AVID Media Composer added over-the-shoulder workflows at NAB 2022

The new version of Media Composer Enterprise and Ultimate added SRT or Secure Reliable Transport for streaming remotely for people who work from home or for clients around the world and it is all encrypted and encoded. It can go from a single device to a single receiver or to multiple people using additional hardware. This is very cool, especially the encryption as it means the studios will get on board with it, which will enable more remote workflows.

RedShark NAB 2022: Moving beyong three primary colours

I know I know, I am a bit behind here, NAB 2022 is long past, but this article by Phil Rhodes at Red Shark is very interesting on some of the new tech shown at NAB. I guess 6P Color was showing monitors with 6 primary colors instead of 3 and they look amazing, though are expensive and probably won't catch on. I am sure it would be an improvement, as it would be with a camera photo-site, though would have to be larger.

Redshark asks if modern cinematography is too dark, and I think it absolutely is

Neil Oseman has a great article from April on Is Modern Cinematography too dark? An interesting read, though I don't think it goes into a main reason behind much of the issue. The color bay. Color bays today use the absolute best top of the line equipment, the best and brightest monitors and it is done in a dark room. This method of color correction makes great results for the theatrical experience, where the lights are off, and it is a very dark environment. In this "perfect" situation you can make the image much darker than you maybe should, especially for a TV show. If you are delivery for a home experience, you should use a lighter room, because that is what most people do at home. Heck at home I have my iPad half the time, so another bright screen. I hate when a show is so dark that you are forced to turn the lights off just to see anything (I can except it with a movie, but not TV). Oseman talked about the Game of Thrones final season which was so dark it was a joke, and then concludes that it is what the cinematographer wants, but again they should then correct in ideal situations for how they are delivering.

9To5 Mac reports no M1 mac supports USB 3.1 Gen 2 at 10 GB speed

Ben Lovejoy has the slightly confusing report. It seems M1 macs don’t support 10gb USB 3.1 Gen 2 and only 10gb for USB 3.2 which should reach 20gb, so don’t officially support usb 4 which would have to include both of those. So it basically supports the 5gb of Usb 3.1 Gen 1, and 3.2 is dual, so 2 5gb, but full thunderbolt 4 40gb. Intel macs supported USB 3.1 Gen 2 at 10GB, but also only supported USB 3.2 at 10gb. I don’t know if this is licensing, saving money or just bad implementation on their own chip design. This is a huge mistake and one I wish Apple would deal with in the future (i bet it is hardware and not software).

Groovy Post on 7 Firefox Extensions for Managing Your Bookmarks

Sandy Writtenhouse at Groovy Poste has a great post on 7 great extensions for managing your bookmarks in Firefox. And yes of course I still use Firefox, and you should do. It is independent of Google and it's Chrome browser that you know monitors everything you do for Google, and it's Blink engine is just used everywhere. Their is also Apple's Safari which uses WebKit and I am forced to use that my iPhone and iPad, but on my desktop I prefer the customization of Firefox and Mozilla's Gecko engine. And Mozilla needs the support, it's market share keeps going down in favor of Chrome, and we need the competition. If there is no competition why would google put the money it does into Chrome, so go check out Mozilla's Firefox, it is a great browser! I will sometime do a post about my favorite extensions, like Tree Style Tab which I find so much more convenient than top loading tabs.