Archive for June 21st, 2017
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New “AI Film Editor” Cuts Scenes in “Your Style”
1 Comment · Posted by Philip in Artificial Intelligence, Nature of Work
Adobe is heading into AI/Machine Learning full steam ahead. A private room NAB demo showed picture search and dialog search powered by IBM Watson, and now this collaboration with Stanford organizes takes, matches them to lines of dialog, recognizes voices, faces and emotions, camera framing, and more and then builds dialog-focused stories in any style desired.
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The Real Reason People Hated Apple Over FCP X
29 Comments · Posted by Philip in Apple, The Business of Production
When Apple released FCP X six years ago, there was an incredible backlash, which Apple deserved for the sudden, harsh removal of FCP 7 from the market. But I believe there was another reason behind the anger beyond the sudden cut off: there was no more hope that Apple would supplant Avid in the editing world.
