When Will Apple Cave And Accept Flash? http://tinyurl.com/4gphemz
To answer the question: probably never. What the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch have shown, 160 million users don’t seem to be having a problem in a Flash-free world.
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As expected, AV Foundation from iOS 4 will be added to Lion. My take is that signals the end of QuickTime as we’ve known it. But it’s not only that there’s a new Framework for working with time-based audiovisual media – there’s a lot more to QuickTime than that, and it’s all the interactive and additional technologies in QuickTime that don’t appear to have a future. Features that were important when QuickTime MOVs were the preferred (at Apple) distribution format.
Larry Jordan answers questions from a fan about the new Final Cut Pro.
Greg was bored last night while I was at Alpha Dog’s Editors’ Lounge and started exploring Xtranormal and came up with this.
This must have been what it was like for Larry Jordan at LAFCPUG Wednesday night!
Note, that all you need to do to create these is type in the words.
Master Metadata for Post-Production – 2 Mar 2011, 11:00 AM EST #webinar http://t.co/NXv0XvZ
It’s repeated during the day.
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A new 64 bit Final Cut Pro?
By now you will have heard of, or read, either the Final Cut Pro rumor at Techcrunch, or over at Larry Jordan’s Blog. Techcruch generally has good information, and I seriously doubt that Larry’s post would have been done without a specific OK from Apple – that’s just his style. Both say in one way or another:
“The biggest overhaul to Final Cut Pro since the original version was created over 10 years ago”
“Dramatic and Ambitious”
“a jaw dropper”
“The essence of being human involves asking questions, not answering them”
It’s the final  end quote from http://tinyurl.com/6bful7u on Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Assistance (unrelated to my company) that comes out of a NYT writeup of IBM’s Jeopardy playing Watson.
Scott Simmons is running a “28 days of Quicktips 2011” series over at Pro Video Coalition and on day 2, in parallel with the release of the Manifesto titling plug-in for Final Cut Pro, he points out that Manifesto has built-in spell check, the only FCP titling option that does.
What probably isn’t immediately obvious to the average user of these tools, is that the programmers at Noise Industries had to do zero extra programing to get spell check in a title plug-in. It’s part of the package that comes when you call (in your application or plug-in) the appropriate Cocoa framework – NSTextView for those few who care!
MPEG-LA starts patent move on VP8Â http://tinyurl.com/6eqphma
One of the things that has worried me about VP8/WebM is that Google has refused to indemnify users from patent issues. To me that’s a huge worry, and now MPEG-LA has started the process of establishing whether or not VP8 does (or does not) infringe any of its members’ patents.
Flash (Finally) Cuts CPU Usage With Hardware Acceleration http://tinyurl.com/6cvxsvs
At (long) last Adobe have released CPU acceleration across all platforms, including Mac and Linux.
Can A Computer Do Your Job? http://tinyurl.com/4nt5kf8
The examples in the article are surprisingly “high end”, pitting humans choosing potential University entrants against a simple algorith, and the algorithm wins.
Could a computer do your job as a ‘creative’ individual? An editor, writer or producer?