My lead story this week is a video: The Six Priorities that Determine Where the Eye Looks First. This list, first created by Norman Hollyn and further developed by me, answers two questions: How do we catch the viewer's eye? And, secondly, how do we make sure they see what we want them to see? This concept was the inspiration that got me started writing my latest book.
and how they guide a viewer through an image.
There was a LOT of news this week. In a normal year, we'd be in the middle of NAB right now. And, many companies plan development based upon access to trade shows for promotion. Here are some of the highlights.
Maxon announced new versions of Cinema 4D, Moves by Maxon and, finally, Redshift rendering comes to the Mac, including the M1 series.
Adobe announced that Premiere Rush now supports M1 Macs natively. They also released two new, though quite minor, features for Premiere Pro.
Simon Says released an extension for Adobe Premiere Pro that supports speech-to-text transcription from within Premiere. Since Premiere has already announced upcoming support for speech-to-text, I reached out to Shamir Allibhai, CEO of Simon Says, to learn why they created this extension.
Arctic Whiteness released Final Cut Library Manager 3.90. This new version supports both Intel and M1 Macs natively, supports Final Cut 10.5.2 and cleans up some interface changes caused by Big Sur.
OWC announced they have partnered with Acronis to add Acronis cyber protection technology into OWC storage products covering file and folder backups, flexible management, and integrated anti-ransomware. After reading the press release, I still have no idea what this means. From what I've been told, this is just a partnership announcement, product plans are still to be announced.
Thinking of acquisitions, Xytech completed the acquisition of ScheduALL. Xytech is committed to completely supporting the ScheduALL application and all ScheduALL clients. Xytech also offers the MediaPulse facility management software and the MediaPulse Managed Cloud.
