Want your viewers to feel more immersed? Adobe Creative Cloud is adding support for editing virtual reality video to Premiere Pro CC, as part of the Spring 2016 update.
Video editors can click and drag to change the point of view the editing window is looking from, giving them the ability to check their footage from a variety of perspectives. Exported files will be recognized as VR-compatible when uploaded to sites like YouTube or Facebook. A video showing off the VR editing features, above, gives customers an idea of what this will look all like.
There’s also support for previewing stereoscopic VR footage, which uses the left and right eyes to create a 3D effect. Desktop users can’t see that effect at their desk, but support for old-school blue and red glasses offers an approximation while editing.
Virtual reality video is a relatively young but growing segment of the online video market. Viewers are free to turn their heads in such videos, looking wherever they please, which is immersive but poses a challenge for video editors. Adobe adding support for editing and exporting such footage gives would-be creators more options.
Sites like YouTube and Facebook already offer virtual reality videos, viewable on devices like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. There are also more affordable options. In November The New York Times distributed Google Cardboard headsets, which use a smartphone as a screen, to all subscribers free of charge so they could watch a collection of immersive documentary videos.
The virtual reality editor isn’t the only new feature coming to Premier Pro. Here’s a quick rundown.
The updates are all outlined in a press release, which you can check out if you want to learn more. We couldn’t find a release date for the new features, but this being Creative Cloud all updates will be pushed out automatically to subscribers.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
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"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.