wade walker : flash developer

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.

So I have been trying out Windows Vista Ultimate for about a month now, and I have to say, like XP, it takes some getting used to but you eventually warm up to it. But for me to warm up to it, I had to do a good bit of customization. Some of those things included turning off that f***ing pop-up security message every time you doing a system change of some sort or installing an application. After you turn off the UAC security, you have to disable Windows warning messages that appear in in the Start Menu bar by the clock. If you don’t you will have a constant message basically saying that your security sucks and you need to fix it.

Adobe has announced that Creative Suite 3 (CS3) Design and Web editions have started to ship out.

Adobe’s Creative Suite Production and Master Collection are not yet shipping as they await final releases of Adobe After Effects CS3 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. Both After Effects and Premiere Pro were released as public betas today from Adobe Labs website and can be downloaded now.

Apple has today announced that the release of MacOS X 10.5 Leopard will be delayed until October due to the development of iPhone.

iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS® X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned.

Apple goes on to state that while Leopard will be feature-complete by WWDC, they could not “deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us.” As if to demonstrate that point, Apple recently released a new build of Leopard which continued to contain a long-list of known issues.

Developers will be given a “near-final” beta copy of Leopard at the Worldwide Developers Conference in early June.

Details have now been leaked about the upcoming release of Adobe’s Creative Suite packages.

CS3 Design Standard/Premium

This package is aimed at “print and publishing professionals”, the basic standard bundle is going to include InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, and Acrobat 8 Professional. The Premium edition will add Flash CS3 Professional and Dreamweaver CS3, and exchange the standard version of Photoshop for Photoshop CS3 Extended.