Chris Zwar at the ProVideoCoalition has an awesome and in depth article on the Fractal Noise Plug In in After Effects. This is such a versatile plug in and this article should really help you understand and use it better than before. As it is a plug in that can be used for so many things.
FilmEditingPro has an article on how to install LUTs in Adobe Premiere Pro, Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve, Avid Media Encoder, and Final Cut Pro. Again useful for those of who are constantly moving between machines and systems.
FilmEditingPro has a good article on how and where to install Keyboard shortcuts on all the major editing platforms. Most useful for those of us who are constantly on different machines.
Logan Baker at Premium Beat has posted 10 Free Motion Graphics Templates of Animated Titles for Adobe Premiere Pro. This is 10 free MOGRT Files and videos of how they work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5FUySTrBeE&t=2s The Better Editor YouTube Channel has this very interesting video on Mixing Audio with the Loudness Meter in Premiere Pro. I have to admit as an editor I certainly need to get better at my Audio Mixing, as so many places aren't even doing a proper mix before going on the air, which is insane to me. A mixer can do it quickly and so well, but it is certainly a skill that as an editor you will have to use more and more, so this is certainly something you should learning about.
Logan BaKker at PremiumBeat by Shutterstock's blog on Things to Check When Adobe Premiere pro Is Lagging. Honestly I wish I had written this, and have written about some of it previously, especially not working with compressed formats. And it cracks me up that people don't render in to out when necessary, not only does it speed up playback but also exports significantly! This is a must read!
Randi Altman at his postPerspective site has an article on Digital Anarchy's Text-to-Video Conforming Tool for Adobe Premiere Pro. Digital Anarchy has expanded it's Premiere Pro transcription tool to add Rough Cutter. And it can use a transcription from any source including the free Adobe Sensei captions, and it will literally make a paper cut. And for only $199. Wow, that is a little scary. I have worked at many places where you literally cut a rough cut in a day, then did b-roll coverage on day 2 and clean up and music on day 3 and shipped behind the scenes pieces. Of course as an editor I have always felt that just letting an editor edit will give better more organic material as it is based on not just what they are saying, but how they are saying it, but there are certainly places to start with a paper cut and if you can do a paper cut this easily the $199 is literally nothing.
Now I love that there is an Adobe User Voice forum and that you can request new features for Premiere Pro, and if you get enough hopefully Adobe will notice and consider adding your feature in a new version. What blows my mind is how some of these posts have so few votes, while others have so many. And maybe if anyone is reading my posts they can give some votes to some of the things I care about. Honestly I wish there was a way to merge some of these into one so that Adobe might take a look at the issue. MERGE CLIPS Let's start with Merge Clips. Merge clips in Premiere has some serious issues that need to be dealt with, and so there are a lot of posts about Merge Clips. And I know you can use Multi-cam instead of merge clips to fix many issues, but it also adds some. Merge clips really needs to deal with the fact that you can't go back to the original files, and it actually renames the audio files, and changes there timecode so that you can't export AAF or OMF correctly to a mixer. Merge Clips with 16 Votes. Exporting AAF with Merged Clip renames AudioFiles with only 18 Votes. Batch Autosync and Merge clips with 3 votes. STOP MERGE CLIPS FROM OBLITERATING METADATA with only 11 Votes. PLEASE FIX: Merge clips functionality destroys audio metadata with only 9 votes. Merge Clips Across Multiple Bin Windows with 2 and 5 votes. Proxies with Merged Clips? with 8 Votes. Merged clips, effects & OMF with 18 votes. Attach / create prdoxies to / from merged clips. Two issues with Merging Clips. Merged clips/replace form source. Break down merged clips back to components. Jesus Christ, let us unmerge audio already for merge clips! with 6 votes. Project manager doesn't work with Merged Clips with 2 votes. Fix Merged Clips AUdio Metada and feature to unmerge for audio-post production with 9 votes. Automatically Sync Media to Merged Clips with 7 votes. Please fix, update, or replace Merged clips with something that works with 2 votes. EXPORT PER PROJECT So currently Premiere Pro when you go to export a file it defaults to the last place you exported to across whatever projects you have opened, instead of being per project or at least relative to the project file. Relative Export Paths PLEASE with 105 votes. Add a 'set deault export location" option with 33 votes. Set Default Export Location Per Project with 3 votes. Option Button: Export to Last Location OR .prproj Location with 3 votes. Export pathway savrd to project file. An option for 'Export Media' output location where you can save based on the project's last output with 16 votes. Maintan export filepaths based on last export per projet with 2 votes, but Under Review. PROJECT TEMPLATE Now there already the free app Post Haste from Digital Rebellion which I have talked about before, and it allows you to create…
https://youtu.be/tI7AcNfHXeQ Wow, so Adobe has agreed to aquire Frame.io. So not a good thing for Final Cut Pro and AVID, but great for Premiere users. Having Frame.io fully integrated, not just as a plug-in could be amazing. Honestly the biggest issues I have had with Frame.io notes is people tend to use it as a discussion or even chat, which can make the notes fairly confusing at times. There almost needs to approval of notes, so it is easier to understand as an editor, who will be getting notes from so many people that can be so contradictory.
Adobe has announced updates to Photoshop iPad and updates to the desktop app. On the iPad this includes the healing brush and magic wand as well as canvas projection if you connect your iPad to an external monitor or TV display via hdmi or USB-C. Photoshop Desktop has updated Sky Replacement with more skies, you can now import 500 skies at once. And updated Transform Warp Bezier Handles. And Photoshop will be releasing it's Photoshop Beta program as of next month. Adobe has also updated Fresco on the iPad with Color Adjustment Layers.