It’s the beginning of 2024, which suggests it’s time for our conventional look again on the 12 months simply gone and the tales that made the biggest influence. And what a 12 months it’s been. Camera to Cloud continued to steer from the entrance, with C2C being integrated into RED camera hardware in January and our Camera to Cloud Certified program being launched again in February, carefully adopted by our announcement that Adobe and Frame.io were among the first adopters of the TPN+ security platform.
But it was our NAB 2023 bulletins that caught probably the most consideration, particularly our growth into digital pictures with Capture One and Fujifilm. This continues to achieve extra momentum as photographers uncover the advantages of cloud-based workflows—simply as TV and film makers have. And to cap off the 12 months was the discharge of our choice to bring your own storage, which was nice information for our Enterprise-tier prospects. And that’s pretty much as good a segue as any for the primary of our high 23 tales for 2023…
The concern of storage is one thing that each video producer will face sooner or later—from the unbiased who’s reached capability on their arduous drives, to businesses who won’t be clear on whose duty it’s to archive the work they’ve undertaken for his or her shoppers. So it’s not stunning to see Charles Haine’s story on this subject amongst our most-read articles in 2023. If you’re on the lookout for readability and recommendation, it is a great spot to begin.
Contrast is, as Cullen Kelly places it, “a big subject and there are a lot of different tools that we can use to manipulate it.” So your method to it must be nuanced and match your intent, so who higher to indicate the best way {that a} Hollywood colorist with over twenty years expertise within the subject?
Since cellphone producers began including video cameras to their units, claims of equivalency with devoted video cameras have been inevitable and commonplace—and present no indicators of stopping. (Apple, we’re taking a look at you.) Cinematographer Phil Rhodes takes a take a look at the present tech and asks the query, are we there but?
With nearly all of us utilizing digital units to capturing shifting pictures, the “video look” is arguably a extra commonplace downside than ever. Cullen Kelly opens up DaVinci Resolve to supply up some recommendation on make your digital media look extra like movie.
Over the years, Chris Tennant has seen a variety of Premiere Pro-based exhibits which were arrange incorrectly by earlier assistant editors. It’s one thing that results in annoyed editors who then need to cope with extreme audio tracks, and tough turnovers sophisticated by inaccurate timecode. But it doesn’t need to be this fashion.
If you’re concerned with what goes into creating an Oscar-winning film, then you definately’ll undoubtedly need to try our epic Oscars workflow guide because it’s full of publish manufacturing insights (extra of that later on this listing). But if you wish to know what it takes to select up a Best Editing Oscar, then this text has the solutions. Kind of.
ACES is an fashionable colour pipeline commonplace that addresses a lot of points with colour workflows for initiatives at each stage. But that doesn’t imply it doesn’t have quirks of its personal. Cullen Kelly appears at model 1.3 and demonstrates the enhancements it makes to your grading course of.
2023 noticed the introduction of our first short-form article sequence, Insider Tips, which presents bite-sized recommendation for main functions. So it was nice to see them show fashionable with the Frame.io Insider readers. Chris Salters places his greatest foot ahead with this time saving tip for Premiere Pro customers.
Our bulletins usually choose up a good quantity of curiosity, however having this one so excessive in our listing exhibits that you simply have been as enthusiastic about our new integrations with RED cameras as we have been. While the beta landed throughout 2022, January noticed our Camera to Cloud integration with RED V-RAPTOR and V-RAPTOR XL cameras formally launched (with KOMODO quickly to comply with).
If you’re already utilizing Motion Graphics Templates (MOGRTs) then you definately’ll understand how they’ll speed up your Premiere Pro graphics workflow. But there could also be instances when issues don’t all the time work the best way you anticipate. Jarle Leirpoll takes a take a look at what to do for those who hit a MOGRT downside, and a few of the steps you may take to keep away from working into MOGRT points within the first place.
One firm has repeatedly demonstrated how to reach this unforgiving business—A24. Over the final decade, this distributor-turned-studio has constructed up a powerful roster of profitable unbiased movies. And exhibits no signal of slowing down. Danny Avershal reveals A24’s not-so-secret recipe for achievement.
Nodes are the constructing block of every thing we do when grading in Resolve, so understanding how they work is important. Fortunately, Cullen Kelly is right here to offer you a private tour of the core nodes in DaVinci Resolve—in addition to offering recommendations on use them.
