Vegas and NAB

Well, Vegas was much less kind to me this trip than it was a week ago. I didn't lose big but I certainly lost. In a strange twist of fate my mom was actually in Las Vegas at the same time I was, along with two of her friends and my godmother! Small world. I got a chance to hang out with them a bit and talk. My mom was doing much better than I was slots-wise

As for NAB, it was the usual gigantic zoo experience. I watched many of Apple's demos of the various parts of their new Final Cut Studio 2; was very impressed with the new versions of Motion and Soundtrack Pro. It will also be nice to do watermarking in Compressor and to have multiprocessor support, albeit kinda kludgey.

I was not willing to wait in line to see the Red camera, but I did see Peter Jackson's footage in action at the Apple booth.

Adobe's new suite looks very nice, and they're definitely integrating Flash and Flash Video into every part of it, which has some good advantages.

It's hard to decide what kind of HD camera to get at work. As one might say at an ice cream store, they all look so good, how can you pick? (I've already made my pick at home and sadly that was about a month too early... Canon upgraded the HV10 I bought and gave it HDMI out and a different form factor. Oh well.)

I got to see three famous people: Garrett Miller, inventor of the Steadicam, Bob Heil, inventor of many different microphones and loudspeakers, and Sinbad. OK, two famous people.

Right now I'm just chillin' at the Las Vegas Airport... 3 hours until my flight departs. I will likely get no sleep on the plane as usual, but I'll give it a go.