[John Davidson]

That video card/TB integration possibility is exactly what I’m hoping for. If something like that does come out, I’m sure it’ll be either in conjunction with the release of a new mac pro (possibly in august if current product cycles continue), or after the current batch of TB devices have had time to sit on the market a bit.

it’s going to be a great year for new equipment and software options for smaller houses like ours.

[John Davidson]

Well, I guess we’ll have to upgrade to an even newer mac pro when they get the ‘bolt. Darn :).

Speaking of Avid, I was kind of surprised to see that Media Composer 5.5 was still 32 bit. They say it’s their last 32 bit release. I just assumed anything new at this point from anyone would be 64 bit – I guess I was wrong.

[John Davidson]

Rumor has it the new imacs come out tomorrow. With Thunderbolt, the ability to put loads of RAM in easily, and these really fast processors – if we decide we need a third bay, we can absolutely consider an iMac now. I used to think iMacs were silly computers, but they’re really not – at least not anymore.

We could even run a 2 monitor setup through one with an Apple 27 display. I still need to see more Thunderbolt periphs first – and hopefully a miracle can occur and bring us a PCI card to keep our mac pros up to day.

[John Davidson]

Anything new is unproven – especially in technology. When Kraft announced they were making a non-powdered version of their mac n’ cheese, I’m sure there was a significant portion of the population that fell out of their high-chairs in protest. Comparing Apples to Cheese, what Apple did was basically show you the new Mac N Cheese box, mention how there’s now better, curvier noodles, and the cheese has been taste tested for accuracy by 1000 Wisconsinites.

I guess the real answer to my post is that no matter what you do, anytime you show a mass population something new, there’s going to be a vocal chunk of the population that complains about it. It happened with the iPad, iPhone, Windows 7, CS5, Leopard, etc. Who’s to say what problems X won’t solve? We didn’t even see a fraction of what it can do. In the end, it may say more about the people upset by it than the people/company taking a stand and showing us something new. I know of no-one that edits who isn’t affected by rendering, the inability to use all of your available RAM, the lack of a really decent color corrector within the app, and editing without transcoding media. That’s why they showed that stuff and didn’t get into the minutia – they went for the core. Everything else is just details that very likely won’t be a real problem.

As for me – I’m gonna eat some Mac’ N Cheese tonight. Not the ‘legacy’ kind, either!

[John Davidson]

Thanks guys. I thought it was crazy – but I’m willing to admit when I’m wrong….should that ever one day happen :).

[John Davidson]

Worst case scenario I think I’ve gotten the Photoshop 3D text to do it using the repousse thing. I just hate round tripping to Photoshop when I get notes to change text. It’s kind of an annoyance.

Thanks guys!

[John Davidson]

If nothing else, I’d love a room to go to after I watch the presentation for the 50th time and want to gush about how excited I am and how much I love that color correct matching thing without spoilsports crapping all over my dreams.

I think I’m going to self-induce a coma until June.

[John Davidson]

Think of all the actors and voice talent working in horrible conditions, like coal mines, for 20 hrs a day making peanuts. Remember, the union is about them, not you.

[John Davidson]

I use one for a Pioneer Blue Ray drive and another for the standard DVD superdrive. You may find better results by making an image file of a DVD and then burning with the drive – OR – burning 2 DVD’s simultaneously.

If you really want to have one play while the other burns, Toast might have an option. I personally think that the quality might suffer – if you hit a hiccup while playing one, it’ll probably mess up the one burning at the same time, resulting in having to start all over.

I could be totally wrong though.

[John Davidson]

If the Magic Lantern software ever gets updated to handle high quality live view from HDMI, this could be pretty useful. Or if Canon updates the software to provide what everybody has been asking for for a hundred years….but I won’t hold my breath on that one.

I’m mostly intrigued by the HD-SDI out. Just having the SDI card in a Panny Pro Plasma display is about a grand if I remember correctly. This ‘could’ be useful one day.