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The stunning news last week was a change in Adobe's Terms of Service for Creative Cloud. The key phrase - to which you are required to consent in order to use any Adobe Creative Cloud software - is that users "grant [Adobe] a ‘non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free sublicensable, license, to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, create derivative works based on, publicly perform, and translate the Content.'” (Where "the Content" is your media and projects.)
Whoa! Does this mean we just lost all control of our projects? Adobe's new Terms and the industry fallout are my lead story.
Link: Is Adobe Accessing Your Private Data?
Apple WWDC keynote is coming in a few hours. Fasten your seat belt. Change is back in style.
I'm on the road this week and next, visiting family in Wisconsin. So, my newsletter has fewer tutorials than usual. I'll catch up when I get home.
In the news:
Cinegear Expo opened for three days ending yesterday in Los Angeles. I've always enjoyed this show. Where else can you see this combination of outrageous production gear - from cameras to camera cars, and everything else needed to create movie magic.
Link: https://www.cinegearexpo.com/la-expo/
Blackmagic Design announced Blackmagic Cloud Sync, a new feature of Blackmagic Cloud storage that allows a camera to sync media into a DaVinci Resolve bin while the camera is recording. Within seconds the editors can see media arriving in real time and start editing, even while the camera continues to record.
Link: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/release/20240607-01
DPA Microphones has a fascinating - and short - tutorial on how mic placement affects voice quality. This is especially good to know for performers. The article takes 2-3 minutes to read - but I learned two key facts that will improve my audio recordings.
Link: Recommendations on mic placement
BorisFX released Silhouette 2024. This new release puts the power of AI into the dedicated hands of roto and paint artists — with unrivaled efficiency & quality. Features include rotoscoping, animated mattes, retiming and more
Link: https://blog.borisfx.com/silhouette-2024-artistry-meets-ai
Aputure launched two new products: the INFINIBAR 4-Light kits and the Light Storm 600c Pro II. Infinibar features include portability with a sturdy rolling hard case, comprehensive accessories like DC male-to-male power cables and light control grids, and enhanced power options with a 330W Power Adapter for simultaneous charging of all fixtures. The Light Store 600c is a 600W Full-Color Point-Source Bowens Mount LED fixture with default daylight output.
Link: https://shop.aputure.com/collections/linear
Teradeck released the CTRL.5. In addition to focus pulling – CTRL.5 is an infinitely-customizable control platform, evolved from SmallHD’s PageOS software. CTRL.5 runs CTRL.OS, a powerful architecture enabling rich user access to real-time data from multiple on-set devices - all built into a 2,000nit panel.
Link: https://teradek.com/pages/ctrl5
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