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Massive Layoffs at Filmic 📹, Star Trek AI-Remastered 🖼️, YouTube's Live View 👀
Filmic's reel deal 🎞️; Star Trek gets an AI facelift 🖼️; YouTube's live metrics matter now 👀.
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Creator Cut: Filmic's quick death? Get your director's hat on and read!
In today's rundown:
🎞️ Filmic's Layoffs
💫 Fans AI-Remaster Trek
📺 YT's Live Like & View
🔥 Press Worthy Stories
📚 Learn & Grow
Read time: 3 minutes
VISUAL CREATORS
Italy-based app developer Bending Spoons has reportedly laid off the entire staff of mobile video and photo capture app Filmic.
The move comes just a year after Bending Spoons acquired the app, which was lauded as the top in its category.
Filmic’s founder and CEO, Neill Barham, left the company in November, after which Filmic’s name was removed from Bending Spoons's website. Barham’s departure and the removal of Filmic’s name were both recent red flags, as was the lack of support for Apple’s latest hardware updates.
Apple even used a competitor’s app, BlackMagic, to shoot footage at its own event in October.
Notably, Bending Spoons also owns video editing app Splice and photo AI app Remini.
Filmic's parent company ditches it for a profit. Your reaction?Vote to see live results! |
🔥 Press Worthy
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📚 Learn & Grow
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PRODUCTION MASTERY
In a sci-fi fan coup, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine gets an unofficial HD remaster thanks to AI upscaling.
The visuals are now as crystalline as Spock's logic, a far cry from the original 90s broadcast. The upscaling maestros painstakingly fed every frame through AI Gigapixel's neural network to enhance the resolution, and the results are mind-blowing.
You can now see every ridge on the Klingon foreheads in glorious 1080p. Fans and creators are over the moon, but not all starships are set to warp speed.
Paramount plans a less ambitious HD release, but will it match the bar set by the fandom's love letter to Star Trek? Watch this space.
Fan-made HD remasters. Should they be:Vote to see live results! |
🔥 Press Worthy
RED's KOMODO-X matches color with its pricier siblings, but Sony's FX6 isn't backing down. A close-up shows how Sony's tweaking tools can bridge the gap.
DJI’s Osmo Pocket 3 mixes a camera and stabilizer for one-stop creator versatility, sparking reviewer hype.
ARRI Rentals’ new ARTS App: Track rented gear, see order details & planned returns. It’s a mobile rental management system.
Sony drops the FX30—a compact cinema cam with 4K/120p, 5-axis IBIS, and a friendly $1.5k tag.
📚 Learn & Grow
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CREATOR ECONOMY
👀 YouTube's Live Like & View
Google is testing a YouTube feature that makes the view and like counters roll up in real-time as you watch a video.
Why it matters: It’s not clear why Google would want to change this aspect of YouTube. The view and like counts have historically been a badge of honor for creators, and artificially inflating them could make those metrics less meaningful.
A Google spokesperson told Protocol the company is (surprise) always testing new experiences but had nothing to announce.
The backstory: A handful of Reddit users noticed the change and discussed ways to disable it using browser extensions. It’s not clear how many users have been included in the test.
Real-time YouTube likes: Cool or Nah?Vote to see live results! |
🔥 Press Worthy
Spotify’s slashing 17% of its workforce, marking its 3rd major cut this year. The music streamer's headcount nearly doubled in 3 years, but it’s singing a “very different environment” tune now.
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📚 Learn & Grow
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