Macworld on that the iOS App Store needs to become more like the Mac

Jason Snell at Macworld has this interesting article.

And it is also right that they are going too far against non-notarized apps on the Mac! Even worse are permissions in so apps that you must re-up every month!

And yes I can see some shields around NFC on the phone, but yes you need to be able to bypass Apple if you want to, and just install what you want.

Apple though doesn’t want to give up its cut, so this won’t happen unless they are forced and I don’t see them being forced in the US.

They don’t see the iPhones as ours but as theirs and all the software and only regulation could help stop this.

PostPerspective on using Unreal to create Shogun

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As I have said I greatly enjoyed Shogun, so this is very interesting, though I wish it was a little more in depth

Open AI has released Sora for video to paid subscribers

Open AI’s Sora has been released and paid users can give it a try. It can make video up to 1080 and 20 seconds long, though standard videos are 480, and you need open AI’s $200 a month Pro plan to do 1080. And it can remix uploaded video and even create sequences.

You can see examples at the Sora site.

Reviews seem pretty mixed.

Of course this is gen 1, and it will improve, but so far it is not really something to worry about.

Honestly I would love to see a day where you can have a local AI trained on your photos and videos, but companies don’t want that, they want subscriptions!

Premiere Pro December 2024 (25.1) update with H.264 enhancements

Adobe’s December 3rd, 2024 update December 2024 (25.1) is out. Check out the new features.

Rounded Corner Design for timeline clips, which is neither here nor there, though can be annoying for key frames.

Enhanced H.264 performance on Apple Ailicon and Windows: Upnto 4x increase in performance on Apple Silicon and 2x performance on Windows! Always welcome! Personally I tend to recomoress H.264 to ProRES for performance, but that isn’t possible with many online working methods, so this is certainly welcome.

And these fixes:

AUDIO:

  • The audio was not imported for MXF files with 32-bit audio.
  • The Progress panel sometimes showed duplicated “Enhancing Speech” processes.
  • Newly created Audio Tracks did not respect the Solo state of other tracks.
  • Attributes would not be correctly pasted across all audio channels of a clip on the timeline.
  • Clicking on a clip badge to open the Effect Controls or Essential Sound panels would open the panels on the mouse down.
  • Premiere Pro would sometimes crash when disabling Enhance Speech during processing on nested sequences.

CAPTIONS

  • When importing a custom caption preset which was previously saved with a certain style, the “Style” option could erroneously be reset to “None“.
  • Undoing a merge of multiple captions segments would not select all segments.

‘EDITING

  • The Time Ruler Numbers option for Timeline was disabled, and the shortcut did not work.
  • Some EDLs would fail to import.
  • The Progress Sheet was not docked with other panels when opened from the Windows menu.
  • Premiere Pro would hang when exporting some projects to XML.
  • Get Media File Properties for > Selectionwas disabled for Timeline clips.
  • Option or Alt + mouse wheel would not zoom the Timeline based on the cursor location.
  • Scaling below 50% of a still image in a timeline, when played in non-high quality, half or quarter resolution, could cause the image position to shift.

EFFECTS

  • Applying Morph Cut via an Adjustment Layer could cause a crash.
  • Crash observed when opening Old Premiere Pro (22.x) project containing Morph Cuteffect.
  • Some projects using the Morph Cuttransition could crash when using the GPU-accelerated renderer.

FORMATS

  • Observed artifacts during reverse playback of AVC Long GOP MXF media.
  • [Regression 24.4] Adaptive bit rate presets (High/Medium/low) under the video setting were showing the same bit rate during Export.
  • Disabling the hardware-accelerated decode preference did not work for ProRes media—playback would still use hardware acceleration with this option disabled.

MARKERS

  • Duplicate Frame Markers were not displayed on clips at minimum track height.
  • Duplicate Frame Marker colors could be out of order.
  • Delete gap in Timeline could result in Duplicate Frame Markers disappearing from other clips equal to the duration of the deleted Timeline.
  • When you drag a clip to the Timeline, different clips may have the same Duplicate Frame Marker color until you force update.
  • Duplicate frame indicators, clip markers, and clip ends could jitter when the timeline is scrolled while playing.

TEAM PROJECTS

  • Read-only sequences from Media Browserallowed changes to be made.

TEXT-BASED EDITING

  • Clip markers could sometimes not show or be added to audio-only clips in the Transcript tab of the Text panel.
  • With a project set to Read Only, it could be possible to drag markers in the Text panel’s Transcript.
  • Importing a corrected transcript could result in a timecode mismatch.
  • When working with English transcripts, the first word of a sentence could erroneously start with a lowercase letter.

Apple has moved Final Cut Pto to version 11 with AI features but no text editing

Apple has moved Final Cut Pro to version 11 (it has been at 10 since the new version came out), and it is strangely a free upgrade (since the iPad is a subscription i figure the desktop will be moving that way too).

The new AI tools are Magnetic Mask which is a quick AI selection tool. Awesome to have a fast AI selection tool built in.

And Transcribe to Captions sounds great but it isn’t text based editing which every competitor already has.

And Spacial Video Editing is necessary, though pretty Niche and will likely remain so (though i am sure DaVinci will do it as well or better because of their camera).

It sounds great, but this doesn’t really sound like it needed the version number upgrade here, but still nice new features.