#519 – Building Interesting Things
It's time to get clicky.
This Issue of Cut/daily is more interactive than usual so please click the links and share your feedback on a few things throughout. There's even a reward if you do!
Here's what's in store:
- How to get ahead of 100,000 other fans
- By building a better booking system
- Paper Edit gets visual
- Why FrameRate is now inside Paper Edit
- Shape the next Cut/daily AI training
- Share your thoughts, get rewarded
- AI security hits the fan and what to do about it
- Which is why vibe-coders can't be trusted
- The best audiobook I've heard this year
- Written & read by an actor... of all people!
- Greyboxing is the new green screen
- Here's how to do it.
Building a Better Booking System
The U.K.’s largest screen, the BFI IMAX, has sold 33,000 advance tickets for Dune: Part Three in just 24 hours, breaking the first-day presale record set by The Odyssey.
– Hollywood Reporter
This week, I, and 99,999 other people, tried to book tickets to watch Dune 3 on the biggest screen in the UK, the BFI IMAX in London.
With a 100K people trying to access the site there was an hour queue just to get in and then once you were in you had to navigate the traditional cinema booking system.
Clicking into each screening's individual booking page, looking to see what seats were left and then trying to remember which previous screening might have been better, or which day and time it was that those seats slightly closer to the middle.
It was impossible.
I want to see the film from the best seat possible and these puppies were selling fast. So I took matters into my own hands.
With my better booking system you can:
- See every remaining free seat (red) across all 73 screenings
- Click on any given seat across all showings and see which screenings it is still available for
- Click through and purchase the seat from the BFI website
The BFI IMAX tickets sold out so quickly that I made a second version for the better kept secret that is the Science Museum IMAX, which still has some decent seats available into January.
You can play around with them both for yourself here:
I'll let you know how it feels to watch Dune 3 from the third row of the BFI IMAX at 8.30am on opening day in a future Issue.
Now for the clicky part! Would you want this for cinemas in your town?
Paper Edit + FrameRate.TV = Video Preview
Paper Edit, the multiplayer online platform for crafting paper edits without any media uploads, now allows you to upload media if you so wish.
Thanks to a nifty integration with FrameRate.tv, you can now sync the video reference for your transcript in a resizable floating window and see a live preview of your final paper edit too.
All you need to do is upload your matching source sequence to FrameRate and link them with the embed code. Ridiculously easy.
And with 2.5 TB of space for only $10/month (billed annually) you can afford to store a ton of reference files along side client reviews, showcases and more.
PLUS the exclusive discount code: CUTDAILY will snag you 15% off your first year.
If that's not enough Cut/daily readers can get a whole month of Paper Edit Pro for free:
- Sign up for free at this special link
- This will give you one month of Pro access with unlimited projects
- Sign up for a free account at paperedit.app
- This will give you a single free project to play with
It will not start charging you after the first month ends as you don't have to enter your card details. Add your card details in Settings > Manage Billing to keep your Pro account.
Or if you really like Paper Edit you can take advantage of the current launch offer and get a whole year for only $149 with $50 off.
Tell me more...
Here's what's so great about Paper Edit in 30 seconds:
I've also added a Change Log so you can see how long I've been working on this baby and what's new each month.
Learn all about Paper Edit and how I've battled tested it in #517 – Paper Edits are dead. Long live Paper Edits
THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THIS ISSUE 👇
Tailor the next Cut/daily training course on AI workflows
Over the last few months I've been pulling together a ton of valuable insights for Cut/daily's next email-based training course on AI workflows in Post.
But it's more important that I hear from you on where you're using AI today, where you're struggling with the results and where you'd most appreciate some professional input.
While I love surveys, not everyone does so there's a special thank you for anyone who completes this super quick survey to help shape the next training to everyone's benefit.