AI is having a dramatic impact on media. Larry Jordan interviews key industry leaders at the 2024 NAB Show to learn their opinions on the impact of AI and machine learning. Their answers ranged from fear to hope.
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how we shot interviews at the 2024 NAB Show. This includes gear, people and process.
This is a video interview with Freddy Vinehill-Cliffe, Product Specialist for NUGEN Audio. Freddy shares how their essential audio plugins for ProTools work, then highlights their latest updates.
This is a video interview with Simon Fearn, Chief Technology Office of Marquis. He explains Marquis Medway and how it is central to many news, production and live video acquisition workflows, their latest releases for NAB, and describes the trends they are watching in media this year.
This is a video interview with Noah Chamon, Solutions Architect for Cinedeck. In this, he describes Cinedeck, their latest products for NAB, their unique ability to patch media files, and the role he thinks AI will play in the coming year.
A video interview with Martin Greenwood, Chief Technology Officer for Yoyotta. Martin explains what Yoyotta provides, why they focus on backups and archiving, their latest releases at NAB and a look at archiving in general.
This is a video interview with Jim Tierney, CEO & Chief Digital Anarchist for Digital Anarchy. Jim discusses his latest plug-ins and the squishy nature of using AI in software; for example, what does AI even mean?
A video interview with Pierre Jasmin, Founder and CEO of RE: Vision Effects. He describes the latest updates to their visual effects tools, their focus on customer feedback and the key products of his company.
A video interview with Chris McLendon, Senior Product Manager for Vizrt. Chris presents their latest releases, and provides a description of NDI 6, how it is used and why it is needed. He also introduces Vizrt’s lower-priced line of products: Vizrt Go.
Michael Cioni, founder of Strada, premieres Strada, an AI-assisted, cloud-based, subscription media search and management tool which enables video editors to do more – faster.
A video interview with David McGavran, CEO of Maxon, on their latest release of Cinema 4D, along with his thoughts on the impact of AI on creative artists.
A video interview with Paul Matthijs Lombert, Founder & CEO of Hedge. He describes their range of media utilities and software, what tasks are designed for, and their new cooperative agreement to support Final Cut Library Manager.
A video interview with Dan May, President of Blackmagic Design – US, where he reveals more than 16 new products at NAB, including a 12K cinema camera, 6K pocket camera, the latest version of DaVinci Resolve and other new hardware.
A video interview with Sam Bogoch, CEO of Axle AI, on their new announcements about Axle AI Media Asset Manager and Axle Cloud, which makes cloud media files searchable using the “Smarter Media” AI Search Service, powered by Backblaze. He also reflects on the impact of AI on media.
Here’s a list of the companies we are interviewing at the 2024 NAB Show along with links to watch them.
Last week, I asked readers to write about web services they found useful in video editing. Here are two reports on what works.
Here are the settings you need to use when sending a file from Adobe Premiere Pro to Avid Pro Tools for audio mixing.
In the face of evolving digital threats, small media businesses are tasked with the critical responsibility of securing their assets. Here are tips you can use to keep your business safe.
In this tutorial, using Adobe Premiere Pro and BorisFX Continuum 2023, we’ll explore how to explode an image into thousands of particles then, even more fun, how to coalesce thousands of particles into a solid image o video.
The rise in paid product reviews and influencers has led to an increasing distrust in product reviews. Larry Jordan has some thoughts on this.
Video Walls 3.0, by Luca Visual FX, is an extremely well-thought-out, highly-flexible series of 3D video wall effects. The controls are detailed and the results are mind-boggling. Even better, though, the defaults work without any modifications, so if you are pressed for time, you don’t need to tweak anything to get an outstanding effect.
VideoProc Converter is a highly-affordable media clip compression and adjustment software. While most of its clip manipulation and trimming features already exist in professional video editing software, its support for transcoding virtually all known video formats makes it an attractive addition to your toolkit – once it fixes problems in the Mac version.
FlexClip is a cloud-based AI video editor is designed for people who know little or nothing about creating video. Jessica Miller, of FlexClip, explains what it does, how it works and who it’s designed for.
This morning, BorisFX announced a pivotal shift in strategic direction with the 2024 release of Continuum 2024 and updates to CrumplePop audio tools, becoming one of the first in the industry to integrate AI-driven effects into a visual effects plugin.
