Apple is planning for their TV shows to be shown with ads. The new seasons of ‘The Morning Show’ and ‘Slow Horses’ include mid-show location establishing shots. More scene slugs like this: EXT. DAY SLOUGH HOUSE and EXT. NIGHT UBN BUILDING

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Netflix have released an online tool for calculating working resolution and framing charts for standard production cameras - and for unconventional cameras. …n-technology-tools.netflixstudios.com/calculators I used it to make a framing chart for the iPhone 17 series and iPhone Air - recoding open gate.

Apple Developer have another #MeetWithApple live stream running right now. Today the subject is “Optimize your app's speed and efficiency” youtube.com/watch?v=yXAQTI…

Affinity is a new free app that aims to compete Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign AI available if you have a Canva bundle. FYI free DaVinci Resolve aims to replace Adobe Premiere Adobe After Effects Adobe Media Encoder

Designing insanely great NLEs… ‘Question everything about the current design’ Apart from whether tracks are an outdated 20th century metaphor introduced because of late 80s technological limitations.

I read more of this tweet because I wasn’t sure if the statement was a celebration or an indictment.

Maybe some high-end animation tools are based on nodes because they want the cachet of ‘we are node-based’ whether it makes sense or not. Maybe a graphical way of passing parameters values between code snippets which made sense to developers in the 90s isn’t always the answer.

2025 Apple Q4 revenue: $102.5bn $1.1bn a day 1999 Apple Q4 revenue: $1.34bn

My point of view after 20 years of presentation design: Do not base your presentation template on the needs of a design or PR agency pitch deck. Please do not repurpose magazine/company report grids to work in a 16:9 aspect ratio.

In the London area and working on a VisionOS app, game or experience? On 18-19 December there’ll be an in-person workshop at Apple’s London HQ to help integrate the newest visionOS features into your projects. developer.apple.com/events/view/Y2…

What some motion graphics-led creators call editing now. Not what their work was called 10 years ago. Given the specific nature of the practice, why call it ‘editing’? How about ‘Emotioning’? Unless it is all about how much money you can make.

London-based? Free CVP Education Festival seminar subjects this week include… - Virtual production - Minicams and remote cameras in TV - RED V-RAPTOR XE - Visual podcasting - 65mm filmmaking - Camera robotics - On-set colour workflows - Film grammar cvp.com/events/session…

Samsung Galaxy VR and Meta Quest are good for Apple Vision Pro in that Samsung, Google and Meta are unlikely to come up with a better proposition and workflow than Apple Immersive Video. The current future of media for Android VR is slightly dumbed down AIV productions.

Quark XPress user in 1999: “It doesn’t matter if InDesign crashes much less and gets updated regularly; what matters is that you can’t share those files as standard with 3rd parties. Do your clients use it? Do your printers use it…” Please can we keep the current monoculture?

You’d think they’d do this with all these actions plus patents in the world. Because they are all connected to other patents and they all have dates.

 service for YouTube (and other media) Creators? A reference to Creator Studio in iOS. Sounds like a new Apple Service - has hinted by this recent job vacancy for a Pro Apps new business lead as part of Apple’s ‘services initiative team’ jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/… #postchat

Designer supertext: “After deep research into your story I’ve developed a brand which is deeply intertwined with your values.” Designer subtext: “A design popped into my head. I came up with a way to connect it to you because you happened to contact me.”