With Terry bringing a “Hollywood” focused insight, with Philip bringing the case for smaller, independent production, it’s not surprising their opinions differ! An overview of where we think Artificial Intelligence is going to help, and where it’s going to not. It probably is what you think!
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Terry and Philip are back, and after nearly five years (ignore the estimates in the show), and talking about what’s changed for them personally, and what changes they’ve seen in the industry.
We hint at an Artificial Intelligence show to come, and discuss whether “the industry” is better off now than five years ago – who has suffered a downturn and who is doing well.
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A recent article in The Atlantic Your Work Peak Is Earlier Than You Think started this discussion, which is particularly relevant with so many layoffs happening through mergers among the Studios.
Terence and Philip discuss the implications and how we should react.
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Recently Wistia published an original series “One, Ten, One Hundred” that examined what happens when you have $1,000, $10,000, $100,000 in a budget for – essentially – the same concept for a video.
Somewhat ironically, Wistia make a video presentation tool – Soapbox – that is the featured product in the three videos.
As well as the three videos produced by an LA Advertising Agency, the Wistia video crew created a very entertaining view of the production and drew the conclusions as to best value.
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In the year since we last discussed Machine Learning and AI applied to media production and distribution.
The series of articles by Tom Ohanian is The Complete Series on the State of Nonlinear Editing.
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Co-host Philip Hodgetts and his husband Greg Clarke have been running a series of over-lunch interviews, shot with a couple of GoPros and some H1N recorders and lapel mics.
You can go straight to YouTube or check out the blog version with an index.
Terence and Philip start with a discussion of why we’re trending toward reality Television away from scripted. What are the implications for workflows? Where is the distinction between documentary and reality?
There’s a discussion on reality TV production techniques. Followed by some of the ideas Philip has for saving time on the Solar Odyssey Challenge show using metadata using Time Associated Metadata inspired by OnLocation/Adobe Story workflows. Philip discusses some of the software ideas he has for metadata acquisition.
Philip mentioned a sports logging tool: the company is iCoda.
Thanks to Alpha Dogs intern Alex Talavera for editing the show and making us sound intelligent.
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Sponsored movies of the 70’s and 80’s were the precursor to Branded Entertainment, and it’s a major way of getting funded today. But is it the future? Terence and Philip discuss examples and why it might be more successful.
Many thanks to Isai Espinoza for editing the show again and making us sound smart.
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Terry starts the discussion about audio levels and the perception of loudness, in the wake of the recent FCC ruling. This leads to the main discussion of deliverables: aka “pining for PAL vs NTSC”! Formats and deliverable metadata add to the complication that delivering a program has become.
The discussion veers into the endless discussion of generalist vs specialist before ending on the value of value.
Thanks as always to Zach Spell for editing the show and making us sound intelligent.
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The episode when Philip explains how QuickTime’s flexibility caused difficulties when imported to Final Cut Pro, which leads to a discussion on what is QuickTime; how the event-based nature of QuickTime isn’t ideal for video and what would need to change. Plus what is a framework, QTKit and what development has happened in the Cocoa-ization of QuickTime, necessary for any future Cocoa 64 bit Final Cut Pro. And a short discussion on the pleasures of Flash.
Note: Although Philip says “no QuickTime on an iPhone” the player shows the QuickTime icon but that’s the only thing in common with QuickTime on Mac OS X.
UPDATE: Just came across a Cocoa Heads presentation on AV Foundation on Slideshare that doesn’t seem to be covered by an NDA. From what I understand AV Foundation “replaces” QT in the iOS. Check out page 14 and 29 in particular. Also slide 9 – how far has QTkit come with Classes and Methods and how far has AV Foundation came.
I wrote more at my blog Introducing AV Foundation and the future of QuickTime.
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