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Intel has been the top selling x86 processors for almost 40 years. The ARM RISC processor family integrated with GPU and RAM is rapidly changing personal computing starting with portable computers and expanding to the desktop. Problem The x86 and ARM processor instruction sets (code) are not compatible. There are two solutions to this problem. Emulation and translation. Emulation is required every time the program or operating system is run until the source code is compiled into binary for ARM processor. Translation converts the program one time using the new instruction set. Apple Rosetta 2 is a translation application for Mac computers. Microsoft is working on adding x86-64bit emulation to the existing x86-32bit support for their Windows ARM. If Microsoft decides to sell Windows ARM directly to end users (why not?) then we could see Windows ARM running on future Apple ARM computers. Just for fun imagine PTE AV Studio 10 x86-64 version running in emulation on Windows ARM running on a Mac M1. Also Corel Parallels is currently working on a new version that will allow M1 Macs to run the Windows x86 operating system. We do not know what the performance penalty (25%?) will be for Windows x86 code on Apple ARM computers. What happens to Intel and AMD if they continue down the legacy x86 road? I think it is a dead end because RISC appears to be the clear winner. Maybe future processors can upload instruction sets into firmware, making it appear as a x86 or ARM processor with a simple reboot. I'm glad WnSoft has been working on converting their code to ARM family of processors and will be future proof. Who knows, maybe some day we will see PTE on tablets. Tom

Having ordered items from China via AliExpress I feel your pain. Last summer it was three months before the package arrived. Amazon sometimes does not want the product returned due to shipping cost. I ordered a small upright refrigerator from Amazon and it was damaged in shipping (cosmetic corner dent). Amazon said keep it or donate it to charity and refunded my money. Maybe you will get lucky with the Ebay vendor. Good luck, Tom

I am thinking about buying a X-Rite ColorChecker on sale until December 31, 2020. and how I might use it with various software. I know some video editors use vector scopes and other graphs to show levels. Ideally you would white balance in your camera but I was wondering if a simpler solution might work. I don't think this would require a calibrated monitor if you are matching between a reference and a colorchecker in a photo or video. Macbeth ColorChecker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColorChecker *Update* I created a colorchecker based on the sRGB values and attached it to this post. I also created a style and output to YouTube. In my limited testing it was easier to make corrections using one of the 3 RGB coloration options (click on color to change) instead of Hue adjustments. *Suggestions* Add pop up Macbeth Checker moveable window option to Color Correction. Color Correction, Levels, should have eyedropper to select luminance values from media. Color Correction, Levels, Add a white balance option with eyedropper to select 18% gray area. Yes, I know I'm spelling color wrong. Tom

Nice looking camera rig. It will be interesting to see how it does smooth pans and video stabilization. Tom

Reviews for Apple M1 computers are showing up on YT today. The M1 is a great video editing computer. I'm sure it will be super fast with PTE AV Studio. Tom

The X-T30 is a real versatile camera. With a hdmi to usb converter like Elgato Cam Link 4K it can be used as a webcam (using dummy battery/power supply) with zoom, skype, obs. Tom

Great looking camera. The X-T30 received the Gold Award from dpreview. Gimbal looks great too. Have fun with your new equipment. It makes me want to take my rarely used Panasonic FZ-1000 outside when the weather improves. Tom

You can attach hdmi output to a recorder. That is really cool. Tom

According to the online help it's used when creating complex masks. https://docs.pteavstudio.com/en-us/10.0/how_to_v9/mask#complex_masks Tom

Performance comparison from https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-deep-dive The M1 will be even faster than the A14. I think It will take a few years for AMD and Intel SOC technology to catch up with Apple. AMD is probably closer than Intel. It will be interesting to see Nvidia's AI technology. Tom

It looks like the Apple M1 type of silicon is the future of personal computing. Integrating as much as possible on a single die with CPU, GPU, and RAM. TSMC will be producing 3nm chips in 2023. This will allow lower power, faster, more cpu/gpu cores, memory, and neural engine cores. AI is now used for enlarging images, noise reduction, object recognition, self driving cars, etc. Tom Blackmagic 17.1 high end video editor for M1 https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=125788 Performance in Affinity Photo is apparently faster than any Intel Mac (except maybe the very expensive Mac Pro).

