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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 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 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.
No buffering...
June 6, 2017, 7:20 pm
Apple are standardising on the next generation HEVC codec for video and image encoding, decoding and playback. HEVC (H.265) is a much better codec for dealing with video resolutions greater than HD. Here are my notes from Apple’s 2017 Worldwide Developers Conference sessions so far this week.
Here’s what Apple said about HEIF in the Platforms State of the Union address (from 1:08:07):
We've also selected a new image container called HEIF… HEIF supports the concept of compound ...
June 6, 2017, 5:38 am
Here’s an interesting use of my Alex4D Adjustment Layer to label scenes using different colours:
Rough cut for doc @theriftwalk making use of @Alex4D's Adjustment Layer as coloured scene markers #timelinetuesday #FCPX pic.twitter.com/PDkLYdMn7K
— Will Honeyball (@willhoneyball) June 6, 2017
Will uses the new coloured Roles features introduced in Final Cut Pro X 10.3.
Download Alex4D Adjustment Layer from my old free Final Cut Pro X plugins site.
More on assigning roles to clips a...
June 5, 2017, 4:53 pm
Here are the sessions worth tuning into this week for those interested in what Apple plans for post-production and VR. You can watch some of these streams live or review the video, slides and transcripts in the weeks and months to come.
Interesting sessions include
Vision API to detect faces, compute facial landmarks, track objects, and more
In iOS 11, iPhone 7 camera depth data is now available to iOS apps - both for stills and as a continuous stream to go with video
Tuesday...
June 5, 2017, 4:52 pm
Today’s Apple’s Mac announcements were prefaced by saying that the next version of macOS will not be about adding new features, but about improving current and adding new underlying technologies for future versions. Despite that, their software and hardware announcements seemed to be going after high-end media producers.
The new version of macOS (High Sierra) will include support for H.265 (High Efficiency Video Coding) support. This produces the same HD quality at 40% of the data rat...
June 5, 2017, 11:57 am
This week at their Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, Apple are making announcements about future products and services. They are also giving presentations for developers about macOS, iOS, tvOS and watchOS.
Over the week I’m hoping to see updates relevant to VR and Final Cut Pro X at WWDC17.
VR
To mix reality (make it seem that graphics is interacting with the real world) it is useful to be able to record the distance of objects from the camera. This means graphics can be seen...
Stuart joins Gordon to discuss A Series of Unfortunate Events for Netflix and what the difference is between working for Broa ...
In this episode of The Cutting Room, we explain just where we have been for the past four months. We'll begin regularly ...
Joe Walker joins Gordon to discuss the editing of Denis Villeneuve's film Arrival. They focus on Time and manipulating t ...
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