Any panelists using Apple's release candidate? Any brave Apple-holics out there?

6:40Oh, my gosh. Can we push that down? Let's circle that one back. Yeah. Let's come to the next question. All right. Let's go to the one that was number one until half a second ago. It's from Tony Mobley, who is also here on the panel in New England, Georgia. It says, any panelists using Apple's release candidate? Any brave Apple-holics out there? So, yeah.

7:06I mean, I am. But keep in mind, I don't use it on production machines. In fact, I don't even usually use it on machines that are connected to the internet. I've used it on virtual machines. There is a way to do that that's way more steps than is necessary. But yeah, generally, just after Golden Gate comes out, those are the safest release candidates

7:32you're going to get for the remainder of the season because they're not taking any risk. They're really just patching holes for the most part. part they will be playing around with functionality and features but if it's a feature for example that has to do with um you know in other people who are not on the RC like messages you know um it's not going to work because they're not they would also need to be on the release candidate so

7:55you know it's safe but I wouldn't I I wouldn't I wouldn't bet on it is that yeah more or less Carl. So me, what used to be called like the golden beta back in the day, which was going to be the release, which is a release candidate. I used to use these quite a lot for third party software that I need for my

8:22business. So the first party stuff from Apple is going to be fine, of course. So like Final Cut and all that. So I have some third party proprietary apps that have to work for me for what I do. So they're the ones I play with on my non-production machine. My production machine will get, it does come over, but only when I find out that the third party apps are working at 100%.

8:46And I also go check the, like essentially the forums for these apps because a lot of people, you know, their business runs on these apps. So I always check the forums to see if there's any gremlins in there that will affect me as well that I haven't discovered yet. So that is one thing I do use if I ever have like to use a,

9:01like a release candidate or like a golden beta. But recently I haven't had to do that so much, mainly because I don't mind being like maybe two or three weeks behind. You know, I'll wait for that, you know, 1.01. They're iterating so fast now. It's just, you know, it's not nearly as much of a thing. It used to be, you know, monthly or every other monthly.

9:23And now I feel like I don't go a week without something. So now I'm curious, Carl, what are your make or break apps? Like what apps are you actually checking for because they're business critical? So CPP is probably the biggest one for me. So this is Canon's proprietary software for the raw format. I have never used that. Like I install it every time and I never use it except for remote camera.

9:47But again, like the iOS version works. So remote shooting, which you can do with other third-party remote shooting has the most features, but has to do with the raw. So this is very similar to DaVinci Resolve for Blackmagic Raw. So if you understand how DaVinci Resolve and Blackmagic RAW link up, it's identical between CPP and Canon's RAW formats. So that's number one.

10:08I do use After Shoot to cull the images. So essentially to fabricate images, which one am I going to throw into CPP? CPP works. You know, there is no JPEG kind of. It does have a JPEG preview in a way, but it doesn't show you the JPEG preview. You can't select that. It's always going to show you the raw bitmap. Yeah, but its render engine is so fast.

10:26it's yeah it's it's quite fast like it's much faster than like uh photos or anything from adobe so if you put a raw into adobe then it's going to show you like the actual bitmap of the raw um that always takes longer than canons um and this is true for sony sony has their own version nikon has their own version too which have come out as well but that's that's usually number one

10:46is going to be that because without without that i can't do i can't do hardly anything i can't use dual pixel so dual pixels is a pretty big deal for me um all my photography is dual pixel so and that only works in cpp that's that's another big one as well dual pixel so this is these are canon technologies that aren't found in other cameras um i always have sworn by um um by photo