The Alan Smithee Round Table (“A Lot Has Been Happening”)

Welcome to the next episode of our monthly round table podcast in which hosts Scott Simmons, Katie Hinsen & Michael Kammes talk about the latest news in production, post production, entertainment tech and beyond. In this episode, the team discuss the various challenges facing the industry, the upcoming strikes, recent acquisitions and, the latest updates in production software. And as always, there’s a bunch of really cool things for us post production people to get excited about. 

Show Notes

US Film and TV Production Down 40% From Pre-Strike Level, Report Says:

https://www.thewrap.com/film-tv-production-2024-levels/

HPA award recipients!
https://hpaonline.com/hpa-announces-2024-engineering-excellence-award-recipients/

FotoKem will receive HPA’s prized Charles S. Swartz Award

https://hpaonline.com/hpa-awards-committee-honors-fotokem-with-the-charles-s-swartz-award/#:~:text=It%20is%20with%20great%20pride,of%20the%20late%20Charles%20S.

Paramount closed TV production studios and started major layoffs
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-08-13/paramounts-huge-layoffs-begin-nearly-2-000-employees-targeted-in-cuts

Paramount/SkyDance https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/skydance-paramount-board-violating-deal-agreement-edgar-bronfman-jr-1236115717/

Disney Layoffs - On July 31, 2024, Disney Entertainment Television laid off 140 employees, which is about 2% of its workforce in the television division.

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/disney-layoffs-television-1236091773/

Teamsters, video game actors, Animation guild, IATSE
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-animation-guild-contract-expires-soon-will-ai-fears-lead-to-a-strike/ar-AA1oQJqI

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes delivers first-ever side-by-side cut of raw footage with final film 

https://ew.com/kingdom-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-side-by-side-raw-cut-with-unfinished-vfx-clip-exclusive-8697941

Cree8 acquired BeBop

https://postperspective.com/cree8-and-bebop-technology-merge/

Autodesk acquired Wonder Dynamics

 https://investors.autodesk.com/news-releases/news-release-details/autodesk-acquires-wonder-dynamics-offering-cloud-based-ai

Premiere 24.4: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/whats-new/2024-4.html

Avid Media Composer 2024.6: https://www.avid.com/media-composer

Resolve 19: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve

Final Cut Pro 10.8.0 and 10.18.1 https://support.apple.com/en-us/102825

One Cool Thing

Katie: B’s gmail shortcuts! https://www.themightyshortcutsc.com/

Michael: https://chathub.gg

Scott:   https://chrisroyfilms.com/