Adobe CS6 is shipping, Creative Cloud coming soon!

It seems Adobe is officially shipping CS6 and they have trial versions available. And in a move that will piss off retailers the upgrades are only available from Adobe themselves. So no deals from other places like the awesome videoguys.People waiting for Creative Cloud will have to wait till May 11th.Creative Cloud will certainly be more expensive over time, though additional tools and access to early versions of new technology I think will eventually make it worthwhile.

Richard Keates on why he dropped FCP X

Richard Keates has a good article on why he dropped FCP X after trying to use it to cut corporate video, and why Premiere Pro is the solution for what he needs to do (graphics heavy productions).Unfortunately I see many places moving back to Media Composer which I do find inferior for graphics work and hope that Premiere CS6 can make some inroads. I just wish that Apple would re-commit to the MacPro and push to get powerful CUDA Nvidia cards across their line to allow people who are unhappy with FCP X to use the products they want to and stay with Mac!

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.

Edit Geek on Color Correction in AVID Symphony

Edit Geek has an excellent video on Color Correction in AVID Symphony, which is going to useful to a lot of people with the new $1000 AVID crossgrade offer (wish I had waited!). Worth checking out for all those only familiar with Media Composer.

Scott Simmons at PVC on Premiere Pro 6

Scott Simmons has a must read on real world using Premiere Pro 6 over at the Pro Video Coalition. He goes into what he likes and dislikes so far when using Premiere Pro 6. It does sound vastly improved, though hopefully Adobe will keep listening and this program will just get better and better.

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.