Extensis on Preparing for the End of PostScript Type 1 Fonts

Now I have been a regular user of Suitcase Fusion for years to manage fonts on my mac, and after 20 years I have accumulated a ton of fonts. And I honestly didn’t realize that PostScript fonts were losing support in Adobe as of January 2023. I have literally thousands of Postscript fonts and I used Connect Fonts (the current online version of what used to be Suitcase Fusion) to remove them from my font library. I kept a backup in case I run into someplace where I need one from an old project, but I don’t want them gumming up the works if they aren’t going to work in Adobe.

So here is a great article on the whole thing from Andrew Rhodes at Extensis.

And if you use Connect Fonts, it is very easy to find your soon to be outdated PostScript Fonts,

The Rough Cut’s Interviews with the Mandalorian Season 1 Editing Team

First up from the Rough Cut, these awesome interviews with the Mandalorian Season 1 Editing Team.

FilmSupply has a good article on the hour of interviews and their 5 takeaways, that is also worth taking a look at, but the videos themselves are well worth watching.

Talking about not only on remote editing because of the pandemic but the new technologies and cutting together films before VFX is added with blue screen vs the volume, and being able to go to the set and talk to the director while the work on stuff, having cut the previz before production happened.

Cut/Daily has a letter from Walter Murch

Jonny Elwyn’s has a letter from Walter Murch free with registration.

About propably the last time anything will every be edited on a Steinbeck, which I have never done, though I was probably the last class to edit on Moviolas at USC.

And it was honestly hell. Not the process and the decisions and physical cutting, but the machines, which would stick on, and destroy the negative, and had to be dived behind and unplugged. I was editing with Takashi Horie in college and I believe we even took naps behind the very loud machine.

DVResolve on DaVinci Resolve 18.1.1 Update

DVResolve has the news on the latest DaVinci Resolve Update 18.1.1, which updates to the newest Blackmagic RAW 2.8 SDK.

I love what Blackmagic is doing and how quickly they release bug fixes.

I still prefer Premiere for my daily editor (mostly because of customization and dynamic link to After Effects which I mostly use to get sequences into After Effects), but Blackmagic is doing their damnedest to get me to switch.