Hi Rosy, That looks like a nice camera. Plenty of manual controls. The reviews are positive for both products. I hope you post some images/video in a slideshow or separate media. Tom

Hi Gaga, You can change the size with zoom parameter in Animation tab. Maybe that will help. Tom

Good luck. I have never owned a gimbal but it sounds interesting. Nice smooth pans and no bumpy roads. I think the newest GoPro 9 camera with hypersmooth looks great. Thanks, Tom

The newer GoPro models are supposed to have great image stabilization. Also the new smartphones. I hope you post some stabilized videos when you are testing. Thanks, Tom

Hi Igor, That's is very encouraging news. Apple 'One More Thing' event on November 10th. https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/2/21546136/apple-event-date-time-november-10th-one-more-thing-arm-mac-silicon Thanks, Tom

Great article about H.266. https://www.videoproc.com/resource/h266-vvc.htm AV1 *might* have a license fee due to IP based on prior H.26n patents. https://rethinkresearch.biz/articles/aomedia-will-relent-to-fair-av1-patent-licensing-program/ Google Duo supports AV1. I didn't think the smartphone hardware supported real time encoding. https://www.blog.google/products/duo/4-new-google-duo-features-help-you-stay-connected/ Tom

Right clicking on video and selecting Stats for Nerds you can see what codec the player is currently using. The YT player seems to favor VP9 playback only on 1440/2160(4K) videos but not on 1080 FHD videos. The VP9 codec is more efficient that H.264 and is almost equal H.265. I could transcode (upscale) my 1080 video media to 4K and then upload but that takes a long time. YT recommended upload encoding settings https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en Unfortunately when YT transcodes VP9/Opus codec in webm container it lowers bitrate so we don't see the full advantage of VP9 compared to H.264. Also you can not upload VP9 in webm without YT creating a new version at lower bitrate. If you want to force a certain codec like VP9 on 1080 videos this Chrome/FF extension has been working for me. https://github.com/alextrv/enhanced-h264ify You can also force AV1. Many of the popular BBC David Attenborough videos can playback in AV1 format. https://www.youtube.com/account_playback https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64R2MYUt394 Tom *PTE 10.0.13 can play AV1 in the mini player but not full screen preview or publish as EXE. You can also publish a video with AV1 source.

New information about changing future Windows 10 refresh rate. I'm still using 60 Hz. I don't know if my 64 year old eyes would notice a difference at 120 Hz. https://mspoweruser.com/screen-refresh-rate-coming-to-windows-10-modern-settings/ Tom

https://9to5mac.com/2020/10/12/apple-a14-chip-details-interview/ The 64 bit A14 SOC has 11.8 Billion transistors and uses a 5nm process. My first 8 bit CPU (Z80) had 10K transistors and used a 5 um process. That's 1 million times the number of transistors in a die size one thousand times more condense in just 45 years. Although I really like AMD Ryzen CPUs It will be hard to resist a new Mac Mini or Macbook with the A14. Tom

Increasing number of GPUs supporting the decoder. Still waiting for hardware encoding. Maybe in AMD 6000 series GPU. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-rx-6000-series-gpus-to-support-the-av1-codec Tom

There doesn't seem to be an upper limit to computing performance. Apple silicon might not be able to match this processor. Tom

+1. I submitted a related request in the past (lossless SVG import). Maybe as an object library (folder) like Styles and Transitions would work. There would be default objects and user created objects that could be added or deleted. I use various SVG programs like Inkscape and Boxy SVG to create objects and then export as high resolution webp or png files for import into PTE. My guess is most PTE users are more interested in photography than animation, so maybe PTE created geometric objects (circles, triangles, ...) are not the most requested feature Tom

https://www.photopea.com/ It's amazing how much a modern javascript enabled web browser can do with images. Tom Background of the program.

Hi Rosy, I understand now. It does not work for me either. I have not converted/trimmed videos in PTE since upgrading to version 10. Thanks, Tom