Marco Sebastiano Alessi on how to add Text in DaVinci Resolve.

Entertainment Weekly reported on this insanity. This judge has no idea how it works? People get cut out of films all the time and a trailer comes out long before a film is finished, so how can you be held responsible! Especially since it is usually the PR department who cuts the trailer anyway! This has to be overturned.

It is time to spend time with the family! Woohoo, Happy Holidays everyone!

Autokroma has some great customer support and sent me out beta versions and fixed the issues I had been having with BRAW Studio in After Effects. This was the glitch I was having that they quickly fixed, Now I am still having some problems between ProRES RAW 6K, BRAW Studio, and Maxon Primatte Keyer 6. I think my iMac Pro may be having some serious issues, after all it is getting old and is likely full of dust. I also get the feeling that nothing was every optimized for the Radeo Pro Vega 64X 16 GB, as it came out at the end of the lifecycle.

Scott Simmons at the Pro Video Coalition has an in depth review of a new pro SSD RAID the Iodyne Pro Data.

Wow, hit over 500 posts today (can't believe my 500th post was about Windows). Pretty surprising.I hope people are enjoying my blog. I know I have gotten hits about my heart surgery, but not so sure on other hits, though I am slowly getting more followers on twitter, where all of my blog posts are linked to.If you are out there, thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoy my posts.

So there is a lot of controversy and ire on the web over Apple's removal of Google Maps and adding their own map with less functionality. And for the most part I agree.As for Googles Maps application, I liked having street view, and more accuracy, but Google maps on iPhone was dreadfully slow. And no turn by turn directions on iPhone, but yes on Android also sucked. Of course I only have an iPhone 4, so no turn by turn directions for me (though they work for Tom Tom, so why not here). And while I could get them on my iPad, that would require me to have the internet turned on all the time, and I don't have that, as most places I go have WIFI anyway (though I do have the 4G Verizon model).The 3D is rather cool, though takes a while to load. This is where I have been working.Here are the normal directions just like they used to be without turn by turn.The apple Maps app is fast though, and I like the 3D view  (though again can't use it on my iPhone where it might be useful), though it doesn't over much area, but downtown LA looks cool. My biggest problem so far has been inaccuracies in traffic, and it might have to do with crowd sourcing the traffic from other iOS phones, and maybe not many are out at 6 Am when I leave, but I had an extra 30 minutes added to my yesterday travel home time because the traffic report in the app was so wrong. That is unacceptable! And it mostly just shows RED and accidents, no Orange, and the roads are already yellow, so you can't see when it is yellow. I want more date for traffic, faster and more accurate, as being in LA, it is all about traffic!And if maps in inaccurate, it is pretty useless. How can they have bought 2 companies and be using Tom Tom data and have it wrong?UPDATE: Tried using the traffic function again this morning, and in Los Angeles at 6AM, it was totally incorrect. Showing no red on the Freeway where I was, where it should have been solid red, and showing clear where it should have been orange later in my drive. I would rather not have a traffic function than have on that is this bad and this off!

Vincent Laforet has a must read on his initial impressions of using the new Blackmagic Designs Cinema Camera. And it seems very impressive, other than the very small sensor size, the non-removable battery and not being able to format an SSD with the camera. Still sounds pretty darn good.I would like to give this camera a try especially since I have so many Canon EF lenses already.

Can you believe it? Now it is really over. The age of film is officially dead. Sure you can still get some film for a while, but it has been years since any film cameras have been made, and now Kodak in it's bankruptcy is selling it's film division. So everything is officially done digitally now!In some ways it is so sad, but in other ways it is exciting. Since you can get pretty high end cameras for not that much (but of course lenses are still expensive for good glass). And low budget filmmaking is so much easier.Still there was something about film. I made my first films in college on Super 8. And later on 16mm (though cutting on a movieola was not too fun). There is certainly something cool about it.And it is amazing how much digital can resemble shooting with film, though with a DIT instead of a camera assistant loading mags. And with RAW you still need to process the footage, though with a computer and not a lab.And now everything is stored digitally. Lets hope there aren't some enormous electromagnetic pulses because everything will be gone! Of course it isn't like film doesn't deteriorate, but still.Just strange and amazing that the once mighty Kodak has been brought so low.