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Apple Executives to Showcase Mac OS X Leopard and OS X iPhone Development Platforms at WWDC 2008 Keynote

Published May 13th, 2008 in Geeky Mac Stuff, Geeky Mac News and Apple. 0 Comments

CUPERTINO, California—May 13, 2008—Apple® today announced that a team of Apple executives, led by CEO Steve Jobs, will kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, June 9, 2008 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. This year’s WWDC will showcase two revolutionary development platforms, the ground-breaking innovations of OS X Leopard® and OS X iPhone™, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system.

The five-day WWDC event, which runs from June 9 to June 13, will feature the first ever iPhone track for mobile developers with in-depth sessions and hands-on labs to fully explore the capabilities of the OS X iPhone 2.0 software, including the iPhone SDK and the App Store, a breakthrough way for developers to wirelessly deliver their applications to iPhone and iPod® touch users.

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HBO & Apple Bring Critically Acclaimed Television Programming to the iTunes Store

Published May 13th, 2008 in iPhone, iPod, Geeky Mac News and Apple. 0 Comments

Favorites Including “The Sopranos” and “Sex and the City” Now Available on iTunes

NEW YORK and CUPERTINO, California—May 13, 2008—HBO and Apple® today announced that programming from HBO is now available for purchase and download on the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com). New HBO programs on iTunes include the Emmy Award-winning programs “The Sopranos,” “Sex and the City,” “Deadwood” and “Rome,” as well as the critically acclaimed hits “Flight of the Conchords” and “The Wire.” The iTunes Store is the world’s most popular online TV store with over 150 million episodes sold and features the world’s largest catalog with over 800 shows (over 20,000 episodes).

“We’re very excited to make these legendary HBO programs available on the iTunes Store,” said Henry McGee, president of HBO Video. “Whether catching up on ‘Sex and the City’ in anticipation of its upcoming movie release or reliving a favorite ‘Sopranos’ episode, we think viewers will love being able to watch these shows on their iPod or iPhone.”

“We’re thrilled to bring this incredible lineup of programming from HBO to the iTunes Store,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. “These are some of the most talked about television shows ever, as well as some of the most requested by our customers.”

“Sex and the City: The Movie” premieres in theaters on May 30, and in preparation for the movie’s debut, fans can choose any or all 94 episodes from the entire six seasons of the program.

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New iPhone Black?

Published May 12th, 2008 in iPhone, Geeky Mac Rumors and Apple. 0 Comments

There has been speculation of a new iPhone for the last several months. I think it’s safe to make the assumption that something is only the way. The WWDC is almost here, and we know the iPhone will be a major focus. We also know that the iPhone App store will be like here soon too. These are major developments by themselves, but there have been numerous rumblings about a new and probably 3G iPhone.

The fact of the matter is that we never know what Apple might do. Even when the tell us what they are going to do, they have a tendency to surprise us.

Lets face it, the iPhone is pretty darn good they way it is. It have room for improvement, but there is not much it’s missing. 3G support, possibly GPS (although I don’t see this as necessary for this device), and the ability to add third party apps. We all know that this is coming, but what about the from factor change?

Rumors of a black iPhones have been the newest talk. Recently an AT&T web pages depicted the option to purchase an “iPhone Black”. While none of this necessarily means anything, it is only logical to assume that the next iPhone will in fact have some form factor, possibly color, changes. Apple is always improving it’s products.

So we here at Geeky Mac think that we will see a small improvement to the iPhone soon. The third party application support will make exciting phone to be almost like a new one. Apple does not have to do much to improve the iPhone right now, the 3G support and third party applications should by them a ton of time.

Final Cut Pro - NOT FOR SALE

Published May 6th, 2008 in Final Cut Pro, fcp, Geeky Mac Stuff, Pro Video, Digital Video Editing, Technology News and Apple. 0 Comments

Recent rumors and obscure web chatter revealed that Final Cut Pro, or more directly, Apple’s Pro App division had a price tag on it. While these rumors were week, this sale would not be completely out of the ordinary. Filemaker is a perfect example of how Apple has acted in the past. There is no telling who would be interested in such a purchase, but the fact that Apple has these pro applications only supports their high end Mac sales.

It now seams that these rumors can now be laid to rest thanks to an article from TBV Europe.

