Universe is available as a subscription for $199 a year, or as part of Red Giant Complete for $599.99 annually or Maxon one with all their products for $1199 a year or you can pay a monthly for $30, $79 or $149.
Personally I have used the Red Giant plug ins for many many years, and they have many of my go to effects. They are also fast and work across editing software for the most part. It is a big expense every year, but I find it very worth it for the suite of tools. And honestly if I could afford it would love to add Cinema 4D to the mix.
I like his thoughts on import which is a simplified version of DaVinci’s cut page (since you can quickly assemble a sequence) are interesting, I hadn’t thought of it that way, but then the Cut page isn’t really for me or how I work, though I do like some of it, it just isn’t there for me.
And the fact that he asked adobe and they will eventually update everything including the timeline (just don’t learn anything from Final Cut Pro X please) is pretty huge news.
And he is right they need to make Lumetri Pro, which would be a new version of SpeedGrade and bring back the grade just being the lumetri plug in premiere. OMG I WOULD LOVE THAT, I have missed SpeedGrade since it went, and it is really the one thing Adobe is seriously missing a powerful finishing program.
The New Export Window is cleaner and takes up the full screen automatically
One problem with the whole screen thing, is that it is completely taking over the Premiere Pro interface, and my automatic response was to go to the red button on the top left to close the window, which closes the whole program. To close the export panel you have to go to the EXIT button on the bottom left. Which the hell knows about?
See the Exit button on the bottom left corner.
Honestly I kind of see where they are going here, as the export instead of a window is now basically a workspace, but if that is the case treat it like a workspace and have it with the workspaces (at the top of the list) and to exit it you go back to your workspace. It is going to take me a bit to break me of closing it as a window if I need to.
Or they realized and put an exit in because might not realize that you leave by going to Edit instead of export, but this makes the edit workspaces a second tier (since you have to click twice to access and select them now, and they are only within the edit interface and not within the export interface. And why the hell is the Exit button on the bottom right of the Import dialogue and left of the Export dialogue?
A single unified Workspaces would make much more sense to me instead of 2 tiers, and it is 2 tiers as the workspaces have now been moved to their own button, and in both Import and Exit they are greyed out.
Greyed out Workspaces
And the default Export Settings is so much less pro now, being renamed to destinations. Well OK you can include upload settings, but it is not something a pro will normally use.
The Default Export Settings
All these “Destinations” are so web oriiented, how about some master settings, or at least export full resolution timeline at it’s settings (which should be the top setting). Honestly I never use an automatic upload. Anything that is for mastering needs to be exported then watched then uploaded anyway, so having all these “destinations” is completely useless to me. And how about a Frame.io destination which could be a bit useful at least, but still should be watched before uploading.
Now it is easy enough to add new ones, based on the settings you make with the media file settings.
New Media File Destination added to the list.
And as for getting to the compression settings, everything is harder to get to now, taking multiple clicks to do what could be opened by one before.
I have to click more and scroll to see more settingsOnce I have clicked more
And you cannot type in a number in the bitrate, only use the slider to set bit rate. No thank you, I need to be able to type in a bitrate as I used to be able to. (UPDATE: in the forums they have said they are working on this).
I am really not sure about the new header bar, and it’s hiding the workspaces in favor of Import/Edit/Export which becomes a new tier of workspaces, and ones that I don’t use as much as my edit workspaces on a day to day basis.
Going to be interesting to see how Adobe makes it standard across apps, as I am assuming that will just mean video apps, but we shall see.
I can honestly say I don’t need the Import and Export all the time on my title bar, I would rather have quick access to my custom workspaces than have those. Many times I import most everything at the start then only need a graphic here and there so don’t need it on the title bar.
I think it should all be one workspace system or at least make Edit a drop down with your workspaces.
So now it is two clicks for me to change workspaces instead of 2. That is not an improvement.
You can discuss the new features at the Adobe Support Community, here is for the Header Bar, Import Workflow and Export Workflow. And the Export discussions says the layout is still being worked on, and they are going to add BACKGROUND RENDERING as well as the already added multiple outputs.
And I really wish Adobe would fix Merge Clips rather than adding new stuff.
