Red Giant Software has made significant price drops on their software, of up to 50%. You can now get the entire suite for $899 down from $1740.And check out these prices on individual software.Knoll Light Factory 3 - Now $199 (Was $399)ToonIt 2 - Now $199 (Was $399Text Anarchy 2 - Now $99 (Was $199)Planespace - Now $99 (Was $199)Warp - Now $99 (Was $199)Great deals.I love there software and have been using it for many years.
Amazon has added an autorip feature for music you purchase from them via CD, where they automatically rip many of your purchased CD's to the Cloud. This is especially helpful to me as I RIP my CD's to apple losseless, which are incompatible with upload (they can match on Amazon, though not on Google's new music, but I still find many albums miss being matched on both services). And it doesn't cost anymore, and it will automatically happen if their is an AutoRIP logo on the album. Very cool. Good job Amazon!And amazingly this applies to all CD's purchased after 1998, though it doesn't seem to do whole albums all the time (I have a few tracks from may different albums), but it is still very cool, and certainly help me with my Apple lossless problem!Now if only they had a solution for me having each iTunes playlist show up 9 times! Youch! That is not helpful at all!
The Provideo Coalition has the news. With 126 Bug fixes, and a slew of new features including some great new selection tools within the timeline!
Cinema 5D has the announcement which was made at reduser.net and leaves all Scarlet users out in the cold. 20 Stops in unbelievable, especially considering the market leader, the ALEXA has (only) 14 stops! Now if this is true, it will be phenomenal. 20 Stops and 6K!What will not be so phenomenal is that the Scarlet X will no longer be able to use the dragon as it will no longer be able to be used in the Scarlet, which was previously announced. So I bet they will have some upgrade path to epic for disgruntled scarlet owners.
IGN has the news here, on this new 70 inch display, which has 4x 1080P resolution, passive 3D and a 2mm bezel. Probably not look great on 1080 data though!
CNET has the news, that the awesome Parrot quadcopter, the Parrot AR Drone which is controlled from your iPhone or iPad is getting a new GPS add on which goes into the GPS port (and includes 4GB for memeory) can then use GPS maps to program it's moves.They are also adding a new battery that will last 50% longer, and are updating their app with new commands and ways to improve the video including lens correction and image stabilization!
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.