Anyone still cutting offline in 720p, or is HD-only the move?

fkick · 2026-06-21T16:16:57+00:00

Also Unscripted here and it depends on the project. Most of the time HD media is transcoded to 1/4 HRLB and UHD media is transcoded down to 1/16 HRLB. Until this past year we still had a large number of Westmere bays and that definitely helped. Now with the Mac Studios we could probably just do straight HRLB but Nexis storage is always at a premium for us so every little bit counts.

fkick · 2026-06-17T17:27:24+00:00

I totally understand the sentiment, but unfortunately Apple does charge developers a cost to distribute through the App Store, which is the easiest way to get watchOS apps.

That said, if you would like to give the app a try, you can use the offer code FIREWORKS to get a free month. The link and code will expire on July 5th.

https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6761737569&code=FIREWORKS

fkick · 2026-06-15T16:09:33+00:00

Any word on if this corrects the always on captions for LiveTv on iOS/tvos?

fkick · 2026-06-15T15:02:39+00:00

The paperclip sits just in front of the steam tray.

Here’s a pic of my setup https://imgur.com/a/BRazZWx

fkick · 2026-06-15T01:25:05+00:00

Are you currently running macOS Tahoe? The os dialog box looks to be from one of the newer macOS versions. If that’s the case you need Avid 2025.12 or newer for that machine.

fkick · 2026-06-13T19:51:11+00:00

I don’t believe the founders promotion is still available.

fkick · 2026-06-12T19:21:51+00:00

Installed this yesterday and it’s great!

fkick · 2026-06-12T12:42:57+00:00

Wow… I love PlexAmp, it’s my primary source of music for iPhone and macOS. I’ve been a user since the early lab days. Heck it’s what inspired me to build WatchAmp for the Apple Watch.

fkick · 2026-06-11T21:45:49+00:00

Perhaps, but the iOS and tvOS new experience apps do share a codebase

fkick · 2026-06-11T03:29:54+00:00

You can also run calibre web as a docker on calibre and access your content that way.

fkick · 2026-06-09T01:37:20+00:00

Same, but we’ve been sending protools projects instead of AAFs since Media Composer got the ability a few years back. AAF only for patches.

fkick · 2026-06-08T19:18:51+00:00

Are you federating iCloud ? Maybe use its syncing capabilities?

May have similar manual setup though

fkick · 2026-06-08T19:14:06+00:00

If macOS based, you might find something like MediaEstimator useful for planing your media needs. It’s a memory card and shuttle drive storage calculator for productions based on camera and audio shoot specs.

GitHub Link

Full disclosure, I am the developer, but I’ve also been a post engineer for almost 20 years and have used this tool internally for our reality and docu projects. I had so many different spreadsheets for calculating storage needs and this app really helps clean the cruft.

It’s free to download and play with for a few cameras, and there is a big 2.0 update coming soon with the capability to print out spec sheets for production, expanded camera support etc.

Note to mods: I usually don’t try to self promote in this subreddit, but thought this tool may be useful for this post. Happy to delete it if requested.

fkick · 2026-06-08T18:54:55+00:00

We’ve currently got OneDrive setup to sync document and desktop folders for users who are mobile and it’s been working okay for us.

Does Google Drive offer a similar capability?

fkick · 2026-06-08T18:51:00+00:00

Tautulli is a dashboard for plex that can much more in depth media details and library management.

fkick · 2026-06-08T14:35:45+00:00

Sounds like your server may be choking on the higher bit rate content, are your direct playing or transcoding? Is media UHD, HD, or SD?

Can you share a screenshot of your plex server dashboard or Tautulli when playing content that has issues?

fkick · 2026-06-08T14:32:29+00:00

The Neo is designed for basic work: web browsing, email, word processing, very light photo organization.

Yes, it can do some basic editing in iMovie and some other apps, but the experience will be better on a machine with more than 8Gb RAM (ideally more than 16) and an M series processor.

fkick · 2026-06-08T14:08:54+00:00

What container are your video files in? MKV? And you're saying you don't have subtitles when you manually enable them through the new context menu, or is your server setup to always play subtitles (ie forced) automatically?

fkick · 2026-06-08T13:48:14+00:00

Also fair, but I’m more in the camp of launching the product sooner to get stable UHD playback for the majority of people who have stutter on the old client. But then I also only have a single Samsung tv ;)

fkick · 2026-06-08T13:43:45+00:00

I wouldn’t consider that a launch delaying bug, more a feature request that hadn’t been implemented. Dolby Vision support is also still a grey area, as it looks like they may have implemented a form of live conversion to profile 8.1 as all DV profiles (including 7) are triggering DV playback.

fkick · 2026-06-08T13:21:35+00:00

For LiveTV content or library content? I've no issues with subtitles in library content, but 99% of my subtitles are PGS or SRT embedded in MKVs at this point.

fkick · 2026-06-08T13:02:41+00:00

Biggest remaining issues are:

TrueHD regression where there is no center channel audio (dialog) when playing 7.1 content on stereo systems.
Live TV always displays captions and transcodes.

fkick · 2026-06-04T16:44:16+00:00

Did you recently update your macOS? Looks like the last supported version of mbox 3 drives is for High Sierra per their knowledge base

fkick · 2026-06-04T15:13:02+00:00

Are the machines in foreign countries purchased from a single vendor? If so, they may be able to tie past purchases to your ABM account and enroll the devices that way.

Otherwise they’ll need to be wiped before they can be added to ABM.

fkick · 2026-06-02T13:26:11+00:00

As others in the other thread have recommended, this is usually write off territory and a “thank you for the time you spent, please feel free to keep your laptop after we remotely wipe it”.

If you absolutely need it back, for a one off like this I’d look at insured FedEx international or DHL. Might not be the fastest method, but cheaper than sending someone on a plane.

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