Your copy editors let slip this "Both codecs have become an intricate part of image capture and final delivery." Instead of "intricate", the specifier you probably meant was "integral".

Colin Levy has also done amazing work with the Blender team (https://www.blender.org). Thought somebody should mention that.

The reason AVID users were disproportionately affected is because AVID's Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) required users to disable a key security feature of OSX. Which OSX permits. However, the Chrome update caused OSX to detect a tripwire in the user-compromised system, which caused OSX to shut things down, hence the freeze/reboot loop.

If AVID had less intrusive DRM, then Chrome's update would not have caused such an allergic reaction by the OS.

Great article! So good to see collaboration bubble to the top of the list. I see the same thing at UNCSA's film school: collaboration skills and great collaborators make for great films and great experiences. Too many are too bought into the idea that a single genius can will their film into existence as long as they have the right equipment. So wrong on so many levels. Keep up the good work!

The Sachtler tripod will set you back $8500. The Leica 35T2 Summicron cine lens is $15,000. I wouldn't be surprised if the audio recorder and microphones were more than $10,000. And if he's using lights, ARRI Skypanels are $5,850 each. The camera itself has been teased as costing less than $5,000 if you already have a RES HYDROGEN ONE phone. But clearly the cost of the camera is a blip compared to what is seen in frame and what can easily be inferred.

I'll take a crack at it...computer graphics displays have whatever gamut and gamma that their manufacturer thinks looks most sexy. And computer display profiles fit within those to display whatever is most tasteful within that gamut and gamma. On the other hand, the video world has standardized on REC709 for HD and REC2020 for HDR, which are not the typical P3 or sRGB spaces of typical computer monitors.

Can you use Davinci Resolve to grade for P3? Yes. Does that make any sense in the world of professional video? No. Can you try to make a P3 display behave like a REC709 display? Yes, but it will poison so much of what makes the P3 display so beautiful in the first place.

And by the way, the $145 card is nothing compared to the $4,000-$50,000 monitor of a proper professional HD or HDR reference monitor.