#black-magic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #black-magic, aggregated by home.social.
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Albert Guillame poster art for an 1895 French lecture on the occult - taking in spiritualism, the Rosicrucians, effective spellcraft and Satanic practices. None of it very seriously by the looks of it. #Diabolism #BlackMagic #magick #Satanism #spiritualism #posterart #19thCentury
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You do know about the More Finder Info option in #NeoFinder? Right?
We have improved that feature for NeoFinder 9.2 for #macOS, and it can now show metadata for external Finder files in RED, NEV, BRAW, Pixelmator, IIQ, EIP, GoPro and other formats!
https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=786#p786
#FilmMaking #MediaAssetManager #VideoTools #VideoLibrary #VideoProducer #ARRI #RED #DaVinci #FCPX #VideoWorkflow #MacDev #KYNO #AfterEffects #VideoProduction #PostProduction #Cinematography #IndieDev #Apple #BlackMagic
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And yes, #NeoFinder 9.2 for #macOS now has the multi-line Help Tags for Keywords and Persons in the Details View as well! Because of course!
https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=783#p783
#FilmMaking #MediaAssetManager #VideoTools #VideoLibrary #VideoProducer #ARRI #RED #DaVinci #FCPX #VideoWorkflow #MacDev #KYNO #AfterEffects #VideoProduction #PostProduction #Cinematography #IndieDev #Apple #BlackMagic
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The Charge and the Curriculum: How the Dark Arts Replaced Black Magic
Two phrases arrive from different centuries and now sit on the same shelf: “black magic” and “the Dark Arts.” Modern speakers treat them as synonyms. Older readers would have disagreed, and the disagreement matters, because the collapse of the two terms shows how our language for forbidden knowledge has migrated from the judicial to the aesthetic, from accusation to ambience.
“Black magic” is the older, harder word. In the historical record of Western occultism, it names magic understood as harmful, antisocial, or bound up with evil spirits. Britannica defines it as magic associated with the devil or evil spirits, and treatments of sorcery describe the practice as malevolent magic. Medieval nigromancy, corrupted in the vocabulary from necromancy, fused death magic, blackness, and illicit commerce with spirits into a single accusation. When a cleric in the fourteenth century charged someone with black magic, consequences followed: a trial, a tribunal, a sentence, often a burning. The word carried teeth because the world it belonged to took the accusation literally.
“The Dark Arts,” by contrast, does not appear in the premodern record as a settled technical category. The older learned tradition did use “the black arts” as a near synonym for black magic, and medieval and early modern writers divided forbidden practice by function rather than by atmosphere: sorcery, necromancy, goetia, maleficium, witchcraft, divination, theurgy. Each category carried its own definition and its own theological weight. A demonologist could distinguish between a witch’s pact and a scholar’s curious conjuration, and the distinction mattered, because lives depended on it. The phrase “Dark Arts” gathers all of that into one dramatic heap. It is a late label for a premodern field, and it sounds more like a book spine than a charge sheet.
The Christian demonological tradition narrows the question further. Aquinas treats divination as a species of superstition and condemns recourse to demons as rebellion against Providence. Within this framework, the operative concept is sin rather than glamour. Black magic names the moral-theological rebellion: the pursuit of harm, the reach for illicit power, the traffic with demonic agency. What a modern reader might call the Dark Arts would be, in Aquinas’s world, simply the whole condemned region of forbidden practice. The theologian did not need an atmospheric label. He already had a moral one.
Fantasy literature reversed the polarity. In twentieth and twenty-first century writing, “Dark Arts” became the more precise term while “black magic” became the vague one. J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series offers the clearest example. The Dark Arts there name a corrupting discipline with its own curriculum, defenses, and lineage, practiced by institutions and taught in opposition by other institutions. The phrase implies doctrine. It implies inheritance. The phrase implies that a student could walk into a library and be seduced by it, paragraph by paragraph. Within that literary ecology, “black magic” becomes a cruder label for the same field, used when the writer does not want to spell out the structure.
