Adobe finally released Premiere Pro June 2023 update (23.5) which took too long considering how bugged 23.4 is

The What’s new Page, shows the new features. But I was waiting for 23.4 for the fix for the export bug (spinning beachball on export page on every version past 23.1), but then it was totally bugged and would link to the first frame of a file instead of the inpoint. I am actually amazed they didn’t pull it in favor of 23.3 (even if you couldn’t export from that).

Metadata & Timecode Burn-In Effect is a nice update, though one I won’t use everyday.

Guidance for installing BRAW Plugin, seems superfluous. I already use the 3rd party BRAW Studio V3 from Autokroma, so i don’t want it to point me to the blackmagic version.

Improved timeline scrubbing and playback is always welcome, though let’s hope it also deals with pulling timeline tabs out of the timeline window when you are just trying to switch tabs.

Monitor your Team Projects save and sync status., sounds great, though I think they should add in a manual save function as I manual save so often to deal with issues, and have heard of people losing hours of work.

Chose Team Projects Auto Save Location, which should have always been there, but again you should be able to manually save as well.

AND FEATURES CURRENTLY IN THE BETA

Audio Auto-Tagging sounds good, though I never had a problem tagging myself, except when some clips were already tagged, and trying to select them all and it automatically not doing essential sound effect on the untagged clips, so maybe this helps with that.

SRT Support, or secure reliable transport to easily stream audio content to a ciwiing client on a local network or the internet if FUCKING HUGE! I currently use a Blackmagic Streamdeck to that, but to be able to do it right out of Premiere is a huge game changer for remote editors! And it has not been built into an editing program since Apple Final Cut Pro 7.0 (who knows how secure it was, but it sure worked).

Color Manager is also a big deal, as it finally lets you set input, working and output color spaces. Now if only I could get them to stop auto adding the fucking ALEXA AMIRA Tag, which drives me fucking nuts on a daily basis! Especially if you are conforming a bunch of different cameras, their should never be automatic clip color correction unless it is asked for!

Invite to Collaborate on Team Projects.

Restore projects through Recovery Mode. With background Auto Save could potentially be such an amazing thing for editor, to not lose their work, if it works at least.

Now lets hope I get access to it soon, been out for 3 days and I still can’t see it in my Creative Cloud App!

Alexa has announced the ALEXA 35, their first new sensor in 12 years!

The Alexa 35 looks amazing and it looks like Alexa has done it again, though way out of my price range.

Here are some links and videos I checked out about it.

Potato Jet has a video Review.

Brian Hallett at ProVideoCoalition has a look at it.

As does Yaroslave Altunin at No film School.

I edit a lot of spots shot with Arri, so hopefully will run into some footage from one of these soon.

I just wish that Adobe would allow us to not have the damned AMIRA Lut automatically applied, especially since it doesn’t do this for other cameras. On a pro editing system I want to control it,

Some more posts with low votes at Adobe User Voice for Adobe Premiere Pro that deserve huge upvotes!

I have posted about this before, but here are some more topics that I can’t believe don’t have more upvotes.

The first is with a problem that has been bugging me lately that Essential Graqhics automatically scale when you change the sequence size, and I want them not to, or to have control if they automatically scale as you can do with Motion Effects. I often have to do a 1920×1080 and a 1080×1080 sequence so I cut it in 1920×1080 then do a 1080 version. Now I want the graphics to stay the same, but they don’t.

Bug: Essential Graphics scale when changing sequence frame size with 5 votes.

Option to not resize graphics when resizing a sequence with 2 votes.

So I have long hated the AMIRA lut added to Alexa Footage. It has been notorious since it was added, and has been known to cause project bloat. It used to show up as a Master Clip effect (now a source clip effect) but this has been changed (though strangely I can’t find it anywhere in the Premiere Pro help files) to be in the new Interpret Footage Color Management section.

Moving the AMIRA LUT to Interpret Footage Color Management takes more steps to remove the AMIRA LUT, How about an option to not apply ever. And yes this is mine.

Option to disable or delete Amira LUT with 8 Votes.

These are just a few more issues that Adobe needs to deal with, let me know if you have any that you think should be dealt with quickly by Adobe.

Did Adobe hide the Amira Lut instead of trying to fix it? NOPE THEY MOVED IT, but it still is automatically applied, and now takes more steps to de-activate it

OK AMIRA LUT CAN BE TURNED OFF, SEE BOTTOM OF POST ON HOW TO DO IT, I STILL WANT THE ABILITY TO NOT HAVE IT APPLIED THOUGH, WHY AM I FORCED TO HAVE THE DAMN AMIRA LUT APPLIED? AND WHY DOES IT TAKE MORE STEPS TO TURN IT OFF NOW THAN IT DID BEFORE? Yes Sorry I was yelling.

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Adobe released Premiere Pro 2022 this week, and I was playing with some Alexa footage, and looked at the source in the effects window and there is no AMIRA LUT anymore, but the LUT is still being applied. WHAT IS GOING ON?

Honestly I have been complaining about the damn AMIRA LUT for years, and I just wanted ADOBE to remove the fucking thing. I never want it automatically turned on, I want to work with the RAW footage and I can add an Adobe LUT if want it.

