|
I’m excited to announce that I am returning to NAB next week! My goal is to interview key vendors to learn the latest news, industry trends, and the role of AI. I currently have 80 video interviews scheduled which will appear on my website and YouTube starting Sunday night.
This coverage is the result of a major sponsorship from Axle.ai, and I’m deeply grateful for their support. Their sponsorship is also making possible key website design changes, which I’ll talk more about next week.
Email me any questions or companies I should include that would be helpful to you.
While big companies, like Apple or Adobe, make the incredibly complex software we build our companies on, smaller companies create those key utilities which make it useable. Two of these are Final Cut Library Manager (FCLM), from ArcticBrightness, and CommmandPost, from CommandPost.io. Both have been around for years and both are continuously developed. The problem is that FCLM has never made a profit in over a decade, while CommandPost is free. That's a hard business model to work with.
Last week, Hedge announced that they've "taken on stewardship of FCLM, and brought on Chris Hocking [the developer behind CommandPost] to ensure it gets the attention it deserves." Vincent Zorzi and Tim Arms deserve our thanks for their hard work in creating FCLM. And Chris Hocking is legendary for his high-quality software and instant responses to fix problems.
Hedge writes: "This isn't a typical acquisition; we're not in it for the money. We're taking on stewardship. It's like running an in-company non-profit division."
This is excellent news. Good for the developers, good for users and good for Hedge for doing this. Read the Hedge blog here - I've already upgraded.
Link: https://blog.hedge.video/a-new-home-for-final-cut-library-manager/
NAB starts next Sunday. Here's the news:
Axle AI announced their new Axle AI Cloud this morning, which brings new searches and metadata to existing S3-compatible cloud storage. Powered by Backblaze, the beta version includes automatic speech transcription, face recognition, object recognition, logo recognition and OCR (optical character recognition) of onscreen text.
Link: Axle AI introduces "Smarter Media"
Blackmagic Design is streaming their NAB announcements Friday, April 12, at 12PM EDT. This will cover in broadcast, post production and cameras.
Link: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com
The NDI coalition released the specs for NDI 6. This spec allows developers to add HDR video over IP, in full 10-bit mode. While not a consumer product, this technology means that we will soon be able to edit 10-bit HDR material remotely.
Link: https://ndi.video/tech/ndi6/
Brainstorm will showcase at NAB Suite 6, the latest version of InfinitySet, Aston and eStudio. This will use an Elections program, combining the most advanced virtual production with InfinitySet using Unreal Engine 5 and Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada Generation graphics cards, with industry-unique features such as multiple scenes, talent tele-transport and AR graphics.
Link: https://www.brainstorm3d.com
Studio Technologies released the Model 5312 Intercom Station. This is a rack-mounted unit that is designed to serve as an audio control center for production and support personnel in numerous applications including on-air television sports and news broadcasting, live events, theater, industrial, aerospace, and corporate AV.
Link: Studio Technologies Releases Model 5312 Intercom Station
Telestream will be showing Live Capture as a Service, Vantage Cloud, GLIM as a Service and their Inspect Monitoring Platform at NAB. (Ah, no, I don't know what GLIM stands for and Telestream did not define it.)
Link: https://telestream.net/home.htm
Vizrt acquired NewTek in 2019, though the two companies operated separately for several years. This year they are unifying the two companies and, at NAB, they will be showing the latest versions of Tricaster: The Tricaster 2 Elite.
Link: https://www.vizrt.com/products/tricaster/tricaster-2-elite/
Digital Anarchy will be showing Beauty Box A.I., along with new versions of Flicker Free, Transcriptive, and DataStoryteller.
Link: https://digitalanarchy.com
Oops. Last week, I reported that Forbes had an article detailing problems with macOS 14.4.1, but I forgot the link. Here's the link.
Link: Forbes: Problems with macOS Sonoma
| 
