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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...
August 11, 2017, 5:00 pm
How much would you pay for all advertising to be removed from your view as you go about your daily life? All is it needs is the ability to interpolate what advertsing covers up, and replace all advertising with that.
This TechCrunch article buries the lede:
Facebook buys computer vision startup focused on adding objects to video
Adding objects to video isn't as hard as removing objects, Facebook has bought a company that has that technology:
Facebook has acquired a German company ...
August 8, 2017, 9:33 am
In 2011, Apple updated Motion to version 5. It's biggest new feature is the ability to make plugins for Final Cut Pro X. Part of that feature is the ability to control multiple parameters in Motion with a single slider. You can set the start and end values for the slider. Each Motion parameter value you 'rig' to the slider 'widget' can be controlled by the slider.
In this case, a Slider widget has been to control the width of a line and the font size of some text in Motion. The ran...
August 8, 2017, 6:07 am
Apple have been awarded a patent for 'content pods'
A content delivery system determines what personal content is available on the user device through connecting to available information sources. The delivery system then assembles the content pod from these elements in addition to invitational content from content providers. In some embodiments, a bumper message is included in the content pod to provide a context for the elements that are being assembled in combination with each other...
July 31, 2017, 12:13 pm
It's good news and bad news for users of Apple’s high-end Macs. The good news: they are going to set up a ‘Pro Workflow’ lab. The bad news: they didn't do this years ago!
Apple watchers suspect that up until earlier this year, the plan was that the introduction of the iMac Pro would mark the end of the 2013 Mac Pro - or any kind of standalone high-end Mac. The new plan is to make a Mac Pro replacement, which was described as coming eventually, but “will not ship this year.”...
July 27, 2017, 5:32 am
If you had an almost unlimited budget, could you produce a rich feed of animated satirical videos with a one-day turnaround?
For now the answer seems to be no.
When HBO announced a deal with American satirist Jon Stewart in 2015, one of the shows mentioned was an animated comedy show. The Hollywood Reporter has reported that in May this year, HBO said that they would not be going ahead with the idea:
Stewart was set to work with cloud-graphics company OTOY to develop new technology that...
July 25, 2017, 9:11 am
The BBC is looking for an AR agency to collaborate in developing a mobile application to augment the launch of a big new TV series in Spring 2018:
We are looking to create an Augmented Reality (AR) experience in association with the Civilisations television broadcast (Spring 2018). We’d like a mobile application that allows the audience to bring objects from the programme into their homes - we’d like to do this using through-camera, marker less tracking to let the audience inspect an...
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...
Lisa and Gordon discuss her career and approach to editing. ACE will have Lisa as part of their panels at the upcoming Edit ...
Sebastián Sepúlveda joins Gordon to discuss the editing of the film Jackie. They explore how structuring a real ...
Stuart joins Gordon to discuss A Series of Unfortunate Events for Netflix and what the difference is between working for Broa ...
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