Adobe Production Studio: Back in Mac

I dis­cov­ered this today. It upset me.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jan. 4, 2007 — Adobe Sys­tems Incor­po­rated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that the next ver­sion of Adobe® Pro­duc­tion Stu­dio, the inte­grated video and audio post­pro­duc­tion tool set that is part of the Cre­ative Suite fam­ily, will be avail­able for both the Mac­in­tosh and Win­dows® plat­forms. Film, video and web pro­fes­sion­als cur­rently using Adobe After Effects®, Adobe Pho­to­shop® and Adobe Illus­tra­tor® on the Mac will soon be able to har­ness the power of com­pletely new Mac­in­tosh releases of Adobe Pre­miere® Pro, Adobe Encore® DVD and Adobe Soundbooth™ — all key com­po­nents of an upcom­ing mile­stone revi­sion to Adobe Pro­duc­tion Stu­dio. The soft­ware will have its first pub­lic demon­stra­tion dur­ing the Mac­world 2007 Con­fer­ence and Exhi­bi­tion at The Moscone Cen­ter in San Fran­cisco, Jan­u­ary 9 – 12 (Booth 901). The next release of Adobe Pro­duc­tion Stu­dio is expected to ship in mid-2007.

Are they try­ing to con­vince me to buy a Mac? Ever since some­one showed me what you can do with Objec­tive C and Quartz to any video source on a Mac I’ve been wish­ing it were prac­ti­cal to buy one and use it for every­thing I wanted to, but couldn’t bring myself to con­sider FCP on account of lack of snazzy inte­gra­tion. Ah well. I’m sure some­thing else will crop up before the elusively-dated “mid-2007″ to help me reconsider…

# by Josh on January 21st, 2007 Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Verisimilitude

I just used that word in an essay for the first time ever. Never mind its Mod­ule C HSC Eng­lish rel­e­vancy, I never once used it there. It’s sit­ting in a phi­los­o­phy essay and is so sur­rounded by other wanky words (I’m fill­ing up space) that it appears per­fectly at home. Lovely.

# by Josh on May 7th, 2006 Tags:
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Some texts for people I’m no longer worried about competing with

For Eng­lish Advanced Mod­ule C, Telling the Truth, con­sider:

In no par­tic­u­lar order. Some are, how­ever, bet­ter than oth­ers. All except Net­work are avail­able online (via their own web­site of pub­li­ca­tion or Project Guten­berg).

Oh, and before any­one says they can get Net­work from P2P, I’ll wish you good luck. It’s avail­able on DVD, but only just, and it’s hardly a pop­u­lar film any­more. I rented it out, watched and took notes, then a few days later wanted to check some­thing. I couldn’t find any­thing online, so… I wouldn’t waste your time.

These are all relatively/very obscure, so it’s unlikely many peo­ple will use them. Unless of course lots of peo­ple are search­ing for mod­ule C/telling the truth texts online and find this post. At any rate, enjoy.

# by Josh on October 19th, 2005 Tags: , , , , , , ,
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My pre-HSC seminar timetable

A sem­i­nar timetable, mostly for my ref­er­ence, and that of peo­ple who do the same sub­jects as me. Just because I haven’t posted a table for a while, and feel sorry for the poor, oft-abused, tag.
Sub­ject Date Time Teacher Venue
Eng­lish Extension Mon­day, Octo­ber 10, 2005 13:00 – 15:00 Mrs Christie Rm 72
Mod­ern History Tues­day, Octo­ber 11, 2005 8:40 – 9:40 Mrs Earle Rm 65
Eng­lish Advanced — Area of Study Tues­day, Octo­ber 11, 2005 14:15 – 15:15 Mrs Argall Lec­ture The­atre (Lvl 4)
Infor­ma­tion Technology Wednes­day, Octo­ber 12, 2005 8:40/9:40 – 10:40 Mr Hawkes Rm 68
Eng­lish Advanced — Mod­ule A Wednes­day, Octo­ber 12, 2005 13:15 – 14:15 Mrs Christie Lec­ture The­atre (Lvl 4)
Eng­lish Advanced — Mod­ule B Thurs­day, Octo­ber 13, 2005 9:40 – 10:40 Cptn David­son Lec­ture The­atre (Lvl 4)
Eng­lish Advanced — Mod­ule C Fri­day, Octo­ber 14, 2005 11:00 – 12:35 Ms Oud Rm 72
# by Josh on October 2nd, 2005 Tags: , ,
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A cool little program

Orig­i­nally writ­ten for Word­Press, this two-part appli­ca­tion dis­plays XMMS’s cur­rently play­ing song.

Con­sist­ing of a C mod­ule, which is com­piled and oper­ates as part of XMMS itself (as a plu­gin) and a PHP script which reads the out­put of this plu­gin and dis­plays it wher­ever the user wants (i.e. on a remote web host).  It uses sock­ets, so the web­server doesn’t need to be on the com­puter run­ning XMMS, which is handy for web­sites like… this one.

Why am I not yet using it?  A few bugs, it would seem… I don’t speak C, so I’ve emailed the author to ask what’s going on.  Any­one else run­ning Linux/XMMS I’d rec­om­mend take a look here, even if you’re not run­ning WP (that is of lit­tle significance).

I’ve got the script run­ning here: http://nicktangents.is-a-geek.com/random/playing.php until it is worked out prop­erly, at which point I’ll move it over to this part of the world (i.e. the server the web­site you are view­ing now is run­ning off).

It is inter­est­ing, but only par­tially work­ing… the “cur­rently play­ing” song as dis­played there is just the first entry in my playlist at the minute… the artist field does not func­tion, how­ever as the song string is actu­ally the XMMS title string, that doesn’t mat­ter too much.  I’m more inter­ested in resolv­ing the first-entry-in-playlist-only dis­play thing, personally.

Any res­o­lu­tion shall be posted here-ish as soon as it hap­pens!  A rea­son to get the Projects sec­tion off the ground, perhaps…

# by Josh on June 13th, 2004 Tags: , , , , ,
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