I have to admit I have always respected Title Safe, and hated when After Effects switched from 80% for Title Safe and 90% for Action Safe to 90% for Title Safe and 93% for action safe. I switched back to the original safer settings and this article is why you should to.
I find Andor one of the best and most interesting Star Wars shows as was Rogue One a Star Wars Story. My only complaint is the interview should certainly have been longer.
Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve 18.1 has been released and it has so many impressive features.
It is so impressive to see Blackmagic take features that other people do (read Adobe) and do leapfrog them with more impressive features.
I was very happy just to have adjustable keyframes in Fairlight Audio Automation. Without having an audio board, vector keyframing for Automation Curves makes this so much easier for many cases than riding levels, and I used that extensively in my short film to do my final mix.
Above and beyond that though are the AI Based Voice Isolation as well as the Built-in Dialogue Leveler. The dialogue leveler does what adobe did with it’s essential audio panel, and takes it to the next level. While Adobe can level clips, it levels whole clips in the timeline, while Blackmagic does it for the the whole track, being able to level different parts of a single clip! This feels like something that should have been added to Adobe years ago as an incremental upgrade, but Adobe does seem to go in on new features more than new features (and yes this is new to DaVinci as well).
I wanted to do keyframes on tracks in DaVinci for a short film, and couldn’t figure it out, but this allowed me to do basically what I wanted with automation. Keyframes would have been easier and better, but this certainly works.
I plan on delving more into JayAreTV’s videos and you should too.
Liz Arcury at Daily Beast has this article. I just talked about Jonny Elwyn’s favorites, but this is another article that hits home for me, as I cut so many great DVD behind the scenes.
The really sad part is that most streaming is going to end up with commercials anyway, because that is the only way for it to make money, sadly the best part of streaming will go away. And so many movies are not available on streaming and almost none of their special features are available anywhere.
Even the one place that still does some special features, Disney does not go in depth enough. And I miss audio commentaries too.
Working on Lord of the Rings was a dream job, but BTS features got smaller and smaller, till they were nothing but using EPK footage, and now even that is gone for most features. It is really sad for film students, and film lovers.
It is an interesting device, and it does work well for the Cut page, but the multicam buttons are fucking useless, as no one would be using that many angles and be using this, but the wheel is pretty amazing.
Really it needs to be able to customized, or maybe just make a smaller version without all the useless buttons.
From Johnny Elwyn, and I of course appreciate it after working on DVD Extras for years, including Lord of the Rings, King Kong and some of the Hobbit.
It really is such a shame that there are basically almost no special features being produced anymore, as they barely have any for streaming except for a few for Disney+.
I did love doing special features, but now there is basically only the EPK footage to make very crappy and short special features.
An article from Benjamin Mayo at 9to5Mac. Was stupid for Apple to not do this sooner, especially for iPhone users who have Windows.
And to finally add Apple Music integration to the XBOX, which should have been done years ago.
This was such intesting hardware, but why not update for 4 years, then user older hardware for such an expensive device? Seems like something Apple would have done years ago, and Windows Users would have done nothing but complain about.