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.
Adobe has updated Premiere Pro to Version 22.6 the August 2022 release.
This has Finer Mask Controls for Titles. Something I have honestly never used, as I do anything complicated in After Effects.
Context Menu for text and shape layers. Anything to make essential graphics easier is a good thing,.
Export Titles as Text Files, for proofreading.
Adjustable fades for Audio Ducking.
They have GPU accelerated Unsharp Mask and Posterize Time
Nothing mindblowing, but anything to improve essential graphics is a good thing.
I have been using Autokroma’s BRAW Studio Plug in since I got my Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6k Pro, because it allows you to select multiple clips to decode BRAW in Premiere vs the Black Magic plug in that works on one clip at a time.
I have run into issues with using these clips in after effects, with the current version I get the effects flashing on and off throughout the clip. You can see the results here.
This is a short from the Misadventures of Bear that I am currently working on finishing.
Talking to support and moving back to 2.7.1 resolved the flashing, but then removed the added built in LUT, which also screwed up the green screen.
My only solution was to use the Plug-in to save out sidecar files of the BRAW settings, and then compress them in Media Encoder which uses the settings of the sidecar and render the clips into ProRES HQ. I then had to individually relink the clips in After Effects, but then I could get the render to work with the correct settings applied.
I am still in contact with autokroma’s support, so hopefully this will get resolved, but they are having trouble recreating the errors on their end.
Another great After Effects tutorial, this on After Effects Snapshot vs screenshots, a function that can be confusing from the nomenclature.
