trackFinger AE: tracking gestures on iOS

trackFinger AE is new iOS app (on App Store) that allows you to record the movements of up to 10 fingers on an iPad, and then send tracking data as keyframes in e-mail text to paste into Adobe After Effects.

There's more on Pro Video Coalition.

Color control panel for the iPad

@andymees notes summaries by Peter Salvia on the free Tangent Devices vWave-Lite for the iPad, noted recently by Steve Hullfish, Bob Sliga, and others. See blog scoop – chris from tangent devices discusses vwave-lite for ipad and color control panel for the ipad at Salvia's blog Proactively for a look cool vs. cost and lack of tactile feedback. Here's a video of the iPad app from Steve Hulfish:

Tangent Devices' iPad Color Controller from Steve Hullfish on Vimeo.

iPad light painting

via @hummelstrand and @someofmywork is Making Future Magic: iPad light painting. The Vimeo summary says:

"This film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world. We use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments, we play movies on the surface of the iPad that extrude 3-d light forms as they move through the exposure. Multiple exposures with slightly different movies make up the stop-frame animation."

Read more about the work at the Dentsu London blog and the BERG blog.

Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

Google to Open-source VP8 + iPhone OS evil

There are more wrinkles ahead if NewTeeVee is right about Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video :

"a divide between which video format can be viewed in which browser. H.264-encoded HTML5 video can be viewed in Apple’s Safari, Google’s Chrome and in the upcoming Internet Explorer 9 browser from Microsoft. Meanwhile, Ogg Theora playback for HTML5 video is supported by Firefox, Chrome and Opera. Google hopes to stem that divide by making VP8 open source, providing a high-quality and open alternative to existing codecs. [...]

While an open-source VP8 could end concerns about H.264’s licensing issues and Theora’s quality, questions still remain about whether Google can provide a video standard on which everyone can agree. Microsoft only recently announced support for H.264 for HTML5 playback, and has never been quick to adopt open standards. And Apple, which has been the driving force behind HTML5 video and H.264 playback on the iPhone and iPad, might not be keen on the idea of switching up its codec support on those devices anytime soon."

Update: via @tgaul, iPhone OS 4.0: Now With Added Evil by James Higgs agrees with Steve Jobs on many points but says that Apple will make exceptions on certain development tools, invalidating Jobs' claims. He concludes that:

"What should be clear from this analysis is that the target of Apple’s hostility is not Adobe, but Google [soon an iPad rival too]. Taken together with iAds, section 3.3.1 is a way to preserve Apple’s current domination of the mobile app market. (Of course, that doesn’t stop Apple relishing a further knock to Adobe.) [...]

Instead of a confident Apple heralding the next stage in the iPhone’s development as the best mobile OS on the planet, Thursday’s announcement ensures that Apple now looks scared of Android, and is prepared to act rashly to defend itself. Rather than take on Android with superior features, better build quality, better usability and aggressive pricing, Apple shows its anxiety by hamfistedly trampling all over the people who helped them become the number on mobile app platform in the first place: the developers."

Update 2: it's the nature of business, Tensions Rise for Twitter and App Developers.

Turn Your iPhone or iPad Into an External Multitouch Monitor for Your Mac

Huh? An iPad as multitouch external monitor? iDisplay, uses data flow over either 3G or Wi-Fi according to Gizmodo, via @Oddernod.

Adobe Story to the iPad?

Sébastien Périer is asking for a port for Adobe Story to the iPad. That's the essence of the message but he does mention several pre-production tools on the iPhone if that's an area you haven't explored.

Meanwhile, Hand Held Hollywood says that Final Draft For IPad Looking For Beta Testers!

The Apple iPad, filmmakers, & other creatives

While the Apple iPad is disappointing to many (on DRM, Flash, etc.), potential uses are also imagined. Here's a few articles looking at possible impacts:

• Make Movies With Apple iPad at Prolost
  
• FreshDV's 7 Ways the Apple iPad will affect Filmmakers and Creatives by Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo of The DSLR Cinematography Guide.
• Videoguys' iPad Wish List for Videographers
• What does iPad mean for designers? at creativebits.org
• Various and Assorted Thoughts and Observations by DaringFireBall
  
• Apple’s iPad - All the Details, What It Means For Us at PVC
  
• What the Apple iPad Will Mean for Movies at Making the Movie

Update: Video examples of publishing models were collected in a previous AEP post, Video in magazines of the future + Apple's Tabula Rasa.

And it had to happen (for more on the phenomena see AEP's There there. I hear he only shoots JPEG.)...



Update: Prolost reviews the iPad for Filmmaking, Day Six Report.

Mobile video of the Apple iPad

Leo Laporte's mobile video of the Flash-less Apple iPad is up already, and coming live and/or in pieces at Qik, http://qik.com/twit. For more on Qik and related info, see Live video from iPhone... There’s now apps for that.

Update: Everyone is broadcasting pieces. CNN Live -- in delay! -- is working big and has good quality. Also, Twit.tv is up and down but big, but there's also nickarodriguez mobile on Qik.

Finally, Apple has the event recording posted.

But wait, there's more:

Jim Feeley adds "engadget's coverage of the iPad announcement is much much better than that of either the New York Times or Macworld. It's a new era... jasondiamond: MCGrawHill CEO must be at the bottom of a lake in cement iShoes by now. #iPad #Leak

5tu: If nothing else, I think the #iPad would make a terrific control surface for Magic Bullet Looks. Videoguys: iPad - can we attach it to a 5D as field monitor? Or use 3G/wifi to enter metadata and clip info as we record?