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Purchase New Movies on iTunes Same Day as DVD Release

Published May 1st, 2008 in iPhone, iPod, Geeky Mac Stuff, High Def @ Home and Apple. 0 Comments

CUPERTINO, California—May 1, 2008—Apple® today announced that new movie releases from major film studios and premier independent studios are available for purchase on the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com) on the same day as their DVD release. New releases and catalog titles will be available from 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, Image Entertainment and First Look Studios. Movies purchased from iTunes can be viewed on an iPod® with video, iPhone™, Mac® or PC or on a widescreen TV with Apple TV®, with new releases priced at $14.99 and most catalog titles at $9.99.

“We’re thrilled to bring iTunes Store customers new films for purchase day-and-date with the DVD release,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. “We think movie fans will love being able to buy their favorites from major and independent studios.”

New releases available for purchase on the iTunes Store this week, concurrent with their DVD release, include “American Gangster” and “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.” Other popular titles now available for purchase include “Juno,” “Cloverfield,” “I Am Legend,” “There Will Be Blood,” “Alvin and the Chipmunks” and “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.”

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Apple Updates iMac

Published April 28th, 2008 in Technology News, Geeky Mac News and Apple. 0 Comments

Now with Faster Processors & Faster Graphics Option

CUPERTINO, California—April 28, 2008—Apple® today updated its all-in-one iMac® line with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors and the most powerful graphics ever available in an iMac. With prices starting at just $1,199, iMac includes faster processors with 6MB L2 cache and a faster 1066 MHz front-side bus across the entire line, and 2GB of memory standard in most models. The 24-inch iMac now offers a 3.06 GHz Intel processor and the high-performance NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS graphics as options, extending iMac’s lead as the ultimate all-in-one desktop computer for both consumers and professionals.

“The iMac’s gorgeous aluminum and glass all-in-one design has been an incredible hit with our customers and is just one of the reasons Mac sales are growing three and a half times faster than PC sales,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “With the latest Intel processors, a faster new graphics option and more memory, customers now have even more reasons to love the iMac.”

Packing dual-core performance into the convenience of a striking all-in-one design, the new iMac includes faster Intel Core 2 Duo processors across the line; a 1066 MHz front-side bus; up to 4GB of 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory; and a widescreen flat-panel display supporting millions of colors. For the first time, the 24-inch iMac features an optional NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS with 512MB of video memory, to deliver up to two times standard performance for graphic intensive applications*. Providing the latest in high-performance connectivity options to quickly and conveniently transfer digital photos, music and video, iMac includes built-in AirPort Extreme® 802.11n Wi-Fi networking for up to five times the performance of 802.11g**; Bluetooth 2.1+EDR; Gigabit Ethernet; built-in iSight® video camera; a total of five USB 2.0 ports (including two on the Apple Keyboard); and one FireWire® 400 and one FireWire 800 port.

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Final Cut Pro Tip #048

Published April 28th, 2008 in Final Cut Pro Tips & Tricks. 0 Comments

Take advantage of an external drive to help re-capture and media manage footage for final edit.

Okay, here’s the situation. Your client did a preliminary edit and captured footage themselves. They bring you a drive with a ton of footage, some of the stuff is good, but some needs to be recaptured.

Sounds like this can turn into a mess, but there is a very easy solution to make this work efficiently and quickly.

Step one, ask your client to media manage their project to the drive that they want to bring to you. Make sure that they do not delete unused media. While this is helpful to help optimize unused footage it can also cause some conflicts in this process.

Step two, load the clients drive off of the drive that they brought you. There should be no problems linking files at this point, if there are you’ve got bigger fish to fry. For the sake so simplicity lets say that there are no issues. Now go though the media that needs to be re-digitized. You can use the column heading to organize by reel.

Since you are editing off of another RAID volume, you will have a separate drive set up as you capture scratch disk. Make sure that you have the correct easy preset selected.

Step three, batch capture the media that you selected is step two. Obviously this might take some time…

Step four, make sure that the media captured correctly. Now you are ready to media manage again. This project file is already aware that the new media you just captured is on the drive you are going to move the rest of your files to. This will avoid copying duplicate files. Now media manage again. This time you can delete unused media if you want to conserve space.

The media should copy to your edit RAID, and you should be ready to start your clean up edit. Be sure to remove the clients drive and check that all you media links up properly.

