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A genius built the backbone of video—then vanished
Inside FFmpeg: conflict, control, and the code behind everything you watch. Part 1.
Mar 26
Affleck and making the unmade
Netflix buys Ben Affleck’s AI startup, a podcast resurrects Hollywood’s lost films, and SXSW begins another year of discovering the next ones.
Mar 9
Claude vs. Chat
The Half-Trillion Dollar Superbowl ad Rap Beef
Feb 20
The week Vimeo laid off its entire video team
Bending Spoons continue to bend Vimeo whilst Sinners bends Oscar history.
Jan 26
26 million views, 1 star, and a trip around the Moon
Artemis II loops the Moon in 4K, India's AI film industry speeds into stratosphere and movies are getting longer whether you like it or not.
Apr 8
A genius built the backbone of video—then vanished - Part 2
Inside FFmpeg: funding, fragility, and the dozen people keeping the internet alive.
Apr 2
Sayonara, Sora
OpenAI’s video app dies after six months, and Sony’s memory cards are going in a flash - quite literally.
Mar 31
$6 million, a pair of jeans, and the worst film ever made
How a San Fran jeans shop funded Tommy Wiseau’s The Room, a first-time director borrowed a Black List login to get to SXSW and Sony just dropped an…
Mar 25
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The Rough Cut
Two newsletters to entertain and inform the video pro. Rough Cut: the stories of the mavericks that shaped video production and pulled it into the future. Render Time: news on the video creator tech and economy. By Eddie AI (www.heyeddie.ai).
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