Free is always good.
Olivia Tech has a video on the MoVi from NAB.Man this is an impressive rig! And it can fit up to an Epic with a prime lens, up to 10 pounds.
This is not new news, but it is pretty exciting for Creative Cloud users, as the previously $100 a year service is now free to Creative Cloud Users.Login and go to the Apps page on creative.adobe.comFind the ProSite icon under “Other Services” and click on the “Get Started” linkYou’ll be brought to the ProSite welcome page on Behance, where you can either log in or sign up for Behance to build your portfolio and launch your ProSite when you’re ready.Pretty cool as part of the service. I will be checking it out soon for sure.
Adobe has posted a blog about the "significantly improved Mercury Playback Engine" in Premiere Pro Creative Cloud. It claims that the 64 Bit Architechture, the massively multi-threaded CPU optimization allow you to work without a great GPU, but with one is where things really shine, as we all know. And I love that you can enable a not officially supported card within the program without searching out the card name and modifying files. You can also use multiple GPU's for export though not for playback.
Oliver Peters over at digitalfilms has a great overview of Smoke 2013.
Learn mocha AE - Motion Tracking Webinar Recorded April 24, 2013 from Imagineer Systems on Vimeo.Mastering motion tracking for Adobe After Effects with mocha AE. mocha AE is a planar tracking and roto utility bundled with After Effects CS6. In this 1.5 hour webinar, Dr. Mathias Möhl of mamoworld.com teaches the basics of understanding mocha's powerful tracking technology. For more information, please visit www.mocha-Pro.comImagineer Systems has posted a new almost hour and a half video on learning Mocha AE. This program has a steep learning curve, but it's planar tracking is so good that it is really worth learning. Especially because it can track things that lose parts of them out of frame and still get a good lock.And you can get several higher end versions of the program as well.
Cinescopophilia has an article on the Relentless Handheld Stabilized Ssytem, which is only $1800 vs $15,000 for the MoVi. This is for smaller cameras like the Blackmagic Pocket Camera or DSLR's, and is not as functional as the MoVI, but works with a helicopter very well.
Clint Milby at the Pro Video Coalition has an article on the sub $1000 Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera.I would love one, though since I have all Canon EF and EF-S lenses this camera is pretty useless to me even at under $1000. I would do better with the 4K or normal Blackmagic camera.
So I got another e-mail from someone who is having heart surgery soon, and my blog seems to have helped them over the scary part. Awesome. That is why I posted my blog, as I wanted to help out anyone else going through the surgery. Honestly I had a headache for about 2 months leading up to the surgery just worrying about it, so I wanted to document my experiences not only just post surgery, but of my whole recovery.And here I am 11 months later. And I am doing great. Did my 2.1 mile walk this morning in 36 minutes and 24 seconds, down from about 45, and follow that with situps, hand weights and a little kettle bell. Am also taking the subway to work (at least part of the way, if only the subway went further and had more parking) while carrying 3 heavy bags, and do as many stairs and another decent walk along with it every day, and am getting almost 10,000 steps every day (got 66,740 last week, and 105 flights of stairs and 29.53 miles), and also mowed the lawn in there and did edging, which I figure doesn't get as many steps, but is better exercise.And with the 8 hour diet and eating a lot of salads I am trending down in weight, having gone down 19 pounds since my peek after the surgery (lost weight during the surgery, but quickly went higher afterwards without much exercise for 4 months). In fact I have hit 239.7 as of this morning, which is the lowest I have been yet! WOOHOO BROKE THE 240 MARK!!! AWESOME!!!!Now I just need to get my cholesterol and uric acid levels down (don't want gout, which runs in the family).Sure there is some bad. Some days my chest and the scar hurt, but carrying 3 big bags over it doesn't help much I am sure. And I seem to have a worse gag reflex post surgery, which makes brushing my teeth for 2 minutes harder (seem to have to do it in 2 1 minute sessions, instead of 1 2 minute), and I wonder if that was from being intubated. And my legs are sore from all the exercise, and my bad knee has been acting up (though the jogging seems to have cause that, so for now no more jogging).