And of course with a subscription you get some generative AI features but if you use more than a limited amount you have to pay, so another money stream for Adobe.
I am actually most excited to try the Media Intelligence feature for plane language search of all your footage. And less need for assistant editors of course.
On the great editor Walter Murch.
A definitive resource.
This sounds insane, check it out at Cut/Daily (free registration required).
This is insane! So basically with a powerful server you stream your media frame by frame and can edit anywhere with an internet connection without downloading media (so much more secure way to remotely edit).
THIS IS THE FUTURE!
So Apple updated the Mac Studio for the first time since the M2 version, but they certainly made a strange choice with the base model being an M4 Max, but the high end being an M3 Ultra. Making the lower end model actually faster than the high end model for single core operations. And the M3 Ultra is upgraded from the M3 Max with Thunderbolt 5, and GPU numbers that match the m4 max at least in core count.
It seems that Apple is going to skip the Ultra connector in some series, but then maybe they should think about skipping every other generation so they can match Max and Ultra to the same generation so the higher end chip isn’t slower in single processor operations. Nor have less possible memory or memory bandwidth.
I run video and with memory and videos sharing RAM I need as much as I can get, and $1600 for 256 GB is about all I could swing, as $4000 for 512 GB is insane. Damn Apple charges allot for RAM. And $4600 for 16 TB’s of hard drive space, OMG!
My last Mac Studio was over 7K and the next one will likely be more, just hope it lasts over 7 years!
CUT/DAILY #437 : Be Conventional. Is all about the importance of file naming correctly, and I 100% agree.
Every project needs a simple and effective naming convention for tracking everything, and it should be followed exactly on every job.
Every company I work for doesn’t follow any naming conventions and it is literally insane. Literally I am not even given consistent job numbers or names, ever.
And the naming should be matched with file structure on the hard drives.
Without organization going back will always be hard, but with it finding stuff is easy.
From Mark Surman at the Mozilla blog:
I know that losing Google’s paid search money is basically all of Mozilla’s income, but ads and AI aren’t the answer. I would guess that anyone using Mozilla is blocking ads, and AI in a browser is just not worth paying for? I mean Mozilla’s current AI summarizes web pages, but is that a money maker? I mean really? AI costs money to run so you have to pay for it, and I just haven’t seen where AI in a web browser is going to make Mozilla enough money to survive.
And Mozilla needs to survive as there is Chrome/Chromium which you can’t trust cause it is Google, Safari, which is Apple so they will never allow Mozilla’s level of customization, and Mozilla, which makes no money.
Awesome, great news. LumaFusion is a real editor for iPad that works with a timeline like Premiere or Avid and not Final Cut. And it gets better all the time.
Still it also makes me wish that BlackMagic would just release all the DaVinci Resolve pages on the iPad app, instead of having to use keyboard shortcuts to launch them, because then the iPad would have a real editor.
An interesting look since there are always focus issues and differences with in camera shatrpening, especially with phone cameras.