Divergent Opinions: Recent Episodes
Mike Woodworth and Colin McFadden
In depth discussion of topics related to the video industry and software development. Mike and Colin deep-dive on the tech that powers everything from Hollywood to your home videos.
After our getting-married-and-stuff hiatus, we're back. On this episode, we discuss the economics of app sales and the options for growing a company in the current environment.
- Hardware Fourier Analysis
- Swift Performance
This week, we talk about the upcoming release of MXF support within EditReady, as well as our thoughts on backup and the iWatch.
- Dell Retina Display
- Lost Satellite Data
- Smartphones are about to get awesome again
- Rendering Ikea
- Hacking the F5
- Editing Boyhood
This week, we discuss some more cool stuff from siggraph, plus the ways that Slack is changing our "office" for the better.
- Potato chip bag filmed through glass
- Auto Season Change
- First Person Hyperlapse
- 4.4 trillion FPS camera
- Mac Video Fooler
- Digital Services Playbook
- Suits at the whitehouse
- Slack
- Underground London
- Projected Makeup
- 360 degree camera
- Texting and Internet in Film
This week, we talk about the buzz around indie development - is it dead?
- Bike of the Future
- Fly directional hearing
- Editing Sharknado 2
- A look at Unread
- A candid look at financials
- Who's an indie
- /Drive
- YouTube Tip Jars
- Siggraph tech papers 2014
- Robert Drew
- Nostalgia Machine
Oh right, podcast!
In this episode, we review the last six months of divergent media. In particular, we describe the technical underpinnings of our new app, EditReady. In addition, we discuss Swift and the possibility of other types of specialized hardware.
Chatter:
- Baked Alaska
- Painting with Code
This week, we discuss the pros and cons of translation for apps, and the boring and lazy nature of new media.
- Crazy display
- Roadie
- Duster (this won’t end well)
- Cinemetrics
- Pharrell
- Dylan
- Honda Adopts English
- Object Cloud
- British Airways Billboard
- “Don’t let poets lie to you” blade runner watercolor
Have we missed the BitCoin bus? Do we care? And just how awesome is H.265?
- BitBox
- BitCoin iOS ming
- 3d printers
- Compact 3d scanner
- Amazon does virtual desktops
- H265
- More H265
- Coin
- Late for Meeting
- Seiki 4k
This week, Mike and Colin discuss the significance of an open source h264 implementation from Cisco, BitTorrent Sync, and the financial system.
- BitTorrent Sync
- [Planet Money ACH podcast] (http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episode-489-the-invisible-plumbing-of-our-economy)
- [Cisco opens H.264] (http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/30/cisco-plans-to-open-source-h-264-code-for-webrtc/)
- [Cisco blog post on H.264] (http://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/open-source-h-264-removes-barriers-webrtc/)
- [xiph daala] (http://www.xiph.org/daala/)
- [Google helpout - dr house call edition] (https://helpouts.google.com/108135037100946836685/ls/b3c7b9c307250e27)
- [SpotShooter] (http://www.theverge.com/us-world/2013/11/4/5066300/shotspotter-analyzes-sound-waves-detects-crime)
New Everything from Apple. Except 4K cinema displays. Lamentation.
- FCP X scopelink
- Divergent Media
- Apple
- All software is free!
- Recreating ios in word
- DOS viruses
This week, Colin makes the jump to T-Mobile, we give our predictions for the upcoming Apple event, and talk about a variety of innovative new hardware devices.
- Castar
- G-Sync
- Tremor Cancelling Spoon
- Gravity VFX
- DSLRPros Camera Rig
- thwarting face capture
This week, we round up some innovations in input devices, and talk about the world of international roaming for mobile phone customers.
- Midair haptic feedback
- Tactile touch screen
- Hangout & shopping
- mari for mac
- 23 and me patent
- Cloudpaint
- Trirebecca
- KnowRoaming
This week, we catch up on the news and mumble a lot.
- Digital juice copies others videos
- Silk Road
- Cheapish Highspeed Kickstarter
- ibeacons
- Cheap 4k
- Musks 3d thing
- 3-Sweep - insane!!
- Leap Laptop
- 3d via spinning
- Shooting Fireflies
This week we go over some recent bits of interesting news, and say goodbye to some old friends.
- Goodbye Jim Jannard
- ObjC style guide
- Half Inch GPS
- Ikea AR catalog
- Shadow directions
- Glasses that solve colorblindness
- Control FCPX with Leap
- Cool Aviation Video
- Windows 8.1 3d printing
- Nautilus Live
- When Drones Attack: Wedding Edition
This week, we dive in on the things Mike saw at Siggraph, and talk about the Kickstarter economy for hardware startups.
