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Augmented Reality is already huge!
1 Comment · Posted by Philip in Interesting Technology, Media Consumption, Video Technology
While Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality often get conflated, they are very different beasts.
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IBM Watson hosted AI takes over Legal Firm’s Bankruptcy Practice
2 Comments · Posted by Philip in Interesting Technology
Only a few days ago I wrote about smart APIs that developers can use to enhance their apps. Today, John Hauer on TechCrunch postulates that he could not find one job that someday won’t be dehumanized.
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Google adds to smart APIs
Comments off · Posted by Philip in Assisted Editing, Interesting Technology, Metadata, The Business of Production
Google today launched a new API to help parse natural language. An API is an Application Programming Interface, that developers can use to send data to, and get a response back. Natural Language Parsing is used to understand language that is available in computer-readable form (text). Google’s API joins an increasingly long list of very smart APIs that will understand language, recognize images and much more.
A lot has changed since I last wrote about Advances in Content Recognition late last year.
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Which technological innovation will take your job?
Comments off · Posted by Philip in Assisted Editing, Interesting Technology, Item of Interest, The Technology of Production
We’re all aware that technology changes the workplace. Jobs disappear; sometimes to be replaced by other jobs that didn’t exist before. During the industrial revolution we were replacing manual labor with machines. The coming revolution is for white collar “knowledge” jobs. How soon will yours be among them?
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The Terence and Philip Show Episode 71: NAB 2016
Comments off · Posted by Philip in Apple Pro Apps, Interesting Technology, Item of Interest, The Technology of Production, Video Technology
Terence Curren and I recorded our thoughts on NAB 2016. Topics covered include general impressions of NAB 2016, and why Terry did not attend this year; Blackmagic Design Resolve; Avid’s business; market fragmentation; HDR and expanded color gamut; Studio Daily’s Top 50 influencers (including Philip); Zcam; Lytro cam; VR; innovation; Apple watch and NDA’d Final Cut Pro X preview.
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New approaches to ‘Automatic Editing’
2 Comments · Posted by Philip in Interesting Technology, Item of Interest, Technology
A recent articles, and project, demonstrate an increasing trend to automate certain types of production: generally that which is highly predictable. One example uses new technology to build news videos from text articles; the other builds multiple videos based on the same XML template.
These types of technologies are but another in a series of developments on templatorization or automatic editing. Naturally, at the heart of all automated processes is metadata.
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Why I’m a 4K Convert for Acquisition!
Comments off · Posted by Philip in Interesting Technology, Lunch
For the Lunch with Philip and Greg project we shoot 4K and extract 1080 out of the larger image (or scale the image down). Working on the edit of the next to be published, this very moment shows why I find a big advantage in 4K for acquisition.
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You can see from the multicam thumbnail why I wanted to crop this image, even though the shot on Greg is the best choice for that moment. And yes, cutting around eating is one of the early challenges of this project. We’re developing better strategies as we gain experience.
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The Terence and Philip Show: Episode 68 – the Future.
Comments off · Posted by Philip in Interesting Technology, The Business of Production
In the latest episode of the Terence and Philip Show, Terry and I discuss how to survive an ever-changing world and keep your career alive. Triggered by a discussion of a family history video project I’m undertaking (and will be writing about more shortly).
http://www.theterenceandphilipshow.com/?p=579
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AVFoundation gets massive upgrade in Yosemite
15 Comments · Posted by Philip in Apple, Apple Pro Apps, Interesting Technology
As Final Cut Pro X – and other modern video apps – are built on Frameworks from the core OS, those Frameworks sometimes provide clues to Apple’s thinking. One that we care a lot about is AVFoundation, which is the modern replacement for QuickTime at the application and OS level. We’ve seen this in the transition from QuickTime Player 7, which is built on QuickTime (both QTKit and the older C API). Unfortunately AVFoundation has lacked many features that are essential for video workflows, so I watch the features added to AVFoundation as a way of understanding where video apps might go.
Firstly, there has been a massive update to AVFoundation in Yosemite, and it appears we get reference movies back.
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Drones are becoming more automated!
Comments off · Posted by Philip in Interesting Technology, The Technology of Production
This news item caught my eye.
“DJI has expanded the feature set of the Phantom 2 Quadcopter line by giving it the ability to map out a route and automatically fly it. Using Ground Station, shooters will be able to create a route full of way points in order to let the quadcopter fly automatically from one point to another, and allow the shooter to concentrate on getting the shot. And it’s just what the pilot ordered.”
It reminded me of some of my thoughts on – what I was then calling a quadcopter but would now be a drone – how these flying camera platforms were going to evolve.
