DIY photography has the news. Better news for Windows Users (as CS2 won’t even run on Mountain Lion on Mac). Now they need some basic free web versions of things like Photoshop to draw normal people in, and if you could log in and use better versions if you had the CS6 suite… One can dream.
Engadget has this announcement from LG at their CES press conference (and yes they are still making Plasma TV’s as well). This should make for brighter and better TV’s!
DIY Photography has instructions on how to make this smooth portable video dolly.
Bare Feats has run the tests, and the 2012 iMac 27″ 3.4GHz Core iMac with 32GB of RAM and the GeForce GTX 680MX GPU actually does beat the MacPro in Resolve and Premiere Pro, but that is a MacPro with the Radeon HD 5870 GPU. Not really a fair test unless you have an NVIDIA CUDA card in the MacPro. As the MacPro still beats the iMac in 2 out of 3 CPU tests.
I have a feeling my non Mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 4096 MB would slaughter the iMac in anything CUDA aware, which would be Premiere Pro, After Effects or DaVinci Resolve.
Petapixel has an article and video that show the moire issues. Looks like the 6D is great for stills, but not so great for video, especially as an alternative to the 5D Mark III.
My 60D and the 7D already have the moire issue, so it still would be an improvement over them, but it sucks that they didn’t put the downsampling of the 5D Mark III, and instead went back to the cheaper and easier Line skipping which causes the issue to begin with.
MacGasm is currently selling my favorite productivity app LaunchBar for 25% off, only $26.
LaunchBar is a powerful keyboard based launcher program from Objective Development, that speeds up every aspect of using your computer.
A description from ObDev:
LaunchBar is a smart and powerful, keyboard driven productivity utility that lets you access and control every aspect of your digital life. Whatever you want to get done on your Mac – with LaunchBar it’s only a few keystrokes away.Get instant access to applications, documents, contacts, calendars, bookmarks, media libraries, search engines and so much more – just by typing short abbreviations.It’s a file manager, a web and desktop search tool, an app launcher, a clipboard manager, a jukebox, a calculator, an information browser, … or quite simply a tremendous time saver!
Here is a review from MacLife, Part 1 of a Macworld Article, and part 2 of said article on increasing your productivity with LaunchBar, and a MacWorld on the awesome program from 2005.
This is a must have program for any power user who spends a lot of time on their computer, so a discount is a great thing! Check it out!
Gavin Gear at the Extreme Windows Blog, has an awesome post on how he got a 4K display running on Windows 8 and tried it out for editing with Premiere Pro CS 6 on Windows 8.
Awesome. If only a Mac could even run 3 displays, nonetheless a 4K display!
Filmmaker IQ links to an article at Popular Mechanics on how Peter Jackson shot the Hobbit and shot both small Hobbits and large humans at the same time. Couldn’t do the forced perspective trickery because of the 3D, so had to have a normal and a green screen set next to each other with motion control rigs connected to each other. WOW! That is pretty darn amazing!
Autodesk has released the full version of Smoke 2013 and you can download a free trial. It is $3495 per user license.
Damn, I wish I had played more with the earlier beta to get used to it, as I would really like to get proficient as the node based graphics tools (like the earlier Shake) are so powerful.
I still wish it was $1000, so it was more affordable to a normal user like me, but still it has dropped a great amount and looks to be a powerful editing and graphics tool.
Today only Toolfarm is having a 25% off sale on all VideoCopilot Software. I can’t recommend anything more highly than Element 3D, and their lens flares plug in is awesome too.