I'm not sure what you mean, the NAB expo is not a small event. This year's show fills the entire LVCC, which is not a small building by any means.
I recall that Apple has usually updated/announced at least one pro app update of some sort, and at least one piece of hardware every NAB for several years. Apple's booth is scheduled to be about 50% bigger than last year's as well.
I apologize for the lack of precision in my wording. By "smaller" events, I meant media events that occur outside the main Apple-hosted keynote events, such as MWSF, Apple Expo or MW Tokyo.
I think that at NAB, Apple will show off the new Final Cut Studio, along with that rumoured $10,000 Hardware/Software combo workstation we've heard about. They're going after Avid and the TV station market, considering the latest video acquisitions.
Which is what leads me to believe they won't want to dilute the NAB presence by announcing a whole new "general purpose" line of computers. They want NAB to be about video, period.
I think the Mac Pro would have to be announced before NAB, in order to garner the media exposure it warrants, and still not overshadow the video-related announcements at NAB.
I apologize for the lack of precision in my wording. By "smaller" events, I meant media events that occur outside the main Apple-hosted keynote events, such as MWSF, Apple Expo or MW Tokyo.
I think that at NAB, Apple will show off the new Final Cut Studio, along with that rumoured $10,000 Hardware/Software combo workstation we've heard about. They're going after Avid and the TV station market, considering the latest video acquisitions.
Which is what leads me to believe they won't want to dilute the NAB presence by announcing a whole new "general purpose" line of computers. They want NAB to be about video, period.
I think the Mac Pro would have to be announced before NAB, in order to garner the media exposure it warrants, and still not overshadow the video-related announcements at NAB.
OK, then by your own criteria, should we expect new HD displays sporting HDMI inputs to be announced at NAB?
I think that there will be more to Apple's announcement at NAB than just software.
I'm waiting for new Mac Pro's too. But looking at it from Apple's perpective it'd be next to invisible if they released them now. No Leopard , no CS3 , no new Final Cut Studio..... it just doesnt make sense even though they're behind DELL with QuadCore right now. Dell has had QuadCores available for over a month.
But NAB makes perfect sense for new Mac Pro's pre-annoucment or annoucment. New Final Cut released , CS3 getting release date that should be within few weeks of NAB.....
Lets hope new Final Cut Studio apps are fully multicore aware...
OK, then by your own criteria, should we expect new HD displays sporting HDMI inputs to be announced at NAB?
I think that there will be more to Apple's announcement at NAB than just software.
Agreed.
Also remember:
SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE COME IN PAIRS (usually)!!! and there is a reason for that.
Also, all Mac Pros are FULLY capable of Leopard so timing of Mac Pro update vs. Leopard is not at all an issue like it could *potentially* be with the consumer Apple computers.
I seriously doubt that the Mac Pro will be unveiled at NAB.
An update to Final Cut Studio is overdue, and NAB is the natural place to unveil it.
Apple usually features only one major product announcement at smaller media events.
In addition, unveiling the Mac Pro at a Video conference sends a signal to the publishing world that the Mac Pro line is for Video needs and the iMac line is good enough for print publishers.
That may be true, but Apple certainly isn't going to reinforce that idea.
I hadn't heard about that. What is the VM cache issue? The brush problem I meant was that brush shapes don't appear and every brush looks like a cross hair.
Ummm... Maybe you've found a bug in Photoshop and/or already tried this... (are you talking about Photoshop??) but if you go to Preferences > Display and Cursors you can choose if your "Painting Cursors" are a cross-hair or the actual brush size.
SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE COME IN PAIRS (usually)!!! and there is a reason for that.
Also, all Mac Pros are FULLY capable of Leopard so timing of Mac Pro update vs. Leopard is not at all an issue like it could *potentially* be with the consumer Apple computers.
Yeah, it's a toss up now between icfireball and Frank777 :: two views on whether small release from Apple mid-April or a full-blown take-no-prisoners announcement.
