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www.postmagazine.com 4 POST MAY/JUNE 2023 BITS & PIECES MAGICBOX SHOWS MOBILE VIRTUAL PRODUCTION STAGE SAN FRANCISCO — Magicbox (www.magicbox.ninja) brought its Magicbox Superstudio mobile virtual production trailer to this year's NAB Show in Las Vegas, The semi truck transforms into a turn-key virtual production studio upon arriving on location, providing an LED volume with camera tracking and computer control. The trailer opens to a 25x25x10-foot space with a 21x17x10- foot 1.3mm pixel pitch LED volume inside. Its hard-shell exterior keeps the inside volume dark, quiet and cool. At NAB, the company showed different scenarios of how Superstudio could be deployed. In one, a luxury automobile was loaded into the volume and footage of passing landscapes was fed to its LED screens creating the look of a moving vehicle. This could be used for an advertising campaign or feature production. Sisu Cinema Robotics' (www.sisucinemarobotics.com) robotic camera technology was a part of the demo. The Austin, TX-based company makes easy-to-use equipment that allows users to program motion-control camera moves. In the demo, a director instructed a motion-control operator to create a sweeping camera move that began at the front of the car, travelled along its side and captured the interior occupants before moving over the car's roof. Unlike other motion-con- trol cameras that are currently in the market, the Sisu unit uses a familiar joystick and trigger con- troller that allows new users to get up to speed very quickly. Pressing the button saves a keyframe to a timeline before moving on to the next position. The simplicity in the way it works will allow productions to speed up their shots, as well as capture more shots in a typical production day. ADOBE BRINGS TEXT-BASED EDITING TO PREMIERE PRO SAN JOSE, CA — Prior to the 2023 NAB Show, Adobe (adobe.com) revealed a number of innovations across its family of video applications, including AI- powered, text-based video editing and automated color tone-mapping capa- bilities in Premiere Pro. In addition, significant GPU acceleration and dozens of workflow enhancements help make Premiere Pro considerably faster than prior versions. Leveraging Adobe Sensei, Adobe's machine learning and AI framework, Premiere Pro and After Effects now streamline video workflows and offer AI-powered editing that save production teams time while helping to reduce costs. Text-based editing within Premiere makes video editing as simple as copying and pasting text. Powered by Adobe Sensei, text-based editing auto- matically analyzes and transcribes clips so editors can simply copy and paste sentences into any order and instantly see them appear on the timeline. In addition, transcripts can be searched in the transcript window to identify exact words and phrases. Premiere's automatic tone mapping and log color detection features let editors mix and match HDR footage from different sources into the same SDR project and get consistent color. This means editors don't need to use look- up tables or manually balance footage to get good-looking images. Premiere Pro also received significant under-the-hood improvements. In addition to enhanced performance, new features include background auto save, system reset options and an effects manager for plug-ins. GPU acceleration for AVC Intra and professional formats, such as Arri RAW, Red RAW, and Sony Venice V2, coupled with GPU accelerated video scopes, transitions and title templates, make the editing experience fast and responsive so editors can now work with 8K footage in the timeline. In collaborative editing scenarios, a new se- quence-locking feature enables the active editor to lock a sequence so it becomes view-only for other editors. Presence indicators provide visibility on who is working in shared projects, and 'work while offline' allows editors to continue to work offline, then publish changes without overwriting others' work when they return online. Adobe also announced new innovations and partnerships that expand Frame.io's video collaboration platform to pho- tography and PDF documents. BITS & PIECES www.postmagazine.com 4 POST MAY/JUNE 2023