This is a VERY interesting article about the current state of motion capture, based on an interview with Brett Ineson, Founder and CTO of Animatrik. We discuss mo-caps impact – for good and bad – on actors, how producers can benefit from it and the current state of the technology. This is well-worth your time to read.
I’m confused. What’s the difference between a “format” and a “codec?” The answer is that sometimes these are the same and sometimes these are different. Here’s a good way to think about these.
This is the time of year for upgrades and new releases for Mac users. However, it is important to remember that our job is to get our work done – on time and with minimal stress. Don’t rush to upgrade – wait for software to settle down.
Goodbye PostScript. You were a true star that built industries, redesigned the world and changed lives. You shall be missed. macOS Sonoma no longer support PostScript or EPS.
AI is already having a dramatic impact on media creation and profits. Here’s a discussion between Philip Hodgetts and Clayton Moore that looks at the impact on our industry.
You can’t use what you can’t find. Logging and tracking clips in a single project is supported by all NLEs. My question is what do you use to track media across projects? Share your thoughts in the comments.
Digital signage is a part of everyday life – but have you ever wondered how it works? Larry Jordan goes behind the scenes at the Peppermill Hotel & Resort to see how they do it.
StreamVoodoo allows you to stream high-quality live video to one person, a group or a crowd. No special software. No logins. No accounts. One click and they are in. The problem is figuring out how it works. That still needs help.
If you are frustrated trying to make your audio sound better, the Crumblepop AI-assisted audio plug-ins will decrease your stress and improve your audio without requiring an advanced audio degree. And, when it comes to noise reduction, they can do magic.
The news presents events in the real world to help viewers understand what it going on. A documentary deconstructs real people and real events to explain and illuminate them. Given the state of AI, how do you convince viewers that your images and sounds are not fake?
Topaz Videa AI, from Topaz Labs, does amazing work deinterlacing and enhancing clips. This is an overview of how it works.
Topaz Video AI delivers dramatic results, with a great deal of promise for the future. It’s not cheap and not all features work well. But, for the most part, this is an outstanding tool to improve image quality. Here’s my detailed review.
While accurate storage speed measurements are still elusive, here are settings you can use to improve the accuracy of AJA Speed Test Lite to check the speed of your storage.
Topaz Photo AI almost works magic enhancing still images. Here’s a detailed review of what it does and how it works. It isn’t cheap, but the results are worth it.
How do you know if a Mac application needs Rosetta? And, if it does, what do you do? Here are the details.
Still photographs, slides and digital images are a common component in many video projects. In this short video Larry Jordan shows how to use Topaz Photo AI to improve the look – and resolution – of still images.
Apple is famous for killing useful technology. For media creators, meant the death of software to create DVDs. With his livelihood at stake, Richard Osso went on a mission to find a way to continue creating DVDs for clients. This is his story.
Adding a few dozen To-Do markers to any Final Cut project won’t cause any problems. However, if you regularly import transcripts into FCP, take the time to read this thread, especially if your system seems to be slower than usual.
Here are some real-world speed tests of 2-, 3-, and 4-drive SSD RAIDs using the OWC Thunderblade. Speeds are fast, but none fully fill a Thunderbolt 3/4 connection. Still, they are more than fast enough for almost all editing.
iBoysoft Data Recovery for the Mac brings missing files back to life. It does so for a wide range of files and devices. But the interface is flaky, core features are unreliable, and the entire application needs someone to pay much closer attention to it. Here’s Larry Jordan’s review.
Larry continues his on-going report on configuring and using a media asset management system – and making it accessible to remote users. His example features axle.ai software.
MagicMenu expands what we can do when we right-click a file or the Finder. It is fast, affordable, customizable and flexible. It supports Apple silicon systems. Though it isn’t perfect, it can save you a lot of time.
This review of storage speed-testing software AmorphousDiskMark, from Katsura Software. This details how it works, the consistency of its results and compares it to Blackmagic Design’s Disk Speed Test. However, there are questions about its accuracy.
This guest post, from Zac Carr, looks at a variety of online tools that enable better collaboration and organization during video editing.
Here’s a collection of two dozen websites with free – or mostly free resources for video editors.
This guest post from Laura Fields looks at video editing tools that would be good for educators and students.
