Yearly Archives: 2007

Audio Production Guidlines

By Eric Peacock | Published: July 3, 2007

Good reading for managers and production folks who deal with film, video or any multimedia: An Open Letter From Your Sound Department The Fifteen Comandments For Sound and Picture Part 1 The Fifteen Comandments For Sound and Picture Part 2

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Apple Human Interface Guidelines Still Controversial

By Eric Peacock | Published: July 3, 2007

With the recent Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard announcments at WWDC we all now know what sort of UI changes to expect from Apple this fall. The speculated and rumored scalable UI doesn’t seem to be a reality except for maybe the iPhone. Instead we have a more consistent implementation of the gray theme from [...]

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After Effects CS3 Ships

By Eric Peacock | Published: July 3, 2007

Hey – I just realized that After Effects CS3 is shipping! Nifty. Looks like I’ll have my copy on Friday. 

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The one imporant thing about the iPhone

By Eric Peacock | Published: July 2, 2007

Since the hype hit it’s stride I’ve basically held on to one consistent thought that is better summarized in Ars Technica’s iPhone Review: You don’t have to love it; you don’t even have to like it. You will, however, be witness to a great upheaval in the mobile communications business because of it. Exactly.

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Hi-Def Disc Producers Fail to Learn From Standard DVD

By Eric Peacock | Published: June 30, 2007

High Def Digest has a list of the most annoying traits on both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs. Other than the newer format-specific quibbles most of the annoyances are problems that have existed with standard DVDs. When DVDs first came out they were pretty much bare-bones, then discs starting getting excessive with the menus and transitions. [...]

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Great write-up of new Adobe Camera Raw 4.1 Features

By Eric Peacock | Published: May 31, 2007

About Camera Raw 4.1, by Jeff Schewe Looks great, and just in time for all the raw-based photo shoots I just did.

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Visual FX Shops Overwhelmed

By Eric Peacock | Published: May 31, 2007

Variety: Blockbusters take toll on f/x shopsMike over at hdforindies also backs this up.I hadn’t heard this till now – and I’m sort of a mid-range VFX guy a lot of the time.Actually, when I think about it the same expectations versus cost and time are a problem for my smaller projects as well. I’m [...]

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Married

By Eric Peacock | Published: May 30, 2007

I tend to avoid mentioning personal life things when writing on this site, but there are exceptions and this is one of them. As of May 19, 2007 I am officially married to Kathy Ulrich (and yes, I did design and code her web site). For the past few years we’ve been as good as [...]

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