Marc Blank-Settle marcsettle.bsky.social

I’m not abandoning this place entirely - I still get value from the tweets of brands such as tech accounts & some personal ones even though most people rarely post now. But I’m here a lot less these days & you’re more likely to find me on BlueSky - marcsettle.Bsky.social. 💙🦋

@iFilmmakers @photojack @Blackmagic_News One of the few things BM lacks vs Filmic is cloud sharing of presets. We have to host our BBC ones in Dropbox & have an explainer video for installing them. Cloud hosting was a lot simpler.

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@iFilmmakers I know the feeling. It would be nice if developers could coordinate and NOT push out updates for a couple of weeks.

It’s definitely challenging keeping up with all the iPhone app changes & tech advancements, but I do my best. 😎

@finalcutgod Okay. That’s probably quite important then.

@MarcSettle for the chinese market... yes

Is “it’ll be available in red” really a *feature*?

@simongerman600 Is it a surprise that a hectare, as a metric unit of area, gives nice round numbers when shown in metres (also a metric measurement) but an acre, which is an imperial measurement, does not give round numbers when shown in metres, a metric measurement?

Not coming from an agricultural background, some measurements don’t make intuitive sense to me. A Hectares are easy enough to come to terms with: 10,000 square meters. Easy. An acre?! I still can’t wrap my head around this…

@blake_calhoun I wasn’t aware you had ever watched any of my videos! I can’t believe you learned anything from them, beyond what I sound like.

@MarcSettle I’ve seen some of your training video pieces online over the years. Very posh. :) Looks nice! Not quite Highclere Castle, but very comfortable.

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@photojoseph The weird thing is that the feature already exists within iOS. Open a video in iMessages and there’s an enhanced video player, complete with speed settings ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@MarcSettle For real. Just steal the “press right side for 2x” feature already!!

AI this, AI that. Blah blah blah. Where’s the option to play videos in the native Photos app at more than 1x?

@bbcpaddy I could tell you, but would what I say be on the record?

If you know, you know

@blake_calhoun Our house is called Pear Tree Cottage but it really doesn’t live up to the name as we are the left-hand side of this semi-detached house. (I also didn’t know you had heard me speak!)

@MarcSettle I picture you living in some estate like Downton Abbey. Or at least that’s where I think anyone who speaks with “the Queen‘s English” accent lives.

@blake_calhoun I’ll see if our handyman is willing travel to Texas

@MarcSettle Oh wow. Very nice! I like that built-in cabinet. Wish I had something like that.

@TfL That the “next train” displays on the Met southbound at Wembley Park have been broken for two years+ despite it being one of the very few stations where they’re particularly useful ie to tell you if it’s worth waiting for a Met or getting a Jubilee southbound.

What's a niche fact about London transport that not many people know? 🤔

Blimey it must be cold. I hope those guys thaw out soon.

Arsenal can pay several players £250,000 a *week* yet can’t spend £50 on a dual mic system to ensure the interviewee’s audio quality is as good as the interviewer’s…? #smh

As if I didn’t have less enough reasons not to subscribe for Twitter.

@photojoseph But of course

@MarcSettle You’re at 29% of 30% 😅

Er…ok.

@karlpetermichl ha ha ha true but that's not what I was referring to!

@MarcSettle all of them - horizontal video is a NOGO those days and their Social Media teams will HATE them

I always like seeing photos showing lots of people recording video with an iPhone. Can you spot the one which will give the user a nasty surprise?