CalDigit San launched at NAB 2008

Published April 24th, 2008 in Final Cut Pro, fcp, Storage, Geeky Mac Stuff, Pro Video, Digital Video Editing, Technology News and Geeky Mac News. 0 Comments

(Placentia, California–April 23, 2008) CalDigit showcased its unique SAN solution at the 2008 NAB show in Las Vegas. 2 MacPro workstations were connected to the CalDigit Switch and then with 4 HDPro units, played back 2K footage in real-time under Xsan 2 to manage data on CalDigit’s storage.

The CalDigit SAN software is in development now & it will be cross platform and user-friendly.

The CalDigit SAN takes advantage of ePCIe (eLane) with it’s CalDigit Switch, rather than the traditional fiber channel solution route. ePICe has a 20Gb/s bandwidth compared to the 4Gb/s bandwidth of fibre.

The CalDigit switch is also ascendable which means that you can attach as many units to it as you need, for easy expansion. Currently 2 users can access the same media at the same time, even the same project file. The CalDigit SAN enables multiple Mac workstations and Xserve systems to share CalDigit’s HDPro volumes over a high-speed ePICe network.

The extra bandwidth that you can achieve with ePCIe means that you can do even more. Imagine the same 2K footage being played back simultaneously.
The power of the HDPro is what makes the CalDigit SAN so impressive. With the 16 port device to the new optical interface, will allow cable lengths up to 300m.

From the small boutique studio to major broadcast facilities, speed, protection and the ability to share are all necessities. The CalDigit SAN solution makes this possible and for a fraction of the cost that of traditional fibre solution. What makes the CalDigit SAN so powerful is it’s extremely fast bandwidth. The 20Gb/s can sustain 2K footage of multiple workstations.

Another unique feature of the CalDigit SAN solution is the ability to add a mobile device. CalDigit has engineered a ePCIe ExpressCard 34 card for those users with a MacBook Pro. This means that the SAN is compatible with a laptop.

http://www.caldigit.com

Apple Reports Record Second Quarter Results

Published April 24th, 2008 in Apple. 0 Comments

Revenue Up 43 Percent Year-Over-Year

CUPERTINO, California—April 23, 2008—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 second quarter ended March 29, 2008. The Company posted revenue of $7.51 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $5.26 billion and net quarterly profit of $770 million, or $.87 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 32.9 percent, down from 35.1 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 44 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

Apple shipped 2,289,000 Macintosh® computers during the quarter, representing 51 percent unit growth and 54 percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 10,644,000 iPods during the quarter, representing one percent unit growth and eight percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter. Quarterly iPhone™ sales were 1,703,000.

“We’re delighted to report 43 percent revenue growth and the strongest March quarter revenue and earnings in Apple’s history,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “With over $17 billion in revenue for the first half of our fiscal year, we have strong momentum to launch some terrific new products in the coming quarters.”

“We’re thrilled to have generated $4 billion in cash flow from operations in the first half of fiscal 2008, yielding an ending cash balance of $19.4 billion,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO. “Looking ahead to the third quarter of fiscal 2008, we expect revenue of about $7.2 billion and earnings per diluted share of about $1.00.”

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April DFCPUG Meeting - 04.28.2008

Published April 23rd, 2008 in Final Cut Pro User Groups. 0 Comments

Our next meeting is scheduled for Monday, April 28, 2008 at The Colorado Film School. Mixer starts at 6:00pm and the presentations will begin at 6:30pm.

This should be a very exciting meeting. Of course we will cover all the latest news from NAB 2008, new gadgets, new software, and whatever else is new a cool. Perhaps we’ll have a new version of FCP to talk about. We will also continue our RED discussion. Edward Sauer of Watering Life Productions & Design, LLC will demonstrate the Red One camera and show the underwater footage he recently captured. He will also show the underwater housing he customized for the Red. And as always FCP Q&A.

If you have any topic suggestions or would like to make a presentation at future meetings please contact us with your suggestion. If you have FCP questions or would like to start a discussion, please do so at our Creative Cow forum. The Creative Cow has been kind enough to give us our own forum for the DFCPUG to use. Also if you have not signed up for the FREE DFCPUG membership, please do so that we can keep you informed of upcoming events and special deals. All you have to do is register online, just click here!

And don’t forget about our Denver Final Cut Pro Editor Directory. It’s still in beta and needs much improvement, but you can add your name to the editor directory for FREE! Definitely check it out.

Meetings are held at The Colorado Film School, which is located at 9075 E Lowry Blvd, Denver, CO 80230. This meeting will be held inside the screening room. We hope to see all of you there.

Location and date are subject to change, so please check the DFCPUG site often for the latest information.