Divergent Opinions

Divergent Opinions

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Divergent Opinions episodes

  • #63 - Many Xciting Features

    This week, we talk about the upcoming release of MXF support within EditReady, as well as our thoughts on backup and the iWatch.

    • Dell Retina Display
    • Lost Satellite Data
    • Smartphones are about to get awesome again
    • Rendering Ikea
    • Hacking the F5
    • Editing Boyhood
    • 1 hr 3 min
    • #62 - Slacking off

      This week, we discuss some more cool stuff from siggraph, plus the ways that Slack is changing our "office" for the better.

      • Potato chip bag filmed through glass
      • Auto Season Change
      • First Person Hyperlapse
      • 4.4 trillion FPS camera
      • Mac Video Fooler
      • Digital Services Playbook
      • Suits at the whitehouse
      • Slack
      • Underground London
      • Projected Makeup
      • 360 degree camera
      • Texting and Internet in Film
      • 53 min
      • #61 - More Indie than You

        This week, we talk about the buzz around indie development - is it dead?

        • Bike of the Future
        • Fly directional hearing
        • Editing Sharknado 2
        • A look at Unread
        • A candid look at financials
        • Who's an indie
        • /Drive
        • YouTube Tip Jars
        • Siggraph tech papers 2014
        • Robert Drew
        • Nostalgia Machine
        • 1 hr 2 min
        • #59 - As we were saying

          Oh right, podcast!

          In this episode, we review the last six months of divergent media. In particular, we describe the technical underpinnings of our new app, EditReady. In addition, we discuss Swift and the possibility of other types of specialized hardware.

          Chatter:

          • Baked Alaska
          • Painting with Code
          • 1 hr 3 min
          • #58 - Parlez Vous App Store?

            This week, we discuss the pros and cons of translation for apps, and the boring and lazy nature of new media.

            • Crazy display
            • Roadie
            • Duster (this won’t end well)
            • Cinemetrics
            • Pharrell
            • Dylan
            • Honda Adopts English
            • Object Cloud
            • British Airways Billboard
            • “Don’t let poets lie to you”
            • blade runner watercolor
              49 min
            • #57 - Freemium Assassinations

              Have we missed the BitCoin bus? Do we care? And just how awesome is H.265?

              • BitBox
              • BitCoin iOS ming
              • 3d printers
              • Compact 3d scanner
              • Amazon does virtual desktops
              • H265
              • More H265
              • Coin
              • Late for Meeting
              • Seiki 4k
              • 58 min
              • #56 - A Syncing Feeling

                This week, Mike and Colin discuss the significance of an open source h264 implementation from Cisco, BitTorrent Sync, and the financial system.

                • BitTorrent Sync
                • [Planet Money ACH podcast] (http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episode-489-the-invisible-plumbing-of-our-economy)
                • [Cisco opens H.264] (http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/30/cisco-plans-to-open-source-h-264-code-for-webrtc/)
                • [Cisco blog post on H.264] (http://blogs.cisco.com/collaboration/open-source-h-264-removes-barriers-webrtc/)
                • [xiph daala] (http://www.xiph.org/daala/)
                • [Google helpout - dr house call edition] (https://helpouts.google.com/108135037100946836685/ls/b3c7b9c307250e27)
                • [SpotShooter] (http://www.theverge.com/us-world/2013/11/4/5066300/shotspotter-analyzes-sound-waves-detects-crime)
                • 49 min
                • #55 - Free as in Beer

                  New Everything from Apple. Except 4K cinema displays. Lamentation.

                  • FCP X scopelink
                  • Divergent Media
                  • Apple
                  • All software is free!
                  • Recreating ios in word
                  • DOS viruses
                  • 59 min

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                  In depth discussion of topics related to the video industry and software development. Mike and Colin deep-dive on the tech that powers everything from Hollywood to your home videos.