The Tiger Post
So, Tiger has been announced. Ships the 29th of April.
But hopefully you already know all this.
Personally, I can't wait to get my hands on it and have a play. Particularly, I want to experiment with Spotlight, Dashboard and Automator. Dashboard has some butt-ugly widgets but they're goign to be useful. Currently, I use Stattoo to keep track of my appointments, but there's no reason that a similar widget could be made for Dashboard... a list of your next five appointments.
Given my interest in post, however, I'm thinking of ways I can use Dashboard/Spotlight/Automator together to streamline post workflows. Or, at least, a way to put more information at the tips of an artists fingers. A widget which lists the latest generated elements, a widget which gives shot breakdowns, a widget which tracks render farm usage. Hell, a flipbook widget would be interesting... but not that useful. Its more about seeing information at a glance rather than completely interacting with that info. But I could see a widget which was tied to a folder running on the SAN. That folder on the SAN used Spotlight to list the latest 50 (or so) elements. The widget was a searchable version of that folder; so you could bring up a list of what has been generated and hopefully get it into Shake/FCP easily. Ultimately, this will depend on what degree of interaction that Dashboard will allow in its html/java/css stuff.
Actually, having dashboard widgets for directing would be excellent. A shot list viewer would be cool (essentiall a page-by-page shot breakdown), as would a properly formatted style-guide viewer. Hmm. I need to develop some of my own directing tools. I have a standard excel template for shot listing, but its not as flexible as I would like. Director Board's looks interesting but its frigging expensive. If hypercard still existed (RIP) I could've coded up something pretty damn quick. Export to palm would be nice.
[Hopefully someone from RSP reads this and thinks 'wow, what a coordinator!'. Mwahahaha]
But hopefully you already know all this.
Personally, I can't wait to get my hands on it and have a play. Particularly, I want to experiment with Spotlight, Dashboard and Automator. Dashboard has some butt-ugly widgets but they're goign to be useful. Currently, I use Stattoo to keep track of my appointments, but there's no reason that a similar widget could be made for Dashboard... a list of your next five appointments.
Given my interest in post, however, I'm thinking of ways I can use Dashboard/Spotlight/Automator together to streamline post workflows. Or, at least, a way to put more information at the tips of an artists fingers. A widget which lists the latest generated elements, a widget which gives shot breakdowns, a widget which tracks render farm usage. Hell, a flipbook widget would be interesting... but not that useful. Its more about seeing information at a glance rather than completely interacting with that info. But I could see a widget which was tied to a folder running on the SAN. That folder on the SAN used Spotlight to list the latest 50 (or so) elements. The widget was a searchable version of that folder; so you could bring up a list of what has been generated and hopefully get it into Shake/FCP easily. Ultimately, this will depend on what degree of interaction that Dashboard will allow in its html/java/css stuff.
Actually, having dashboard widgets for directing would be excellent. A shot list viewer would be cool (essentiall a page-by-page shot breakdown), as would a properly formatted style-guide viewer. Hmm. I need to develop some of my own directing tools. I have a standard excel template for shot listing, but its not as flexible as I would like. Director Board's looks interesting but its frigging expensive. If hypercard still existed (RIP) I could've coded up something pretty damn quick. Export to palm would be nice.
[Hopefully someone from RSP reads this and thinks 'wow, what a coordinator!'. Mwahahaha]
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