Apple, Inc.: April 2005 Archives
Great news for all Macintosh afficianados. Mac OS X Tiger, the newest version of Mac OS X is being released to the public on Friday. All Apple retail stores will be hosting events to debut the new system and included in those events is a chance to win a Powerbook G4 an iPod and other great Apple merchandise.
The real story here is the operating system in-and-of-itself. It brings over 200 new features to the already greatest platform on the planet. At the same time, it actually functions faster than previous releases. I have no clue why it is that every subsequent version of Mac OS X is faster than its predecessor. Granted I'm not complaining. I look forward to Dashboard, Automator and especially smart folders in iPhoto and Sherlock. Check out http://www.apple.com/macosx/ for more information about these and all the other new features included in Mac OS X.
Ok, so I'll admit it. I thought that the statements that NAB2005 was going to have shoulder-to-shoulder people, was grossly overexagerated. I'm not too big of a man to say, I was wrong. Las Vegas opened its doors and its arms to the National Association of Broadcasters conference. I was there. It was a whole lot of publicity and certain things actually deserved that publicity.
Final Cut Studio...very cool multi-camera editing, MIDI controlled motion graphics and SoundTrack2 has the greatest ability to remove background ambience. All very neat stuff. Avid did what they did best and Adobe Premiere came screaming back into the mainstream with Premiere Pro 6.5. Audition 1.5 was interesting, and had some good capabilities, but it really had nothing on SoundTrack for film work.
Panasonic had some interesting stuff with P2, but again, not shipping until the end of the year. The Kodak Look Manager System brought viable film origination for HD back to the forefront of everybody's minds.
All-and-all it was a good time. NAB was interesting, but Las Vegas I can really do without. I've explained it like this to most people I've talked to. Think of any adjective you'd like to. Big, small, skimpy, white...anything. Now add an "-er" suffix to the end of the word. What do you get? Bigger, smaller, skimpier, whiter...this is Las Vegas. Everything is an extreme there and really, I'm not an extreme kind of guy. The moral of the story, be it ever so humble, there is no place like home.
