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Coverflow on iPod? (Video)
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There's a reason its on page 2.
Fake all the way.
Its a video no doubt, and he makes a false start right at the beginning. Good try though
While the effect is fun, for some it's also useful: people like to browse by cover, the way we used to do with a box of real CDs. Flip through until something strikes you.
That works much better on the widescreen iPhone than it does in this little iPod-sized fake, of course. And like any scrolling, much better with touch-based thumbing than with a wheel. (Though the wheel is a nice second-best.) I'm sure future non-phone iPods will have touch-based coveflow.
I am doubting this video VERY much....
I think this youtube video is very well made, but I do NOT think it is a genuine firmware update for the ipod. More than likely this is a movie of coverflow on itunes, filmed, edited, and shared as an iTune movie. The actor has praticed the moves, but I don't even think that is very convincing. Watch the thumb...it starts earlier than the coverflow. VERY CONVINCING, but sorry...I'm not buying it. WELL EDITED, BUT FAKE! Sorry guys.
I think this youtube video is very well made, but I do NOT think it is a genuine firmware update for the ipod. More than likely this is a movie of coverflow on itunes, filmed, edited, and shared as an iTune movie. The actor has praticed the moves, but I don't even think that is very convincing. Watch the thumb...it starts earlier than the coverflow. VERY CONVINCING, but sorry...I'm not buying it. WELL EDITED, BUT FAKE! Sorry guys.
To know something is fake you only need to know one thing. The quality of the image ALWAYS sucks. "Hey we secretly got the firmware upgrade to the ipod allowing coverflow, But unfortunately we still haven't figured out how to hold a camera (or and ipod) in one place. or focus it"
My guess they did a screen capture, made a video and put in on their ipod. They can do all that, but still, unhooking or even concieving the use of a tripod is beyond their grasp. BTW cameras don't focus well when their 2cm away from the subject. I don't know why that pisses me off so much.
Oh wait i remember why. It's not that hard.
My guess they did a screen capture, made a video and put in on their ipod. They can do all that, but still, unhooking or even concieving the use of a tripod is beyond their grasp. BTW cameras don't focus well when their 2cm away from the subject. I don't know why that pisses me off so much.
Oh wait i remember why. It's not that hard.
it's fake.
You can easilt track the movement using After Effects.
They had a quicktime of coverflow and slap it on the video ipod window. add transfer mode so the glare of the screen is visible.
it's well done, but if you take the time to look carefully you can see it's fake.
You can easilt track the movement using After Effects.
They had a quicktime of coverflow and slap it on the video ipod window. add transfer mode so the glare of the screen is visible.
it's well done, but if you take the time to look carefully you can see it's fake.
Who cares if it's fake or not. They can keep the eye candy. How about imroving sound quality. How about cd quality. Then they will really have something.
I don't think it looks fake, but it does look like it would be a lot of fun. I hope this rumor is true.
it won't be on the 5th Gen iPod because of the nature of the hardware, but i have no doubt it will be on the 6th Gen iPod.
when steve introduced the iphone he said it had os x with core animation. so it made sense to include cover flow. if the 6G ipods have cover flow, would that not mean the ipod will also have some form of os x as well? if so, then great. but part of me doubts os x will make it into the 6G ipod, and i doubt cover flow will too.
Coverflow was ment to be a view, to bring back the feeling of looking through your CD collection.
Actually it was a standalone ap developed by Steel Skies and then sold to apple.
Dave
Exactly, coverflow does not help you find music faster or more efficiently, it is simply a fun way to do it, and I hate when vidos like this raise my hopes for a second, only to disappoint me.
It has to be fake. Cover flow doesn't work that well. Ha! Anyway, I never liked 7 when it came out anyway. Thats why I don't use it.
Anyway, I never liked 7 when it came out anyway. Thats why I don't use it.I watched this thinking how fake it was, and how it could have been knocked up with less than a dozen nodes in Shake, and just a coupla hours in after FX. I've never used a 5G, so the real explanation escaped me and I thought the sync problems (between scrollwheel and cover flow) were just down to rushing the footage he later comp'd on to the screen, when trying to match it up to the thumb movement. But yeah, the fact that the menu bar isn't visible when cover flow is on (suggesting full-screen video), and that he avoids showing it when he's supposedly back in the menu show up how this was really done. But I don't get whether the whole thing is a video, being played on the ipod with the cover flow edited in with captured footage from an ipod (if so why would the hold key have been locked during the original footage, and so why is he hiding the menu bar?) or is it that he turns hold off at the end of the cover flow video and goes back to the menu (but then why does he hide the menu bar from then on, and why doesn't he scroll thru the album a little, rather than just keeping it simple by pressing the centre button on the first tune (which suggests wanting to get the movement to look synched in less takes)?
As I say I dunno 5Gs that well, so maybe this is obvious to others. I should also reiterate for those few foolish optimists out there that even if the 4200 rpm spindle and limited graphics capabilities of the chips in 5G ipods could make this possible, you can bet apple would certainly not give it away as a firmware update, cos that would just be plain stupid.
As I say I dunno 5Gs that well, so maybe this is obvious to others. I should also reiterate for those few foolish optimists out there that even if the 4200 rpm spindle and limited graphics capabilities of the chips in 5G ipods could make this possible, you can bet apple would certainly not give it away as a firmware update, cos that would just be plain stupid.
*begin sarcasm*
I've got it! Apple will allow us to have this NEW capability, but we have to download a firmware enabler for only $1.99!
Due to the fact that they've already recognized income from the iPod, they'll have to charge this fee to comply with SOX laws in the US.
*end sarcasm*