Nice updates all. Speed bump, RAM bump, nice Nvidea card, and the very elegant new track pad. For about a year and a half, my main box has been a MacBook Pro with a 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo and 2 GB or RAM. When the Intel-based MacBook Pros were first [...]
Cringley’s always a good read, often a good chuckle. Today he posits Apple will buy Adobe. Great headline, but not likely. Cringley likes to write about Steve and Bill, and his other schoolyard chums, but those guys still have to answer to their boards. And why would Apple’s board want Adobe?
Adobe’s stock has [...]
Often it’s hard to get fired up about the younger sibling versions professional content creation tools. I’ve been on a multi-year tear ripping Avid’s Xpress Pro for being a needlessly and excessively hobbled version of Media Composer. So when Apple announced Final Cut Express 4, I yawned. Having been on Final Cut Studio 2 for [...]
Last week’s Economist included a special section on innovation. Innovation’s one of those soft concepts like creativity that everyone favors, but has trouble defining. Ask people to list some innovative companies, and a lot of lists include Apple. It’s a well-deserved reputation earned through the Mac OS, the iPod, the iTunes [...]
Previous testing of the ProRes codec comparing it the Avid DNxHD codec yielded some unexpected results when Adobe After Effects was used to generate test media. While the Avid codec made the round trip from Media Composer 2.7 to After Effects and back without issue, the ProRes codec showed what appears to be an YUV [...]
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