The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has just announced the nominations for the 2023 Oscars, so it's time to take a closer look at the films selected for the film industry's most prestigious award, specifically the two categories "Best ...more

The Sony Future Filmmaker Awards, founded by Creo and sponsored by Sony, is a comprehensively launched new annual awards program for short films that aims to support and promote independent filmmakers and creatives from around the world. The ...more

We already had reported about the development two months ago, now it should be available from Monday: We are talking about the BRAW Toolbox by Australian developer Chris Hocking. :BRAW Toolbox Thanks to the freely available Blackmagic BRAW ...more

What makes sense in teleconferencing, video chats or video podcasts, looks creepy in films: VFX specialist Daniel Hashimoto has found a new application for the eye contact AI effect just presented by Nvidia: he uses the effect that the direction of ...more

A newly developed HDR image sensor from Canon is currently being talked about by various blogs as an upcoming miracle sensor that will catapult the dynamic range of still and cine cameras to unimagined heights. While Canon's touted ...more

Samsung has released a new model in its T7 Shield range of rugged mobile SSD drives, offering the largest storage capacity of any Samsung portable consumer SSD to date at 4TB. The T7 Shield 4TB SSD offers read speeds of up to 1,050MB/s and write ...more

There are two major different workflows in compositing: layers as in Adobe After Effects and Apple'amp;s Motion and nodes as in Blackmagics Fusion and the high-end VFX solutions Nuke and Flame - both have their specific advantages and disadvantages. ...more

NVIDIA has released the new version 1.4 of its free "Broadcast" tool for livestreaming and video conferencing, which now brings the two interesting AI new GPU effects Eye Contact and Vignette. Since app developers can integrate all of the NVIDIA ...more

The second update for the video editing programme VEGAS (Windows) has just been released - it brings some new functions for faster editing, additional AI and colour correction tools as well as stability improvements. The new ONNX engine should make ...more

Google and Meta had already presented their text-to-video AIs a few months ago with Imagen and Make-a-Video - these work very similarly to the text-to-image AIs such as Stable Diffsion, Midjourney or DALL-E2, which are currently experiencing a boom: ...more

Until recently, the idea of ​​subsequently increasing the resolution of an image and thus making more image details visible would have been dismissed as impossible. Thanks to DeepLearning AI algorithms, this has been possible for several ...more

In addition to new desktop monitors from the ProArt and ROG series, Asus has also presented three new compact and portable ZenScreen displays at CES 2023, which are interesting for professional video editing, for example to increase the desktop area ...more

At best, opening credits whet the appetite for the film to follow, arouse anticipation and set the mood for the filming pleasure to come; at worst, they are ignored or even lead to the next film being clicked on straight away if watched online. So ...more

The product presentations at CES 2023 already give us a hint: the biggest innovations for laptops will take place in the field of display technology this year. There are improvements in several categories - not only are the displays getting bigger ...more