ProVideoCoalition is reporting that Adobe has EOLed Adobe Prelude

Scott Simmons at the ProVideoCoalition is reporting that Adobe has End Of Lifed as of September 8th, 2021. The article also talks about that Bridge remains, and there is Lesspain Software’s Kyno, or maybe Hedge which was bought by Divergent Media and could be merged with EditReady.

Now I hate to see the creative suite having less apps, and I hated when they removed SpeedGrade (and am still hoping for a return as Lumetro Pro), but while I have opened Prelude I can honestly say I have never used it.

Honestly I think Prelude should have been upgraded and made free instead of killed. Adobe Premiere could use a full metadata system and they could learn a lesson from Final Cut Pro X and it’s metadata super powers. And if they made Prelude free and easy to use anyplace including on iPad and iPhone to be able to metadata footage quickly and easily and pass it to Premiere it would be beyond useful.

I am happy that Adobe seems to be really big on new features in Premiere right now, but axing apps from their suite doesn’t seem like a good start.

ProVideoCoalition on should you be uploading 4K Video to YouTube

Nick Lear at the ProVideoCoalition has a must read article on if you should upload 4K video to YouTube.

I do love that since YouTube re-compressed everything you should basically upload in your editing format, since they don’t have upload limits like Vimeo. It is pretty funny that Adobe Media Encoder’s YouTube settings are H.264, but I guess it saves your bandwidth.

Adobe adds Simplify Sequence to Premiere Pro Beta, and this I will use

Adobe made the announcement in the beta forum in their communities.

Woohoo, something I never asked for but will certainly use. Just removing the disabled clips and empty tracks is very cool.

Now if only they could also un-merge clips (since merged clips break audio metadata so a mixer is basically unable to relink clips because their names and timecode change) and maybe flatten multi-cam as well, though you can already do that.

I do love that Adobe all the suddens seems to adding new features at a prodigious rate, but I just hope they will still go back and fix what is broken and has been for a long time.

Jason Boone at Frame.io on Premiere Pro Audio Tools

Jason Boone at Frame.io insider has an must read article entitled “These Premiere Pro Audio Tools Will Make You A Mix Master.”

I am an editor and not a sound guy, so this is certainly useful. I do spend a lot of time with the essential sound panel to get a passable mix, but for me a mix should go to a mixer, but that doesn’t always happen, so learning as much as you can is a great thing.

I do plan on doing some more sound specific lessons for Premiere and Audition in the future, but I have not delved into it to much as of yet.

Blackmagic has released an updated web presenter in 4K for $695 a great solution for work from home streaming

Blackmagic design has done it again and have released a 4K streaming version of the web presenter.

The previous $495 version could accept a 4K signal, but it only could output at 1080, but this can output at a full 4k for a better signal for $695.

And like the previous model it has a USB C out so you can connect it to your computer as a web cam to use in Zoom. And with my UltraStudio 4K I could easily run it via the SDI input without bothering the HDMI out (though it also has an HDMI out).

I was talking to a DP with the director on a notes call and I really wished I had this setup so We could do live sessions. I know a lot of producers like to do a session in person and being able to stream live to a producer and talk really is something I need to add to my setup soon so I can continue to work at home. I am really looking forward to trying out Sofi Marshall’s setup and getting this going.

Oliver Peters on Audio Plug-ins for editors

Oliver Peters at his digitalfilms blog has written 2 article son Audio Plug-ins for Editors. Parts 1 & 2 focus on categories, such as equalizers and compressors, part 3 is on the audio plug-ins from FabFilter Software Instruments and 4 is on Free Plug-ins.

You should go to his blog and check out parts 1, 2 , 3 and 4.

Sound is my worst part of editing. So often of late I am working for companies that expect me to mix, when an audio guy can add so much to a mix. Maybe this can help a little with audio if you want to dive into it.

9to5Mac reporting on a new intel Mac Pro

Jose Adorno at 9to5Mac is reporting that a leaker says that Apple will release one more Intel Mac Pro and it will be based on the Intel Ice Lake Xeon W-3300.

Not only would this give a nice boost to the Intel Mac Pro line, it would make up for the fact that they made a modular machine that could be easily upgraded and never bothered releasing a single upgrade for it. And as the article says they are also working on the Apple Silicon version of the MacPro, which will likely be a smaller version of the MacPro, more like a Cube, and it will likely not be upgrade-able, so it would be smart for Apple to release one more upgrade-able machine before they dump the idea of upgrade ability all together.

It seems likely that the Apple Silicon based MacPro will be like every other Apple Silicon with soldered Memory, and fixed gpu on the motherboard, and without the ability to run an external GPU. Now hopefully that also ends up being shown in the price which should be allot less than a fully loaded Intel MacPro, but I doubt it will still be considered inexpensive.

Toolfarm’s top 5 plug-ins for under $99 for Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, AVID, Final Cut Pro X, and more

Toolfarm, the plug-in seller has posted it’s top 5 plug-ins for under $99 for various software. For Premiere Pro, Davinci Resolve, AVID, Final Cut Pro X, Audio and various 3D packages.

Always good to see lists of inexpensive plug ins.