The Gemini API can now read long video by letting the model jump around the timeline and pull only the frames, audio, and transcript it needs, rather than sampling the whole clip up front. Google's video understanding…
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Strada lets remote video teams work with large files stored on local drives instead of first uploading them to centralized cloud storage. Creator and filmmaker Mark Fischbach, known as Markiplier, has made an investme…
We toured NantStudios' El Segundo campus to see the Dynamic Volume System, an LED volume that trades one fixed wall for modular "wall pods" that snap into different shapes. The stage can become a long arc, a tight cur…
Christy Anzelmo says AI has reversed the way visual effects artists work. Instead of building an image step by step and refining as they go, compositors now start from the result they want and trace back to the data o…
AI models can take an image, generate an audio track, cut it into a video, and lip-sync a character in one automated pass. What they still can't do, according to Justine Moore, is judge whether any of it is good.
Runway's Solaris renders an interactive interface as a live visual stream, generating each frame in response to clicks and drags instead of converting a design into code first. The company introduced it as its first I…
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Runway's Solaris renders an interactive interface as a live visual stream, generating each frame in response to clicks and drags instead of converting a design into code first. The company introduced it as its first I…
WorldClaw, a new paper from Tencent Hunyuan, describes a text-to-3D system that builds large, explorable scenes and returns editable, instance-level assets rather than a single locked render. The method leans on plann…
LTX-2.5 generates connected shots that hold character, environment, lighting, and voice across cuts, then outputs native 4K HDR and a RAW workflow for professional color and finishing. The open-weights model runs on h…
Custom LoRA training for MiniMax H3 is now live on fal, and the company demonstrated it with Realism People, an open-source LoRA it says pushes the model toward photorealistic humans.
MiniMax detailed H3, a general-purpose omni-modal model that the company says understands text, images, video, and audio in a single system, then generates video with native stereo audio at up to 2K resolution and 15…
The platform where AI filmmakers find, fine-tune, and deploy open image and video models is set to change hands. Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, according to The Information, and neither compa…
Matriarch, the self-funded Los Angeles studio from Verena Puhm, is developing its own audience-response technology alongside its film and series slate rather than adding it to a traditional studio later. Puhm told Dea…
Disney named five growth-stage companies to its 2026 Accelerator cohort, and two of them build generative AI directly for film and series production: Promise and OpenArt. Both startups now enter a four-month program t…
Disney is putting digital creators on a Hollywood red carpet and opening its Burbank studio lot for a new two-day gathering called Created in LA. The event, which Disney describes as its fi
Netflix disclosed that generative AI workflows were used in roughly 300 of its titles in 2026, the clearest number the company has put on its production-side AI use so far. The figure app
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Volinga has added 4D Gaussian Splatting support to its Unreal Engine workflow, letting animated splat captures play back in real time inside the engine.
The American Society of Cinematographers is releasing StEM3-VP , a set of open reference assets built to evaluate and calibrate in-camera visual effects stages, and the material is joining the Ac
Orbital Studios has relocated its headquarters and research lab to Television City, the 73-year-old former CBS lot in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles. The virtual product
Epic Games has added native Model Context Protocol (MCP) support to Unreal Engine 5.8, letting external AI agents operate the Unreal Editor directly. According to Epic's documentation , the
Aximmetry's MCP Server Lets AI Agents Build Virtual Production Scenes May 18, 2026 Aximmetry showed an upcoming MCP server at NAB that lets any AI agent operate its virtual production software through natural language. The company is targeting a summer release alongside the n
NVIDIA is positioning DGX Station as the local hardware base for an open agent stack that can run large models, govern their behavior, and call simulation tools inside Blender. Announced at SIGGRAPH , the
Canon announced the EOS R6 V , the first full-frame body in its video-focused EOS V series. The camera pairs a 32.5MP sensor with 7K Open Gate capture, built-in ac
Sony announced the Alpha 7R VI , the sixth generation of its high-resolution full-frame mirrorless line. The camera moves the R series onto a 66.8MP fully-stacked back-illu
Arc Eye's Modular Mobile Stand Collapses the Dome Scanner Into a Flat-Pack Rig May 07, 2026 Arc Eye CEO Christian Cicerone walked us through the company's new modular mobile capture rig at NAB, a battery-powered alternative to the company's large dome scanner that bre
iodyne is building storage hardware designed to bring the security, performance, and reliability of data center infrastructure to fast-moving production environments. At NAB 2026, the com
Strada lets remote video teams work with large files stored on local drives instead of first uploading them to centralized cloud storage. Creator and filmmaker Mark Fischbach, known as Markiplier, has made an investme…
Topaz Labs has released Hyperion 2.5, a new video model that converts 8-bit SDR footage into 10-bit ProRes or 16-bit EXR. The release gives colorists and VFX artists more data to push in a grade or composite, targetin…
PIXERA is hosting a one-day educational summit on HDR and digital color at its Santa Monica studio on Friday, July 24. Titled HDR & Digital Color
Developer Alex Barashkov has released Aval , an open source format for interactive video on the web that responds to hover, click, and application state instead of playing back as a fixed
Foundry has released SmartRoto, an AI rotoscoping add-on for Nuke that fills in the frames between an artist's keyframes. According to Foundry , the tool moves and deforms splines across a s
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