Arstechnica on Thunderbolt hitting 80Gbps in demo, equaling USB4 Version 2.0 Speeds

Scharon Harding at Ars Technica has this article on Thunderbolt hits 80Gbps in demo, equaling USB4 Version 2.0 Speeds. Good to see thunderbolt catch up to the newly proposed USB spec, but for it to keep going they should be pushing the limits and doubling the USB Speeds.

Honestly it is mostly about keeping compatibility with Thunderbolt devices, for those who have them, and I have a lot of them, and so I need compatiblity and not just with the connector, so lets hope Intel keeps the licensing prices inexpensive, so that machines are both thunderbolt 4 and USB 4.

No Film School Was ‘House of Dragon’ Too Dark, or Is the Problem Your TV?

The Article by Alyssa Miller goes into the issue which is similiar to the one on the big battle at the end of game of thrones. And honestly we didn’t see it too much, but I have my TV properly calibrated or at least as well as it can be, and we have overhead canned lighting and can do it dimmer over us, so likely the room is darker than for the last season of Game of Thrones, but we do see this more and more. They are color correcting way too dark for TV.

And I think the problem is obvious. Color bays are too dark and they use too good screens in the dark. That is absolutely fine for films which are meant to be seen in a darkened room, but homes have light, and most people don’t watch television in the dark.

Honestly there should be a higher level of ambient light in editing bays for TV, to take account people have lights on in their house. And have a consumer display to finish to as well, to check how it looks.

I know on these signature shows they want you to turn off the lights and only pay attention to it, but that isn’t an option for everyone.

And if there are significant complaints, you are doing the grade wrong. You need to remember this is going to be viewed by people at home, not in a darkened theater!

YouTube has added 5.1 Audio on Apple TV and Fire TV

This is pretty exciting, now if only Vimeo would do the same.

Autokrama has fixed the After Effects flashing issues in BRAW Studio with version 2.7.7 and 2.7.8

Autokroma has some great customer support and sent me out beta versions and fixed the issues I had been having with BRAW Studio in After Effects.

This was the glitch I was having that they quickly fixed,

Now I am still having some problems between ProRES RAW 6K, BRAW Studio, and Maxon Primatte Keyer 6. I think my iMac Pro may be having some serious issues, after all it is getting old and is likely full of dust. I also get the feeling that nothing was every optimized for the Radeo Pro Vega 64X 16 GB, as it came out at the end of the lifecycle.

Appleinsider reported in July that Drobo has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

I can’t believe I missed this news, but here it is reported by William Gallagher at AppleInsider.

Now I have never owned a drobo, but I always aspired to for backup, but even if the company is still around this sure makes me worry.

The thing is that there just aren’t that many NAS’s that are great with Mac.

At one point I had a Synology where I tried moving my iTunes lIbrary, but that did not work out. It jacked up my whole library and lost a bunch of media, so I lost thousands of songs, and years of track metadata as well. And there is the whole issue of companies like Synology making you move to new hardware for software updates, since they use proprietary system software.

There was a recent article at Maximum PC on rolling your own NAS using Ubuntu Server LTS build which does major releases every 2 years instead of 6, and because each release is supported with 5 years of full support, and 5 years of extended security support, but that runs NTFS, and not mac HFS+ which scares me, and it since it is not in the Linux kernal, it can’t be written to (though it can be read).

It is too bad Mac doesn’t make a simple NAS software so you can roll your own drobo type device for Time Machine.

Selectable Track Mattes in After Effects could be the biggest and most exciting change to come to the program in years!

I hadn’t noticed this features introduction to the After Effects Beta till I saw this video from Creative Dojo.

This will clean up After Effect Timelines to now end, as you can basically add Track Mattes nodally, so you can add just one to a comp and use it for as many layers as you want, and if you save to an older version it will automatically add to all of the layers it is attached to.

This makes Track mattes the best of both world! OMG, need this for adjustment layers too, so they can be added selectively.

Wow, Adobe, this is such a cool addition.