iPhone no Flash

Not a complete surprise but the iPhone will not render Flash on it's Safari browser, according to Adobe developer relations for mobile and devices. Flash must not be as good as Quicktime!

Update: I should leave it to the experts...it looks like Apple might be adding Flash to the iPhone according to the WSJ; see Next iPhone generation will support Flash.

There's also plenty of other developments, like the free iPhoneDevCamp held at Adobe in San Francisco the weekend of July 6, Apple on Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone,and The AIR iPhone an AIR application that possibly could be ported to FlashLite to work on cheap handsets.

OpenEXR filters out of beta

Brendan Bolles OpenEXR plug-ins (covered in April) for reading a multi-channel EXR in AE are now 1.0. Brendan added a few more features, like storing color information, to these filters. OpenEXR Image Viewing software from ILM is also provided.

Brendan also made a similar plug-in (pictured) for Photoshop, ProEXR. which also includes an extra AE plug-in that will turn a layered EXR file into a series of source comps automatically.

RedGiant/Trapcode release schedule

Studio Daily writes that Red Giant Announces Plug-in Shipping Schedule: "Next week, three [Trapcode] plug-ins, 3D Stroke, Shine and Starshow, previously only available for After Effects, will be released for Final Cut Pro, Motion, Premiere Pro and Avid. All will support floating point capability and are available for $99 each."

Magic Bullet Looks and Instant HD are scheduled for August; in September Red Giant plans to release Trapcode Form (formerly codenamed Flux).

Killer Schedules

Flowseeker reports on an FxGuide article and podcast, Killer Schedules: Behind that Variety Story, that discusses last month's Variety article Blockbusters take toll on f/x shops. Flowseeker also says that "there will also be a follow-up interview with John Knoll and Dennis Muren on the nascent fxguide.tv."

In February, SF Bay Guardian printed a related article on labor practices at The Orphanage, which is based on federal land in The Presidio: "The Wild, Wild West...Pelosi's legacy: private business at the Presidio may be exempt from all state and local labor laws."

BTW, Fxguidetv #001 (QT) features 'Spider-Man 3' and a look at shape layers in After Effects CS3.

Mossberg likes Apple phone

Walter Mosserg of the Wall Steet Journal gives a thumbs up to the eye phone.

Another blinkx in the wall

This is a Blinkx wall based on a search of "Chalmers Johnson." Beet.TV, which has an interview with the Blinkx CEO, mentioned Blinkx an article on the new RealPlayer:

"The videos are then organized on a desktop application. That application has a dedicated and branded search utility provided by blinkx, the fast growing video search company. This is a big breakthrough for the San Francisco-based blinkx, which is quickly expanding thanks to the proceeds of a successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange. blinkx says it has indexed over 12 million hours of video."

Not sure what happened with that speech recognition to target ads in video clips thing.

Dick's shadow world

The current Vice-President and associates have an interesting ad campaign via noise machine talking points and visuals designed to obstruct Congressional investigation and disclosure of Executive Branch activities (taught in grade schools as 'checks and balances'). Crook & Liars gives you access to some of the issues discussed on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Countdown.