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Episode 36 of The Terence and Philip Show: what’s interesting to us, now.

Post author By Philip
Post date November 2, 2011
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Episode 36: What’s interesting to us (Film is Dead) http://t.co/2hVrLyXj

A series of topics starting with large sensor cameras in production, the November 3 announcements from Canon Professional video, RED and Avid. Then on to the death of film, the cinema experience, and the problems of 3D.

Weâ€™ve been predicting the demise of the Mac Pro in the current form fact for some time, and during this early October recording, we discuss what has this week become rumor: the demise of the heavy iron workstation. (And the value of SSD.)

Terry reports from the Monitor shootout day sponsored by the Hollywood Post Alliance, and HPA sponsored workflows.

We also get onto the future of Apple after the loss of Steve Jobs (just like everyone else!), leading to a discussion of who invented what?

The implications of Siri for postproduction: specialist tools vs generalists tools.

Distribution Item of Interest Media Consumption

Make No Mistake: Google Is Taking on the TV Industry.

Post author By Philip
Post date October 29, 2011

Make No Mistake: Google Is Taking On The TV Industry http://t.co/6ntzqtFb The traditional TV industry should consider itself warned.

The biggest barrier to Google and Apple’s desire to create a new television distribution network has been the intransigence of the content owners to disrupt their own business model while it’s still profitable. So the obvious answer is for them to invest in content directly.

Item of Interest Media Consumption

5 Ways Mobile is Changing TV watching.

Post author By Philip
Post date October 26, 2011

Second Screen Visionaries: 5 Ways Mobile Is Changing TV-Watching http://t.co/AacKJgKY

Last July, about a year and a half later,Â Rapid TV News reportedÂ on a white paper by British technology research company Mobile Interactive Group, which updated that number for the US and UK. It had â€œ40% of mobile users saying that they are most likely to be multi-tasking using their phone while watching the TV.â€ (Some estimate that number nearly doubles when you look at the 18-24 demographic.)

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Event Manager X updated to 1.1

Post author By Philip
Post date October 21, 2011
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Event Manager X updated to 1.1 – Filter your events and/or Projects for Final Cut Pro X http://t.co/ADmN7BKi

Update through the application.

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From Final Cut Pro X to Final Cut Pro 7

Post author By Philip
Post date October 19, 2011
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From Final Cut Pro X to Final Cut Pro 7 XML, then to Color, Soundtrack Pro, OMF, Premiere Pro (After Effects) http://t.co/pDvID7jR >br>

Export Final Cut Pro X Project XML to a Final Cut Pro 7 Sequence XML. Â Because the two apps are so different, a perfect translation is not possible.

Item of Interest Media Consumption The Business of Production

Traditional TV is in for a heck of a ride.

Post author By Philip
Post date October 18, 2011

Traditional TV is in for a heck of a ride http://t.co/AHXR0djD Meta trends in media.

This is a long article but well worth the read asÂ Habib Kairouz runs through a comparison between the ills that afflict the print industry with those that are affecting television as we’ve known it.

Item of Interest Media Consumption

The Future Of TV Is Coming, Slowly but Surely.

Post author By Philip
Post date October 17, 2011

The Future Of TV Is Coming, Slowly But Surely http://t.co/rQuQL5e1

Dan Frommer at Business Insider takes a look at the various aspects of the evolving future of Television.

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Removal of Restrictions Can Decrease Music Piracy says study.

Post author By Philip
Post date October 12, 2011
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Removal of Restrictions Can Decrease Music Piracy, Study Suggests http://t.co/2zV65ehu Finally some facts in the discussion

Studies from the MPAA or RIAA tend to be laughably unscientific, to the point of even drawing the opposite conclusions than the data supports. Rarely are the methodologies exposed (an essential step for scientific analysis) nor the raw data ever shared. For scientific rigour, a study needs to be published so that anyone else in the world could reproduce the study and get the same results.

Interesting Technology Item of Interest Metadata

The New iPhone’s Face Recognition Capabilities.

Post author By Philip
Post date October 5, 2011
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The New iPhone’s Face Recognition Capabilities Could Redefine Privacy http://t.co/WayE1Abv

Following on the heels of yesterday’s post about facial recognition in the cloudÂ here’s information on how Apple are applying the technology they gained when they acquired Polar Rose last September, at least within iOS frameworks.

When coders dug through Apple’s beta versions of iOS5 they found what were deemed to be “highly sophisticated” API systems that let an iPhone automatically track eye positions and mouth positions (so the angle to the user, and possibly where their attention is being directed could be calculated) as well as passing key data on to a face recognition algorithm that would be accessible to all apps…not just Apple’s own.

Combine this with the Nuance-licensed voice recognition technology in Siri – also new with iOS 5 and iPhone 4S – and we have the foundation of a very powerful metadata generation system that would automate naming people in clips and form the basis of speech transcription and then keyword extraction.

In my dreams these are technologies that will come to Final Cut Pro X 10.2 or 10.3 in future years.

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Warner Bros puts your face in Facebook Web Series.

Post author By Philip
Post date October 3, 2011
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Warner Bros puts your face in Facebook Web series http://t.co/oEFDAhcK

Back in the mid 1990’s my email sig line read (for a while) “Dynamic Media Evangelist’ because I was a serious advocate of interactive media of the lean forward, get involved kind. Well, disappointment after disappointment followed and I realized that, for most people, the act of “watching video” was a lean back, turn off act, not an active one.