The point about iMacs for print and web design, I think Apple is *happy enough* that they'll woo some people in these industries back from the PC-Windoze world who jumped ship off the Mac due to (1)PowerPC G4 (2)Flash playback slowwwness (3)PowerPC emulation in MacIntels. The Mac Pros are heavily targeted towards the video market to capture sales off the people that want more "flexibility"/"spontaneity" compared to big-ass Avid/ProTools rigs/ etc/ etc [though yes from the current Final Cut Studio user base they probably want to move higher up the "value chain" (ie. more advanced hardware/software/etc...)]. Adobe CS3 on an iMac 20" or iMac 24" for print/web is actually going to be quite alright. Pushing Mac Pros in this area, a bit of a harder sell, possibly because the iMac Core2Duos have big enough screen real estate for print/web, Core2Duo with 2gb of RAM or 3gb RAM is going to FLY on the iMacs when it comes to CS3 Universal Binaries, and studios upgrading may be happy to just go with more mobile and nimble iMacs rather than big hulking Xeon Mac Pro towers. Specialised web-only 5-20 people setups may even go all wireless and have flexible, open iMac- and AirportExtreme802.11n- driven open plan creative work spaces.
Anyway, just some thoughts. We'll have to see how it plays out.
Ummm... Maybe you've found a bug in Photoshop and/or already tried this... (are you talking about Photoshop??) but if you go to Preferences > Display and Cursors you can choose if your "Painting Cursors" are a cross-hair or the actual brush size.
Ummm... Maybe you've found a bug in Photoshop and/or already tried this... (are you talking about Photoshop??) but if you go to Preferences > Display and Cursors you can choose if your "Painting Cursors" are a cross-hair or the actual brush size.
MULTI-QUOTE FEATURE ON THIS FORUMS ROCKS MY WORLD OMFG THIS IS FINALLY HERE IT IS SO AWESOME!!!! Wooo0000000t!!
In other news, that stuff is nasty in tha' CS3 Beta. The cursor thing according to the blog should be fixed. Resampling is like 99% of what one does in Photoshop (oh when oh when can we have non-destructive layer resizing *sigh*) so those resampling bugs should be fixed on final build too. *Should*
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I'm not sure what you mean, the NAB expo is not a small event. This year's show fills the entire LVCC, which is not a small building by any means.
I recall that Apple has usually updated/announced at least one pro app update of some sort, and at least one piece of hardware every NAB for several years. Apple's booth is scheduled to be about 50% bigger than last year's as well.
I apologize for the lack of precision in my wording. By "smaller" events, I meant media events that occur outside the main Apple-hosted keynote events, such as MWSF, Apple Expo or MW Tokyo.
I think that at NAB, Apple will show off the new Final Cut Studio, along with that rumoured $10,000 Hardware/Software combo workstation we've heard about. They're going after Avid and the TV station market, considering the latest video acquisitions.
Which is what leads me to believe they won't want to dilute the NAB presence by announcing a whole new "general purpose" line of computers. They want NAB to be about video, period.
I think the Mac Pro would have to be announced before NAB, in order to garner the media exposure it warrants, and still not overshadow the video-related announcements at NAB.
I apologize for the lack of precision in my wording. By "smaller" events, I meant media events that occur outside the main Apple-hosted keynote events, such as MWSF, Apple Expo or MW Tokyo.
I think that at NAB, Apple will show off the new Final Cut Studio, along with that rumoured $10,000 Hardware/Software combo workstation we've heard about. They're going after Avid and the TV station market, considering the latest video acquisitions.
Which is what leads me to believe they won't want to dilute the NAB presence by announcing a whole new "general purpose" line of computers. They want NAB to be about video, period.
I think the Mac Pro would have to be announced before NAB, in order to garner the media exposure it warrants, and still not overshadow the video-related announcements at NAB.
OK, then by your own criteria, should we expect new HD displays sporting HDMI inputs to be announced at NAB?
I think that there will be more to Apple's announcement at NAB than just software.
But NAB makes perfect sense for new Mac Pro's pre-annoucment or annoucment. New Final Cut released , CS3 getting release date that should be within few weeks of NAB.....
Lets hope new Final Cut Studio apps are fully multicore aware...
