[David Lawrence]

Perfect. Thank you Oleg! ????????

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[David Lawrence]

[Bob Zelin] “I feel that it is important that the Lindeboom’s understand that they own a world class, high class “restaurant” or “book store”. What they DON’T know is that in the basement, there is an illegal fight club that runs every night, and it’s under the premise of this forum. “

^ This!

Another vote for “All NLE’s – the Great Debate”. I think it’s perfect.

This forum has a rich, deep history that covers *way* more than just Apple.

“Apple Talk” is really a non-sequitur if you think about it. ???? Imagine someone new to The COW searching the “Apple Talk” forum looking for info on their AppleTV and pulling up one of Aindreas’ brilliant NLE rants. It *will* happen, lol.

Change is good and I look forward to the October makeover, as well as more of the debates and engaging conversations that make this such a fun and informative place to hang out.

Thanks Ron, Tim, and Kathlyn for making this space for us! ????

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[David Lawrence]

UPDATE – My 360 people on Facebook say it does.

Yay! Finally. So sick of switching to Chrome to watch YouTube 360 stuff.

Now just gotta get some time to do the upgrade. Hopefully by the time I have time the bugs will be settled.

Who’s using High Sierra in a production environment? How’s it working for you?

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[David Lawrence]

[Bill Davis] “To clarify, if for any reason you have decided NOT to do the High Sierra update at this time, you can still update and get allthe benefit of the new color tools and even the VR and 360 tools.”

Are you (or anyone else) using High Sierra yet Bill? If so, does 360 video from YouTube work in Safari yet?

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[David Lawrence]

Speaking of 360 video, does Safari under High Sierra finally support it? I’m not ready to upgrade but under 10.12.6 Sierra, Safari and 360 are still a fail.

Did they fix that yet?

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[David Lawrence]

Every Frame a Painting is at the top of my list of must sees for anyone interested in the language of cinema. I’ll miss new essays but am glad for the rich library Tony and Taylor have left us. Great final essay on their process and makes total sense that keywording was a big part of how they found connections. Thanks for the link!

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[David Lawrence]

Which is why all my browsers on all my devices use this:

https://adguard.com

Whitelist the sites you want to support, and the rest can go pound sand. Added bonus – the web actually works again, especially on mobile.

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[David Lawrence]

360 video is an area I’ve been exploring since 2015 and am very excited about. I think it and VR in general have been drastically overhyped (no it’s not gonna be a $150 Billion dollar industry by 2020) but there is certainly something new and interesting there worth exploring.

I’m also highly skeptical of the claims that 360 is a new storytelling medium. I can count on one hand the number of “story” experiences I’ve seen in 360 that benefitted from the 360 medium. Most fail to do anything that wouldn’t work just as well as a regular film. I personally feel like the constant talk about “story” is coming from a Hollywood-driven mindset that’s looking for the next big thing to drive audience. We saw how well that worked with 3D. My colleagues and I are more interested in experimenting with place and interactive experiences rather than trying to address traditional narrative. I’m not saying narrative can’t be done well in 360, but so far I haven’t seen many examples that justify it.

One genre where 360 excels is documentary. Some of the best 360 examples I’ve seen make you feel like you’re literally there. Here’s one: Spike Jones and Chris Milk for Vice News documenting the Millions March in NYC on 12/13/14. Watch it in stereoscopic 360 in Google Cardboard or another headset if you have one. It’s incredibly powerful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9cZRfp6mOA

Re: cameras – The Ozo failed because it was way overpriced and the quality was low for the cost. Over the last couple years, several Chinese manufacturers leapfrogged it with much higher quality at a fraction of the price. It’s a shame Nokia shut it down but my take is they bought into the initial hype and over-invested on poorly designed hardware. I think they just decided it was time to cut their losses.

The camera companies I think you should be paying attention to are:

ZCam
https://www.z-cam.com

Insta
https://www.insta360.com

Yi
https://www.yitechnology.com/yi-360-vr-camera

And GoPro
https://shop.gopro.com/cameras/fusion/CHDHZ-101.html

Re: FCPX
It’s great that Apple decided to add native tools. I think a lot of people will be glad to have them. But it’s definitely playing catch-up to Adobe who purchased Mettle last year and fully integrated the Mettle toolset into Premiere and After Effects. Mettle’s tools are considered the best in the industry and they’re lucky to have Chris BoBotis as their Director of Immersive.

Frankly, I’m more excited about the new version of FCPX finally having a rational color grading UI, lol 😉

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[David Lawrence]

This is fantastic news. Besides being a great cross-platform codec with outstanding image quality, CineForm has a unique “Active Metadata” architecture that enables some very efficient and flexible workflows that can’t be done with other codecs. It’s great for working with stereoscopic footage. Now that it’s open source, I hope we’ll start seeing more CineForm development and usage.

https://cineform.com/pdfs/ActiveMetadata_Architecture.pdf

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[David Lawrence]

[Andy Field] “Apple – come on – just make a widget that opens FCP7 Project and creates a universal XML – can’t be that hard — Premiere Opens them without any translation”

I doubt Apple will make this but I’ll bet Philip and Greg at Intelligent Assistance could if there was enough of a demand.

https://www.intelligentassistance.com/index.html

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