Surgery Update, 13 weeks and sore as can be!

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!

New Samyang Cinema Lenses for DSLRs

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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!

Lightwave has announved Lightwave 11.5

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!

Red Dragon Sensor ‘Single most significant sensor in the history of image capture’

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Engadget has an update on the new Red Dragon 6K image sensor. Jim Jannard claims it has less noise at ISO 2000 than the previous sensor has at 800 (it's standard setting) and offeres 15+ stops and 120FPS at 5K. It will be $6000 for Red Epic customers and they haven't said how much it will be for the Scarlet X.Of course you usually take what Jannard says with a grain of salt, though I don't doubt it will be an impressive sensor!

Sony PMW-F3/RGB

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The ProVideoCoalition has an article on the newly updated Sony PMW-F3/RGB, which add 10 bit 4:4:4 RGB output and 10 Bit S-Log Gamma which previously were add on options as standard equipment.Hats off to Sony for making an already great camera better!

Problem with Canon EF 40mm f2.8

Canonrumors is reporting on a problem with the Canon EF 40mm f2.8If pressure is applied to the lens barrel while the lens is mounted to the camera (pressure can be applied even while attaching the lens cap or while carrying the camera with the lens attached in a bag), the autofocusing function of the lens may stop working.It seems they will have a firmware update for the camera in August to fix the problem, but for now just remove the lens and put it back on.

Some more cool After Effects Scripts

Some more really cool looking scripts from AEScripts and the Pro Video Coalition.Layer Repeater to easily offset layers in space and time suggested $19.99 but name your own price.Masks and Shapes gives you more control over creating shapes and masks and can save them out as a text file, suggested $9.99 but name your own price.Projection, makes it easy to camera map onto 3D planes in After Effects with 3D Camera Tracker, Syntheyes, Boujou or PF Track. $24.99 down from $49.99.Illumination adds a new dimension of lighting control, and adds the softbox. $19.99 down from $39.99Pixel Cloud, a compositing tool to relight a 3D generated image or displace the pixels in 3D space, $89.99 down from $129.99.Paste Multiple Keyframes, lets you copy and paste keyframes from multiple layers at the same time, suggest $9.99, but name your own price.Auto Lip-Sync, create a mouth that automatically animates according to your voice recording. $39.99Null Swapper swaps null layers for light layers for Trapcode Particular and Plexus, and this one is free.

Some quick likes and dislikes of editing a recent project with Premiere Pro CS6

Over the last 2 days I cut a short film on Premiere Pro CS6. It was shot on a Canon 5D and I had no time to convert the footage, so I figured Premiere Pro was the way to go because I wouldn't need to re-compress the footage.I used Plural Eyes to sync the footage to the external microphone, and it worked, though took some finessing, and some manual syncing and I would say it got about 75% of it.Then I started cutting and had all the crash issues from my earlier post on the NVIDIA GTX 285, but was able to switch to my NVIDIA QUADRO FX 48000 and mostly cleared up the issues. No more serious Error messages, and no more screen going black. Still some random crashes, but nothing too bad, that a quick restart wouldn't get running again.I was running the footage out of premiere pro through my DV deck to an external NTSC monitor, and it looked great.Now I edit in Apple Final Cut Pro 7 and AVID Media Composer, but have always preferred some things of Final Cut Pro. And there are some things about Premiere Pro that I like and some I don't.I don't like how you can only set a duration for your default transition in Premiere Pro, and you can't set up a favorites bin of effects either per project or within the system. I would always make a bin of favorites in Final Cut Pro with various lengths, and was quickly able to apply any transition I wanted.I also don't like how on a clip in the timeline that is not butted up to another clip, all transitions start at it's cut and can't be put center on the cut or ending at the cut. You have to extend the clip to make the transition go further than the cut. Now it is pretty easy if you select the cut first as you can just hit E to extend the clip to the playhead, even if a transition is already on it. And I have set command-D to apply the default transition, so I can easily extend clips and apply the default transition with one hand (awesome), but I still want a bin of my favorite effects, and if not in the effects browser, let me do them in the project like I can do with AVID.The integration with Adobe After Effects is a thing of beauty. Just being able to make changes so quickly is totally awesome. Once you have either imported a After Effects Sequence or sent files to one from Premiere, you just save changes in AE and they show up in Premiere, and you render in Premiere. AWESOME! This makes Premiere the best program for graphics intensive stuff bar none. I think Premiere Pro should become the premiere program for Direct Response because of this alone!When Snapping is turned on, why does the cut tool not snap to the playhead. Now it seems to still cut…