December Links

My New Year's resolution is going to be to post more. I don't want this blog to turn into a link farm. My excuse is that I've been extremely busy working on a lot of interesting projects the last couple of months. I'll post links to those videos in a week or so. Until then, here are the December links:

- Like so many others out there, I've been extremely excited about Smoke on OS X. It finally puts top tier editorial within closer reach of mere mortals. The blog (aptly named) Smoke on OS X is a repository of information on the topic.

- The post-production crowd-sourcing trend continues with the virtual animation studio Mass Animation. Imagine what we'll be able to do once the bandwidth limitations start to fall away.

- You knew it was coming pt. 2 - Hand Held Hollywood - Where iPhone Obsessions meet Hollywood Professions.

- Post Haste (freeware) looks like a great app for organizing folders for all of the apps you use in post.

- Adobe launches free PhotoShop iPhone app. Another similar app that I covered months ago is Mill Color by the world famous VFX house The Mill.

- Speaking of VFX, the web app tracksperanto promises to convert trackers between VFX apps.

- And yet another great free web app, Baseline, will show you a visual image of the amount of space on your drive and what apps are using it.

- I wish my new MacBook Pro had the upcoming optical port Light Peak that may start shipping on new Macs next year.

- The next version of iDVD is rumored to support the creation of iTunes LP Apple's new album format. And this week on MacBreak Weekly Alex Lindsay brought up a provocative idea (about 54:20 in) that on the next big update of DVD Studio Pro Apple should make it so that you can build interactive QuickTime movies. I'd take it a step further and say that a lot of content creators would love to create Rich Internet Apps apps but are intimidated by all the scripting. Air and Silverlight apps are everywhere but they're are still part of the domain of web dev types. As the content / mobile / web convergence increases I think we will hopefully start to see more
video editor oriented web app tools appear.