Troy Kirwin’s awesome Twitter thread on Avatar the Way of Water Behind the Scenes

I loved Avatar and I loved Avatar: The Way Of The Water, especially the 3D in HFR for the new film, and this thread has an awesome look into the behind the scenes, since there is no longer a CINEFEX magazine to cover it.

9to5Mac says the iPad Pro doesn’t need a major revamp, but better software

Filipe Esposito at 9 to 5 Mac wrote this article and I couldn’t agree more.

There is some pro-ish software, with the recently released DaVinci Resolve being the most powerful software on the iPad.

Apple needs to make the software more powerful, because the hardware is already as powerful as it needs to be.

9to5Mac on the Mac Pro being dead on arrival

Honestly I was thinking about writing a post like this article, but Ben Lovejoy at 9to5Mac has beat me too it.

The recent pate of articles from Gurman and their bad news on the Mac Pro has really had me thinking. No Quad Apple Silicon means no performance boost over the Studio. No memory upgrades makes sense, but no external graphics card, means a decided lack of expansion, and a need to spend more upfront, without the possibility of later upgrades.

As for PCI Expansion, sure a video i/o card from black magic would be cheaper than external, and you could put in a fast ssd pci card, but those are damn expensive. Maybe an Apple Accelerator, but like the one in the current, you know it would be quickly added to the next chips, so why bother.

And having more options for storage, I would love that. I so miss my 4 internal slots for spinning hard drives, but more likely I see room for more proprietary Apple SSDs, which would be too expensive and likely not user upgrade-able.

The one thing no articles I have seen talk about would be more Thunderbolt ports, which would be great. I already use two Thunderbolt 4 Hubs, and still lack for ports, but is that and better cooling and maybe room for a second hard drive worth thousands more?

The answer is no. There needs to be a realistic reason for a Mac Pro to exist.

So maybe Apple waits till the M3, when they can do a quad chip design and really do an insane machine, and they go for an iMac Pro right now. I would be dissapointed, but not surprised. Mainly disappointment because I would love to move to 32 inch monitors for my next machine.

Adobe Support Community is blowing up over Premiere Pro’s New Export Screen

And I am one who agrees that is is not an improvement, but I am not much of a fan of the import page either.

The discussion at Adobe Support Community thread THE NEW EXPORT SCREEN IS CLUMSY, BULKY, AND REQUIRES MORE CLICKING [EXPORT] at this point has 27 pages of comments.

Much of the discussion is way too filled with vitriol, and too many talking about DaVinci Resolve, but there are still some very salient points of the export page.

The lack of customization, which in the edit page is what makes Premier so much more powerful than DaVinci Resolve or FCP, as every editor does things their own way, if awful. And everything is so big.

I will never use the whole first section, destinations, because videos should be checked before upload, so I should be able to hide it!

The settings are set with so many twirl downs, needing more clicks.

Then once you open you need to click more to see most of the settings, and then everything is so big you have to scroll to see more.

And the Preview Window, which is way too big and can’t be hidden. I don’t need to see the preview ever, and while I like seeing the timeline it needs to be smaller.

It is honestly a mess, and the old one was so much more customizable.

And since the latest version doesn’t remember your previous settings, like Match Sequence Settings, there are just more clicks needed.

The biggest problem with the thread is all the vitriol just makes Adobe shutdown and not care. And it doesn’t help that they put so much head to the beta test period, which not only was not very long, but is something that can be hard to do if you are in production.