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I just recently got my renewal notification from Trew Shield. My premium is increasing this year, but only by 3%, which is reasonable.

It’s absolutely because of AI data centers. And it’s ridiculous. In less than 6 months, a 4TB Samsung T7 went from about $230 to over $1000. Those are the drives that I use for Pro Tools sessions and for backing up production sound. I need to upgrade my video editing storage, and I’m looking...

Welcome, Mandalai! Sound is too often an afterthought. Part of that comes from a common misunderstanding that production sound just shows up on the first day, throws mics out there, and presses “record”. And sound designers are too often recruited after production has wrapped. As you’re working...

I still have slates save the day. Had one project with a terrible media manager. I received a phone call from the editor a few months later, thanking me for having detailed sound reports and clearly-labeled files, because those plus the slate were the only way she was able to navigate the...

I’d add that fractional timecode is obsolete. There’s no longer any reason to shoot 23.976 over 24 flat.

Welcome, Jay! As @CharlesPapert said, there’s a wealth of information hanging around the forums, so poke around and see what you find. And if you have questions, please ask! We’d love to know a little about you and what kinds of creative works you’re into!

Athos caters to production, and knows how to do real production insurance. Lemonade’s main business is, I believe, renter’s insurance. Thimble’s is small business insurance. You can easily set up an Athos quote online. It’s a few pages of questions, but they ask for pretty comprehensive...

Check with Athos. They do short-term production insurance.

That, I do not know. I will say that plug-ins like Izotope, DXRevive, Clarity, Hush, etc. aren’t generative AI. They’re machine learning, neural network, but they aren’t scraping the ‘Net for the content they spit out. They also aren’t prompt-based. They’re user-controlled down to very finite...

Here are my thoughts on Krotos: I chatted with them at NAB. And yes, they were adamant that Krotos Studio doesn’t use generative AI, but rather uses AI to automate MIDI trigger placement that draws from pre-recorded sound libraries. They also pointed out that users can utilize their own sound...

An interesting development this week. A letter went out to Motion Picture Sound Editors members, announcing that they had cut ties with an unnamed organization over a product release related to generative AI. From the letter: While they did not name the “once-strong partner in sound”, there’s...

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Soon. Didn’t get an exact date, but… maybe this summer? It’s the same form factor as the CS-M1, but slightly shorter. Same price point. I listened to both. The lav is a completely new product. It doesn’t sound terrible at all, but it isn’t as good as, say, a DPA 4060. It uses MEMS, and when...

I missed mentioning one of the bigger products I saw last week: Lectrosonics IFBT2.0. This one is quite interesting to me, as it’s a 2-channel unit with Dante. However, I’ll have to wait for an undetermined amount of time as all my IFB is in the 941 block and the IFBT2.0 isn’t yet available in...

I’m a huge fan of the S35 format. It just looks good. I mean… how many films over the past decades have we been drawn into that were shot on 35mm and Super 35mm? I’d say that now is the time to grab a set of DZO’s Pictor cinema zooms while there’s still some stock on the shelves.

Lots of cool stuff on the floor this year. The biggest standouts to me aren’t the biggest products that were out there, not that there were many huge products released this year. Fairlight Live may be the biggest new product I saw, and it’s quite impressive, but also has very little to do with...

Assuming it sounds good and doesn’t spray RF everywhere like Theos does, Theos will be no competition. I have a feeling, since Lectro were involved in the design, the RF should be pretty tight. That may be the intent, but the receiver form factor actually makes it much more bag-friendly than...

They had a working model. It just… wasn’t set up to listen to it. The transmitters were paired but running in the illegal 600MHz band, there was no lav connected, and no output cable to any device to allow folks to hear it. Very strange. We asked about setting it up, and they said they didn’t...

I looked up close at the new RØDELink II yesterday. It’s an interesting package, but there are still many unanswered questions. I was struck by how little the RØDE reps actually new about the system as we were asking questions. There was a lot of, “That’s a great question. I have no idea.” It’s...

It looks pretty spectacular. I’m sure they’ll have demo footage available online.