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March 15, 2013, 12:38 pm
Last year I made a set of generators that could be used on video clips to get more precise control over speed changes using an animation graph similar to that available in older versions of Final Cut Pro. Since the 10.0.6 update to Final Cut Pro, the generators I uploaded in March 2012 no longer...
July 24, 2017, 12:19 pm
On Friday Apple added a new opening to their jobs website:
Video Applications Senior Software Engineer
The job requirements have some interesting clauses:
Work on the architecture that provides the canvas for telling a story in video and incorporate cutting edge technology to build future versions of the product.
What cutting edge technology could they be thinking of here?
Experience developing computer vision and/or audio processing algorithms
Do you have experience applying mac...
July 19, 2017, 5:37 am
It looks like the Logic Pro team are spending time making it work better with Final Cut Pro X. Logic Pro X was updated to version 10.3.2 yesterday. In the extensive list of new features and bug fixes, here are the points related to Final Cut:
When importing Final Cut Pro XML projects containing multichannel audio files, Logic Pro now reliably maintains channel assignments.
Large Final Cut Pro XML files now load more quickly.
Final Cut Pro X XML files now reliably import with the corre...
July 17, 2017, 5:38 pm
There are a number of positions available at Apple in July 2017 whose job descriptions mention VR:
IMG CoreMedia VR Pipeline Engineer
The Interactive Media Group (IMG) provides the media and graphics foundation across all of Apple's innovative products, including iPhone, AppleTV, Apple Watch, iPad, iPod, Macs as well as professional and consumer applications from Final Cut to iTunes and iWork.
Strong coding skills in C with ARM on embedded platforms
2+ years experience developing an...
July 14, 2017, 9:06 am
What versions of Final Cut Pro X are compatible with macOS High Sierra?
During Apple’s 2017 Worldwide Developer Conference, macOS High Sierra was announced. Apple has a public beta test programme, where you can sign up to try early versions of Apple operating systems before they are released.
macOS High Sierra is supposed to a version of the Mac operating system that consolidates on previous features and stability. This gives Apple and third-party developers the chance to catch their b...
June 28, 2017, 5:19 am
Apple have decided to stadardise on HEVC/H.265 video encoding in macOS High Sierra and iOS 11. Jan Ozer has written a book about how to encode video using the free FFmpeg encoding system.
He has made the chapter on HEVC encoding from the book free to download:
Below you can download a sample chapter of my new book, Learn to Produce Video with FFmpeg in 30 Minutes or Less. It’s Chapter 12 Encoding HEVC
If you have already installed FFmpeg (which includes the libx265 encoder), visit ...
June 21, 2017, 9:39 am
What does Apple’s choice of HEVC (H.265) mean for developers, users, viewers and streamers? Jan Ozer writes that it will take a year a so to find out. His predictions include:
No major publishers implement HEVC/HLS support before 3-6 months after iOS 11/MacOS Sierra ship. This leaves the door open for a full codec analysis between AV1 and HEVC, including encode and decode requirements, hardware support, cost, IP risk, HDR support, software support, the whole nine yards. At least in the...
June 20, 2017, 1:40 pm
Today frame.io announced that their online video production team collaboration system now has features that are useful for larger organisations:
Enterprise offers everything large companies need to manage their creative process at scale. Admins can organize teams by department, brand, production or whatever best suits your company structure.
With this organization teams can work in their own workspaces much like they do with Frame.io today. Admins can control team access and visibility a...
June 20, 2017, 6:09 am
It is likely that the next major versions of common NLEs will support HDR. As editors we will be asked about the right HDR workflow. For now it is a matter of picking a standard, following some guidelines and maintaining metadata.
Jan Ozer writes:
HDR sounds complex, and at a technical level it is. Abstractly, however, it involves just five simple concepts.
First, to acquire the expanded brightness and color palette needed for HDR display, you have to capture and maintain your video in ...
June 19, 2017, 1:10 pm
Steven Sinofsky runs down his take on Apple's 2017 Worldwide Developer Conference announcements in a Medium post. He writes that Apple’s announcements on Machine Learning…
further the gap between device OS platforms (not just features, but how apps are structured) while significantly advancing the state of the art.
On how the iPad will soon be the best solution for day-to-day productivity:
Developers take note, as iPad-specific apps will become increasingly important in produ...
June 7, 2017, 9:30 am
Interested in cloud-based high end post production? Live events and TV shows need live production. A post on the BBC R&D blog explains the challenges of making a system that can do live TV production in a web browser.
They are basing their research on a system ‘IP Studio’:
…a platform for discovering, connecting and transforming video streams in a generic way, using IP networking – the standard on which pretty much all Internet, office and home networks are based.
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