Blackmagic Design

for a while.

My impression of the Blackmagic thing, it's cool they added this, but if you've already been doing this with, like, Cloud Code or Codex, which could have already connected just via...

We've said before, like, Resolve just has really good scripting built in.

And so that made it very accessible for the AI tools.

What is there? I know we've got manual aperture, manual shutter speed, white balance, a histogram, smart focus tracking, and texture and grain controls in the photography styles.

But do we have things like audio adjustment? Do we have things like applying a LUT when you're shooting an Apple log? Because the default cameras always just had the raw log format when you're shooting log, which is why I use the Blackmagic app whenever I'm recording log.

Yeah.

Have you poked around in there? Like what kind of features do we have in the new pro settings in the camera app?

I'm going to merge your truths together.

The first one is from Blackmagic who says, Hey Vic, listening to your Agents of the Four Seasons review, I had the same feelings you did about halfway through the series about why things were being adopted the way they were.

So I had turned to the light novel, and it is vastly different in characterization, and I don't know why they had to leave those things out.

It's probably constraints, you know, time, trying to, like, streamline it, but they lost a lot of what makes the light novel special, in my opinion, if that is the case.

In that case, Matrix was a neat bit of sci-fi back in the day.

Inspired the whole Red Pill thing.

Blackmagic666 comes in who says, let's start with the movie I'm actually going to re-watch today, Akira.

Yeah.

So they know what they're talking about, and we know what we are going to bring it here.

So that's where we made that decision to go with Blackmagic.

The entire studio is over, you know, behind the Blackmagic.

To select that, I think William and Adam knows, you know, when we were talking to vendors, vendors were telling, oh, don't buy that.

This is not an industrial one, all those things.

So I was shooting that.

Foss has an A99, and then we used a Blackmagic for a little bit and some GoPros and whatever.

So really, we were just sort of running and gunning, you know, as you kind of

have to.

Yeah.

But even then too, it's like, have you guys, for example, if you guys are film nerds out there, have you tried using the Blackmagic app on this phone to, to record open gate, uh, Apple ProRes RAW? It is so terrible.

[laughs] It-

It's-

Ah.

I think what you're seeing there, and, and when I went, and Alex and I both went to that event down in Cupertino, now that the Blackmagic camera is out, um, there's a lot less need for Apple to bootstrap immersive video.

There are people who are capturing immersive video that Apple can partner with to put that stuff on the Vision Pro.

They don't need to build it themselves, and that seems to be the indication of Gurman's report is that that group, you know, was not really about, um, that people should do Vision Pro on or do, sh- do immersive video on Vision Pro.

How do we do, you know, immersive video on Vision Pro?" And they did it, but, like, they don't need to do that anymore.

So that's my...

That's, that's, that one I kinda understand in that, like, now that the Blackmagic cameras have shipped and there are tools, I'm not sure Apple needs to be making immersive video content-

Mm-hmm