•They focus on intense Cinema 4D integration, which is going to be huge!
•Already mentioned Roto Brush & Refine Edge
•Warp Stabilizer VFX, which has gotten a major upgrade
•3D Camera tracker has gotten an upgrade
•Layer Snapping is new
•Bicubic Scaling
•Find Missing for Fonts and Effects
•Purge all memory and DIsk Cache
•Pixel Motion Blur
The Pro Video Coalition has a preview of a new After Effects tool, Adobe Refine Edge. It is an extension of the powerful rotobrush, but with the ability to pull objects from backgrounds you never would have thought possible.
Sounds very cool, but rather than see this demoed, I would rather have it go out to Creative Cloud users. I thought that was the point of paying more and constantly, that we would get early updates to software. And while we have, it hasn’t been anything for the production bundle, which is really what I need anyway.
Come on Adobe I want Premiere Pro and After Effects Updates, even if they are testing betas! Let us give them a try!
So I am delivering a show that was cut in Final Cut Pro, that was cut in 23.976, but needs to be delivered at 29.97, so I was using Adobe Media Encoder to do the conversion, but found I could only do it if I want either a single stereo audio track or a single mono mix-down.
I don’t have the ability to compress a version with dual or more mono tracks (or a stereo and dual mono).
Often I have to deliver shows with a stereo mix, and dual monos one with dialogue, and the other with music and FX, but I can’t do that with Adobe Media Encoder, so I have had to go back to the super slow Apple Compressor to do my compressions.
Not only could Media Encoder us a pass through, so if you have a clip with 4 audio tracks uncompressed, then just re-write it in the new file exactly as it was, but it also needs to at least be able to separate dual mono tracks so you can at least do stems on the textless version.
The other is that Premiere Pro really needs to be able to paste individual attributes of a clip, just like Final Cut Pro 7. Just being able to paste all attributes is less than useless in most cases!
I just brought all of my reels into Premiere Pro from Final Cut Pro 7 because I wanted to use Adobe Encore to make a new DVD and somehow all my clips had there volume put to negative infinite, so I have had to individually raise the volume one each clip, which was an incredible pain.
And yes I have put in Feature requests at Adobe, but I have been putting in the individual attributes since CS 5.0, so I am not holding my breath.
Premiere Beat has a great little article on using Adobe Prelude to ingest your media for editing in Premiere Pro.
Neptune Salad has a good look at FCP X 2 years after the demise of FCP 7 and the alternatives out there (he too preferes Premiere Pro as his editing choice for a FCP 7 replacement).
Kotaku has an article on the newly announced NVIDIA Geforce GTX Titan Video Card! With 2688 CUDA cores, 6 GB of Video RAM and the same processor as the NVIDIA Tesla G20X this would be a Premiere Pro dream card for $1000! Sure a MacPro couldn’t couldn’t power it, but we can always dream!
NVIDIA has a page on the Titan now. Damn I would love one!
Allan Tépper at the Pro Video Coalition has a great solution for monitoring video using thunderbolt and a Sony KDL-40BX420E, which will work with US power and supports, both PAL and NTSC frame rates as well as 23.976 and 24 FPS. Very very cool. The monitor is grey market in the US, so he also recommends a third party warranty. This is a inexpensive and great solution for monitoring.
Read about it at creative pro, with ideas of what to replace the missing functionality with. I had no idea they had done this, and am not too happy about it. Wonder what it means for the rest of the apps?
I found this article at How-To Geek after having a lot of trouble with my personal copy of Chrome I am using at work (I use Chrome Portable in a password protected disk image that I cary on a USB Key, and of course my LastPass installs all use Google Authenticator for login anyway) since it has a much newer version of flash.
I did switch it up and disable the local copy of Chrome instead of my browser version, and I have stopped getting the Shockwave crash, though it has done nothing for my issues with Amazon Cloud Player, that I have been having (and recently documented).
EDIT: Ha, didn’t work. Maybe I do need to disable Chrome’s Flash Plug In.
VideoCopilot announced the free update to Element 3D, v1.5 which includes a real-time glow feature and will be out next week! Woohoo!
And they say 3D shadows won’t be till version 2, but this still sounds awesome.
Just having started playing with this plug in recently I have been blown away by it’s power! This makes Invigorator Pro 3D seem useless, with it’s antiquated interface and slow as can be rendering.