I have to say Chadwick’s videos are quickly becoming my favorite videos on DaVinci Resolve, I literally always learn something watching his videos, so they are really worth checking out.
I have liked this feature in Final Cut Pro X, and honestly didn’t even realize it was available in DaVinci. Now Premiere needs to add it.
Chris Zwar at the ProVideoCoalition has an awesome and in depth article on the Fractal Noise Plug In in After Effects. This is such a versatile plug in and this article should really help you understand and use it better than before. As it is a plug in that can be used for so many things.
Apple’s new iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro both feature a new Cinematic Mode, which is basically iphone’s portrait mode for video. So the video also has a depth map, and with AI can track faces and even switch faces or do manual rack focus. It is not true depth of field, but fake depth like portrait mode, and it only works in 1080 30p. According to the video you should also be able to focus after the fact, which would be incredible!
This will be a very impressive feature, and will enhance video, though won’t be perfect just like portrait mode which enhances but not like a real lens with real depth of fieldh. And hopefully someone will make a plug-in for NLE’s that allows focus after the fact much like the awesome focos app. And let’s hope it can be integrated into Filmic Pro as well, as I find it unlikely to record at non-variable speeds
And the extra GPU core of the iPhone Pro and at least 256gb of hard drive space will eventually be getting ProRes recording. Now I am sure that it won’t be ProRes RAW or even ProRes HQ, but instead lite or proxy, but that will beat H.264 or H.265. Of course ProRes is going to wreak havoc on icloud photo storage, and really show how slow lightning cables are.
The Pro can also capture in dolby vision hdr up to 4k 60 fps. I think this means that cinematic mode doesn’t include Dolby Vision HDR, but then what computer monitor can play that back for adjusting color?
I also wonder if the LiDAR scanner in the Pro will enhance the cinematic mode? I guess they would have said so if it did, though it’s depth map would be better you would think, though maybe it is only for night mode.
FilmEditingPro has an article on how to install LUTs in Adobe Premiere Pro, Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve, Avid Media Encoder, and Final Cut Pro. Again useful for those of who are constantly moving between machines and systems.
DL Cade has a great article on possible new features of the next Apple Silicon MacBook Pro. It is very good read, but a couple of things on graphics really stood out for me.
According to several different leaks, the M1X SOC will be available in 16- and 32-core variants that could offer performance on par NVIDIA’s GTX 1650 and RTX 3070, respectively, while sipping less than half of the wattage. If these rumors turn out to be true, the M1X will offer the most powerful iGPU experience on the market, offering more than enough power for most GPU-accelerated photo and video editing tasks.
However, even if the M1X meets these expectations, we would also love for Apple to bring back support for eGPUs. For now, only Intel-based MacBooks support eGPUs, but according to French publication Mac4ever, M1 Macs can detect eGPUs when they’re connected, just don’t have the necessary drivers to put them to use. This could simply be a holdover for Intel-based Mac users on Big Sur, or it could be an indication that eGPU support is coming for more “professional-grade” users of Apple Silicon Macs. We sincerely hope it’s the latter.
Both of these are exciting. The current M1 scared me without it’s external GPU support and while that might or might not be coming, the possible performance of the GPU cores is fairly impressive, especially if they really make one with a lot more graphics cores. I still hate the ram being shared, and soldered since it will be so expensive, but if you can get at least 128 GB you will likely be pretty damn powerful. All speculation now though.
FilmEditingPro has a good article on how and where to install Keyboard shortcuts on all the major editing platforms. Most useful for those of us who are constantly on different machines.
Jose Antunes has an article at ProVideoCoalition on the recently released upgrade to LumaFusion for iPad, version 3.0. The update includes stabilization software from CoreMelt, and the ability to use external drives, especially for the new iPad Pro with USB 4.0. It also has a new graphic equalizer.
I have actually used LumaFusion as it is the most standard type editing program on iPad, if you can use Premiere or AVID you can easily use LumaFusion. It is well worth it’s $29.95 price.
So I have not subscribed to this (though I would love to), but this is a very cool idea. Shotdeck is a web site with a library of HD images from movies, that you can use for reference and share with other users. It is $99 a year of $12.95 a month. And you can get a 2 week free trial.
Honestly I am always looking for movie stills and they can be a huge pain in the ass to get, because of Copy Protection. I often find myself ripping a blu-ray just to make a screen shot to get reference images, so this is pretty incredible. I can really see a director subscribing to this to show a look that they want. Now this is mainly going to be for very cinematic shots because that is what they are going for here, but certainly I can see it’s uses.
I find this super interesting especially since I have had bad problem with this when trying to shoot with household lights.
Of course I wish I could afford a real Sekonic color meter but starting around $1699 that is not going to happen anytime soon! Ha!