OK, then by your own criteria, should we expect new HD displays sporting HDMI inputs to be announced at NAB?
I think that there will be more to Apple's announcement at NAB than just software.
Agreed.
Also remember:
SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE COME IN PAIRS (usually)!!! and there is a reason for that.
Also, all Mac Pros are FULLY capable of Leopard so timing of Mac Pro update vs. Leopard is not at all an issue like it could *potentially* be with the consumer Apple computers.
I seriously doubt that the Mac Pro will be unveiled at NAB.
An update to Final Cut Studio is overdue, and NAB is the natural place to unveil it.
Apple usually features only one major product announcement at smaller media events.
In addition, unveiling the Mac Pro at a Video conference sends a signal to the publishing world that the Mac Pro line is for Video needs and the iMac line is good enough for print publishers.
That may be true, but Apple certainly isn't going to reinforce that idea.
Yes, you have some interesting points there.
I hadn't heard about that. What is the VM cache issue? The brush problem I meant was that brush shapes don't appear and every brush looks like a cross hair.
Ummm... Maybe you've found a bug in Photoshop and/or already tried this... (are you talking about Photoshop??) but if you go to Preferences > Display and Cursors you can choose if your "Painting Cursors" are a cross-hair or the actual brush size.
Also remember:
SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE COME IN PAIRS (usually)!!! and there is a reason for that.
Also, all Mac Pros are FULLY capable of Leopard so timing of Mac Pro update vs. Leopard is not at all an issue like it could *potentially* be with the consumer Apple computers.
Yeah, it's a toss up now between icfireball and Frank777 :: two views on whether small release from Apple mid-April or a full-blown take-no-prisoners announcement.
The point about iMacs for print and web design, I think Apple is *happy enough* that they'll woo some people in these industries back from the PC-Windoze world who jumped ship off the Mac due to (1)PowerPC G4 (2)Flash playback slowwwness (3)PowerPC emulation in MacIntels. The Mac Pros are heavily targeted towards the video market to capture sales off the people that want more "flexibility"/"spontaneity" compared to big-ass Avid/ProTools rigs/ etc/ etc [though yes from the current Final Cut Studio user base they probably want to move higher up the "value chain" (ie. more advanced hardware/software/etc...)]. Adobe CS3 on an iMac 20" or iMac 24" for print/web is actually going to be quite alright. Pushing Mac Pros in this area, a bit of a harder sell, possibly because the iMac Core2Duos have big enough screen real estate for print/web, Core2Duo with 2gb of RAM or 3gb RAM is going to FLY on the iMacs when it comes to CS3 Universal Binaries, and studios upgrading may be happy to just go with more mobile and nimble iMacs rather than big hulking Xeon Mac Pro towers. Specialised web-only 5-20 people setups may even go all wireless and have flexible, open iMac- and AirportExtreme802.11n- driven open plan creative work spaces.
Anyway, just some thoughts. We'll have to see how it plays out.
Ummm... Maybe you've found a bug in Photoshop and/or already tried this... (are you talking about Photoshop??) but if you go to Preferences > Display and Cursors you can choose if your "Painting Cursors" are a cross-hair or the actual brush size.
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/02...e_cursors.html
I didn't know about this one either:
http://www.ryanablock.com/archive/20...3-resize-ouch/
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/02...e_cursors.html
I didn't know about this one either:
http://www.ryanablock.com/archive/20...3-resize-ouch/
Ummm... Maybe you've found a bug in Photoshop and/or already tried this... (are you talking about Photoshop??) but if you go to Preferences > Display and Cursors you can choose if your "Painting Cursors" are a cross-hair or the actual brush size.
MULTI-QUOTE FEATURE ON THIS FORUMS ROCKS MY WORLD OMFG THIS IS FINALLY HERE IT IS SO AWESOME!!!! Wooo0000000t!!
In other news, that stuff is nasty in tha' CS3 Beta. The cursor thing according to the blog should be fixed. Resampling is like 99% of what one does in Photoshop (oh when oh when can we have non-destructive layer resizing