One of the big changes in moving to New England is rediscovering the different seasons. Fall means cooler days, longer nights and glorious fall foliage. But, even with the weather as a distraction, there's still a lot going on.
My lead story is from Tony Fleming about YouTube sending video take-down notices based on fraudulent copyright claims. YouTube is taking the easy way out and assuming all media creators are guilty. Worse, appeals are determined by the people making the fraudulent copyright claim - which makes no sense whatsoever. Here's the link - I'm interested in your comments.
In the news this week:
Adobe announces that its acquisition of Frame.io is complete. First announced in August, all the paperwork is now processed. With the close of the transaction, Frame.io co-founder and CEO Emery Wells will continue to lead the Frame.io team, reporting to Scott Belsky as part of the Creative Cloud organization. Both companies stressed that Frame.io will continue to support non-Adobe applications such as Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve and Avid.
The folks at Yoyotta reminded me that LTO 9 was just released. Each tape holds 18 TB of data which is 50% more than LTO 8. Yoyotta makes software focused on archiving and file management. Here's more about what's new.
Thinking outside the box, Canon announced their first lens for virtual reality capture. (Remember VR?) The new RF5.2mm F2.8 L Dual Fisheye lens is the world’s first digital interchangeable lens capable of enabling stereoscopic 3D 180° VR shooting to a single image sensor. Canon’s new EOS VR System streamlines virtual reality production.
One other Adobe note. This last week, Adobe announced Auto Tone, which is available in the latest beta version of Adobe Premiere Pro. Auto Tone is AI-assisted color correction and extends the existing automatic grayscale correction in the Lumetri color panel. Here are more details.