Wow, very elegant indeed! Thanks Daniel!

Hi Vojtěch,

We’ll be happy to take care of this for you! Please let us know if there is anything else we can do for you.

Regards,

Tim Wilson
Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW

Hi Marieke,

We are in the process of moving our tutorial library from its previous home to our new servers, so for now, all of our video tutorials are available on our YouTube channel. Here is the direct link to Eran’s “Adjustment Lights” tutorial:

Regards,
Tim Wilson
Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW

@scottwitthaus2 wrote:

I feel the iPhone 14 will be a camera, texting, email device and the “phone” part will become an option! 😉

Isn’t it that way already? For every phone. Heck, phone cameras do more to drive my buying choices than pretty much anything else.

At this point, unless it’s my wife or the people I work with, the only thing the PHO…

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I dig the $9.99 plan, too. Nothing much to add to Graham’s post except to observe that it works like it should, and is easy to cancel and restart as I’ve done a number of times. You’ll find plenty of folks to offer alternatives to Photoshop, and at this point I’m pretty sure I’ve tried them all — and I keep coming back to the original. They’ve…

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Links aside, I’m curious what you folks THINK about what you read at those links.

And I’m especially curious if any of you have experience using an iPhone as a cinema camera, so to speak, in your own productions.

Hi Brian,

Not a dumb question at all! Our former search engine had this feature, and we will be bringing it back.

As is sometimes the way in software development, individual legacy features are sometimes left behind so that foundations for new architectures can be properly laid. We’re only a few months into the new platform, and we’re making good…

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Our friend Ronny Courtens posted the news in the Storage and Archiving forum, but it seems worth noting here, too!

OWC®; a leading zero emissions Mac and PC technology company and one of the world’s most respected providers of Memory, External Drives, SSDs, Mac & PC docking solutions, announced today the acquisition of LumaForge, creator of the aw…

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Whoa, Ronny! Congratulations to all! Very exciting indeed!

Regards,
Tim

“Chyron” is the original name of a company that makes broadcast graphics gear. Among the things produced with such gear is lower thirds, but a lot more besides. Crawls, maps, virtual sets, all that kind of thing.

Their name is now ChyronHego, and they’ve apparently let the chyron.com domain lapse, which is insane. But in fact, the name is in wide…

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Hi Joey,

As often happens with major renovations in software, the first iteration of the new thing has to leave parts of the old things behind, or the new thing wouldn’t be able to happen at all.

Apple did this most famously with the first release of Final Cut Pro X (as it was then called), being very direct about the features that were absent for…

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Hi Rajan,

Can you explain more of what you mean? Also, can you provide a screenshot? That might help us understand, and hopefully help!

Thanks,
Tim

@patrickdonegan2 ,

We were wondering where you went. Glad you’re okay.

Hi Stacey,

Thanks for joining!

You know what, you’re right, we need an FAQ. We’ve also had a request to create an Introduce Yourself kind of forum, and I think that that’s a good idea too.

Until then, I’m certainly happy to answer any questions here!

We do not have a direct message function. We’d experimented it early on, but found that some of our…

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Blackmagic has just announced that the beta version of Resolve 17.1 has been posted, with the headline feature being support for macOS Big Sur. What took them so long? 🤣

Blackmagic has just announced that the beta version of Resolve 17.1 has been posted, with the headline feature being support for macOS Big Sur. What took them so long? 🤣

Am I wrong that Apple appears to be dropping the X? There’s certainly Big Sur as number 11, but most of the language I’m seeing refers to Final Cut Pro. Even the few links remaining to FCPX all redirect to URLs that eschew the X (exchew?), for pages that just say Final Cut Pro.

I don’t remember this always being the case, but I can’t say that I’ve…

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Hi Todd,

We’ve seen this too, and am sorry for the inconvenience. It’s part of the specific ad, not your browser or our site in general. I’m taking it up with the agency who provided it, and hope to have a fix soon.

You may have figured out the workaround for now, which is to scroll far enough down the page that the ad is up above the menu bar, so…

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We used to make a bunch of money in real estate video in the 90s, but saw it start to crater by the end of the decade with DV. I can’t even imagine trying to make REAL money in it these days competing with phones. Yeah, drone expertise can add a little, but I’m even seeing realtors with pocket drones doing some pretty good stuff on their own. Not…

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All correct. You can also see the posts of people you follow, as well as forums you’ve subscribed to, and later, topics or keywords you choose to follow, all in your Profile Feed. That is, the Feed on your own Profile page. You’ll see everything that the people you follow have posted, whereas other people looking at your profile will only see what…

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Greg, listening to a podcast will never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever happen for me. Ever. I can read the transcript of an hour-long podcast in 5 minutes, 10 minutes tops, so anything beyond that is an intolerable imposition on my time. I won’t have it.

Besides, not posting transcripts is just plain rude. Both of my grandmothers…

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I don’t think it’s that nobody is interested, as much as nobody had an answer. I sure don’t have one.

What’s the answer you found? Me, I’m dying to know!

Hi Lisa,

The short answer is, give the dog something to chew on, and try again.

Not to be glib, but the next question is, what software tools do you have? And how good are you at using them? If it’s just what came with your computer, there’s probably nothing there for you, regardless of your skill level. Out of curiosity, do you know the name of the…

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Kidding aside, kingdoms will rise, kingdoms will crumble into the sea, the earth will fall into the sun, and the sun will go nova before I listen to a single podcast. I don’t have the emotional ability to sit still and let people yap at me at their own pace. Give me a transcript or give me death.

