Ho-lee… In a special Sunday announcement today, Apple whipped the sheet off of Final Cut Pro HD, Shake 3.5, a beta for something new called Xsan (Storage Area Network), and – here’s the cool part – Motion, a new product which seems to be a direct shot across the bow of Adobe After Effects. Now, it doesn’t seem as fully-featured as After Effects, instead sitting somewhere between Shake and LiveType, but for $299 it delivers such sweet little morsels as particle effects, and it’s tightly integrated into Final Cut Pro. Nice. Looks like the last piece of my Adobe video arsenal may be on its way out the door.
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I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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