Michelle DeLateur at ProVideo Coalition has an excellent article, “How to Troubleshoot HDR iPhone Footage in Premiere, According to Adobe“
It is a problem with tone mapping, which is currently handled best by the beta.
This isn’t necessary until you run into it, and go wait, it doesn’t look like this on my iPhone, but that has an HDR screen, so…
Nathaniel Pangaro at Apple Insider has an article entitled, “The best video editors for MacOS when iMovie doesn’t cut it.” and basically takes a look at Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.
Nick Lear at the Pro Video Colation has a great article on Codecs in Premiere Pro.
I still am not a fan of editing with H.264, or any compressed codec. I don’t like JPEG or MP3 either, but I know most people don’t convert to ProRES for editing like I do.
From Josh Edwards at OWC.
I totally agree on the need to organize your projects, though I do numbered system as I have posted before.
You can see my organization in my earlier post on PostHaste from Digital Rebellion.
Adobe has updated Premiere Pro to Version 22.6 the August 2022 release.
This has Finer Mask Controls for Titles. Something I have honestly never used, as I do anything complicated in After Effects.
Context Menu for text and shape layers. Anything to make essential graphics easier is a good thing,.
Export Titles as Text Files, for proofreading.
Adjustable fades for Audio Ducking.
They have GPU accelerated Unsharp Mask and Posterize Time
Nothing mindblowing, but anything to improve essential graphics is a good thing.
So I am in the middle of making 2 short films shot on my BlackMagicDesign 6k Pro, and I am shooting in 6k 23.976 Blackmagic Raw Constant 8:1, and both have serious visual effects. And I have been having issues with running out of memory in After Effects.
Now my machine is getting old, it is a an iMac Pro with the upgraded Radeon Pro Vega 64X with 16 GB of RAM, but I only have 64 GB of DDR4 RAM, which I am thinking is the main issue. And I am running of a RAID 5 with 36 GB of mechanical drive space, which has at least half empty. And I have even moved the After Effects Disk Cache to a fast external SSD with a 250 GB cache.
For BRAW support I am using the amazing BRAW Studio from Autokroma. This plug in really is great in Premiere Pro because it allows selection of multiple BRAW clips to allow editing if they are all shot the same, and also to save out a sidecar file easily so any program can see what you have done. It works in Premiere Pro and After Effects and replaces Blackmagic’s BRAW plugin which has more limited functionality.
Still using this I do seem to be having RAM issues with RAM previews where my RAM is running out very quickly and won’t render out a whole shot. I find myself having to restart after effects to get a longer RAM preview, and many times even a computer restart.
Now I am also doing a lot of green screen and using Maxon formerly Red Giant’s Primatte Keyer 6 to key, so that might be also a RAM hog here. I have never had an issue with 4k Alexa ProRES footage in green screen though.
I tend to think it might be the BRAW , as on some shots I used BRAW Studio to do the initial grade and save out a sidecar, and then render them in Media Composer in ProRES HQ. With this footage I get much longer renders. Now I know it is less compressed, as the files are larger, and with the LUT added, there is less to decode, but this is very drive intensive.
And sure the 6K is bigger than 4K, and eating more RAM.
And the new M1 chips with ProRES processor wouldn’t help here, because it is BRAW, and 128 GB of shared memory and video memory doesn’t seem like a whole bunch more.
I am hoping the whole lesson isn’t that BRAW 6K is just too processor intensive.
You can Download the PDF here, and it really is a must read for pros.
It goes in Depth on Hardware and settings, workflows with Dailies, Proxy workflows, working with Productions, Mutli-Camera editing, dynamic link with after effects, turnovers, remote & cloud workflows, panels and integrations, and resources & tutorials.
And right on the first stage of text it tells you why not to use Merged clips (though it doesn’t tell about the exporting XML workaround to fix it, and honestly would rather have Adobe remove the feature if they are going to say this, though really I would rather have them FIX IT).
This guide is a must read for all editors working in Premiere Pro. I love that Adobe has done this.
Scott Simmons posted this article Avid Media Composer updated to 2022.7, now with competing keyboard layouts.
I can honestly say I never though I would see the day when AVID was really trying to get people from Premiere and DaVinci.
Personally I always learn the default keyboard setup of a program, but this is great for a quick jump for people.
Oliver Peters at digitalfilms on Six Premiere Pro Game Changers. And these are on fairly recent adds.
The Auto Transcribe is really a huge game changer, though I don’t use for Captioning though, I use it for Testimonials, and it is amazing and could really use a new interface for that use. It is amazing, and makes cutting testimonials so much faster and better.