With the Odyssey Neo G70C, Samsung has presented its first non-curved mini-LED monitor. The 43" monitor with 4K UltraHD resolution (3,840 x 2,160) is actually aimed at gamers, but its technical specifications (and matte display) also make it ...more

In September, OpenAI, the developers of the text AI ChatGPT and the image generation AI DALL-E 2, among others, presented the speech recognition system Whisper, which can transcribe spoken words into text. Since OpenAI fortunately published the ...more

At this year's Berlinale, French cinematographer Caroline Champetier will be awarded the Berlinale Camera. With this award, the film festival has been honoring personalities and institutions since 1986 who have rendered outstanding services to ...more

Blind Spot Gear has launched a crowdfunding campaign via Kickstarter for a new version of its universal power solution Power Junkie. Like the first version, which was released around four years ago, the Power Junkie v2 is aimed specifically at ...more

Tascam introduces another portable multitrack recorder with 32-bit float technology, a feature newly introduced with the Portacapture X8. The new Portacapture X6 offers four plus two audio tracks, sample rates up to 96 kHz, and a 2.4-inch color ...more

Researchers from Google have presented a new AI that generates music (instead of images) via text prompt in a similar pattern to the currently very popular text-2-image AIs such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney or Stable Diffusion. :Robot Musician - ...more

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