No Film School on the new Viltrox and SmallRig Cinema Batteries

From Yaroslave Altunin at No Film School. For price and size these are very impressive and I could use them for my Blackmagic.
From Yaroslave Altunin at No Film School. For price and size these are very impressive and I could use them for my Blackmagic.
This covers new versions of AI like mIdjourney 5 and the new Firefly Ai Beta.
Very interesting, I still love 3D, even without the ability to see 3D at home, and a wife who gets violently ill from 3D. Can’t wait until they get 3D without glasses, especially for a glasses wearer!
These are some of the most exciting features in DaVinci Resolve 18, so here are some great tutorials.
Of late when I tried to export from Premiere Pro this is the screen that I got. And this after the them getting rid of the old export window for this new monstrosity (please see this very long thread at Adobe on the monstrosity).
For a little while there I could get it to work if I trashed my preferences and re-synced and the export would work for a few seconds, but this stopped working.
Then thanks to this thread at Adobe, I found that deleting my 23.0 folder from User/Username/Documents/Adobe/Premiere Pro fixed the problem for a single export, then it stoppwed working.
So then I have been using Media Encoder to open the Premiere Pro sequences directly. The Media Encoder version that I had been doing above, reset premiere pro preferences which worked for a while, and 3 the Match Sequence Preview Settings, but I can’t even get to the Export window for that to show up.
Well Finally Adobe has admitted the issue, and posted about it with work arounds.
Amber Neely has the news that Apple purchased an AI Video Compression company.
This is of course for iPhones, as the technology is made to cut file sizes in half while prioritizing Faces and Text and de-prioritizing backgrounds.
Better video compression is always to be looked for, but I am assuming this won’t be like ProRES HQ or 4444, but more highly compressed, so likely won’t be a great editing compression.
Amazing how fast they move, adding in AI based trasncription editing and subtitles, a new relighting OFX plug in that works with the color panel and per timeline color management.
The freight train of Davinci Resolve Updates is mind blowing how quickly they add new features and make this program better and more stable.
From Eric Philpott’s article at Adobe Blog.
This is huge and I love that it’s awesome transcription feature is being expanded out of for captions into actual editing.
I will have to see automatic tone mapping in action, I always get footage from different cameras, but I don’t think this will be what I need (I tend to throw the clips in DaVinci and make a LUT that will match them perfectly).
Background Auto Save is exciting, and I might turn it up so it saves more often.
Dragging to select track targets should have been there from the start! I will use that literally every day!
And bulk editing titles in the Timeline is huge, and has been needed since you could see all the Text of titles with the text tool.
And After Effects Properties panel could be a huge game changer, as on a daily basis i get frustrated when duplicating sequences how it doesn’t show the same properties that I was manipulating on the copied layer, but with a properties panel this should be faster, and anything faster I will adopt immediately.
And I really need to do a deep dive in to ACES and OpenColorIO workflows so I can try it out in After Effects.
And select able track mattes usable for multiple layers is pretty awesome, though you could do it by doing it on a matte layer and using it as the matte.
And defaulting colorama to the default color picker to save clicks is another time saver, and I always want time savers.
PVC is always awesome, so getting to hear them talk to all these fantastic editors is well worth it.
My short film The Misadventures of Bear was accepted into it’s 6th film festival, The Sydney Indie Short Festival as a Semi Finalist! WOOOHOOOOO!!!!