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02:37:32 "We'll probably eventually charge some kind of upgrade for this." Looks like we can expect to pay for major version upgrades in the future. Still better than a subscription, thankfully.

The main camera manufacturing countries just got slapped by Tango-man. China - 34% Vietnam - 46% Taiwan - 32% Japan - 24% Thailand - 36% Hope all the ones who voted for this enjoy their new electronics prices 👍

It also facilitates the opportunity to rob your clients behind their backs unless they scrutinise their bank statements on a regular basis and then if 'errors' are spotted, manage to not lose the patience that is required to actually bring this up with them. Oh yes, it's that time of year when I need to get my books in order for my accountants and have to attempt to jump through these flaming hoops... I am only into the 4th month of statements and already have complaints in with: Musicbed, Avast and Adobe. A cynical person might think that some of these companies are cheeky robbing fuckers...

Nope, they won´t. If social media does not become regulated and co-reponsible for the content they publish, they won't. He had our Trump here in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro. He blocked the Covid vaccines for months - Pfizer offered their vaccines for a very low price as soon as it was approved, because they wanted to use Brazil as an example. They sent 101 emails (yep) for all the authorities, NONE had an answer. A congressional investigation after discovered that it was blocked because some of their allies were trying to put some intermediates on vaccines to profit around US$1 per dose. More than 700.000 people died in Brazil because of Covid. A father of a friend and a grandmother of another friend between them, both very healthy, more than 5 months after the Pfizer offer. They probably be alive today. Bolsonaro even tried a coup - in the election day, he sent the federal road police to make blockades "for safety" - but only in places that he was in a major advantage, to try to block people to get to local vote places. In Jan 8th 2023, they incited people to broke into all the major institutions, a version of the USA's Jan 6th; but here it was like the White House, The Capitol and the Supreme Court were invaded and destroyed. It was a plan to force the new president to call the military forces - than the militaries would depose the new government. With some luck, the riot was dissolved, a investigation was opened, an a lot of coup plans were discovered - as with Trump, their allies and dumbfucks lunatics, and coup plans were found handwritten over their desks...plans that included killing the current president, the vice-president and one Supreme Court judge. They tried to explode a gasoline truck in front of the Brasilia airport in the Christmas Eve, since it was full of people. They are prosecuted now, and probably will go to jail (in factm, probably Bolsonaro will fly to Argentina or USA to not be arrested). And even with all this, around 35 to 38% of the population would vote for him. Because a majority of Brazil's population are permanently addicted to social media. Almost all of these 38% reads nothing else than far-right channels in Whatsapp and Telegram - they are bombarded so much by fake news that they believe in no one more than these info. Like Q'Anon guys. I have relatives, that were (and in a good part stills) some of the most honest and caring people that I know, and they firmly believe than now we live in a dictartorship that only Bolsonaro could destroy. That China will invade Brazil through Uruguay. That Bill Gates patented the Covid virus. All bombarded by social media. If I put a video with some copywrighted music in Youtube, in less than a minute I receive a warning. A FUCKING MUSIC - much more hard to pinpoint than words or images. Don't try to convince me that they cannot spot fake news on the fly. But they will not be accountable. And the consequences will be VERY bad - because USA will be hit with a massive reccession, but the far right will say that other countries, or the immigrants, or ANYHTING stupid are the real culprits, and these people will believe. And I see no easy outcome for this.

I'm about 80% there with you, but if the so-called "AI" tools are also for things like making smarter masks/object tracking in Resolve, I'll gladly take it. I have 0 interest in generating random lamp posts in my footage, but for my last short film, I spent a bunch of hours doing object tracking manually for somebody's eyes to turn them black when she gets possessed because when I tried the automatic tracking, the machine kept losing track of them. When I looked online to see how to improve the hit rate for automatic tracking, the general advice seemed to be "adjust some parameters and try again and keep doing that until it's tolerable." If there's some machine learning model that makes it track like super duper well, I'd even consider paying a small upcharge for it. As it is, I'm probably going to pay more than that to have a real special effects person do it because my end results are a bit trash (though thankfully most people watching don't comment on how the blackened eyes are shifting on the face a little bit).

If it's subscription, I think there will be rioting in the streets and a lot of users migrating to Final Cut... including me. On the other hand, given that I paid like $200 for my license like 5-8 years ago and have been receiving free upgrades ever since then - and now I have a second license that came with my camera, if they were to ask for $50/year for license upgrades, I wouldn't be upset. After all, if Resolve either makes no money or loses money, they have no incentive as a business to keep supporting it. I'm not upset about that. If, however, they want me to hand them $20/month to use it, I'm done.

