Month: April 2010
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Steve Jobs says “YouTube does HD” – no need for Blu-ray?
Steve Jobs says “YouTube does HD Video”, so no need for Blu-Ray? http://bit.ly/9PRRwD I’ve long said no Blu-ray on OS X ever, Jobs agrees I have long held that Apple was never going to support Blu-ray Movie Playback on OS X. Partly because the internal memory encryption isn’t there in the OS, but also because…
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Another reminder that Adobe is a Tools Company
Another reminder that Adobe is really in the best position to capitalize on the move to HTML5 http://bit.ly/aHgNHT Adobe is a tools company. Although Adobe may prefer that the web use their proprietary Flash format, it makes most of its money from the tools that we use as content creators. Flash CS5 has rudimentary export…
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A little sanity (and background) on Adobe v Apple over Flash.
A little sanity (and background) on Adobe v Apple over Flash on iDevices http://bit.ly/9wq6lr
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More good news about 3D?
More good news about 3D http://bit.ly/dfZD8Z Don’t drink and watch. (Kind of makes it impossible to watch football in 3D!) Samsung warns: “Pregnant women, the elderly, sufferers of serious medical conditions, those who are sleep deprived or under the influence of alcohol should avoid utilising the unit’s 3D functionality.†Since that describes me, about 80%…
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This is big news: Google to open Source VP8
This is big news: Google to open source VP8 for HTML vidoe http://bit.ly/90n9eA Google acquired the On2 corporation largely for their codec expertise and got control over the VP8 codec (Flash 8-9 used the VP6 codec). They can open source it if they want, and they have. They are also pushing it for adoption as…
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$995 daVinci Resolve on OS X Confirmed
The rumor went around last night and has been confirmed this morning: Blackmagic Design have indeed released a software-only version of daVinci Resolve for US$995 and a turnkey package for just under $30,000. I never thought I’d stay in this indusry long enough to see a daVinci product under $10,000, let alone under $1000. daVinci…
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What about 3D at NAB 2010?
3D everywhere but count me as skeptical.
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What else did Avid announce at NAB 2010? [Corrected]
As well as Media Composer 5 and a cloud computing initiative Avid pushed the idea they were Open and working on interoperability: two words I never thought I’d associate with Avid until recently.
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What did Sony announce at NAB 2010?
Not much but they took an hour to do it.
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What did Panasonic announce at NAB 2010?
New AVCCAM shoulder mount camera, and 4/3″ AVCCAM camera coming.