Less than an hour until Red starts announcing things. Should be an interesting day! The big stuff I’ll be watching for is more detail about the Final Cut Pro support. Do you get real-time features? If you’re dropping 12-bit REDCODE RAW on your timeline, what bit depth are you working in, and if it’s less [...]

Wow. So, Apple has announced practically everything anyone was speculating about, and some other stuff besides.

You can get a nice summary of the announcements here. It’s going to take days to sort through the implications of all of this. The really big news for Red fans, though, is that FCP will apparently support 4K and [...]

I’ve moved this blog to a Media Temple Grid-Server account, and updated to WordPress 2.1.3 in the process. Everything seems to be going smoothly so far….

(Incidentally, if anyone is looking for a good web host, you can’t do much better than Media Temple. I’ve used them in the past on other projects, and they’re great.)

What does Apple’s Leopard delay mean to folks looking to use OS X as a platform to handle workflow for indie films? Fortunately, not all that much.

Of the announced features of Leopard, the only really significant one for our market is ZFS, for reasons I’ve discussed in the past. While it certainly would be great, [...]

Tom Slee is writing an extensive critique of Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail.

Why am I bringing this up here? Well, there’s a lot of discussion these days about what implications online distribution channels (and things like Apple TV) have for indie media, and one side of the debate (the one I’m usually on) relies heavily [...]