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Last week, I wrote about the gear we would use for our interviews. I'm delighted to report it all worked great.
Link: Here’s the Gear We Used to Shoot Interviews at the 2025 NAB Show
This week, I have a behind-the-scenes look at our setup and workflow to record our interviews and how it worked.
Link: How We Recorded Our Interviews at the 2025 NAB Show
I've decided, for a number of reasons, to edit my NAB interviews using DaVinci Resolve. Why? First, to get more experience with it. Second, to take advantage of key features like speech-to-text, along with the integrated Color and Fairlight pages. When I was at NAB, I sat down with several Resolve experts to learn more and discovered several time-saving features that I want to share with you.
Link: Three Audio Secrets To Improve Your Audio in DaVinci Resolve
Link: Add a Burned-In Watermark to DaVinci Resolve Projects
The annual NAB Show is an opportunity to meet friends, learn new things, and get a sense for the future. While both attendance and exhibitors were significantly down this year, there was still much to learn.
IN CLOSING
AI is inescapable. However, it is also metastasizing in unexpected ways. While generative AI gets the headlines, most developers are using AI to create tools to speed difficult tasks, such as finding media in Premiere, or searching video using text descriptions like Axle AI, or processing AI tasks locally, like Blackmagic Design. There's a growing trend away from storing media on the cloud and moving it into a combination of local and cloud storage - called "hybrid" storage - to save money, improve privacy and security, and avoid having your media scraped by the big AI companies.
There is increased realization that AI needs guardrails: protections for copyrighted works, protections for jobs, protections on how LLMs are trained. However, there is also a large gap between realizing the need and finding an answer for it.
Business is down everywhere, except where it isn't. Traditional media is struggling, social media is exploding; but the business models on making money are shifting. Tariffs and politics are making everything far muddier than usual. And no one I talked with at any hardware company has a clue how these tariffs will play out.
Tools are becoming easier to use, but, as Kylee Pena of Adobe said: "Tools are becoming easier, but not easy. Adobe realizes there is still a need for craft skills." The NAB Show, this year, felt like a living version of the Charles Dicken's quote: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..."
Yup. That pretty much says it all.
Until next Monday, stay hopeful, stay healthy and edit well.
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