So the vocabulary flipped. In the older usage, “black magic” was sharp and “Dark Arts” did not really exist in its modern form. In the newer usage, “Dark Arts” reads as architectural while “black magic” reads as generic. A modern reader raised on fantasy often hears “Dark Arts” as the more serious term because it suggests a field of study, while “black magic” sounds like something shouted from a pulpit. Four hundred years ago, the hearing would have reversed. The pulpit word carried consequences. The field-of-study phrase did not yet exist in anything like its present meaning.
This shift matters because the older vocabulary recognized distinctions the new one erases. Cultures that took magic seriously divided forbidden practice into three moral situations that modern fantasy collapses. Dangerous knowledge could corrupt a practitioner through contact alone, regardless of use. Impure ritual violated sacred boundaries such as the one between the living and the dead. Malicious intent directed power toward harm. A curse aimed at an enemy was black magic in the strictest sense. Consulting the dead might be a forbidden art without being malicious. Reading a grimoire out of curiosity could corrupt without producing any spell at all. Three different moral situations, three different theological verdicts.
When the modern imagination treats “Dark Arts” and “black magic” as equivalent, it loses those distinctions. Everything forbidden becomes everything evil, and everything evil becomes everything forbidden. That is intellectually sloppy, and it produces a literature in which dangerous knowledge and murderous intent carry the same weight because the same adjective covers both. A fantasy novel can get away with the shorthand because the reader accepts moral collapse as a genre convention. A serious account of real-world occult history, or of real-world religious ethics, cannot.
There is also a political dimension worth naming. The older vocabulary belonged to a world that punished people for using it. Accusations of black magic produced trials, burnings, confiscations of property, and the destruction of families. The accusation operated as a weapon, and it was often aimed at women, the poor, the learned, the dissenting, or the foreign. When modern fantasy dresses the same vocabulary in robes and calls it a curriculum, it borrows the gravity of that older moral world without paying its cost. The reader feels the frisson of the forbidden without any sense that someone, somewhere, once died because a neighbor used the word in a deposition.
My own view is that the two terms should be kept apart when precision matters and allowed to drift together only when the context is frankly literary. Black magic is the sharper moral word: it names intent, names harm, names the condition of having turned one’s power against the order of things. The Dark Arts, as a phrase, is a later shelf, useful for novelists and game designers and screenwriters who need a single label for an entire shadow tradition. Treating the shelf as if it were the charge, or the charge as if it were only the shelf, flattens a vocabulary that once cut cleanly.
Both terms remain in use in their own domains. The real question is what happens to a culture when its language for forbidden knowledge migrates from the courtroom to the bookshelf. A society that once tried people for black magic now markets the Dark Arts to teenagers. The words look similar, and in casual speech they mean almost the same thing, but the worlds they came from could not be further apart. That drift is itself a small history, and the history is worth knowing before one reaches for either word.
#blackMagic #darkArts #divination #goetia #maleficium #necromancy #religion #sorcery #theurgy #witchcraft -
A quotation from Christopher Marlowe
CHORUS: Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burnèd is Apollo’s laurel bough,
That sometime grew within this learnèd man.
Faustus is gone. Regard his hellish fall,
Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise
Only to wonder at unlawful things,
Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits,
To practise more than heavenly power permits.Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Epilogue (1594; 1604 “A” text)More about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #christophermarlowe #kitmarlowe #faustus #doctorfaustus #blackmagic #curiosity #damnation #divinelaw #intellectual #magic #scholar #wisdom #forbidden
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#msTeams hat mal wieder die allgemein die Hosen runtergelassen heute.
