Dan Frakes on Launchbar

Dan Frakes at Macworld has 2 excellent videos on my favorite launcher LAUNCHBAR. from Objective Development.

The first page is here and the second with more advanced features is here, but I have embedded them below.

I know this isn’t my usual fare, but I have become so reliant on Launchbar that I hate working on other people’s computers (which is an issue for an editor) as I use it literally all the time. It is the best time saving program out there. I don’t know how people get by without it! And these videos taught me some things I did not know, so they are worth checking out.
Launchbar 5 is $35, or $59 for a Family License.

Problems with blog

Currently only my oldest 2000 entries are up. It seems I can only upload 50 entries a day, so in a week or so the site should be all up and back to how it used to be. The only difference now being that I can have labels, but not tags.

Still the change should be worth it as I can now make changes and new entries while I am on the go, which I can already do on my other two blogs (since they are wordpress blogs hosted on my server), but this way I can just easily do it at blogger.

Hopefully will be done in another week, as I had other problems (category syncing errors kept me from syncing this weekend).

Biscardi on editing for now

Walter Biscardi has a good post on editing for now, and or now that is AVID. And Premiere CS6 will be or some things as it is getting better, and Smoke will be tested and he is giving the ideas for their next version, both will possibly be implemented for him in 2013. For me it looks like AVID will be part of it, but I am hoping that CS6 is really a good replacement for Final Cut Pro 7.

Why not so many updates of late

I have a genetic heart condition called Hyper Trophic Cardio Myopathy and it has gotten worse. So I am looking at surgery in the near future and since finding out I have had the worst headache, even after a trip to the chiropractor.

I will keep updating, but this has kept things slow for the time being. Just a little too much on my mind of late, and working a lot as well.

Still will continue with as many updates as I can do.

Adobe Creative Suite CS6 is annouced

Adobe has announced the released of CS6, which will be officially out within in 30 days. You can still buy outright, but it does seem that cloud makes more sense.

The prices can be seen on the product comparison page. Even the Master collection, which is a $549 upgrade or $2599 full seems a better deal in the cloud, as a $30 a month initial deal with a year subscription makes it much cheaper, and you already know you will get a new version every year.

Adobe allows Pre-Order of Creative Cloud

You can now officially pre-order Adobe Creative cloud. It is $70 month by month or $50 a year, and will supposedly have a $30 a month special offer for people who own a creative suite, production bundle or the Master Collection, though that part of the site doesn’t quite work as of yet. And it will be out within a month, though will continue to evolve over it’s life and has additions that even the Master Collection doesn’t have live Device and PC Sync, Cloud Storage, Business Catalyst, Typekit, Story plus, Adobe Muse and Adobe Edge.

That and the ability to get Beta version of their software when new features will be released, and have access to every app (though Lightroom will take longer to join the cloud for some strange reason)makes this the way to go for Creative Suite users.

You can see their product comparison to see what comes in which version of the suite.