Shawn Miller
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[Sandeep Sajeev] “No support for OpenEXR yet. Stuff like this is where the difference between the tools becomes clear.”
Ah, too bad. I just read that they currently only support 8 bit images. Hopefully, they’ll get that corrected sooner rather than later.
Thanks
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[Andrew Richards] “[Shawn Miller] “why not offer a cross platform solution?”
I think one of the reasons the Pixelmator team has been able to build such a mature image editor so quickly with such a (relatively) small team is they take advantage of the frameworks in OS X to get a lot of image handling power “for free”. If they were to go cross platform, they’s need to implement all that stuff they get from Core Image themselves. They’d basically need to start all over in something other than Cocoa Objective-C if they wanted to be cross-paltform.”
Fair enough, thanks Andy.
Shawn
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[Sandeep Sajeev] “[Shawn Miller] As long as they’re on a Mac… 🙂 If the idea is to buck “Big Brother”, and democratize the tool, why not offer a cross platform solution?
You’re right of course, apologies, I totally forgot that they were Mac only. It’s a shame, as it really is a cracking tool.”
Crap, I suspected that it was. I do understand that they’re a small shop though, and that cross platform support might not be high on the agenda. I guess I’ll add Pixelmator to the list of applications that I wish were available on Windows. Does PM support OpenEXR yet? I remember VFX artists were asking for this years ago.
Shawn
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[Sandeep Sajeev] “Once it does, it will be a good alternative for video editors.”
As long as they’re on a Mac… 🙂 If the idea is to buck “Big Brother”, and democratize the tool, why not offer a cross platform solution?
Shawn
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[Craig Seeman] “So where does one go? Avid’s an NLE. It doesn’t replace After Effects or Photoshop.
Apple gives Motion a serious going over?
Pixelmator development increases?”Hopefully! I think it would be good if Apple provided a serious challenger to AE. It would be even better if a smaller, hungrier company came up with a compelling, cross-platform alternative. Maybe Sony and FXHome will get there some day. It looks like they’re at least trying.
https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/hitfilm_vegas_movie_studio_integration
Shawn
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[Chris Harlan] “Me too. But, I’m not a broken up by all of this as perhaps I should be. Oddly, this reminds me more of the religious practice of tithing, than it does rental.”
lol – it does feel a bit like that. Between the applications and plugins you have to update every year, it is kind of like paying a tithe or a tribute.
Shawn
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[Andrew Kimery] “I agree. I was meaning more the people that were still testing the waters and hadn’t committed yet. I guess I’m surprised that it wasn’t a change phased in over a few years. Maybe Adobe just wanted to bite the bullet and go for a clean break?”
Ah I see, that’s a good question. I’m looking forward to hearing from those folks. I’m also surprised they didn’t phase in the subscription model… Adobe HAD to know that people (generally) hate sudden change.
[Andrew Kimery] “I’m sure CS6 will be a hot item on ebay now, lol. I switched to CC last year and have been enjoying it but I’m also glad I have a copy of CS5.5 to ‘fall back on’.”
Right! I am definitely holding on to my previous licenses… just in case. 🙂
Shawn
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[Bill Davis] “I, for one, am going to give Adobe the chance to make their case about the necessity for this change that hardly anybody gave Apple.”
I have to give it to you, Bill. You are nothing if not consistent. Mad respect!
Shawn
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[Andrew Kimery] “Wow, I’m really surprised Adobe did this right now. I think this will put the breaks on a lot of people that were transitioning, or planning to transition, over to Adobe.”
I agree, this is somewhat of a surprise. But I’m not sure it will translate into a massive switch away from Adobe. For those who need a suite of tools (Mograph/VFX, Paint, vector graphics, audio, etc)… will it make sense to adopt another NLE out of protest, especially when Premiere is looking so much better? I’m not crazy about subscription software either, but I wonder what the alternative is. It might be a fun exercise to research a bundle of tools that replaces the CS suite, but man… what a hassle. That said, I think I could replace everything in the suite but AE (if I had to):-)
Shawn
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[Walter Soyka] “I’d be curious to know if there’s some kind of Moore’s Law trend on sensor light sensitivity (which improves dynamic range, and which I think is ultimately more important than resolution).”
I think it’s more a matter of will on the part of camera manufacturers. High dynamic range imaging for video has been possible for a number of years, but Canon, Sony, et al, have been focusing their marketing and development dollars on bigger sensors and proprietary, highly compressed formats. Even now, a lot of shooters are more concerned with full frame sensors and 4k images than really good latitude and open HDR formats. Hopefully this is trend is changing though. You’ll also find this to be true in the stills world, camera companies have focused their marketing efforts on selling megapixels and sensor size rather than high dynamic range. For many, 8bit images are just fine… as long as their proprietary raw pictures have more megapixels than everyone else’s. 🙂
Shawn