Today, Adobe showcased the all-new Adobe Express, announcing the general availability for desktop web. The latest version of the AI-first, all-in-one content creation app with Firefly beta generative AI capabilities is revolutionising creative expression, making it fast, easy and fun for users of all skill levels to design and share...
VEGAS Creative Software Launches VEGAS Pro 21 – Adds Mocha Planar Tracking
VEGAS Creative Software announced today a major new upgrade to its flagship cloud-enabled software for video/audio editing, compositing and effects. VEGAS Pro 21 provides an improved, streamlined and more accessible content creation experience for the global creator community. The new version introduces a number of advanced features and workflow enhancements...
Review: Set.A.Light. Into Lighting? You NEED This!
Whether you are making a short film using your smartphone or a full-on blockbuster with a cast of thousands, one thing is common – lighting. (So is audio of course but that’s another story I have covered here). I think if most of use are honest, we would admit we...
Case Study: Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism (An Australian film no less!)
The new horror film “Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism” was completed using DaVinci Resolve Studio for colour correction, editing, visual effects (VFX) work and audio editing. This included extensive use of the DaVinci Neural Engine’s AI features, Fairlight Desktop Audio Editor console, DaVinci Resolve Mini Panels and DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor...
DaVinci Resolve / Fusion Studio 18.5 Final Releases Now Available
Massive update with over 100 new features including text based editing, AI dialogue transcription, new cut page editing toolset and new Fairlight mix automation. DaVinci Resolve 18.5 is a massive update with new AI tools and over 100 new features which include major additions to the cut page editing toolset,...
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...
New “Getting Started” Section
As the volume of stories, tutorials, case studies and reviews grows, even though there is a 'Search' option on my website, often someone just getting started in video, photography, flying drones, creating podcasts or vlogs doesn't quite know what to search for. Similarly, as posts "disappear" off relevent pages -...
Didn’t See THAT Coming… Final Cut, Logic Pro for iPad. Subscription Only Though
I don't know if anyone else saw this coming; I certainly didn't. Perhaps Blackmagic Design jolted Apple into action? Will the likes of Adobe and PreSopnus etc now hit back. One guesses they won't just let this happen ... (I am checking by the way). Apple today unveiled Final Cut...
Review: ProDAD “Hide”
Those of who started at the original coal face of digital video editing may remember the tedious art of manual rotoscoping. I remember a tutorial for a program from a mob called Puffin Software that allowed this, but you had to work frame by frame – in this case removing...
Adobe adds major extensions to Firefly technoogy to Creative Cloud
Today Adobe announced its plans to expand Adobe Firefly, its family of creative generative AI models, to its Creative Cloud video and audio applications, empowering creators to produce and dramatically enhance video and audio content while streamlining workflows. Adobe also unveiled new Al innovations in the Lightroom ecosystem - Lightroom,...