Tangent releases a Beta of it’s Warp Engine for Mapping Color grading

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX9CNbBRCdY Tangent Beta Program - Tangent : Tangent This new engine in the beta allows you to not only do a custom mapping for DaVinci, but for other programs that don't use the panel, though you must go in and program the positions on screen as it is basically faking mouse moves. So not full customization (not possible unless Black Magic allows it which is highly unlikely. And everyone will need to program for their own monitor setup, which is a pain, but once programmed will work.

Adobe’s AI art generation tool Firefly enters Beta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvBRj--sUMU And you can currently sign up for the beta on the Firefly site right here. AI has made such an explosion lately, especially Midjourney, which I so want to play with, but don't really want to pay for just to play. This adobe version seems ideal for me as someone who already subscribed to the creative cloud, and with elements that can be used within Adobe products. And the Text Effect seems really amazing. I really want to see one of these that you can put your own images into it and get variations on that coming out (I do believe midjourney does that). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sJfNfMAQHw

Ridley Scott shot a short film called BEHOLD on the Galaxy S23 Ultra

https://youtu.be/jXpCZYrEmEU It is a short little film, so worth a quick watch. As well a a behind the scenes. Of course with a huge budget, video assist, cranes and rigs, and lights you can shoot anything and make it look pretty damn good. And to have video assist run off of it is impressive on it's own. https://youtu.be/E50OC6_V6E0

No Film School on how you should use ProRAW vs. ProRES on an iPhone

James DeRuvo from No Film School has a great article on ProRAW for Photos and ProRES for Video on the iPhone. The one thing that doesn't get touched on, which always drives me nuts about the iPhone is not only that the video frame rate tends to drift, but also that there is a 24FPS but not 23.976. I know 24 is film, but most people shoot everything for video which is 23.976 in the US, and most of Apple's stuff should be for TV.

Got an e-mail from Maxon, and Red Giant’s PluralEyes is to Enter Limited Maintenance Mode

Got this in an e-mail from Maxon, that basically PluralEyes from Maxon, formerly Red Giant is no longer being developed. Now this was a revolutionary program that would sync your audio to video (if it had reference audio) and was the first of it's kind. Now that it is going, every NLE has Waveform audio syncing built in, so it hasn't been necessary for years. But it is still a little sad to see it go. Still lets hope that this means Maxon has more time to develop new tools for it's Plug In suits.

MacRumors 10 macOS Tips to Make Your Life Easier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQw9G7dRJCs&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.macrumors.com%2F&embeds_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.macrumors.com&feature=emb_imp_woyt Check out the article here by Tim Hardwick. Now I usually just skim any article like this because I have been on Mac so long, but there are quite a few of these that I didn't know, starting with the first one Stationary pad.

Apple Podcast app needs individual podcast controls for Playback speed

Apple's Podcast app is a good app., and getting new features soon (according to MacRumors), but what it really needs is the ability to remember playback speed on a per podcast basis. I listen to news podcasts that I always listen to at 2x speed, and then music podcasts, that need to be listened to at 1x speed so the music is correct and it is annoying to change the setting every time. You already set podcast feeds to have individual controls to how they are shown (in what order, newest or oldest first. All I ask it to allow a setting to always playback at the speed you select.