wade walker : flash developer

Im going to start off by saying two words: Freaking Awesome! That is how good the new Batman movie is. It is one of those rare movies that is both better then the movie it follows and delivers on all the hype it had around it. Majority of the issues they had with Batman Begins were corrected here. So no more extreme up-close camera shots during fight scenes that prevented you from even seeing what was going on in the first place. That was my biggest problem with Batman Begins.

The MTV Movie Awards were announced and presented last night. Of all the winners, I think its great that Jaden Smith got an award at such a young age. For the Best Movie award, I don’t think Pirates should have gotten that award. While it was entertaining, I thought because of the flow of the movie, that it should have been a mini-series. The action was good and the comedy was good, but the scenes themselves and the story didn’t feel as if it were a whole piece. Anyway, here is the list of the winners:

Best Movie: “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”
Best Villain: Jack Nicolson for “The Departed”
Best Performance: Johnny Depp for “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”
Breakthrough Performance: Jaden Smith for “The Pursuit of Happyness”
Best Comedic Performance: Sacha Baron Cohen for “Borat”
Best Kiss: Will Ferrell & Sacha Baron Cohen for “Talladega Nights”
Best Fight: Gerard Butler vs. The Uber Immortal for “300″
Best Summer Movie You Haven’t Seen Yet: “Transformers”

Elgato Systems has recently released Turbo.264, its h.264 hardware video encoder accessory for Mac computers. Some may be asking why should I buy a video encoder when my Mac can already encode videos with h.264? Well, whenever you use Quicktime, for example, to encode a video, it is using the Quicktime software and your processor to render out and encode the video. When videos are being encoded it pretty much uses 100% of your processors power, leaving you with next to no room to do anything else(browse the internet, listen to music, etc).

The Final Cut Studio 2 suite, which was first announced at this years NAB event, is now shipping for consumers and corporations.

From Apple:

Final Cut Studio 2 helps take you beyond mere editing. Discover the intuitive power of new creative tools designed expressly for Final Cut Pro editors. Rapidly move through editing to motion graphics, audio editing and mixing, color grading, and delivery — all as a natural extension of the work you already do.

Final Cut Studio 2 puts a powerful new version of Final Cut Pro at the center of an integrated post-production workflow. Final Cut Pro 6, Motion 3, Soundtrack Pro 2, Compressor 3, DVD Studio Pro 4, and Color — a brand-new application for professional color grading — are all included in Final Cut Studio for $1299.

I’m looking forward to see what this release brings to editing world.

Let me start by saying when I first heard rumors about 2 years ago of a live action Transformers movie being in the works, I was a little bit skeptical. But after seeing the newest trailer for the movie, I can’t help but be excited and I can’t wait for the movie to come out. So here is the link to enjoy this new Transformers trailer goodness. It’s the Exclusive trailer from Yahoo!Movies.