Proxy video workflows in Adobe Premiere Pro permit you to edit high-resolution footage extra effectively and easily, however for those who’re on a high-end workstation you would possibly really feel that there’s little profit available from this streamlined workflow. But, as Jarle Leirpoll explains, everybody can profit from these light-weight property and this text will present you the way.
With GPUs usually used along side your pc’s CPU to extend efficiency for a variety of functions—together with video encoding 3D modeling, and AI-based processes like Auto Reframe—it’s no shock that they’ve change into a precious asset for artistic professionals. Manufacturer NVIDIA has by far the biggest market share of the artistic skilled market, so right here’s a dive into the management panel that comes with these graphics playing cards.
We all know by now that Greta Gerwig’s imaginative and considerate interpretation of the Mattel toy’s story was a colossal success. So it’s hardly a shock to seek out Barbie taking one in all our high ten slots for 2023. Matt Feury talks to editors Nick Houy ACE, Matt Garner, and Maya Rivera to see if it was as a lot enjoyable to work on because it was to look at.
In this episode of Made in Frame, Lisa McNamara will get an inside take a look at the loopy complicated timelines and strategies employed in Missing, the religious sequel to Searching. We have been fortunate sufficient to talk to each administrators and their two editors about their expertise on this movie and the way they employed Creative Cloud and Frame.io to create it.
There are a whole bunch, possibly hundreds, of “film look” LUTs obtainable on the web. But what for those who discovered that that is functionally not possible? While it’s true to say that you may recreate a variety of the options of a movie look in digital publish manufacturing, the instruments you want for this are much more refined than a easy lookup desk, as Charles Haine explains.
It would possibly shock you to listen to this, however there’s a knob proper inside Resolve’s Primaries tab that Cullen Kelly not often makes use of, and that’s Saturation. As he explains, there are different strategies for manipulating the general colorfulness of a picture when grading. If you’d prefer to know why he doesn’t dial Saturation—and what he does as a substitute—you’ll discover the solutions right here.
While Barbie could have received the battle of opening weekend field workplace takings, it was Oppenheimer that attracted extra eyeballs on Frame.io Insider. In our hottest episode of The Rough Cut, Matt Feury talks to he enhancing crew of Jennifer Lame ACE, Mike Fay, Nick Ellsberg, and Tom Foligno about how they utilized their collective storytelling skills to this Christopher Nolan epic.
“It got to the point where as soon as the word ‘eyeline’ was mentioned the director, Amy Sherman-Palladino, would close her own eyes and start to snore—loudly.” Jay Kidd takes us behind the scenes of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel to ask the query “just how important are eyelines in movie and TV?”
Finding a 200-wd fast tip on looping compositions in After Effects standing tall amongst longform content material about blockbuster characteristic movies will most likely come as a shock to most individuals. Unless after all you’re an After Effects person. In which case you’ll understand how obscure this method—and the way usually you’ll end up utilizing it.
If you’ve learn our spherical ups for earlier years, you’ll know that there’s one factor you may usually rely on, and that’s seeing Lisa McNamara’s epic breakdown of that 12 months’s Oscar Best Picture nominees sitting within the high slot. So we weren’t anticipating to see it slip to #02 for 2023, significantly because it’s the biggest and most in-depth roundup that we’ve ever run.
So what’s the story that knocked the Oscars roundup off its perch? It is, after all, a publish from future tech professional Noah Kadner that dares to ask the query “is generative AI ready to be used in a commercial environment?” His reply? After a number of checks in a real-world atmosphere, most likely not. But like most issues today, it’s not black and white.
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As all the time, we’re grateful to everybody who has a hand in bringing the Frame.io Insider to life. Not least of whom are the writers. Without their experience and generosity, we wouldn’t have the eye of the thousands and thousands of readers who go to to those pages in the hunt for business expertise and actionable insights.
So our thanks exit to Jonny Elwyn, Reuben Evans, Charles Haine, Noah Kadner, Danny Avershal, Cullen Kelly, Jarle Leirpoll, Chris Salters, Dean Rutz, Karolin Chen, Chris Tennant, Matt Feury, and Phil Rhodes. Plus Frame.io’s personal Emery Wells, Michael Cioni, JJ Powell, Swanand Rao, Ray Ouladi, Jason Druss, Lisa McNamara, and Jay Kidd. And after all we thank you, our readers, for giving us your precious time and a focus.
Now let’s get on with 2024!
