PVC on Frame.io’s new partnerships, apps and updates

The Pro Video Coalition has report on the new announcements from Frame.io announced last month at NAB.

I am glad to have a creative cloud Frame.io account, and have been using Frame allot at work. I still think the direct from camera is more for features or tv than the commercials I work on, but it is very cool.

IFrame.io’s work from home features with built in proxy generation needs better Adobe integration. It doesn’t currently work with Adobe’s proxy feature, so files must be manually relinked (and Adobe’s proxy workflow won’t work with only proxys), and if you use low rez proxies for size moves and the like don’t scale, everything would need to be redone manually. Let’s hope Adobe works on this with Frame . And I hate H264, and h264 proxies. ProRes Proxys are so much better (i know they take up more space, but they are do much better), timelines play back great with any ProRes and even with M1 ProRes processors.

Video Copilot adds M1 support to all of it’s plug ins!

Video Copilot has added M1 support to all of it’s paid and free plug ins, and they are of course free updates.

Also nice to have download links to all the free plug ins in one place.

I love all these plug ins and use them all extensively, so this is great news.

In fact I am really using the free ORB for a short I am working on right now.

Adobe After Effects May 2022 (version 22.4) new feature

Adobe has released the May 2022 (Version 22.4) .

The one new feature is a separated Dimensions Preference, so you can use this checkbox and separate x & y positions in the timeline by default.

The April 2022 release (version 22.3) had many more features, including Frame.io integration, native silicon support, extended viewer, scene edit detection, binning indicators for 3D layers, coach marks, and constrained shapes.

PVC on Apple Motion being every editor’s secret weapon

I\ain Anderson of Pro Video Coalition on Apple Motion being every editors secret weapon.

It is an interesting article, and it is true it is such an inexpensive program, that everyone should use it. I have personally used it extensively while doing an edit job on Final Cut and found it essential for using Final Cut Pro with some features that are much easier to use than After Effects with more power, but others I thought far inferior, harder and with huge bugs. And I was not at all impressed by it’s Motion Blur which After Effects does so much better.

Much like Final Cut I find it i a powerful program but with huge caveats. And while I do have it, I don’t find it as useful as other similar programs.

Frame.io for Creative Cloud

i just signed up for creative cloud’s frame.io from within Premiere. I didn’t know what level of service it is, but Frame had posted a page about it.

It allows:

  • 2 Frame.io Users
  • 5 Projects
  • 100 GB Storage
  • Camera to Cloud (though doubtful you could do it with that storage)

So I can use it for any client that doesn’t have their own solution for review. Very cool!

They should offer a discount if you upgrade though.

Red Giant Updates for NAB 2022

Red Giant has updated Universe to version 6.

VFX Suite 3

Magic Bullet Suite 16.

And a new tool Real Lens Flares.

In past Red Giant has also released in depth videos showing off how to use the new features, but unfortunately it looks like they haven’t done that this year. Hopefully this isn’t how things will always be with the now Maxon owned company, bug I have the feeling it is. I guess will just have to play around.

The video for Real Lens Flares looks good, but will have to see if it is better than optical flares from Video Copilot.

Adobe releases After Effects April 2022 (Version 22.3) with Apple Silicon Support

Adobe has released After Effects April 2022 (Version 22.3).

This brings native Apple Silicon M1 Support to the production version of After Effects. Still not sure about M1 Ultra Support as of yet.

It also includes Frame.io integration with the free account you now get with you adobe account.

3D Extended Viewer for 3D previews.

Scene Edit detection for which I have been using Magnum 3 from AE Scripts. Love that this is built in now.

Binning indicators for 3D layers to see how layers are composited.

And constrained shapes, where you can create perfect squares and circles by holding down the shift key when you double click the rectangle or ellipse tool.

And in the Beta, Separated Dimensions Preference.

So you can have x, y as separate lines.