ars technica: Why the video pros are moving away from Apple.
I’m putting my apples into Premiere’s basket (and After Effects’ basket) at the moment.
John Nack on Adobe: New upgrade options for CS3 and CS4 customers.
I participated in their survey over this - I hope their subscription pricing for CS6 will be aggressive in a good way.
Vimeo: Fotoshop by Adobé.
I’m at least a day behind on this one. I love to tell photo subjects (particularly male ones, which gets a laugh) “I can make you look like Angelina Jolie, if you’d like.” This video pretty much shows why that statement is true.
NAPP: The Lightroom 4 Beta is available, and NAPP has the goods on it.
A series of videos explains what is new. Soon as I find a text list of features, I’ll add it to this post.
Later: DP Review has it in words, rather than video.
PDN: Photo Sharing Site 500px Offering Publishing Plugin for Adobe Lightroom.
Nice. Problem is, the quality level’s so high on 500px, I hesitate to post anything but stuff I’m really, really, REALLY, *REALLY* happy with. In other words, I post rarely.
InfoQ: Adobe Donating Flex to Open Source Foundation.
My immediate problem is that HTML5 animation is, currently, capable of only a mere sliver of what Flash can do. No matter how you view Flash ‘politically’ - many Picassos of visual goodness are having brushes and paints ripped away, and being handed charcoal pencils.
My guess is that creatives are going to take refuge in video, to maintain their current level of animation complexity. Interactivity will take a hit for a couple of years.
ComputerWorld: Adobe brings Flash-free-Flash to Apple iPad, iPhone.
“Adobe’s solution repackages content in real-time, changing the protocol to suit the target device, HTTP Dynamic Streaming or HLS, for example. This should mean that iOS devices will get much of the advantages of Flash video support, without the processor degradation and battery life cost of the format in use on other devices. Though we still have to wait a while longer until the ‘full Flash experience’ of embedded ads and so on makes it to the new streamed system.” They’ve taken a hit, certainly ... but HTML5/JS/CSS animation solutions are still in their infancy. A small window of time exists to get Flash completely working on iOS before the ‘point of no return’ is passed.
Macworld: Adobe Edge makes HTML5 dance.
It’s just basic movement, at the moment. I just created a logo animate for a client, and ended up going back to Hype (Mac) for a slightly greater set of effects. Easier to spec important anchor points in Edge, however. Much easier. For the moment, having both on hand (Hype and Edge) is best if you need to do this kind of thing. And keep Modernizr around, too.
Macworld: Hands on with Adobe InDesign CS5.5.
If you’re doing any sort of ebook authoring, you simply *must* upgrade.
Adobe’s product compatibility.
Check here for ... inconveniences ... if you choose to upgrade.
Rob Galbraith DPI: Early Photoshop CS5 droplets non-functional in OS X Lion.
For fellow PS peeps.
FFFFOUND! | this isn’t happiness.™
Photoshop folk will like this: Mountains.
Creative Cow: Avid Offers Special Crossgrade Promotion for Final Cut Pro Users.
“The Avid Crossgrade offer for Final Cut Pro is available now. Final Cut Pro (excluding Final Cut Pro X) users can purchase Media Composer 5.5, with the Production suite and free online training to help them move from Final Cut Pro to Media Composer, for $995 USD. This limited-time offer expires September 30, 2011.” Figured Avid would follow Adobe’s lead.
Adobe special offers.
FCPX upgraders, if you’re sick of playing with toys, trade up for useful tools. Expected this.
Macworld: Google unveils Swiffy Flash-to-HTML5 tool.
I’ll have to try it out. They’re usually not subtle enough, these tools.
Macworld: Bugs & Fixes: Troubleshooting Final Cut Pro X.
Needs some help, apparently. You’ve seen what Conan’s editors think of it. Huge opportunity here for Adobe Premiere and others. I have to say, I sat down with Premiere, after years of being away, and immediately was able to construct titles, fix saturation, futz with opacity on a clip in a very short timeframe (like an hour). (Rendering on an iMac is punishing, however. You need horsepower for video, not an overgrown laptop.)
Transcode hell.
Trying to get a WMV3 over to Premiere CS5. Transcode through Handbrake, the M4V crashes Premiere. Trying another transcoding, this time to MOV, to see if I can get a usable file.
I hate WMV. Really hate it.
Later: Clunky, but it worked. WMV3 > Handbrake > M4V > MPEG Streamclip > MOV > Premiere CS5 > MP4 > Vimeo. Crazy, man, crazy. (I needed to add titles via Premiere ... if you wondered.)
Rob Galbraith: Data-corrupting JPEG bug introduced in Lightroom 3.4, Camera Raw 6.4.
A rare bug, but one you should be aware of if you shoot JPEG.
Macworld: FreeHand users sue Adobe for ‘killing’ the application.
It’s been a little too long for such sour grapes, IMHO.
MPG: Save Big Files 20X Faster With the DisallowFlateCompressedPSD Plugin.
Saves bigger, but saves faster. Yee-HAW.
Digital Outback Photo: Adobe After Effects 5.5 Warp Stabilizer.
Impressive. Very impressive.
Macworld: Adobe releases new Photoshop iPad apps.
The Cool Hunter: The Secret To Madonna’s Success.
Adobe Updater bizarreness.
My Adobe Updater popped up, telling me I need to update Dreamweaver CS5 to 11.03. I blindly clicked the “OK”, and it failed. Checked the app, it says 11.04. I suppose I just ignore it.
OnOne Software: Perfect Layers Public Preview Now Available.
Layers. In Lightroom. And Aperture and Bridge. I suspect Adobe will be rolling out this feature in the next version of Lightroom, but why not play a bit now?