Probelauf für ein #HybridEvent in einem international tätigen Konzern. Wir füttern Teams über ein #Blackmagic #AtemMiniExtreme (ISO) via USB… alles ist sauber ausgepegelt, Limiter sind gesetzt…
Beim letzten Event hatte der #HifiTon in Teams spontan nicht funktioniert. Kam einfach gar nix. Dieses mal: Er funktioniert. Und verzerrt wie Hölle. Der „normale“ Telefonsound funktioniert.
Nach etwa 30 Minuten Test stürzt Teams ab. Der Rechner muss neu gestartet werden und #Teams braucht ein #Update. Mitten im Meeting.
Mein Glück ist, dass jenseits des USB-C-Kabels vom #Atem Videoswitcher die hauseigene IT verantwortlich ist bei diesem Event und nicht ich.
Ich bereite eine Backup-Aufzeichnung im Videoswitcher selbst vor, denn ich rechne damit, dass #Microsoft Teams morgen floppen wird.
Diese Software kann produktiv nicht eingesetzt werden – macht aber nix, ist ja ein #BusinessEvent, harrharrharr.
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Das ist übrigens das erste Video, das ich mit #DavinciResolve für Social Media gemacht habe.
Ganz hohles Gefühl im Bauch… nach vielen Jahren #Lightworks #NLE, das wegen einem seit über einem Jahr nicht behobenen Bug für mich nicht mehr schon lange nicht mehr richtig nutzbar ist. Ist das nun der Abschied?
Also lerne ich einiges nochmal neu.
Leider gibt's nicht so viele Optionen unter #Linux, was #Video angeht.
Und nein, weder Kdenlive noch Blender spielen meine Footage überhaupt richtig ab auf meinem Rechner, ich hab das Thema hier ja bereits vor längerem mal totgeschlagen.
(Liebe 2000%-Nerds: Wer jetzt #ffmpeg sagt, riskiert den atomaren Endzeit-Plonk. 🤪 )
Die Hoffnung stirbt natürlich zuletzt, dass #LWKS nochmal die Kurve kriegt.
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Atualização do Blackmagic Camera para iOS introduz a novidade de controlo que vai transformar as tuas gravações
🔗 https://tugatech.com.pt/t82129-atualizacao-do-blackmagic-camera-para-ios-introduz-a-novidade-de-controlo-que-vai-transformar-as-tuas-gravacoes -
Apple Vision Pro : Blackmagic dégaine la caméra qui va enfin permettre le live immersif
https://mac4ever.com/195704
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You Can Now Control Blackmagic Camera on iPhone From an Apple Watch https://petapixel.com/2026/04/16/you-can-now-control-blackmagic-camera-on-iphone-from-an-apple-watch/ #blackmagiccamera3.3 #applewatch #blackmagic #Software #News #atem #ios
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#Video editing going nuts…
#Blackmagic has released their #DavinciResolve 21 #NLE… new feature includes an #AI face reshaper, and a #voice cloning AI that can imitate any original voice with just 10 minutes of audio training data.
So, deep fakes within minutes? Easy with #Resolve.
Don't know what to think of this. It's one of two professional NLEs for #Linux… and the other one, #Lightworks, is in a terrible state currently, hopefully it will survive.
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Killer history of #Blackmagic here by @latenite . Very, very informative; changes the way I see the company and its mission.
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DaVinci Resolve plus fort que Lightroom : un studio photo, vidéo et audio tout-en-un
https://mac4ever.com/195677
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DaVinci Resolve 21 arriva con la nuova pagina Photo e una suite di strumenti AI che rivoluzionano editing, color grading e gestione dei contenuti. #LinuxEasy #DaVinciResolve #Blackmagic #╝Software #Linux #Windows #Mac
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¡Minmersiva al alcance de los cineastas! Ya puedes encargar la preciosa cámara Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive para Apple Visioision Pro por 30.000 $.
