Supercomp in Red Giant VFX suite seems to not work with Motion Blur

So I was playing with Red Giant Supercomp, which is pretty powerful, but it seems to be missing the ability to deal with Motion Blur.

I was hoping to use supercomp for a comp I was doing, but the comp had motion blur in it. And the motion blur doesn’t show up in supercomp. It must interact with all the other comp features.

I was actually hoping to use the features to deliver in RAW, as the background plate was RAW and the item I was comping in was not, so I wanted to deliver it all in RAW without straight eyeballing it.

So just know that Motion Blur doesn’t currently work with Supercomp.

Red Giant releases new awesome VFX Suite, but in doing so have killed the Keying Suite and the Effects Suite

So Red Giant has released the new VFX Suite for Keying, Tracking, Cleanup and Visual Effects Compositing. They have a full blog post with many YouTube videos on features and how to use the new tools.

The only bummer is that they have killed their Keying and Effects suits to do so. I say bummer, not because the new tools don’t look awesome, but because you have to owned the previous to get a special offer upgrade (it isn’t just available on the site) and you get no discount for owning both previous suits.

Supercomp looks impressive though, basically it makes compositing much easier, and allows all layers to effect your comp, so you don’t have to do a bunch of pre-composing to make your comps looks the best they can, and it is all GPU accelerated.

And Primatte has reached version 6. Many people just go with Keylight, but I have always found that Primatte is faster and easier to reach a good key, so I am excited about this.

Key Pin tracker seems to supercharge corner pin tracking (though the demo does show some features they need to add, like copying the from and to points automatically by a single button).

Spot Clone Tracker looks super easy and powerful.

Optical Glow also looks amazing, and should negate the need to every use the built in After Effects glow which never was very good.

I already have some ideas for the new Chromatic Displacement plug in.

Will have to see how the new Knoll Light Factory 3.1 is. I used to use it all the time, but have completely given up on it, because of Video Copilot’s Optical Flares plug in, which I think surpassed it years ago.

And Shadow and Refection looks cool when needed.

Sidecard for MacOS Catalina has to have Wacom scared as all hell!

This has been rumored, but to see it in action, wow. So with Mac OS Catalina, you can use a feature called sidecar, and have your iPad extend your Mac Screen and use the Apple Pencil. Goodbye Wacom tablet, you can now use the Apple Pencil and iPad to draw right on images!

Wow, I really can’t wait for this! This is a game changer for Photoshop!

Adobe Creative Cloud Video Production Suite updates for NAB 2019

So Adobe has updated it’s video suite in time for NAB 2019 with some exciting new features, and hopefully some stability improvements.

Obviously the most exciting new features is the content-aware fill for video in After Effects.

I am pretty excited to try this one out, as the results from the demos look impressive, but I think it will work best with moving footage so the pixels exist somewhere.

And the new expression engine in After Effects looks amazing.

I can’t wait to try that out.

For Premiere we get the Freeform view as a kind of visual storyboard.

This is pretty neat, though not a mind blower for me.

And the new rules and guides will make placing things much easier.

Pretty neat. And Faster Mask tracking will always be helpful.

Overall some cool new features, though I am hoping for more stability overall.

Adobe has released Premiere Rush for the iPad

The formerly only available through an invited beta, Adobe Rush has been released for the iPad and iPhone. It is an online editing system that converts everything to H.264 and can do simple edits, and they can even be exported to Premiere Pro though he desktop version requires 10.13 on the mac.

It seems to be a simple and quick editing program to upload web videos, and has to be better than the previous adobe clip, which was pretty basic.

I have downloaded to my ipad, but have not played with it yet.

Adobe has release After Effects 16 also known as After Effects CC October 15th 2019

You can check out all the features at Adobe.

I am most excited about the new JavaScript Engine for expressions and especially the ability to save your favorite expressions in a library!

And I am excited that the new Mocha included is a plug in instead of a stand alone application. I have not upgraded to the latest Mocha as it is a bit expensive, so am glad that this has been updated.

I am just hoping that this fixes some of the problems I have been having lately with UHD projects and not being able to open without either trashing my prefs (which also trashed my Workspaces) or importing the project into a fresh project which works until I have to re-open it. This has been incredibly frustrating!

Adobe released Premiere Pro 13 Today, also known as Premiere Pro 2019 October 15 Update

You can check out the full release notes at Adobe.

I am most excited about being able to access multiple lumetri effects from the Lumetri Panel, instead of only being able to access the last added one, and having to make changes in the effects panel.

Also looking forward to trying the Intelligent Audio Cleanup Tools.

I haven’t really played with Templates from After Effects, since I do my own graphics, and it just seems easier to make the graphics all the way in After Effects, but I will eventually play with it more.

No mention of having fixed the having to render audio to see audio in a multicam clip in the timeline. I am hoping that bug is fixed. I hate having to render every time I open the project, it is just frustrating and unnecessary.

Scott Simmons at PVC article on editing a complex feature in Premiere Pro with no crashes

Scott Simmons at ProVideo Coalition has a great article on how he edited a whole feature on Premiere Pro without any crashes.

It is certainly worth a read. Now I don’t see how he edits a whole doc with only one sequence, as I like to make stringouts of shots and use markers to mark them up, and he must subclips things, which I find slower.

And I already render at ProRES, but I have also started rendering everything over to ProRES before editing, because highly compressed formats cause too many issues (as do JPGs), though I have had to do it before import, because I have found that using the Ingest feature doens’t work, as it often crashes and loses it’s progress completely.

And I am going to start moving more sequences out of my project into archive projects as I go to see if that helps with stability.