Today, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) unveiled Generative Fill in Photoshop, bringing Adobe Firefly generative AI capabilities directly into design workflows. The new Firefly-powered Generative Fill is the world’s first co-pilot in creative and design workflows, giving users a magical new way to work by easily adding, extending or removing content from images non-destructively in seconds using...
Never Overwrite Files With the Same Name Again
One bug with GoPro cameras is that unlike say, models from Fujifilm or Canon, you cannot change the way it names the files it creates, no matter they be video or photo images. (Or if you can, I have never found a way so please tell me!) This means, as...
Workflow: The Social First News Service Daily Aus
The Daily Aus, one of Australia’s leading social first news services, is completing daily news stories for Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and various podcast channels using Blackmagic Design cameras, switchers and DaVinci Resolve. The Daily Aus is one of the world’s first news services producing stories only for social media...
DaVinci Resolve 18.5 Beta 3
DaVinci Resolve 18.5 Beta 3! Adds additional improvements to the DaVinci public beta including padding for subtitles, Fusion multimerge tools, expanded language detection, Blackmagic RAW SDK 3.1 and transcription now works in 14 languages. This software adds additional improvements to the DaVinci public beta such as improvements to text based...
Latest Podcast Now Live
My regular podcast covering all things video, photography, imaging, audio and even drones and 3D printing. In this edition: All you need to know about camera lens filters? Astrophotography. Getting started Monetizing your film One the website this week... and.. Win a Zhiyun Molus G20 Lighting Kit worth over $500...
How Do I Monetise My Horror Film?
In one of the Facebook film groups the other day, someone was lamenting that they could get no one to take on the horror film they had produced. To paraphrase, the question that was asked “how do I then monetise what I have done if no-one will take it on?”...
Tutorial: A Quick Primer on Filters
Far back in distant time I had a freelance gig in Perth photographing cars in used car yards. These photos were used in the yards’ weekly newspaper ads – remember them? Maybe not. Anyway, one of the tricks I used to make the vehicles look more interesting was to put...
Review: Verbatim 13-in-1 Docking Station
Not that many years ago, if it was suggested I would need more than 4 USB ports on a PC, I’d be thinking you were a little bit bonkers. What for? A mouse and a printer were all you needed to connect via USB. What would the rest be for?...
Singapore Feature Film Perth Restored . Here’s How.
The 2003 feature film “Perth,” which was originally shot on Super 16mm film, was recently scanned and restored using the Cintel Scanner and DaVinci Resolve Studio editing, grading, visual effects (VFX) and audio post production software. Set in Singapore, the film follows Harry Lee, a 51 year old part time...
Blackmagic Sale on ATEM ISO Units
I just had a quick note direct from Grant Petty himself letting me know that Blackmagic Design is having a short term sale of its ATEM ISO switcher units. Details below. Please note all prices are AUD$ . To help the ISO workflow, we are having an ISO switcher sale....