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The hardware part of the sermon is over, we believe. Right now, they’re going over Motion 3 video effects and faster hardware compression on the 8-Core Mac Pros. A 10-minute HD clip takes only 6 minutes to compress compared to 18 minutes in the previous version of the compressor. That’s about it. Nothing to get…
The Apple store has come back online (as expected I guess) with a new goodie! Final Cut Studio 2 Existing users upgrade for $499, new for $1,299.00 The Studio suite includes Final Cut 6, Motion 3, Soundtrack Pro 2, Color (new), Compressor 3, DVD Studio Pro 4 and Livetype (the latter two of which were,…
Red One‘s compatibility with Apple’s ProRes was a welcome surprise. There was some worry on our part, after the Red One camera delays, and after the prototypes were nearly lost to thieves last year. So we’re happy to see it taking off like this. Congrats to Ted Schilowitz, and his team. To learn more about…
Apple introduced Open Format for Final Cut Pro, allowing you to mix different formats on the timeline. They say “it just works,” and from the demo, looks like all kinds of formats can nicely live together on the same editing timeline, where they had to be transcoded to work together before. Then Apple showed some…
Apple also let its pal AJA intro a new piece of hardware for editors, trotting out its AJA I/O HD, a device that works with Apple’s ProRes, with the codec embedded in the AJA IO HD hardware. It’s 10-bit 4:2:2 video that lets you edit HD and up-down convert HD on a Macbook. Looks cool…
Final Cut Studio 2. FCP moves to Version 6. Offers uncompressed 10-bit compression at standard def file sizes. for example, uncompressed HD file that’s 1TB would be 170GB with ProRes422. Changes the world for HD editors.
Rob Schoeben, talking Final Cut, the video editing application. Now there are 800K users. Yeah, Final Cut is big, big big. Lots of plug-ins. Showed a snappy video of all the cool video that’s been created on Final Cut Pro. Introduced Final Cut Server. Gives editors ability to share video with each other. It’s cross…
Big crowd here, almost ready!
Gizmodo is camped out by the door at the Venetian Hotel ballroom, awaiting the Apple press event slated to begin in one hour (11am Pacific Time). Schmoozing with Apple press contacts, we’re hearing “it’s going to be a big show.” No indication about what that means, but we’re here at the opening meetings of NAB…
Can’t…look…at…it…but…can’t…look…away… We have little to say about the faux marble, young boy’s urinary tract drink dispenser other than…we thought you should see this. For those of you able to block the 20/20 overtones, realize that the statue does include a colorful heart sticker. For those of you too gone to care, take a trip to…
In the US alone, the East Coast has recently lost 70% of its commercial bee population, with the West Coast not far behind those numbers. Apparently it’s a result of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), when colonies essentially cease to be (no pun intended). From the Independent: German research has long shown that bees’ behaviour changes…
No, the world is not ending. But modder Ben Heck has taken the innards of a PS3 controller and magically fitted them into the Xbox 360 body. This includes the battery and USB charging port, making this “PS360” controller completely functional on your PS3. After once opening/destroying a Dual Shock with the hopes of fixing…
Fresh off the announcement of their Connect, SanDisk is releasing their Sansa Shaker for the younger market and we love the design. It’s hourglassed for a small hand and features buttons built into the top and bottom bands (maybe they twist?). Despite the earbuds in the photo, the Shaker features a built-in speaker to probably…
Kleargear, where apparently “geeks rule,” is offering these keyboard boxers for a whole $3.50 off of the list price of $19.49. If that in any way entices you to purchase a pair of boxers covered in keys—the dark ones oh-so-cleverly spell out “computer geek”—then you should not be reading Gizmodo, you should be out building…
It’s a strange pehnomenon, we talked about the HTC X7500 for so long that it felt like the real product could never actually exist. But Boy Genius Report got their well-manicured fingers on a real model and stripped it down slow tease style for us all to enjoy. https://gizmodo.com/one-night-stand-with-the-htc-x7500-236427 Hit the jump for our favorite…
For every “1984” ad or “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” promo (which have so run their course), there’s a horribly cheesy skeleton buried in Apple’s advertisement closet, like this spot from the 80s. Yeah, making “waking up to school a lot nicer” is totally hip. Dork. [via TechEBlog]
Long term, a pen that requires proprietary 2″x2′ paper technology could never support your daily inundation of soon-to-be-forgotten-unless-written-down-immediately genius. But for one glorious, “I do have a pen AND paper!” week, you could dominate. And $29.95 for one week of self-satisfaction is a bargain in my book. Product Page [via geekologie]
The fanboys are sad that OS X Leopard is going to be late, so in the meantime, here are some fresh screenshots to keep em held over. There, there, it’ll be ok. https://gizmodo.com/official-apple-delays-leopard-iphone-is-priority-1-251911 These are shots from the latest build seeded to developers, 9A410. Charming name aside, this evolution of the beta unifies the UI…
The latest Mac ad throws fire on the flames of the War on Craplets. A message to those PR people, engineers, product managers, VPs and CEOs at Dell, HP, Sony, Lenovo, and our other favorite PC makers: Don’t let the people in charge of putting these demos on your machines ruin your computers. Please, fight…
Remember: Be here tomorrow at 11am PST to watch us blog the Apple event at NAB, the National Association of Broadcasters conf in Las Vegas. We don’t know what’s coming down the pipe in a little more than 12 hours from now, but Apple at NAB has historically been all about AV software launches. In…