Finally, A Way To Do Face Tracking With FaceID For a while now I’ve been looking into different ways to do motion capture on the cheap. You won’t believe how ridiculously expensive it is to create even an at-home setup that captures your body and face movements for animation software. That was until I came…
This May Change How My Posts Look So I’ve done something either really cool or really stupid… or possibly both. I’ve installed a plugin that gives me access to the beta updates for WordPress. I know, I know, I shouldn’t try out beta software in a production environment but for me, this blog is also…
Imagine a smart home with no hubs that just connects. I had another idea the other day. Imagine if when you bought your smart home products you wouldn’t have to worry about connecting them to your network. Imagine that as soon as your screwed in your light bulb or plugged in you smart socket it…
Everything still works on macOS 11 & iOS 14 A couple of weeks back apple release their beta versions of macOS & iOS to members of the developer program and me, being me, upgraded all of my devices to check out the new operating system and see what they could do. One thing has struck…
Seriously @apple what’s the point I’ll start this off by admitting that I own a boat load of apple products already and that I’m a fan of theirs, especially when it comes to security. Having said that I have come across something that is bothering me immensely. The iPhone 11 Pro Max. Don’t get me wrong the…
Guess my learning to code project is going to have to go on the back burner… I got a fantastic phone call on Sunday evening letting me know that the Vodafone store in Bridlington still wanted me to be their assistant store manager and that I could start this week. So as of Wednesday, I…
Which @blackmagic_News setup works best for me? So Over the last few months I’ve come up with a number of Video production setups as a bit of an exercise or to see what gear I would actually need to use Blackmagic latest gear. But that got me thinking… What gear would suit my workflow and the work…
It’s not the hardware… it’s the developers I know I’m probably going to get lynched for this post but I think it needs saying and hopefully it will change things, but considering how small my blogs reach is I very much doubt it. There are two main reasons for this. Firstly ARM and x86_64 require…
Sorry I Mean @Apple Silicon Computers When I was watching the WWDC Keynote and they Finally revealed they were going to move over to their own CPUs and GPUs for their computers I was over the moon. As Intel has been struggling to move to smaller chipsets unlike their chief competition AMD I’m not surprised that Apple…
I’ve wanted to write an app for ages For a long while now I’ve wanted to learn how to write an app for iOS, macOS & Apple TV. nothing overly complicated just something to start me on the way to learning the basics of app creation. Another reason I’m wanting to start now is that…
Great Production Value, Not A Lot Of Surprises Last night, like many around the world, I tuned in for Apples World Wide Developer Conference and whilst it was visually great, I have to say the only stand out announcement was something that a lot of people knew was coming for quite a while. Let’s start…
June 20, 2020Blog, Ideas, Video ProductionAudio, Blackmagic Design, Dante, Live, Live Events, Video @Blackmagic_News I have a New request If you didn’t read my blog post yesterday, I wrote about a shower thought I had, an SDI Multicore. Today though I’m going to have a look at one of the other technologies that I mentioned. Dante Audio. What is Dante Audio? Dante is…
