Things I learned since yesterday: Profits
My home phone is completely useless. Anyone I want to talk to calls my cell. Everyone I don’t want to talk to calls the house phone. Microsoft reported quarterly profits 30% higher than last year. Mostly on sales of XBox, server, and Office. Apple, however, reported 120% higher profit for the same quarter. (The Economist [...]
Things I Learned Since Yesterday: Computer sales
According to the Economist magazine, 1 million PC’s are sold each day. Estimates are that about 50 million tablet computers will be sold this year.
What I’ve learned since yesterday: Lion
I’m not upgrading my laptop or any work system to Mac OS 10.7. Not for a while at least. First of all, Avid Media Composer isn’t qualified to work on Lion. Nor are a lot of critical applications. Adobe has reported many incompatibilities. So, I’m waiting and advising those with critical work applications to wait [...]
The Wild Wild West: its not just a new series remake.
Reprinted from CinemaEditor Magazine. Not very long ago we all got dailies from the lab, sunk to sound, coded, and assembled cut film into reels. A negative cutter matched our work, spliced the negative, and we color timed a print for release or broadcast. I’m sorry, but that sucked. The limitations were terrible. But in [...]
2010 Equipment Survey: Member Comments.
Five comment questions were posed to members of ACE in the 2010 Equipment survey: 1. Were you involved with a 3D project this year? If so, please give some details (shot in 3D, converted in post, editing system setup). 2. What was your biggest technology / editing frustration (and, no, directors and producers don’t qualify)? [...]
