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Next week's webinar is a detailed look at Media Asset Management and Axle AI. The whole point of tracking your media is to quickly find the shot you need without wasting time. I purchased Axle ten years ago and use it every week. My goal is to answer question like: What does a MAM do? When do you need it? Why is it better than what our NLE provides? How does an NLE work? I also want to focus on how to get media into and out of a MAM and what you need to do to find what you need - both for stills and video. It will be an interesting session.
Link: Free Registration to Larry's Media Asset Webinar
Last week, I reviewed BetterDisplay from the perspective of using it for a Mac-based teleprompter. In the Comments, Mark Fusco mentioned he used YAM Display. So, this week, I discovered it was a much better option. Here's my review.
Link: Review: YAM Display – A Fast Way to Create an External Monitor
Aiarty Image Matting is an AI-powered image background remover for natural blending with new backgrounds. It excels at matting complex images with hair, fur, semi-transparency, indistinct edges, or low light. Here’s my review.
Link: Review: Aiarty Image Matting – Background Removal & Up-Scaling
FREE STUFF. Aiarty is offering 1-year license codes of Aiarty Image Matting v2.0 (originally worth $49) for free, letting users experience all features of this tool thoroughly.
Link: Get a FREE year's subscription to Aiarty Image Matting v2.0
Alain asked how to create an animated flashlight beam in Apple Motion. In this tutorial, I show two different ways to do this in Apple Motion.
Link: Create a “Flashlight Effect” in Apple Motion
Here's a tutorial that showcases how to improve a gray, washed-out image using the color wheels in Final Cut, as well as applying different LUTs.
Link: Color Tricks for Cloudy Days in Final Cut Pro [v]
Finally, here are several trouble-shooting tips for Apple Final Cut Pro.
Link: Trouble-Shooting Tricks for Final Cut Pro [v]
Well, it's been an interesting week. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, claimed that AI can't exist if its training needs to respect copyrights. (Ars Technica) As a creator and copyright holder, this feels more than a bit unhinged. I spent this last week recording an audio book on "AI-Powered Leadership." This is a fascinating deep-dive into how AI can assist and improve project management. I am learning a lot.
A key concept reflected throughout the book is "Both/And." It is not either humans or AI, but both - working together. These four authors, with deep experience in AI, stress that "the human must be in the loop."
Aiarty is a good example. It is part of an expanding list of applications using machine learning to speed complex tasks like masking. But, even these power tools are not perfect, nor can they solve every problem. Aiarty wisely provides plenty of tools for us humans to improve on AI's work; reflecting not either/or but both.
As the hype for AI continues to explode, it's important to remember, as Mike Wuerthele and Wes Hilliard wrote: "The so-called "artificial intelligence" is just a brute-force technology that... can't think, can't reason, and doesn't have knowledge — it has access to knowledge." When AI companies demand that they have unfettered access to all the world's knowledge for free, then something is askew.
Until next Monday, stay healthy, stay hopeful and edit well.
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