SoundQ from Pro Sound Effects to organize your sound effects library

SoundQ is a free Sound Effects library applicationhttps://www.prosoundeffects.com/soundq/ that obviously ties into Pro Sound Effects libraries of sound effects, but can also be used on your own local sound effects without a subscription or purchasing sound effects from them. And you can edit the sound effects and send it into premiere that way, or send the original and it will even copy the sound effect to your library (though I wish I could get it to put it automatically place it in the same place away from the project file (where it puts it automatically) since I use PostHaste to make templated for my projects I don’t want the sound files next to my project, but in the sound fx folder, but i will just have to manually move them.

And since a free subscription gives your some free sound effects, and it is also integrates with Freesound.org you can’t really complain.

Honestly this is just great to have, as I have missed Apple Soundtrack since it was EOLed when Final Cut Pro 7 left all those years ago.

Digitaltrends on next-gen optical discs

From Simon Cohen at ditaltrends.

This is pretty exciting actually, 1.6 petabits of data on an optical disc, that is like 200,000 GB. You could have basically uncompressed movies (which would look amazing) and backup would be incredible.

Still this is mostly pie in the sky as they haven’t created consumer grade lasers that would go through 100 layers of disc, and since everyone is so into streaming.

So it likely won’t be consumer or be used for movies, which will keep it from being cheap, and it if it too expensive as storage there is no point, though I still would love to have it.

Hollywood Reporter on Tyler Perry putting 800 Million Studio expansion on hold because of OpenAI’s Sora

From Katie Kilkenny at The Hollywood Reporter. And Sora does look pretty damn amazing, though will have to see what you actually get out of it, doubt it will be 4k images, at least for now. And Sora did blow my mind when I first saw it, and I think it will put people out of work for sure, though copyright issues may be what keeps it out of say advertisements.

Still I don’t quite buy that the whole 800 million expansion is killed because of this alone. I would say even with Sora you would still need actors, but something like this will likely help create virtual environments, and in that case you would need less actual stage space, but more high tech stages with something like Stagecraft installed. And for that you don’t need more stages, but to upgrade a few existing stages, and you can have the equivalent of all those stages.

Socratica FX on Setting Files in DaVinci Resolve & Fusion

From Socratica FX on YouTube.

This deep dive into the Settings files that come out of Fusion (and Fusion in DaVinci Resolve) from Blackmagic Design. It is very cool that the settings files are just simple text files. Not only can you go into the files, but you can do things with the text files to create macros.

And don’t you wish all saved bins and files were like this, so that you could always just go in and see them as a plain text file and see if anything is wrong? This is how all save files should be saved!

Open AI’s upcoming text to video AI Sora has been shown, and it makes me worry about my future as an editor!

Open AI’s new text to video AI Sora, looks damn amazing. I mean, like real world

The processing power this requires must be insane, because these videos look incredible and so realistic. There will certainly be a point when many things are just created by AI, I mean why pay for footage, when you can get completely realistic footage and just what you want?

I mean hopefully there will still human editors at some level, but at some point there will likely be a lot less humans, though getting good at AI is certainly a good idea.