Blog Entries tagged 'multimedia'

Wow Adobe - Part 2

philip.roy@nzmac.com — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:00:00 +0100

I was under a Non-disclosure agreement so couldn't say much about what I saw in Kuala Lumpur related to Acrobat 9, but the big emphasis with the next version of Acrobat (announced yesterday) is multimedia...without a doubt!

In particular, the digital ePortfolio functionality of their Acrobat Professional product is staggering...considering this is all delivered in a PDF...just writing that staggers me...I never saw PDF as a multimedia delivery platform at all.

I wo [...]

Wow Adobe !!

philip.roy@nzmac.com — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:00:00 +0100

Greetings from Singapore. I started this post on a fairly state-of-the-art bus just outside of Kuala Lumpur, with my laptop plugged in to the power adaptor provided at every seat...and am finishing it in a hotel in Singapore with free wi-fi access. Why is it that when you go to amazingly expensive hotels they charge you for broadband, but drop down to a cheaper location overseas and access is often free!?

I'm on a 5-day holiday in Singapore, after being invited to attend and prese [...]

Why no movies on NZ iTS?

loweded.wookie@nzmac.com — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:00:00 +0100

It's easy to blame Apple or the movie industry for not having movies on the iTunes Store despite having it for a year or so. It's a little more complicated than that and I think it's a shame because it's forcing the movie industry to make very very bad movies.

The real reason that movies aren't on iTS in New Zealand is actually because of the cinemas. This is something that I don't understand. The last movie that I went to see at the movies was Transformers, before that Spiderma [...]

A tale of two iMovies

loweded.wookie@nzmac.com — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:20:41 +0100

There's a couple of flaws in the views of Phil's. Firstly to say that
the timeline allows more power is actually not true, in fact quite the
opposite. While iMovie '06 does allow for a better volume adjustment,
the fact that it only allows for two audio tracks + whatever audio is
in the video means it is woefully inadequate.

If you strip the audio from the video so that you can edit the volume of the sound you have reduced the overall audio tracks to two. This can be seen in the image [...]

The timeline - 2 out of 3 apps agree!

philip.roy@nzmac.com — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:27:21 +0100

OK, Darryn and I have been having a bit of a discussion about iMovie 08 and Final Cut Express within the blog area. I wanted (through the use of state-of-the-art images...I joke!) explain what I mean about the issue related to the way of working (note - I had a habit of saying 'anology' when I should have said 'metaphor' in my last post).

There's one phrase in Darryn's reply that really struck a chord. And for me, it sums up my surprise and concern at what Apple has done....
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The timeline does matter - to me and Apple!?

philip.roy@nzmac.com — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0100

I'm only just starting to get to play with the copy of Final Cut
Express 4 that Apple recently sent me. I decided to start by taking a
quick look at the Apple site to find out what had changed, and one page
really caught my eye. Take a look at this page...

http://www.apple.com/finalcutexpress/

On the page about what is new is a movie showing how you can import
iMovie '08 projects into FCE. Take a good look at it and what struck me
the most was how [...]