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 Well the World Wide Developer's Conference has come and gone and there is a lot to be excited about.  However there is  some disappointing news, disappointing to those who dared to hope.  Even though we knew that Adobe Photoshop CS4 is not and would not be running in native 64-bit on a Mac (the way it does in Vista)  anytime in the near future I found myself secretly hoping for a miracle.  

  I envisioned Steve Jobs in good health coming to the stage to tell stories of the two powers secretly meeting in some remote Silicon Valley location between  Cupertino, and San Jose to make CS4 magically reverse compatible with Snow Leopard.  There was no such announcement by any such person.  

 So as Adobe has claimed all along, we will continue to wait for CS5. 

As many have, we have started looking at cool ways to blend the medium of still and video. However I haven't seen very many people doing anything quite as extreme as what the guys at the University of Washington are working on. Ken Burns effect users BEWARE! I think it is safe to say when these guys finish school and start doing this for a living, or better yet start selling software, they are going to make a big pile of money.

Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene from pro on Vimeo.  

For those of us (photographers, techs, and other post production professionals) who have been looking for an easy and effective way of duplicating a folder template, here is a cheap and easy way.  Lets say you have everything nice and organized around your raw images and would like for your jpegs or tiffs to match that structure but don't want to waste 10 minutes at the end of every shooting session to copy and paste your names.

Using Adobe's free DNG  Converter, you can very quickly build out a copy of the folders without their contents.