- 3d printed realistic figures
- sorting algorithms
- Leap Motion
- Render Rocket
- H.265
This week, we muddle through some random news. Time for a nap.
- Color Assist Discontinued
- Anatomy of a Comiler Bug
- 3d printed cast
- EOS autofocus for video
- telescopic contact lense
- vfx breakdowns great gatsby
- 3d lasers
- bone conductive advertising
- 3d printable drone
This week on the show, we discuss the good and bad aspects of developing and debugging applications in a modern environment. We also pontificate about OpenCL and the complexity of starting an app from scratch.
- OpenCL Map Projection
- Ziphius
- Kano Model
- Exploding Actresses
- Color Shift on Different Monitors
This week, a roundup of the things we care about from WWDC, and a discussion of Adobe Creative Cloud (we love it). Plus, a few other random bits of information from around the internet.
- LHC pictures
- NVIDIA to license Kepler
- Build your own MoVI
- Lego Rover
- SIGGRAPH Papers Video
In the triumphant return of Divergent Opinions, we discuss the upcoming WWDC conference, and the newly released ScopeBox 3.3, which includes ScopeLink. Check it out for yourself at www.divergentmedia.com/scopebox
- Asus 4k Monitor
- Storing Data in Video
Another NAB has come and gone. In this episode, we review the things that we found most interesting, exciting, or telling.
- blackmagic cameras and 4k ultrastudio and resolve 10
- adobe csnext
- DJI Drone
- MOVI
- Thunderbolt Upgrade
What's in store for Avid, and will Apple's new push on Final Cut Pro X make an impact? We round up the news and talk about NAB 2013.
- FCPX marketing push
- Veronica Mars Movie
- One reason YouTube is slow
- Panasonic leaving Plasmas
- Grid VCA
- JVC 8K Projector
- First AVC Ultra Camera
- Facial Rendering
- Glitch Furniture
- Simulating the Brain
Some fancy new sensors portend exciting cameras in the future. And, is working from home instant death for a corporation? Mike and Colin share their own experiences, vis-a-vis the lastest work-from-home controversy at Yahoo!
- 3D with one lens
- Canon low light sensor
- Google self driving cars
- Lightworks for mac
- Avid in trouble
- Augmented Reality Pool
- Burning Wood
This week, we cover the strife in the VFX industry, the unionization movement, and where that space is going.
- Hollywood is killing VFX
- Before VFX
- YouTube Translation
- Google Glass UI
- Rats get a Sixth Sense
- Red Sues Sony
- LED Cools its Surroundings
- Photoshop Source
- Saving Endangered Photos
- Swedish Chef
A basic roundup of the week's news, after a busy week shipping Phosphor.
- H.265 standard
- CCCP
- vector codec
- New sensor from Pana
- Cure for Colorblindness
- Having stuff built in china
- Active Storage closes
- Firefox gets h264
- ProCutX
- 3d printed food
- Gigapixel Drone
In this episode, we discuss our brand new application, Phosphor! We're incredibly excited to have this application on the market, and we're eager to know what you think. Let us know! In this episode, we cover the motivation behind Phosphor, and describe the development process.
Post CES, Pre NAB, not a lot of big news in the industry, so we discuss the Boeing 787, the renewed interest in Chromebooks, and Facebook Graph Search.
- Twenty Years of AE
- The 787
- Chromebooks
- Graph Search
- Camera Lens teardown
- Speed Booster
- Color Timing Master Class
Just how many Ks are enough? We round up the news out of CES, and talk about the Internet Of Things.
- Broadcom H.265 chip
- JVC high speed camera
- Optical Thunderbolt
- New Tegra
- Many 4K Tvs
- WeMo devices
- We are all tetrachromats
- Round the world flights
Mike and Colin talk about thunderbolt for Mac Pros, 3d printing, and the year ahead.
- Staples launching 3d printing
- 3d printing of circuits
- Apple to make some Macs in the US
- Matrox DS1 now shipping
- genetically engineeering super colorists?
- Discrete Cosine
How hard is it to make a camera? Or to make anything? Mike and Colin discuss.
- Shooting with the C500
- In Depth FS100 tutorials
- Which camera to buy?
- Cinema Camera Slips
- Digital Bolex Slips
- Minidrive
- Pebble
- ZPM Espresso
- It will be Exhilarating
- Simulating 530 billion neurons
- XOXO videos
4K is the new 2k - what does it mean for production? Mike and Colin run through the future of RAW workflows and 4K signaling, plus discuss the shakeup at Apple.
