Originally developed to generate stills, a new Firefly Video Model has been announced. It can add audio or video frames from an existing video clip and generate new video and 3D animation clips at 1080p resolution and up to five seconds in length using reference images or text prompts of up to 1,000 words Adobe say […]
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The biggest AI trends coming in 2025 according to Bernard Marr
As we look ahead to an exciting new year of AI innovation, with everybody predicting rapid growth in generative AI, here are some things Forbes’ Bernard Marr is telling us to look out for and track. Augmented working “More thoughtful consideration of how humans can work hand-in-hand with AI to augment our technical abilities while […]
‘Santa Claus’ (1898): the first-ever Christmas film (video)
Santa Claus, all 1 minute 16 seconds of it, was made in the UK in 1898 by George Albert Smith, who was a famed early filmmaker, projectionist, hypnotist and friend of French visual effects pioneer Georges Méliès. The BFI, who have published the film on YouTube as part of the BFI National Archive, has praised it […]
Celebrating 10 years of ‘Interstellar’ with 70mm IMAX
Here, the BFI IMAX‘s IMAX Programme Manager Madeleine Mullett tells us a little about the use of their 70mm print of ‘Interstellar’ for its 10th. anniversary run. < There are only two copies of this print in the UK. Source: Dailymotion / The Independent
Panasonic tap late founder to coach today’s managers
The current leadership team became concerned that the management philosophy of Kōnosuke Matsushita, who died in 1989, is being eroded and used AI to solve the problem They have created a digital replica of the great man to find solutions to management problems by imitating what he may have thought or felt about a given […]
“Chaps, the BBC’s offering free access to 33,000 sound effects for non-commercial use!”
These commercially licensable recordings are free for non-commercial use, as long as users credit where they came from. “Mixer mode” allows users to “layer, edit and re-order clips from the archive to create your own sounds” to create rich, unique soundscapes. “These include clips made by the BBC Radiophonic workshop, recordings from the Blitz in London, special […]