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.
OK all, time to all take a collective breath, Google has released Google Maps for the iPhone and iPad. Download it and stop complaining about Apple Maps!
Yes I don’t like Maps too well either. Sure the 3D thing on new devices is cool, though useless. And I don’t see why older devices can’t do turn by turn. And I do hate the colors, and the traffic has been totally useless, but I just moved to alternatives. And have been really enjoying VUZE for traffic, but now Google Maps is back, so…
EDIT: ArsTechnica has a great article on it, including it’s shortcomings. The biggest that it doesn’t access your contacts from anywhere, not iOS or from Google itself, so you can’t just type someone’s name to get their address (THIS SERIOUSLY NEEDS TO BE FIXED).
And they tell you how to activate privacy, though it looks like it will then also turn off your helping with traffic.
MacOSRumors has the news on this Docking Station for a Thunbderbolt equipped Macbook Pro.
It has a Gigabit Ethernet Port, Two USB 2 ports, AUdio in and out jacks, and either HDMI or DVI port (depending on the model).
A very cool idea for around $250.
Some new scripts up at AE Scripts.
BAO Distortion Selector, to control the zone corrected by distortion for $49.99.
OBJ Vertex Export for $14.99.
2 – Sided Layer for $9.99 (Something I could use very very often!)
Adobe has released updates to Photoshop and Illustrator for those with HiDPI and Retina displays, such as the new MacPro Laptops. The Adobe Illustrator Blog has more on the Illustrator update.
And the Mac Performance Guide says that the new Photoshop is 13% faster than the previous version! Nice!
Great news for those with Retina displays, but I likely won’t be one of those for a long time. I still use my MacPro and am hoping for a new one and a large Retina display, say 24 inch would just be too expensive for a very very long time. Still great to see Adobe keeping up though (and this will be awesome for Premiere Pro once it is updated for those with the 15″ Retina MacBook Pro).
EDIT: And it now goes till 10 AM Pacific this Wednesday 12-12-12, so you have a couple of more hours.
CNET has an article on the 7 features Apple dropped from iTunes 11. These are Cover Flow (which I don’t miss), de-duper (now you need to use 3rd party applications, the excellent iTunes DJ for creating easy continuous mixes, Gapless Playback Editor (works for old Gapless albums, but not new ones, so all my new live stuff will have gaps), Multiple Windows (as you can tell from my previous post my other biggest piss off), the other Sidebar (which was just a link to the store and I will not miss) and quick volume control in the mini player.
I hate when Apple upgrades and removes features! It is the dumbing of the Mac and I don’t like it!
And honestly so far I haven’t been so impressed by the much vaunted speed of iTunes 11. Maybe my library is too big, but scrolling still does not seem that fast to me.