So what did you have to say? Nothing personal to those other guys, but I’d rather not wade through them to get to you. What’re you thinking these days?

When you look at the Tech Specs page for the iPhone 12 Pro Max, it would seem ProRAW applies only to still images, it’s not listed as a video feature.

Ah yes, I was crossing the streams there. I understood this to be a still photography feature, but I think RAW in general is worth discussing. It’s not like uncompressed video, in the sense that u…

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@tonywest2 and @michaelgissing2, you both make great point about audio and related gear. You’re certainly right about Apple’s focus on visuals in these demo videos, including the one by Chivo for the 12 launch. Nice pictures, and not just because of the DP — the picture tech is indeed pretty slick, and some of it will likely filter up from the…

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Why do studios continue to use their more expensive cameras if the Komodo has the same great sensor, high data rates and 16 stops of latitude?

I’m a little behind on cameras, so I’ll let other people speak to the specs, but I’m very up on pricing in production, and can speak to the studios question.

They rent. They don’t buy. Film production…

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Hi Graham,

The MP4 feature described here is just allowing the upload of that file type through the firewall, without having to zip. It’s not a player.

It’s easy to forget that we had not had a built in player in the old COW for years. We’d turned it off in 2011, I think. In those days, we were getting so many takedown notices for videos with…

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We’re good to go, John! Thanks again for your help!

The .veg and images all look good to me! All downloading as expected.

I confess to not having upgraded Vegas in a while so I can’t test the file, but everything about it looks like I’d expect.

Look good to you too?

Hey, and thanks again for working with me on this!

When I hear “Tehachapi”, I also hear Lowell George and Linda Ronstadt singing “Willin'”. (And I wouldn’t want to live in a world that lacked either of their renditions.)

But I do know that area! We lived in the mountains above the Coachella Valley for a few years. Up Hwy 17 from Palm Desert, or down 17 from Idyllwild, depending on which direction…

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I think trend-wise, the ship has already sailed. Apple poo-pooed HD and 4K resolutions when they didn’t have them, but are now flying past that. Right now, it seems that they’re putting their focus on exactly where they should, make all this resolution usable with proper stabilization.

This is the likely camera to capture history in the making,…

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@craigseeman sez

I’m certainly curious to see if Magsafe or LIDAR will have utility for video as well but no one, including Apple, is hinting at those possibilities. Maybe next year’s phone will offer the equivalent of “portrait” mode for a video giving you a bit more flexibility in post.

Well now it happens that on another thread, @mathieughekiere …

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Amazing video, Peter! Where are you?

BTW I’m retired and an amateur, with aspirations to become an “accomplished amateur.”

This is one million percent legit. When I ran beta testing programs at Boris FX and Avid, I made sure to have as many aspirational retirees on my beta teams as I could arrange. Many of them came from technical and engin…

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Thanks for testing with us! Sorry we didn’t get it right the first time, but that’s why it’s a test.

And for sure .jpg files are allowed. They’re included in the list you showed. I think they were stopped because they were part of the same upload as the .veg.

Not sure what to test. Zip or just the veg + media

No need to test zip — that one has also…

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Apple has obviously been trying to pitch the iPhone as THE camera for filmmaking for the last couple of editions, and, well whatever man. But I have to admit that my eyebrows went up this time: 4K/60fps Dolby Vision HDR, the first camera of any sort (mobile or otherwise) to do this. And a new ProRAW format?

Also catching my eye, the short film by…

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Hey Chris,

Whoa, now. I apologize for your troubles posting, but to clarify, our spam system mistakenly stopped your post, because yes, it sensed a link to text ratio that looked suspicious. I replied to you within minutes.

And the fact that you are posting here shows that your account was NOT suspended. If it had been, you wouldn’t even have been…

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Back in the day, we had a gigantic Edius community. The parent company was Canopus, pronounced “Can O’ Pus” by its customers after some particularly egregious behavior whose specifics I can’t recall.

It was a ridiculously powerful system, packed with all kinds of cool features, including maybe the first implementation of real-time HD that I…

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Howdy Vegas folks! We’ve had a lot of requests for uploading project files as part of the troubleshooting process. We’ve supported .zip files for ages, but after a number of requests from members using After Effects and Cinema 4D, we implemented direct .aep and .c4d file upload — no need to zip first. They’re telling us it’s working well!

While we…

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Glad to hear it, Blaise! This is the kind of feature that I can’t develop without help from people actually using the software. I mean, I can read the specs on Google like anyone else, and I can make a fake project file to test, but that’s not how you’re supposed to do feature development. In fact, you can always tell when developers do that,…

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Oh man, it’s so great when it’s that easy! Ask and you shall receive!

Well, I don’t make it seem TOO easy for when I run into a tough one but in fact AEP turned out to be pretty easy too.

See attached! We’re recognizing the file, and seem to be uploading it okay, but I’m going to need you to test the download to make sure that the file behaves lik…

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Thanks Dustin! We’ve been putting a lot of effort into performance tuning, so we’re grateful for your help to track down anywhere that we aren’t hitting the mark.

It’s late in the day here, but I’ll have the team start poking at this tomorrow. I’ll let you know what we find!

Thanks again,

Tim

Hi Dustin,

Thanks for the report! We’ll definitely look into it. Can you tell me which OS you’re using?

Also, which version of Firefox?

Thanks,

Tim Wilson
Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW

Okay, the good news is that the compression is visually lossless. The somewhat exasperating news is that even though I’ve checked “do not scale”, there is a very slight rescaling. I think I can live with this, though!

I do encourage other folks to check this out with their large images, including cover images for their member profiles. MUCH better!