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.

Adobe has changed default paste behavior to paste to same track in Premiere Pro’s Beta

Adobe has updated the default paste behavior in Premiere Pro beta, and added 4 new functions that can be added to keyboard shortcuts. Paste To Same Track is the new default, which is the behavior that I want 90% of the time. I love this because I place things in specific tracks, having a very organized timeline, so I usually wants things to just go where they were in a different place in the timeline. Old Behavior New Behavior And you can also Paste Insert, as well as Paste to Target Track and Paste Insert to Target Track which can also be added to keyboard shortcuts.

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 Users5 Projects100 GB StorageCamera 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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQG5BfHv2QE Red Giant has updated Universe to version 6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZUeLt-ynXU VFX Suite 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnddPjuAtVQ Magic Bullet Suite 16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q152QWFo_XE 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.

Premiere Pro April 2022 release (version 22.3) is out for most (though I don’t have it yet) here are the new features

For most Adobe has updated Premiere Pro to April 2022 release (version 22.3) and here is there page on new features. Excitingly it includes Frame.io Integration and thus Camera to Cloud support, you just login with your creative cloud ID and you get a 100GB account, of course it isn't free as creative cloud has gone up $2 a month, but still cheaper than buying your own account. I was at a company that was trying to test using Creative Cloud for offline edit workflows, and it was an interesting experience. Not quite there, especially how it creates it's own h264 previews and you can download low and high, but it isn't really a remote editing solution yet, but still a powerful review software. And the biggest feature isn't the redesign of the Import and Export panels and the new preset manager, and the new header bar, which have been being tested in beta for a while now. Import Export Export Preset Mananger I still think there is too much twirling down to be done in the presets for export, which is more clicks, which I am never for. At least the new Header Bar has been listened about and you can now show 3 workspaces as well as Import, Edit and Export. In their original implementation the workspaces were all in another menu, which is slower, when only real beginners need Import, Export all the time. Auto Color powered by Adobe Sensei should help beginners get a quick starting place for color correction, unlike the old version. This was cvalled Auto Tone in the beta, and is a powerful start to color correction, if only Adobe would bring back a full Lemtri color suite like SpeedGrade. And the new show hide Marker colors very cool for those who use a lot of markers, like me, when I log footage I use makers instead of subclips. Other new features include Speeech to Text for Cantonese, Trim Playback Looping from Playhead instead of nearest edit, a Remix Progress indicator, Support for Sony Venice 2, Change est Size in text Panel, and customized clip name in EDL exports.