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.
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.
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Honestly I never realized this i set a single frame in and out, so check out this tip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63RVicvah8Q I don't post too many Photoshop tutorials, but this one is awesome. I can't wait to really try it out. Impressive and well worth checking out. This is from photoshopCAFE.
Yea this has been out for a while, but have to post it. Rich Young's roundups are always a must read.
And it is faster, though this is weird: In addition, Compressor also opened much faster on our Mac Studio compared to a three- to four-minute startup time prior to the updateMike Petersen @ AppleInsider I have never had compressor take that long to open, was this rosetta vs m1 optimized?
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).
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.
The Pro Video Coalition has report on the new announcements from Frame.io announced last month at NAB. I am glad to have a creative cloud Frame.io account, and have been using Frame allot at work. I still think the direct from camera is more for features or tv than the commercials I work on, but it is very cool. IFrame.io’s work from home features with built in proxy generation needs better Adobe integration. It doesn’t currently work with Adobe’s proxy feature, so files must be manually relinked (and Adobe’s proxy workflow won’t work with only proxys), and if you use low rez proxies for size moves and the like don’t scale, everything would need to be redone manually. Let’s hope Adobe works on this with Frame . And I hate H264, and h264 proxies. ProRes Proxys are so much better (i know they take up more space, but they are do much better), timelines play back great with any ProRes and even with M1 ProRes processors.