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In case you didn’t know, here is another new feature in Leopard that can be incredibly useful at times. It’s not limited to Final Cut Pro, but I’ll use that as an example for obvious reasons. If you are looking for a command in an application you can type it on the spotlight bubble in the HELP command window. Once you do this the application will reveal the location of the command within the various command windows. It points it out with a nice large blue-arrow.

Pretty useful when dealing with an application you aren’t familiar with or when looking for a command you don’t perform often enough to remember.

pCine and pCam to come to iPhone

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The Palm Os utilities pCam and pCine, developed by David Eubank some years ago will eventually make their way to iPhone.  I emailed David last week and he said that he is currently “interviewing engineers and waiting for Apple’s release of the SDK for iPhone.”

This is great news and an extremely useful tool for ACs and DPs alike. It would be great if it remained a free app, though I wouldn’t cry if it wasn’t.

Now if we can get the guys over at sunpath to do the same or even Sunpredictor (made by John Wheeler, ASC) to cross platform to the iPhone.

AENY 1 year meeting tonight come on out.

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I run a kick ass user group with my 2 of my buddies called AENY (Adobe After Effects NY) and tonight is our 1 year anniversary meeting . Here are the details its free and we give out tons of amaxing free raffles (software , plug ins alot) We have a great presentation from Tronic .Tronic Studios.The meeting is at Pratt Manhattan which is 144 west 14th st between 6 th and 7th ave 2nd floor.AENY.Great time like always. See you there.Jim 

Ziphone works like a charm on 1.1.4

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Just did it, even though they are about to release an updated version.  Finally compatible on Leopard.  1 click Jailbreak, what can i say - I got sick of waiting for the update from apple and when 1.1.4 didn’t add app support - well…   

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Political Humor

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A little off topic, but I somehow missed this before and it made me chuckle. Get it CHUCK-LE

Linkdump

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Here’s a handful of things I’ve been meaning to write about, but don’t have time -
RED Digital Workflow on Indie Films
RED Digital Cinema Dynamic Range

Adam Wilt’s Hollywood Post Alliance Tech Retreat Summary
Day 0
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

REDCINE Training Videos

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Listed in the REDCINE Release notes are the following Training Videos.

Interface Overview
Project Settings Menu
Shot Settings
Color Settings
Output Settings
Library

RED ALERT! v1.5.3

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RED ALERT! v1.5.3a was released yesterday afternoon.  The update to the application includes 

Miscellaneous bug fixes
OLPF compensation has an outstanding bug where the top and left edges have 1 pixel wide/long of noise in half quality debayer.
Added a copy to clipboard button to the render window to generate a RedLine command.

New REDCINE Release as well.

Release notes

NEW FEATURES:
Updated Noise Reduction algorithm.
Optimized playback performance.
FIXES:
Fixed an issue with QuickTime files only rendering the first frame for the entire duration.
Fixed an issue with REDCINE crashing when source files could not be found.
Fixed an issue with backward compatibility in Projects.
Fixed an issue with white dots appearing on images at full resolution decodes.
Fixed an issue with memory usage in the decode.
Fixed an issue with REEL IDs not being written into DPX headers.
Fixed an issue with SHARPEN not maintaining its value.
Fixed an issue with X and Y offsets not being rendered out properly.

FCP 6 ,M2T and Sony

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Sony finally released a plug in for FCP to allow editing of M2T files from the HVR-D60 recording unit and CF card as part of the HVR-Z7U camera.This software allows you to transfer the movie files on your HVR-DR60 or CF card to your Windows-based PC with ease. It can connect M2T files, that were divided by FAT32, back together*, and it will rename HVR-DR60 files to the same style as those from a CF card during transfer.*The destination folder needs to be formatted in the NTFS file. Link

Talk about Phun

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Phun is a Master of Science Theises by Computing Science student Emil Ernerfeldt for supervisor Kenneth Bodin at VRLabUmeå University. The solver is based on work by Claude Lacoursière

Phun is meant to be a playground where people can be creative. It can also be used as an educational tool to learn about physics concepts such as restitution and friction.

Phun was coded in C++ using OpenGL, GLEW, SDL (for window management), SDL_image (for reading images) and boost, including boost_filesystem. Everything was coded by me, including the physics engine and user interface.

This is the coolest thing since sliced bread and fun it is. Now would Apple /Adobe please work with these guys for either Motion 4 or AE CS4 . Just a small request from me.



Jim 


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