Vídeo 3D 8K a 90 fps que te hará sentir dentro de la escena ❤️
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Blackmagic présente une nouvelle caméra immersive pensée pour le direct sur Vision Pro http://dlvr.it/TS1tkw #Blackmagic #URSA100G
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Blackmagic s’attaque à Lightroom avec DaVinci Resolve 21 http://dlvr.it/TS1tDm #Blackmagic #DaVinciResolve
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😆 Who knew video editing software had a secret identity as a photo editor? DaVinci Resolve's latest "innovation" seems more like a desperate attempt to cater to every country on Earth 🌍 than an actual feature update. Blackmagic's trying to be the Swiss Army knife of software, but ends up being more of a butter knife. 🔪
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/photo #videoediting #softwareupdate #DaVinciResolve #Blackmagic #innovation #photoediting #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
DaVinci Resolve 21 is Now a Lightroom Alternative: RAW Editing, Tethering, Masking, and More https://petapixel.com/2026/04/13/davinci-resolve-21-is-now-a-lightroom-alternative-raw-editing-tethering-masking-and-more/ #blackmagicdesign #davinciresolve21 #Post-Processing #davinciresolve #postprocessing #photoediting #videoediting #blackmagic #Software #nab2026 #News #nab
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Blackmagic’s New Camera is the World’s First for Immersive Live Broadcasting https://petapixel.com/2026/04/13/blackmagics-new-camera-is-the-worlds-first-for-immersive-live-broadcasting/ #blackmagicursacineimmersive100g #blackmagicursacineimmersive #appleimmersivevideo #applevisionpro #livebroadcast #blackmagic #Equipment #broadcast #liveevent #ursacine #apple #News
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Vegas Pro et Sound Forge rachetés par Boris FX
Si vous faites du montage vidéo depuis longtemps, vous devez connaitre Vegas Pro. Un produit qui a été autrefois piloté par Sony..
https://www.minimachines.net/?p=140412 #blackmagic #logiciels #sony -
And we have 26!
#NeoFinder 9.2.1 for #macOS is now able to import ProMax LTO XML catalog files and convert them to NeoFinder catalogs for you!
This process is simple and fast, and allows you to use the extensive Find features in NeoFinder to manage your LTO archive and backup.
https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=755#p755
#MediaAssetManager #VideoTools #VideoLibrary #VideoProducer #ARRI #RED #DaVinci #FCPX #VideoWorkflow #AfterEffects #VideoProduction #PostProduction #Cinematography #IndieDev #Apple #BlackMagic
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One of Jan Parker's terrifying illustrations to be found in 'Witchcraft and Black Magic' by Peter Haining (1982). #BookologyThursday #witchcraft #blackmagic #magick
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A takto zábavné věci čas od času dělám v práci! 😃🙏
Ovládání PTZ kamer (v podstatě se jedná laicky o robotické kamery 🤖) na koncertu.
Byli jsme 2 operátoři na 4 kamery a k tomu ještě dva živí kameramani. Jeden vedle s dlouhým objektivem na stativu a kameramanka s bezdrátovou kamerou.
Práce pro https://genlive.pro to byla opravdu zábavná. ✌️
#genlive #genlivepro #ptz #sony #fr7 #am7 #camera #cameras #livestreaming #proav #livevideo #video #videoengineering #blackmagic #blackmagicdesign #atem #o2universum #o2arena #prague #praha
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Great #NeoFinder for #macOS praise from Canada:
"Loving the program. I am a video production professional and I am cataloging all my hard drive backups. Finding projects and footage is a breeze!" Andrew H, Edmonton
https://www.cdfinder.de/praise.html
#FilmMaking #MediaAssetManager #VideoTools #VideoLibrary #VideoProducer #ARRI #RED #DaVinci #FCPX #VideoWorkflow #MacDev #KYNO #AfterEffects #VideoProduction #PostProduction #Cinematography #IndieDev #Apple #BlackMagic
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I am totally in love with the Early Doctor Who Meets OG Star Trek laser effects #BlackMagic #FrightClub
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This guy is the most getting-out-of-cars mofo... #BlackMagic #FrightClub