The Alan Smithee Round Table (“Was 2023 a Good Year for Post Production?”)
Episode description
Welcome to the next episode of our monthly round table podcast where hosts Scott Simmons, Katie Hinsen & Michael Kammes talk about the latest news in production, post production, entertainment tech and beyond. In this final episode of the year, the team compare notes on their various work experiences in 2023, the effects of industry mergers, the pay scale variances in post production and, their anticipation of AI developments in 2024. And, there’s a special ‘cool things’ segment, showcasing the very coolest of things 2023.
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Here are the show notes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fei-Fei_Li
https://cloud.google.com/learn/training/machinelearning-ai
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/sony-removing-purchased-discovery-tv-shows-from-playstation-store
https://www.reuters.com/technology/adobe-figma-terminate-20-bln-deal-2023-12-18/
One Coolest Thing:
Katie: coolest of the year, the Japanese paper films and NHK’s automatic sign language translation
https://kamifirumu.scholar.bucknell.edu/
https://www.nhk-ep.co.jp/signlanguage/en/
Scott: Transcriptions and text-based editing built into the NLE
Michael:
Louper.io for 2023 https://www.louper.io/