- Sony reveals F65 roadmap
- Sony Revelas F5 and F55
- FCP X gets updated
- Forstall fired, Apple shakeup
- Kinect Fusion
- arduino based AETM switcher controller
- Dragon Baby
- Eddy Cue Joins Ferrari Board
This week, we released a major update to ScopeBox - ScopeBox 3.1. In this episode, we run through all the new features, plus round up some news from the week.
- Camera Emphasizes time over space
- GoPro Hero3
- Google Datacenter Tours
- Truth or Photoshop
- Ethernet Cars
- Girl with Pearl Earring v2
New iPhones! And loads of IBC/Photokina news - Summer is definitely over.
- Software radio hacking
- Sony Goes Bonkers
- GH3 Official
- BlackMagic at IBC
- Book with Every Color
- Shadowy Underground Monitors
We're back! A bit of an argument about Apple/Samsung, plus all the latest tech news and plenty of awkward pauses.
- Why Zacuto’s Latest Camera Test May Have Screwed us All
- Sony ditching optiarc
- Sounds of the UMatic
- Adobe Anywhere
- New Kindles
- Blackmagic Cinema Camera
- Bloom Blackmagic Review
- Action Cam!
- Canon C100
- GH3 leaks
- Smartphone as Walkie Talkie
- Glitch Textfiles
- LASER cutter
- AnthroCine
- Ultraflat Lense
Mike and Colin round up the new H.265 video standard, plus a variety of other bits of news.
- MPEG issues compression draft
- HEVC
- Sibelius Users Revolt
- Cinematic Color
- Indiana Jones Re-Release
- Exmor sensor for cellphones
- Panasonic AG-AC90
- Canon 1DX by Bloom
- OptiTrack 4mp tracker
- Making the Leica M9-P
- What is OSMeta
- 10+ Steps to Becoming mega successful in video
- Simulating hair on Brave
- femto photgraphy
- Unix is a Mess
Siggraph was awesome! A roundup of the coolness.
- Mars software open source
- Mars coding standards
- Errol Morris secret study
- SouthPaw asset management goes open
- BBC Olympic Coverage
- PMW-200 10 minute challenge
- Jane McGonigal
- video preview
- motion debluring and Tools for Placing Cuts and Transitions in Interview Video
- Image Melding and Automated Composite MAtching
- Burner Phone Numbers
- Art of Gltich
- Memory colors with mechanical turk
Mike and Colin dive in depth on the recent flesh line controversy and give a history of what the flesh line is all about. Also, a round up of the week’s news.
- Managing the QuickBooks codebase
- Engineering at the Olympics
- Resolve 9
- Canon C300 on Departure Date
- Chaos Monkey available
- Thunderbolt FW adapter
- IR on the C300
- 3D Printed Articulated Models
This week, Mike and Colin cover the launch of Mountain Lion and the Olympics, plus some cool new cameras.
- Mountain Lion Review
- 8k olympics
- Adderall
- PMW-200
- Hacking Hotel Rooms
- Canon EOS-M
- Sony RX100
- MacBook Retina Review
- SLED Surfer
- 99% invisible olympics sound design
- New Drobo
This week, Mike and Colin cover the impending launch of Mac OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion," Avid's recent selloffs, our new job posting, and some cool new cameras.
- Avid Selloffs
- Job Posting
- Point Grey Flea
- Apertus
- Canon Firmware
- Splicevine
- TechMove
And we're back. After a bit of a haitus, Divergent Opinions returns, triumphantly, to round up the news from WWDC, and anything else we found interesting from the last few weeks.
- Old many pirates DVDS
- Repair Cafes
- Fixity
- Why Microsoft can't ship a free DVD player
- Toy Story 2 deleted
This week, Mike and Colin round up all the news and excitement from NAB 2012. What a party it was! New hardware, new software, and not nearly enough sleep.
- Blackmagic Cinema Camera
- Adobe Licensing
- NAB winners and losers
- Shane Ross NAB report
- LAPD cracks down on drones
- Brief history of digital video
- Digital Art Preservation
This week, Mike and Colin dive deep on the current state of codecs, and where they're going in the future. We also round up the latest pre-NAB launches, and discuss the coming show.
- Sony HXR-NX30
- Sony NEX-FS700
- Sony PMW-100
- C300 for BBC
- Miro Cam
- Moviola Acquires Filmmaking Webinars
- Rear Window Timelapse
- Highlight Hunter
- Mother Earth Mother Board
Mike and Colin discuss the launch of ScopeBox 3, and dive deep on the new iPad and h.264 support in FireFox.
- Photoshop 6
- FireFox H.264
- Kinect Mocap
- Laser Camera
- Cinema 4d
This week, Mike and Colin talk about the impending release of ScopeBox 3!