I remember Grant saying the same thing in these presentations in years previous. And I remember looking for anything that explicitly stated "free upgrades for life included" and could never find it. People just assume this because that's how it's been so far. I would hate a subscription model. Paying per major version would be fine, I would most likely skip a generation or two before feeling a need to upgrade. Same as I did with Adobe before their switch to subscription. Assuming the AI stuff is the major cost driver that would cause a switch to a different model, it would seem fairer to attach the cost more to the AI stuff- you get basic models/capabilities with the regular Studio purchase, then can pay to add-on better models or faster processing etc.

I am going to release on the blog a little EOSHD LOG C3 profile for Panasonic's full frame cameras and perhaps the GH6. Happy to give it out for free to any of you folk who'd like to try it out in return for a bit of feedback and some test shots. It will make your camera compatible with the ARRI look library and ALEXA LUTS. It should also be a bit easier to grade than V-LOG. It also brings ARRI LOG C wide colour gamut to the Panasonic cams. No need to wait for GH7 and pay $200 for the privilege! Happy to answer any questions relating to it and what cameras it'll work best on...

Was catching up with my new favourite magazine The Atlantic today They have some neat AI articles https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libgen-meta-openai/682093/ Like this one about the kind of scale of piracy the tech giants are doing in order to train some of their mainstream AI models. There's a link to a tool called LibGen, where you can put in an author name and see if his work has been harvested up by Meta and used to train their large language models. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/ Sure enough I put "Andrew Reid" into it and up comes the GH4 guide. So we can confidently say the Meta's Llama 3 knows all about shooting 4K with a certain 2014 Lumix camera. When do I get paid and how much?

Kinda. Twitter was closed for some time here because the Baby Spreader owner dismissed the local Twitter legal representatives, and by local laws, no enterprisde here could work with a legal representative. Nothing to do with fake news. Starlink was not cancelled - the Superme Court here blocked Starlink's local assets to pay the fines that Twitter took for (in this case, yes) not giving the law data from some users involved in nazi stuff (including some kids that performes school shootings). The fines were paid and their assets were returned. Twitter is not much of a problem here - the fake news trends are made there, but the spreading is done using Whatsapp and Telegram groups - closed groups, which cannot be accessed by the law if the owner of the site does not allow to.

Sorry, I was referring more to making the purchasing decisions based on evaluating all the options from the different manufacturers rather than physically buying them there and taking them away. I have been involved in deals being signed at many NAB shows in a previous life which I doubt will be happening this time due to the uncertainty. B&H Photo are, of course, happy to take orders from their booth for shipping from their HQ but, yes, the NAB is by and large a safe space for instant GAS gratification ! They have other outlets in Vegas for that.

I think importing through Russia might be your best bet.

More companies need to import stuff through the Heard and MacDonald Islands whilst the opportunity exists. Oh wait, too late, that loophole of zero human, only penguin residents, has been closed.

They must be considering that the expected release date is far enough away for sanity to prevail and the additional tariff is removed by the time they are actually available. Its not beyond the bounds of possibility that BM delay it even beyond the expected date of July for the same reasons.

The majority of Americans are proudly anti-intellectual, anti-science, anti educated, and anti-ideas.

It’s paid by the importer and then passed directly on to the consumer, though fixed costs such as handling and transport fees after the port of entry mean that the calculation isn’t always a straight addition to the current retail price as those costs don’t include any additional increase. The original $4995 is now $6595. If they’d added the whole 34% directly on (which is on top of an existing 20% by the way) then it would be $6693. The reason for it not being that much is that fixed costs such as US based handling and transportation charges do not carry the tariff.

How they calculated that? Is it Made in China?

The US price has now been updated to incorporate the tariffs. A $1600 increase then. If I was in the US, I think I’d be holding off on that pre-order for a while until the presumably inevitable walk back.

This AI stuff is great, it saves so much time, creating subs, remixing music, mixing the audio, soon it prolly will match log footage from different camera's perfectly. And then you can creatively focus on the overall grade.

I don’t object to that ie, ‘stuff I was going to do anyway’ that just makes my life easier, all good. I already use it in fact in Lightroom, but it’s the wholesale image generation that I oppose.

It doesn’t interest me either. I’d rather see out whatever remains of my career being ‘authentic’ and even if this means stopping a year or two short, then so be it. ”Look what I made!” What you mean is look at what AI made for you, but don’t kid yourself it was any talent that you had. It is almost certainly the future but I want no part of that future.

