This week after the news we chat about stock. Stock images, stock music, stock video, after effects templates and more. We focus in on a couple of stock provides that we’ve used in the past in VideoBlocks and Digital Juice. We discuss the pros and cons of each service and offer a few other alternatives for those looking for stock media.

NEWS

GoPro Karma drone delayed until 2016 holiday season

Drink
Looking to “give ourselves more time to fine-tune these features”
Main competitor has had a good start to the year with their Phantom 4
Need to do something pretty amazing since everyone is making a drone and it’s getting harder to actually fly the things due to new laws being introduced.

Canon Announces A New Top Of The Line Speedlight and EOS-M Macro Lens

Very soon to replace the old model
Boost in recycle times up to 2x faster than its predecessor if using the new CP-E4N Compact Battery Pack. 1.1 – 1.5x faster on AA.
Seems very similar in all other respects.
Not any smaller or lighter (sorry Chris)
Will be interesting if it breaks compatibility with 3rd party flash wireless triggering.
EF-M 28MM F/3.5 MACRO IS STM. Wide macro that would be roughly a 45mm equivalent.
Stabilisation – Important for handheld macro!
Built in diffused LED ring light which is a nice addition

Adobe reduces Creative Cloud Trial to 7 days

Trials were 30 days, now 7 worldwide
It’s questionable if 7 days is long enough to truly trial a product.
There is now less flexibility if you have subscription problems (which is not uncommon).

Amazon Targets YouTube With New Online Video Posting Service

Good to have a competitor to youtube that pays (unlike Vimeo)
Already has a great cloud backbone in place (S3).
Designed for professionals, however the only requirements are HD and Closed captioning (the later perhaps will be the biggest hindrance for people)
Sign up process involves a lot of business/tax questions.
This is definitely NOT aimed at the causal youtube uploader crowd.

LG introduces live-streaming “ACTIVE LIFESTYLE CAMERA” cam with LTE built-in

Built in 3G and LTE – could be a bit pricey on data plans!
Deep rectangle form factor – more likely to catch on things compared with a Go Pro
UHD quality at 30fps and of shooting 12.3MP photos
120fps in HD
Waterproof for half an hour at 1m depth (but will it transmit?!)
Shipping first in South Korea before rollout elsewhere
Has built in Wifi – could be used as a security/timelapse camera. Wifi probably makes more sense than 3G/LTE