The last week of the 2009 I bought a new camera, Canon EOS 7D. Yay!
7D is totally awesome camera. It has a 18M pixel APS-C sized sensor and its image quality is fine.
Soon after using this, I thought I made a great buy.
I bought a Zoom Lens Kit (EF-S15-85mm F3.5-5.6 IS).
This lens covers wide-angle, macro, and zoom shooting. Really useful. I loved it.
And also video recording is really good. 7D is able to record 1080p video in 30fps or 24fps, and 720p in 60fps with DSLR quality. It is rock!
At 2010 New Year’s Day I went to Takahata Fudo Temple (Tokyo) and shot some footages. It was the early hours of the morning and still dark, but captured images are beautiful with food stall’s lightings.
I uploaded a video which is combined that 7D footages with music.
Adobe Premiere Pro’s new playback engine named Adobe Mercury Playback Engine is blazing fast seriously.
I saw the real demonstration at InterBEE that is a conference held in Japan.
In that demo, Premiere plays four 4K RED footage simultaneously and all of the footage are applied GPU-accelerated effect! It’s amazing.
The engine became possible thanks to the power of nVidia CUDA, Multi-core CPU, and of course 64bit application being able to use a lot of memory.
For PremierePro”Next”, we are moving to new GPU + CPU model which allows us to scale and divide the workload more efficiently between multiple CPU Cores and GPU Cores. It uses the new nVidia CUDA technology and is designed to work with nVidia cards such as the Geforce 285 and FX4800/5800 series.
The engine works well only with Quadro FX4800, FX5800, CX and GeForce GTX 285. The requirement is a bit strict but the benefit is dramatically big.
Unfortunately because the Core Engine of After Effects is very different to Premiere’s one, AE will not get the engine.
Dear Adobe, I hope that After Effects improve its speed with the great powers of GPU like Premiere too =)
I am is Tatsuro Ogata, a.k.a. llcheesell, a freelance motion / visual designer working at Japan.
I’ve just created new blog for English world.
I want to share information about motion graphics, design, creative, After Effects, CINEMA 4D, etc…
I’m hosting ae-users.com where Japanese After Effects users are able to publish/share several resources and articles.
