I think Robert X Cringely may have found the origin of the A.I. in Martin Munthe’s upcoming sci-fi Typhoon.
Looks like Mac OS X 10.3 will not be a 64-bit OS after all, and only run in 32-bit mode on the new G5 (IBM PPC970). Well, what can I say. One can always run Yellow Dog Linux in native 64-bit mode on it…
Update: A great clarification of the confusion the above stirred up have been written by Jeremy Fox over at OSNews.com.
There are not a single word about a plugin for both export and import of AAF on Automatic Duck’s website as the Final Cut Pro page about extensability claims. But with the new XML export function in Final Cut Pro 4 looks promising and simple to implement in melies fx.
Tres cool!
I have started to collect screenshots of different compositors, both old and new, for my own amusement and to study user interface design.
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There are a few newsworthy bits regarding Melies the open-source compositor I’m developing as project leader.
I’m happy to welcome a new developer, Mikael Sundell from Actro Group, onboard the project this early on before any official CVS release. He has offered to develop our support for Quicktime on the Linux platform and write a brand new flipbook that will support both frame stores (frames in individual image files) as well as svq/svq3/DV/jpeg/mjpeg video and use OpenGL framebuffers for display.
Personaly I’m currently away from the Melies project doing some user interface refactoring for K-3D that will make the whole interface using scriptable widgets. When that is done I’m going to work on the two projects in parallel finishing Melies render engine Irend and get the codebase into CVS.
I’m not talking about the eleven volumes of the Warren Commision’s report but the software used to deinterlace and retime Camp Slaughter. The movie will be released in time for Halloween and open in theatres throughout Scandinavia, with an international DVD release following soon after.
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Starting Friday I’m throwing my own private hackerthon. I’m going to finish all the elementary features in the Irend library that provide Melies with low-level hardcore numbercrunching (I intended to put graphic into that sentence but that would have schewed the mental image more than necessary). I’m already knee deep in SIGGRAPH papers with stuff that I want to implement eventually.