So in 2019 I have Alexa footage, that if I bring into the project it has the AMIRA Lut applied.

Alexa Footage with AMIRA LUT Automatically Applied
AMIRA LUT IN THE MASTER SETTINGS
The Alexa Footage with the AMIRA LUT Turned off

Now lets take a look in 2022, and it looks like in 2021 as well.

Alexa Footage in Premiere Pro 2022
This files Effects Panel with no Lumetri
The Source (renamed from Master) of the Alexa clip within 2022, no AMIRA LUT, but it is being Applied.

So it looks like Adobe saw that people were complaining about the AMIRA LUT being automatically added to footage and instead, of listening to us and just not adding it, they are now automatically adding it to any ALEXA footage you import into Premiere without the ability to remove it. WTF!!!!!

THIS IS NOT THE DAMN SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM ADOBE!!!!!

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OK HERE IS HOW TO TURN OFF THE AMIRA LUT, given by a very helpful Adobe Engineer in the Adobe Premiere Pro Editors facebook group, though my post was removed for being too emotional, so the solution is no longer available there.

So Right Click on a clip and go to Interpret Footage
The Modify Clip panel go to color Management, and you see embedded AMIRA LUT
In the drop down menu you can select none to remove the AMIRA LUT

OK so you can remove the AMIRA LUT, in a different way than you previously did, but why am I forced to have this LUT Applied. Adobe give me a way to not have the AMIRA LUT applied! And why does it actually take more steps to remove the “Embedded” LUT than it previously did?

Of course I was also told by an Adobe Engineer on UserVoice that the new top navigation bar is far better than the old one, even though it takes more clicks to switch between workspaces, but enough people complained, and now we at least get 3 that can be at the top, so I will continue to complain. And especially when things are made even less efficient!

In Premiere Pro 2019 you could select all the clips, and right click and hit disable Master Clips, and this turned the AMIRA LUT off.

Batch disabling the Masterclip effects in 2019

Now it is right click, sub menu, then another sub menu in another screen. And I have heard said now it is removed, but I am not so sure about that. If it was removed, the AMIRA LUT wouldn’t be re-selectable. The fact that it is called Embedded now I think means it is still there. I wonder if it is still causing project bloat as the AMIRA LUT had previously done?

All I want is for an option to not have AMIRA LUT added at all, if I want a Alexa Rec709 LUT I Can add it. Most other footage doesn’t force a LUT on it in Premiere, except maybe RAW.

I deleted my previous post on this, and posted an updated post at UserVoice.

Adobe After Effects (Beta) Version 17.1.0 (Build 55) once again works with Alexa Footage

So Adobe today released Beta’s of apps in the Creative Cloud app that anyone can download, and so I decided to test the Alexa test footage and my own footage, and all of it works fine. So this was certainly a bug and it is fixed in the Beta.

I would love to be able to check the release notes to see what they fixed, but I haven’t figured out if there are release notes for these public betas.

EDIT:

OK was still having some weirdness when I opened up a project that is working fine in 2020. I was still getting the weirdness when trying to play back the sequences, but if I reload the footage it then works fine, and this did not work in 2020. WTF!

Oh well it actually works now, so no complaints.

Adobe After Effects 2020 17.0.6 still does not work with ALEXA footage!

So Adobe released a new version of After Effects today 17.0.6 and I tested it again this shot from Alexa’s test footage page. Obviously it still does not work. Now it wasn’t listed as being fixed, but their is a lot of ALEXA footage out there, how can no one else have run into this issue? Come on Adobe get on the ball.

I have posted about it the adobe community forums, and in the bug report/feature request segment to little avail.

After Effects 2020 does not work with an ARRI footage that automatically adds the AMIRA lut in Premiere, THIS IS A HUGE BUG!

So when Adobe first released After Effects 2020, I tried opening a 2019 project that I have been working on and saw some scary results. None of the footage was working properly. This was January 5th, 2019.

I posted about it on the Adobe Forums, but the response from an Adobe employee was it is a bad graphics card or the footage is corrupted. The computer is new and the footage and project work perfectly in After Effects 2019, as well as Premiere 2019 and 2020, which made me doubt the response, as did it when someone else was having the issue.

I then recently went on a job, and all of their footage was shot on Alexa, and when I tried to move the footage to After Effects on Adobe Dynamic Link the footage had exactly the same response as as the footage on my home machine.

And it was all ALEXA footage that when imported into Premiere Pro automatically has the unremovable AMIRA LUT added to it.

So to prove that it was not in fact my footage, but in fact Alexa footage today I decided to to download some ALEXA footage from ARRI, and try that out.

Here is the Alexa LF ProRES footage download page, and I downloaded the first video. I took this ProRES clip and opened it in Premiere Pro 2020 and it imported and automatically added the AMIRA LUT just as I thought it would. I then imported that footage directly into After Effects 2020, and low and behold I am getting the exact same effect.

So this is most certainly a bug in After Effects 2020 to do with ARRI Alexa footage and probably something to do with why the damn AMIRA lut is automatically added in Premiere. Whatever metadata that makes the AMIRA LUT is what seems to be causing this. The footage works fine in every other Creative Cloud version.

THIS IS A HUGE BUG AND NEEDS TO BE FIXED!