Episode links:
- NAB Expo - our code is LV3659
- Our NAB booth is SL14010
- The ScopeBox 3 sneak-peak video is available on vimeo
Mike and Colin round up the news from CES and MacWorld, plus Apple's blowout earnings and some innovation from Sony.
- Revision 3 Growth
- Samsung 'future-proofing' Smart TVs with Evolution Kit | The Verge
- Sony HDR-PJ710V and HDR-PJ760V camcorders with 'Balanced' SteadyShot, built-in projectors (hands-on video) | The Verge
- Contour teams up with Cerevo for live broadcasting POV cameras -- Engadget
- JVC's GY-HMQ10 4K Camcorder hands-on (video) -- Engadget
- Adobe extends CS6 upgrade pricing to CS3, CS4 owners | MacNN
- BBC News - Sony 'boosts low-light picture quality' with white pixels
- Crazy Projection
Mike and Colin discussion various bits of post-holiday news, and argue about the significance of the impending NAB show.
- Magic Lantern HDR
- Bunim/Murray leaves FCP
- Thoma Bravo acquires Telestream
- Stuxnet and Duqu dev platform
- Digital makeup with Blender
Acquisitions, nerd fights, licensing and FPGAs - this week, Mike and Colin round up the news of the week and then dive into the proposed royalty free MPEG standards.
Links:
- Royalty Free MPEG part 1
- Royalty Free MPEG part 2
- HDCP cracking
- FPGA supercomputer
- Teranex
- Philip Bloom - no more Epic
- Kickstarter
- Helicopter camera
This week, an in-depth discussion on PsF and dying SD cards, plus some notes on other interesting news.
- PsF's missing workflow
- AA batteries
- Open letter to Adobe
- VMWare 4.1
- Remote Phosphor Lighting
Mike and Colin dive into announcements from BlackMagic and The Foundry, plus Final Cut Pro X 10.0.2 and the mythical Apple TV. * Ocula * Final Cut Pro 10.0.2 * LomoKino * TimeLine * Earth from Space
Automatic Duck goes free, Canon and Red announce some cool new cameras, and Apple abandons everything ever.
- Apple Abandons QT (not really)
- Apple Acquires 3d mapping company
- Canon announces C300
- Red Re-announces Scarlet * iPhone cinema * ALAC goes open
Colin and Mike talk about a bunch of news stories, and then discuss the software testing methodologies in use at divergent media, inc.
- Panasonic HPX-250
- Avid Media Composer 6 "leaked"
- Lytro Cameras
Mike and Colin round up the news. The iPhone 4S and the death of Steve Jobs come first. Then a discussion of some more cool projects from Adobe, 3d rendering technology, and the death of film. * Reverse Blur * Video Meshes * Death of Film * Rendering Objects into Images * Reconstructing Submerged city * Contacts for Closeups
Mike and Colin discuss FCPX 10.0.1 (or is that ... nevermind) as well as other bits of news from the week. Links:
- Final Cut Pro X 10.0.1 4K integrated graphics Red Rock Micro lens adapter ARRI email hacking More ARRI email hacking Face morphing Brain reading
This week, a round up of the news from IBC, as well as indepth on the addition of a ProRes decoder to libavcodec. Link:* ProRes Reverse Engineered
Colin and Mike catch up on the news, and discuss the evolution of CCD and cmos sensors. For more information, check out: * Sensor Primer F65 sensor Panavision 35mm* Rackmount mini
Colin and Mike discuss the shipment of the Ultrastudio 3d, new announcements from RED, the Chinese 2k camera, computer upgrades, FCS3 back on sale, and 3d monitors. Also be sure to check out http://www.jenshesse.com/.
Mike and Colin discuss the trend of turning University research into features, content restrictions, and Javascript File API. Articles: * Adobe Research* Fox pulling video
Mike and Colin talk about the interesting papers out of the siggraph conference, and the rapid innovations taking place in 3d imaging.
Mike and Colin discuss migrating a server to a virtualized hosting platform, and then dig into why you're all screwing up handling interlaced footage.
Mike and Colin catch up on the news of the week, discuss the impending demise of optical distribution, and dive deep on the history and future of interframe video compression
Mike and Colin discuss what excites them about Lion, as well as the new Macs and two new papers on hacking FPGAs.
This week, coverage of the recent Avid event, a discussion on the suitability of Avid for different editing situations, a new definition of "Pro" and discussion of the arrival of Thunderbolt products on the market.
This week, Mike and Colin discuss the evolution of computer technology as it relates to rendering video data. We cover CPU-based rendering, the evolution of OpenGL, and the introduction of OpenCL.
Let us know what you think, or where you'd like to see us go with all this podcasty stuff.
Mike and Colin discuss Final Cut Pro X, including some history on how we got to this point, and why the existing app had to die.