Apple has announced the iPhone 5 coming out next week

And they didn't name it the next iPhone, which is even better. It has a powerful quad core A6 processor and a taller screen, which allows one more row of icons, or bigger 1135 by 640 16x9 apps, which is great for watching movies and old apps show up as letterboxed instead of stretched. It has a better 8 Megapizel camera, and it's towards you camera is now 720p for facetime. It has a new connector called Lightning that should be faster and is much smaller, but will require all new accessories or adapter cables.Nothing revolutionary, but certainly very cool. I would love to replace my iPhone 4 with one, but it is not going to happen. Too broke after surgery and possible not having work for a while. It is $199, $299 or $499 for 16, 32 or 64 GB versions.

Stock Footage Pond 5 Plug In for Premiere Pro

Pond 5 has released a new plug in to search for stock footage from within Premiere Pro. You can browse their library, and automatically import free watermarked clips into your project, and if you purchase the clips, you can automatically conform to replace the clips with full versions! A very cool idea!

Does anyone else think the new iTunes looks awful?

Today as Apple announced the iPhone 5, new iPod Touch and Nano and iOS release next week, they also showed off a new version of iTunes which is a complete revamp, and I am scared, very scared.As with OS X it seems to be getting dumber.It looks like you have to look via album covers, instead of a text list, which is not convenient for someone with as big of a library as I have (I can't even get an iCloud account as it won't fit). And how does that work for playlists? Is that still a list?I am not saying iTunes doesn't need help, but I want a nice list view for things, and not have to use album covers! Hell many of my playlists are random, so they don't have covers anyway!I would also like to see the music sync window for iPods, as that has been a peave of mine and needed an update, but the site says nothing about how it works.Honestly I am scared that this new version will cut down on functionality and only be for the lowest common denominator!Please apple keep list views for those of us with huge libraries.

Stu Maschwitz on needing a revolution for Production Audio Recording

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Stu over at ProLost has a great article on needing a revolution in recording production Audio, something using an iPhone to interface and that shows you when you have screwed up audio, echos or whatever and helps you fix it. And that would be amazing, because we do have so much new in video, but not in Audio!

NVIDIA announces Kepler based Quadro K5000 GPU for Mac Pro!!!! This is huge for CUDA users!

Arstechnica has the news on this HUGE announcement. The K5000 is the replacement for the QUADRO 5000 and runs at $2249. You check it out at NVIDIA as well.Built around NVIDIA's latest "Kepler" architecture, the double-wide card boasts 1536 processing cores shuffling pixels at up to 173GB/s along a 256-bit path to 4GB of GDDR5 memory. The card supports Shader Model 5.0, Open GL 3.2 on Mac OS X, and Open GL 4.3 and DirectX 11 when running Windows under BootCamp. And, it can support up to four monitors: two running at 2560x1600 over dual-link DVI ports, and two running up to 4096x2160 over DisplayPort 1.2. All that power also fits within an Energy Star-rated 122W power envelope.This has serious CUDA performance and should be awesome for Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve 9.Even more exciting for us not quite able to afford such a behometh card is that it signals some changes from Apple and Drivers. As you can actually run many Kepler cards now without much effort, since they included the drivers to deal with the NVIDIA powered MacBookPro and NVIDIA has started just writing a single driver for all cards in a series instead of different drivers. The thing is as of now you can only see 2GB of RAM on a card without doing some fiddling, which is an arbitrary addition made by Apple. The 4GB of RAM in this card looks like this will soon change for the better. And hopefully we get some Kepler GeForce cards running at full power on the mac soon. Like a GeForce GTX 680 (which matches the 1536 CUDA cores of the QUADRO) with slightly higher memory bandwidth.Any way you look at this it is good news for high end mac graphics as it looks like NVIDIA is back and here to stay.

Adobe releases webinar on Speedgrade

Adobe has released a webinar on "Speedgrade for Aspiring Colorists." It is done by editor and colorist Jeff August, and includes Lin Kayser the inventor of Speedgrade in the questions. They also have an earlier Webinar on using Speedgrade by Patrick Palmer.

Adobe announced the new colaborative editing tool Adobe Anywhere

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Adobe has announced the collaborative editing tool Adobe Anywhere. You can check the less than 4 minute video on it at Adobe TV. Basically using the new Mercury Streaming Engine, media for an edit can now be kept centrally on a server, and be edited on a local network or anywhere with a good internet connection as long as you have a good CUDA video card to work with. And as you edit you can share you sequences and the cuts instantly show up at different ends.A very exciting prospect for remote editing. In fact this could be HUGE! This way an edit house could keep media locally and still have editors working remotely. Talk about enhanced security!Still think they need an iChat theater type component, so you can show what you are viewing.

onOne announces Perfect Photo Suite 7

onOne software has announced it's new Perfect Photo Suite 7. A revamp of their already awesome photoshop and lightroom plug-ins, with new versions of Perfect B&W, Perfect Protrait 2, Perfect Layers 3, Perfect Effects 4 and Perfect Resize 7.5 Pro and older version of Perfect Mask 5 and Focal Point 2. This is an awesome company too. They gave all their 64 bit upgrades free for their users, so that has created some serious loyalty at least with me. It ships in Late October.You can read all about it at their web site.

Vincent Laforet on the BlackMagic Designs Cinema Camera

Vincent Laforet has a must read on his initial impressions of using the new Blackmagic Designs Cinema Camera. And it seems very impressive, other than the very small sensor size, the non-removable battery and not being able to format an SSD with the camera. Still sounds pretty darn good.I would like to give this camera a try especially since I have so many Canon EF lenses already.