Weekend Reads - 9-15-12

Kicking the Tires on Avid Media Composer 6.5
Scott Simmons tests and summarizes the main new features of Media Composer 6.5.

Adobe Get Nearer to a Bigger Slice of the Apple
Adobe seems to have capitalized very well on Apple's missteps. They say they have seen 40-45% annual growth on the Mac and 20% across all platforms.

Sorenson Announces Squeeze Premium
Squeeze Premium is a Windows-based encoding solution designed for a server environment but without some of the advanced features of the Server edition.

Dynamic Link: After Effects & Premiere Pro
Premium Beat has a great tutorial with the basics on Dynamic Linking between AE and Premiere. See also our Dynamic Link troubleshooting article.

Our various gamma filters
Detailed description of the differences between the gamma filters in FCP 7 and Compressor.