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VISUAL CREATORS
For your artistic side.

🤖 Strada’s AI Workflow Tools

Media and entertainment technology company Strada showcased its AI-enabled platform for the first time at NAB 2024. Aimed at streamlining workflows and saving time for content creators, the platform will integrate with popular cloud storage providers and feature automated transcription and tagging capabilities.

Why it matters: Strada, which counts filmmakers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa among its backers, aims to revolutionize content production with its AI toolset. The company plans to open its platform to beta testers and early access users in the coming months.

The bigger picture: Workflow optimization has become a key focus for technology companies across the media and entertainment landscape, with Adobe and Frame.io recently unveiling features aimed at simplifying content collaboration.

PRODUCTION MASTERY
The commercial aspects of creativity.

📷 Nikon's first RED cameras

Looks like RED’s back in the game with its latest movie-making beasts, the V-RAPTOR X and V-RAPTOR XL. They’re packing a punch with a huge 8K sensor and a cool “global shutter” that kicks traditional rolling shutters to the curb.

But here’s the plot twist: RED’s now in Nikon’s house after a $25m deal. Wondering what’s in it for Nikon? Just think of all the cool camera tech that might spill over to their Z line.

Either way, RED’s new gear is making filmmakers drool with its Hollywood-grade features, and at $30k and $40k a pop, it better be the stuff of movie magic.

CREATOR ECONOMY
Navigating the digital creative world.

🤖 TikTok Trains AI Bots to Sell

TikTok may let brands use virtual influencers to sell products. The concept mimics the success of similar avatars on Douyin, TikTok’s Chinese counterpart.

These AI-powered stars often drive the lion’s share of the apps’ commerce, with some boosting sales by thousands of dollars a day.

To make a clone, companies need just a few minutes of video and $1,000. The saved labor and growth in sales has caught the attention of advertisers and tech firms alike.

For TikTok, whose 2023 in-app purchases totaled about $3.8 billion, compared to Douyin’s $270 billion, utilizing virtual influencers could help close the gap.

🔥 Press Worthy

📽️ VISUAL CREATORS

Raw or JPEG: The eternal photography debate. Raw offers more editing flexibility but eats up storage. JPEG? Ready to share, but less room for error.

Resolve 19 drops with color editing heaven. Editing’s now at your audio-palping, music-remixing, voice-sep’ing fingertips, 3x faster H.264 decoding on Windows and 100 more feature updates.

📈 PRODUCTION MASTERY

Galaxy S24 vs. iPhone 15: Camera showdown. Samsung's packing more pixels, but Apple's got the zoom. It's a photographer's dilemma, tech-style.

Adobe integrates Frame.io V4, an all-in-one creative collab platform.

🎭 CREATOR ECONOMY

YouTube's latest updates aim to make it rain in the creator economy: a new Affiliate Hub connects YouTubers with over 300 brands, and creators can now tag products in old videos. Meanwhile, TikTok Shop looks to grow 10x this year.

Instagram and Meta’s Threads now support HDR photography, leveling the playing field for mobile cameras.

📚 Learn & Grow

📽️ VISUAL CREATORS

• World's largest camera: 3.1 gigapixels for epic timelapse panos of the universe

• The Biggest Tool Photographers Are Not Using in Their Creative Work

📈 PRODUCTION MASTERY

• Atomos Ninja Phone Video Co-Processor

• Lighting Shakes Up at NAB With Amaran Launching Independently From Aputure

🎭 CREATOR ECONOMY

• Flying Under The Radar Is Not A Realistic Compliance Strategy

• Adapt or Be Left Behind: AI’s Marketing Revolution Awaits