"I'm getting too old for this shit. I'm only two weeks away from my retirement." I'm gonna be one of those craft people that refuses to use AI. Damn the consequences. This all sucks. As a documentarian, even something supposedly innocuous like audio transcribing is causing more inadvertent issues than it's solving. It's really getting in my way holistically -- although it "feels" like it's helping in the moment. It divorces me from the nuances and intimacy of the material. How can I be expected to make anything meaningful to the audience or to myself if I allow an algorithm to make crafting determinations, even the simplest ones? Tools are tools, but when the tools diminish rather than enhance? That's a recipe to being superficial. I don't think I want to be superficial. Unless I'm doing corporate bull shit for the pay day. But then, the corporations using AI can now (or soon) cut me out of that calculus anyway. Get off my lawn you damn machines.

That's the specific reason, though, that they are that different. If BMD charge me $60 to upgrade to the latest major version every year and I am not interested in the new features that they added, I pay them $0. If they go to a subscription model and charge me $5/month, I pay them $60 every year and if they add new features that I don't care about, I still have to pay them $60 for it or I can't use the existing features that I need. Basically, a subscription model removes the impetus for innovation and for developing features that customers are interested in. Like if the new feature is "we added a stock footage catalog that you can also pay to access," I wouldn't want or care about that new feature. I haven't used stock footage before and don't expect to use it any time in the near future. So yeah, there's a world of difference between a subscription and an optional yearly cost for extra features (and this is more or less how Luminar have been doing things and I'm here for it)

Anything is possible, but based on Grant's past remarks about subscription models as well as how things were phrased here, I'd bet the outcome will be in favor up license upgrades (which may end up being some tiered annual payment) vs monthly subscription. That might not be all that different but the key is that with subscription, they cut off your service if you don't pay. Upgrade models, you stay at what version you want and aren't punished for not paying for the service at any particular point. Either way it may hurt the brand; A lot of what makes Resolve attractive is that is has been both freely accessible and stable for the most part. Even the more casual crowd that uses software like CapCut for social edits have found Resolve attractive after they moved to $10/mo subscription. Yeah, perhaps it may be a la carte for the AI tools. We'll see.

How to make someone addicted to drugs: first I will gift you drugs and then when you can't do without them I will ask you for money. Another clear example of enshittification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification)

I live on the Detroit River... still plenty of Prohibition-era smuggling relics in this area- secret canals and tunnels and such. Maybe I should get a little dinghy and start making midnight runs for barrels full of bodies and lenses 😄

It’s going to be like prohibition all over again. The new B&H Photo branch will be a speakeasy selling smuggled camera bodies from Canada.

Great value in every country in the world except the US where it will cost 17,000 US dollars.

It's actually worse. Over 50% on China in sum total of all Trump's tariffs. If you voted for this and think it's a good idea you need your head examined.

I'm not sure of the warranty, but I've bought two things from them on Black Friday (last year and the year before, they had coupons for a big discount on their already pretty-low used prices - I think like 20% or 25%). One was a C70 and the other was a Ronin-4D 6K (which I pretty quickly upgraded to the 8K). Both were great deals and showed up in exactly the condition I expected from the website description.

It is ready. Everyone who replied here so far, will get it free and I'll be sending you all a direct message and email this week.

The other part of this is that if the goal is to increase manufacturing, there should be a stated date for the tariffs to go into effect which is far enough away that companies can build/buy factories and train workers. And the tariffs also shouldn't be on things like the raw materials needed to build the factories in the first place and/or that the factory will need to operate. Or the food that the workers need to eat. You don't, but several red states have passed laws in recent years (or have them currently in debate) to make it much easier for children to have jobs. Even now, the legislature in Florida is in the midst of pasing HB 1225 which would make it legal for 13-year olds to get jobs and remove restrictions on the number of hours that 16 and 17-year olds can work. It would also eliminate mandatory 30-minute meal breaks for 16 and 17-year olds during shifts of more than 4 hours. Also, it would allow kids who are 14/15 who are home schooled or in virtual school to work unlimited hours 7 days/week, also without any mandated meal breaks. And it would say that they could start at the beginning of summer break during the calendar year when they'll turn 14 (which is how it allows 13-year olds to get jobs). So, soon enough, we could be making america child sweatshop-friendly again!

Sanity Prevailing Update : Trump has just said he will add an ADDITIONAL 50% if China don’t withdraw their retaliatiory tariff by tomorrow.

Apparently all camera pre-orders in the US will be cancelled in the coming days, most already have. Due to the tariffs, retailers can't predict the unit cost when an item actually ships from Asia. So they can't honour any of the pre-orders. Millions of $ wiped off retailers books. Hundreds of lost customers. And this is the same for everything... cameras, graphics cards, games consoles, Nintendo Switch 2. Nobody has any idea of what the actual price will be from one week to the next. Currently imports are stacking up at the ports. Cars stuck on ships. I feel sorry for those in the US who didn't vote for this. You are in for a shocking time.