A worthwhile post as I didn’t realize you could do this with Plumepack (though I have posted about how you can do it by exporting an XML).
I do just wish Adobe would fix Merge Clips even if it breaks old projects merged clips, or just remove the feature.
I hadn’t noticed this features introduction to the After Effects Beta till I saw this video from Creative Dojo.
This will clean up After Effect Timelines to now end, as you can basically add Track Mattes nodally, so you can add just one to a comp and use it for as many layers as you want, and if you save to an older version it will automatically add to all of the layers it is attached to.
This makes Track mattes the best of both world! OMG, need this for adjustment layers too, so they can be added selectively.
Wow, Adobe, this is such a cool addition.
Adobe had previously added Click and Drag to mutiple track targets in Premiere Pro Beta by holding down cmd/ctrl or adding shift to invert, but they have extended that it:
Toggle Track Lock
Toggle Sync Lock
Toggle Track Output
Mute
Solo
Woohoo, this is awesome!
Michelle DeLateur at ProVideo Coalition has an excellent article, “How to Troubleshoot HDR iPhone Footage in Premiere, According to Adobe“
It is a problem with tone mapping, which is currently handled best by the beta.
This isn’t necessary until you run into it, and go wait, it doesn’t look like this on my iPhone, but that has an HDR screen, so…
Nathaniel Pangaro at Apple Insider has an article entitled, “The best video editors for MacOS when iMovie doesn’t cut it.” and basically takes a look at Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.
Nick Lear at the Pro Video Colation has a great article on Codecs in Premiere Pro.
I still am not a fan of editing with H.264, or any compressed codec. I don’t like JPEG or MP3 either, but I know most people don’t convert to ProRES for editing like I do.
From Josh Edwards at OWC.
I totally agree on the need to organize your projects, though I do numbered system as I have posted before.
You can see my organization in my earlier post on PostHaste from Digital Rebellion.
Adobe announced that they are adding Rotate & Scale to an upcoming beta of Media Encoder.
You asked and we listened! Coming to beta this week are two new features in Media Encoder: the ability to scale video and to rotate video. Related, we’ve also added a feature to flip the output width and height. This makes matching the output to a rotated clip a one-button-click.
This is great, as the iPhone has been known to record in the wrong orientation and this will easily let you correct it when recompressing to a better format.
