MacRumors on new Mac Pro

Mac Rumors has a roundup of reviews on the new MacPro.

Overall it sounds like people’s complaints were right. The ports on the back are a pain. And the Dual GPU is only good if a program is written for it, and the only one for that now is Final Cut Pro X. It seems currently Premiere Pro uses mostly the CPU, so it is pretty slow as compared to say with CUDA and a GTX 680 or my GTX 670. Be interesting to see what will happen when Adobe makes it compatible with the dual graphics cards though.

Still on the fence. Really want a GTX Titan, which would mean a Windows Machine for my next computer, but there is much software that would not move over and that would not be good. And even with it’s improvements I don’t see myself moving over to FCP X anytime soon.

Adobe Premiere Pro CC Update (7.2.1)

Adobe has released an update to the December 2013 Premiere Pro CC release.

– Intermittent Buzzing could occur on audio playback where audio transitions were present
– Reveal in project sometimes did not work in imported sequence when clips were present in the project
– Premiere Pro could occasionally crash on playback of certain multi cam assets
– Using matte cleanup tools in Ultra keyer could sometimes cause the top half of the image to disappear when paused in Open CL mode
– Autosave could sometimes interrupt playback.
– The AMD Radeon R9 290 Series has been added to the OpenCL supported card list
– Inserting a merged clip with in/out points via menu or command would insert the entire merged clip, not the in/out range
– Playing with preroll could sometime crash Premiere Pro
– When editing in Anywhere mode, adding synthetics would sometimes show a 10 digit number under the progress panel’s Name column

5 new After Effects CC 12.2 features that resulted from Adobe visiting Users

The After Effects blog has some info on some of the new features of the latest After Effects CC update 12.2.

I love that Adobe is really listening and releasing new features and bug fixes so quickly! It is just really too bad that the studios are basically forcing people to use AVID Media Composer, when for any graphics heavy show, Premiere Pro is such a better solution, just for lack of render time, and saving time with alphas and exports.

Rev Up Transmedia on Understanding Stereo and Mono in Premiere Pro

Rev Up Transmedia has an excellent article and a must read for editors moving to Premiere Pro on how an individual audio track can be both Stereo (or even 5.1) as well as mono at the same time!

I have to admit this blew my mind when I saw it in Premiere. I had already been annoyed by Stereo or mono tracks in AVID, and having Mono and Stereo clips in the same track just seemed insane, but this article does a pretty good of explaining it and how you can avoid it if you would like as well.