I have posted how this is needed in Premiere immediately, but i ran across this article by Scott Simmons at the Pro Video Coalition. I hadn’t realized that Final Cut Pro X had added it, and didn’t realize you can read the metadata in Premiere, just not easily, and it should be appended to the tracks in the timeline just like it is DaVinci Resolve.
This is a feature that Adobe needs to add immediately.
I have already made a couple of posts about Productions, but had to write again with a quick update.
I am currently cutting a 28 minute and 30 second full length infomercial. And it is a legacy project from 2017, with many versions, and tons of footage. When I first got the project it took over 10 minutes to open and was almost unresponsive when trying to use it.
I decided to see how Productions would handle it.
Productions offers you tools for organizing multi-project workflows, sharing assets between projects, and keeping everything streamlined and efficient, whether you’re working on your own or collaborating with a team.
Now I am working from home and not sharing projects, but basically am using productions like AVID uses Bins. So breaking up the project into the categories it was already broken up into, that means Sequences, Footage, Graphics, Audio, Stills, ETC. So each what would have been a folder in a premiere project is it’s own project.
And premiere can access the media from these projects as if they were open within sequences.
It is amazing how much this speeds up a large project. Everything moves like it should. And like AVID you have the safety of each bin being it’s own project in case something gets corrupted, so you are really safe especially if you backup every day as you must.
Honestly with this and Speech to TEXT AVID should be shaking.
Now if only Adobe fixes Merge clips, this will be the ultimate editing program.
Eric Philpott at the Adobe Blog has a report on the latest Pfeiffer Benchmark Reports of Adobe Premiere Pro on Apple Silicon M1, and the results are pretty unbelievable.
From first launch to final exports, everything is faster — on average 77 percent faster than comparable Intel-based systems — and editing is buttery smooth.
Wow, those are seriously impressive results, and would speed up the edit every day. I can’t wait to see what the M2 or even M3 will do, especially if they really goose the graphics cores and allow for more RAM. I am getting more and more excited for an M1 MacPro, even with limited expansion. I mean I have been pretty damn happy with my iMac Pro.
Honestly after all these years of using Premiere Pro I didn’t know exactly how all these settings work and when they are affecting things, and Jarle really goes into depth and he ran extensive tests on everything to prove it.
This really should be essential reading for any Premiere Pro user, and his open letter to Adobe is so true, and I just hope they listen. The whole thing should be simplified, which would quickly solve so many users issues with banding on exports.
This is a great read from someone who obviously has used this extensively and will really get you up and going with a feature that you should be using if you have a project of any size.
So I was just given a huge direct response, and the 300 MB project barely functioned, just beachballing when I tried to do anything. In fact I couldn’t even get it to copy and paste the contents into a new project, it just would beachball and nothing would happen. It was basically a disaster of a project and with a 28 minute and 30 second infomercial I really needed it to be sprightly since I am new jumping into it.
I considered just getting the sequence I was working on out, and did that, but it was a mess, and I would need to search through footage to cover different things, so I really the whole project.
Basically I started a new Production and imported my existing project, which took a while to work, as the project was so messed up. I then broke the project up into smaller little projects as bins, and now a project that was taking 10+ minutes to open, opens in 15 seconds and works better than I could have ever expected!
This basically turns Premiere Pro into AVID, where each Bin is it’s own little project file. So if you are well organized you can break up a project and make little manageable pieces that you only need to open when you need to, to save memory. And you can use folders and break things up even more granularly, so multiple footage bins if you need it.
This is also for multi-user workflows as you can have some bins that open read only and others that you have read write, so you can find footage and not even own a bin, but it works just as well for a single user on a big project.
Honestly should be very scared of Productions, because it fixes one of the longstanding complaints about Premiere Pro where it is a single project that can get messed up. Instead it is a folder of projects all working together. WOW!
Honestly if you are doing a large project in Premiere I would consider using Productions because it speeds everything up and really just works.
This is easily the biggest improvement I have seen in years in Premiere Pro, and really pushes it to new professional heights.
A great article and something to consider because of the lack of pro M1 computers with more than 16 GB of combined ram, and the possibility than sone plug ins or software might not yet work in an M1.
