iPad Mini in person

I have now been in Apple stores twice and checked out the iPad mini and must say it is just about perfect. The perfect size and weight. My iPad 3 gets heavy to hold, and I think the iPad mini would be just right to hold for extended periods of time. it is so light and feels pretty well constructed.

I still think the price is way too high though. $250 would be a perfect starting place, and even $299 would just deel better than the extra $30.

Had Adobe CS6 Creative Cloud Licensing Issues All Weekend

Took until just as I was going to bed last night to get it working correctly.

Basically when I opened any program in the Creative Cloud Suite it told me my Trial Version had expired and that I had to either license the software or quit. It would show my correct e-mail address, but then ask me for a serial number (which I don’t have since I am using creative cloud). And not let me use the software without it.

Finally I tried telling it I was not myself, and re-entered my e-mail address and password, and then it logged in and re-licensed the creative suite.

Scary bug, especially since I lost use of the suite for a weekend. Now maybe I could have got on tech support and got it figured out sooner, but I hate talking to Adobe’s tech support in India, as I feel that unless I get it promoted to someone in the states that I am never going to get the problem solved.

HD Magazine has an overview of the Smoke 2013 Preview

HD Magazine calls it a review, but really it is more of a quick overview of where the product is at this point in the preview release.

I have played with the preview a bit (at least the first one), though had issues with importing an old FCP 7 sequence (everything was strangely scaled and I couldn’t figure out how to fix it) so gave up, though was hoping to have time to come back.

Nice to know it is still not the fastest editor, and I didn’t realize it doesn’t have a trim mode. Still it is pretty exciting with it’s node based effects editor, so if they make the editor more fully featured I think it could have a place (especially with FCP 7 Being EOL).

FX Factory Updated to 4.0 now with Premiere CS6 Support

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Noise Industries has upgraded the FxFactory to 4.0 and added Premiere Pro CS 6 Support. I have a ton of their compatible and free plug ins, but don’t actually own this suite (always thought it was a tad expensive), but this gives me one more reason, as I have moved from any version of Final Cut and now prefer Premiere Pro (though I of course still have Media Composer which works with very few plug ins).

Arstechnica on newly upgraded Modbooks

Arstechnica has info on new Modbooks, converted 13″ Macbookpro’s that have a touchscreen display, a wacom pen and no keyboard, and those who ordered are getting a bigger SSD more memory and a twice as sensitive pen, than originally was offered.

I so would love one of these. Don’t get me wrong, I love my ipad, but I would love to be able to do real work on it. Just think how awesome this would be for Photoshop!

You can check out ModBook’s at their web site. Started at $3495, this is really an amazing product, and a great alternative to a WACOM Cintiq (though not admittedly more expensive).

AVID update Available

Go to AVID’s download’s page for 6.5.0.1 of Media Composer, Symphony and 10.5.0.1 of Newscutter.

New features include:

  • XDCAM and XCAM EX Support
  • FrameChase Editing with Sony XDCam Station (XDS Series)
  • No longer have to uninstall the P2 or XDCAM before performing a legacy P2 or XDCAM import