captionAnimator, captionTranslator & Builder NLE - Philip Hodgetts

Recorded live at the March, 2025 lacpug meet just before Philip moved back to AU.
Philip showed us how to convert FCP Captions to visible animated, or still titles using captionAnimator, and how to translate Captions between 21 languages. He also showed a quick tour of Builder NLE, text based editing for FCP and Premiere Pro.

About Philip Hodgetts
Philip Hodgetts is a technologist, industry pundit, future-caster and a podcasting pioneer. With an early background in production, writing, directing and editing, Philip Hodgetts is now a technologist and commentator on the ever-changing digital landscape. He has a sound record of recognizing technology changes and moving to take advantage. Over his career he has recognized and championed evolving technologies, from his early infatuation with non-linear editing, through Blue/Green Screen, Drone camera platforms to his current focus on the application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to the production and entertainment industries.

As a podcaster from the formation of the specification, his weekly show "CREATIVE PLANET'S DIGITAL PRODUCTION BuZZ"became a reference point for Digital Production, Post Production and Distribution technology and business and followed on the five years of success as co-host and managing editor of DV GUYS.

With more than 40 years experience in production and post-production - over half in the digital world - he is a recognized authority on the changing nature of the digital landscape and has an enviable record of accurately predicting the implication of changing technology.

He is cofounder and President of Intelligent Assistance - a specialist in XML based workflow and creative tools - and Lumberjack System - a suite of logging and pre-editing tools to free editors to have more creative time.
He can be found at [email protected].

Hosted by Michael Horton
Intelligent Assistance: - https://www.intelligentassistance.com/
captionAnimator: https://www.intelligentassistance.com...
captionTranslator: https://www.intelligentassistance.com...
Camera: Vic Rincon https://vicrincon.com/
Camera: Camera: Mattias Marasigan https://mattiasalegro.webflow.io/
Editor: Philip Hodgetts https://www.intelligentassistance.com/
Titles by Caption Animator: https://www.intelligentassistance.com...

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