Hand Held Hollywood has the story. Final Draft has finally released more than Reader and you can now fully edit and write screenplays on the iPad. And while other apps have done it in the past, it looks like Final Draft does it better, and has perfect compatibility with the desktop version. And has the best version of shortcuts for switching elements yet seen in a screenwriting app on the iPad.Looking forward to giving it a spin.
Richard Harrington has the article on the new updates only for Creative Cloud users. • Adobe Illustrator has three new features — available only to Creative Cloud members — that give you the ability to package files, un-embed images, and do more with the Links panel. To access these features, update Illustrator from its main menu by choosing Help > Updates. • Adobe Muse – now includes built-in support for contact forms and many other new exclusive features. • Adobe Edge Animate preview – now has resizable layouts, rulers and guides, and a more precise timeline. If you used Edge in the past, you’ll notice we’ve also updated the name.Glad they are finally doing some new features to the cloud, but I want them for Premiere, After Effects and Photoshop more, though any are of course welcome.
Check it out over at DIY photography. Looks very easy to make. Might have to build one.
Canon has announced the release of the EOS C100 Video Camera with 1920x1080 resolution on a Super 35MM sensor for $7999. Making a more affordable addition to their new cinema camera lineup. It is scheduled to ship in November.With the 4K C500 shipping for $30,000 in October, the currently shipping 2K C300 for $15999, they now have a much more reasonably priced cousin.It is 4:2:0 instead of 4:2:2, but is 15% smaller with only a an EF mount and no RAW recording, but does inclue XLR inputs which is great.Canon is also releasing 2 more EF prime mounts a 14mm t3.1 and a 125mm t2.2 ready for 4K shooting.
Walter Biscardi has released a very cool article, on his new iMac editing suite. Very cool to see all that can be done with only an iMac. It is a very powerful machine, though I still want a new MacPro!
My lovely wife Kelly was worried about how incredibly sore I am. So she called the cardiologist about it, and I had her ask if i could start taking Advil again (as I have only been allowed to take Tylenol). My Cardiologist said the soreness is completely normal, and I am allowed to take ADVIL or ibuprofens again. Just took two and am hoping it will help with the soreness soon, as my muscles ache. Just not used to driving in traffic or holding my arms up all day at a computer! Youch!Looking forward to seeing how ADVIL does on my soreness!UPDATE: My chest does feel much better after taking Ibuprofen, though now I feel how badly my back is out again. Youch, can't wait for a full adjustment this Saturday.SECOND UPDATE: Well the effects of ADVIL are nothing a little jaunt through rush hour traffic can't cure. And it is only monday. Still ADVIL is a miracle compared to Tylenol.
While I have an NVIDIA Geforce GTX 275 Mac Edition, it is very much old tech with only 240 CUDA cores for working with Premiere Pro. And it is about the fastest there is (other than a QUADRO 4000, but even that is old tech compared to current PC video card technology).One solution is MacVidCards and their Ebay Site. These guys flash GTX 5xx series videos card with Apple Firmware so that you get full functionality on a Mac, including boot screens and EFI (so if you hold down option you can select hard drives, or go into the terminal before you hit the desktop). This is a great and easy solution for most people, though it leaves out Kepler video cards, the GTX 6xx series cards that are the latest and greatest with the most CUDA cores for real time playback in Premiere Pro.As of Mountain Lion putting in a GTX 6xx series or Kepler has gotten a lot easier. This is because Mac OS X and the latest NVIDIA drivers now include drivers for the MacBook Pro 15" Retina Display which is has Geforce GT 650m, so there is now some Kepler support in OS X. This means that PC Kepler cards will run in Mountain Lion, with a couple of caveats. One is you don't get the boot screens, because the video drivers don't kick in until just before the desktop shows up. The second is that due to a setting in OS X you can only have up to 2GB of RAM in a video card, if you have more you won't get OpenCL acceleration. It is on this point that the excellent Netkas site comes in. Netkas has figured out multiple methods to make 6xx series NVIDIA cards with over 2GB of RAM work on a Mac.Yes there are bigger cards with more CUDA cores, like the GTX 680, but it requires 8 pin power, and the Mac only supplies 6 pin power, so you will have to run an external power supply to get it to work, and the GTX 690 is basically 2 video cards in one, so the mac will have trouble using the dual cards, and you won't get the benefit (except in boot camp into Windows). Basically the 670 uses 2 6 pin power adapters, so your mac can power it. I picked up an EVGA Geforce GTX670 FTW+ 4096MB GDDR5 Graphics card and installed it.There are the instructions for a GTX 670 and the instructions for the rest of the 6xxx series cards on how to get OpenCL working on a card with more than 2GB of RAM.Now I had problems getting the GTX 670 instructions to work.I started to a TechTool Pro Safety partition I have on a second drive and did the replacement and repaired permissions and OpenCL was not fixed. After much fiddling I couldn't figure it out, and having read elsewhere on the Netkas forums to also do the Hex edit, I also did the 32 and the ML Hex edit fixes, repaired permissions…
13 Weeks out tomorrow, which means I can finally go to the chiropractor soon. Also am back to work and am suffering for it. I can tell you the drive from North Hills to Downtown, Los Angeles is not pleasant right now. Not only does the surface of the wound hurt, even with a t-shirt, but the muscles are so sore from the drive that I feel maimed. I was lucky enough to be able to work from home for a couple of days, but no longer. Back to Downtown tomorrow and my soreness will only get worse from driving in the traffic.As you can see the main incision has stretched out and is a brutal red right now. Youch! And even turning funny is really not feeling good for the sore muscles right now. My back still hurts, and my chest just feels awful. The worst the muscles have felt since the surgery honestly. I didn't do anything on last Saturday because of it, but edging the lawn on Sunday certainly did help things.Lets hope it starts to feel better from constant use, as it should be fairly healed at the 3 months mark. Wish I could take some more time off, but we need the money too much (am even missing a vacation my wife and her family are going on because of the job I am on).Lets hope this starts feeling better really soon!
Cinesopophilia has info on 3 new Samyang Cine Lenses all with T Stops. T stops mean smooth aperature so it can be pulled. And these are made for Nikon and Canon DSLRs.They have a 35mm t1.5, a 24mm t1.5 and a 14mm t3.1 lens coming out.Samyang lenses sell as Vivitar, Rokinon, Wlimex, Bower and Pro-Optic lenses. The Rokinon 35mm T1.5 for Canon is at B&H for presale at $549.00. And the Rokinon 8mm t3.8 fisheye for Canon is at B&H for $349!
CreativeCow has the press release on the new release of Lightwave. It is also at NewTek from it's announcement at Siggraph 2012.It will include a new Genoma character animation and rigging system, predator and prey flocking, instancing, soft-body bullet dynamics, interchange support for After Efffects, and workflow enhancements.I wish Adobe would include as much in a free point release for owners of the previous version!