FilmEditingPro has a good article on how and where to install Keyboard shortcuts on all the major editing platforms. Most useful for those of us who are constantly on different machines.
Jose Antunes has an article at ProVideoCoalition on the recently released upgrade to LumaFusion for iPad, version 3.0. The update includes stabilization software from CoreMelt, and the ability to use external drives, especially for the new iPad Pro with USB 4.0. It also has a new graphic equalizer.
I have actually used LumaFusion as it is the most standard type editing program on iPad, if you can use Premiere or AVID you can easily use LumaFusion. It is well worth it’s $29.95 price.
Blackmagic has updated it’s DaVinci Resolve software to 17.3.
The big feature is 3x faster with Apple Silicon M1 enabling 8k editing and grading. As well as H.265 encoder enhancements.
It also includes the ability to rotate garbage mattes.
Another great sounding free update. Can’t wait to give it a try.
Adobe has announced updates to Photoshop iPad and updates to the desktop app.
On the iPad this includes the healing brush and magic wand as well as canvas projection if you connect your iPad to an external monitor or TV display via hdmi or USB-C.
Photoshop Desktop has updated Sky Replacement with more skies, you can now import 500 skies at once. And updated Transform Warp Bezier Handles.
And Photoshop will be releasing it’s Photoshop Beta program as of next month.
Adobe has also updated Fresco on the iPad with Color Adjustment Layers.
Other World Computing’s Rocketyard has a great video and post for setting up an Editing system. Now of course as a company that sells products they are going to recommend their stuff, but since I mostly use their stuff anyway…
Still it is a little dated since it recommends and iMac Pro (which is EOLed) and a top of the line Intel iMac will likely be faster anyway.
Scott Simmons at the ProVideoCoalition is reporting that Adobe has End Of Lifed as of September 8th, 2021. The article also talks about that Bridge remains, and there is Lesspain Software’s Kyno, or maybe Hedge which was bought by Divergent Media and could be merged with EditReady.
Now I hate to see the creative suite having less apps, and I hated when they removed SpeedGrade (and am still hoping for a return as Lumetro Pro), but while I have opened Prelude I can honestly say I have never used it.
Honestly I think Prelude should have been upgraded and made free instead of killed. Adobe Premiere could use a full metadata system and they could learn a lesson from Final Cut Pro X and it’s metadata super powers. And if they made Prelude free and easy to use anyplace including on iPad and iPhone to be able to metadata footage quickly and easily and pass it to Premiere it would be beyond useful.
I am happy that Adobe seems to be really big on new features in Premiere right now, but axing apps from their suite doesn’t seem like a good start.
I do love that since YouTube re-compressed everything you should basically upload in your editing format, since they don’t have upload limits like Vimeo. It is pretty funny that Adobe Media Encoder’s YouTube settings are H.264, but I guess it saves your bandwidth.
I have been reading a lot of articles on Apple’s recent move to add CSAM or Child Sexual Abuse Materials in any photos you sync with iCloud (which is all of them if you have iCloud backup on). I really like the depth that Jason Snell at Macworld has taken on the issue, and why it is an issue.
Apple’s approach here calls all of that into question, and I suspect that’s the source of some of the greatest criticism of this announcement. Apple is making decisions that it thinks will enhance privacy. Nobody at Apple is scanning your photos, and nobody at Apple can even look at the potential CSAM images until a threshold has passed that reduces the chance of false positives. Only your device sees your data. Which is great, because our devices are sacred and they belong to us.
Apple’s approach here calls all of that into question, and I suspect that’s the source of some of the greatest criticism of this announcement. Apple is making decisions that it thinks will enhance privacy. Nobody at Apple is scanning your photos, and nobody at Apple can even look at the potential CSAM images until a threshold has passed that reduces the chance of false positives. Only your device sees your data. Which is great, because our devices are sacred and they belong to us.
The risk for Apple here is huge. It has invested an awful lot of time in equating on-device actions with privacy, and it risks poisoning all of that work with the perception that our phones are no longer our castles.
And while it is noble to try and do something about Child Sex Abuse, it also does fly in the face of Apple and them being the arbiter of privacy. And that isn’t even talking about false positives. And then there is where does this lead, because if they are scanning your photos won’t they soon be scanning everything, and where is the privacy there.
In a fairly surprising move, Apple has changed out 3 video cards for the Mac Pro and added 3 new models. You can see them at the Mac Pro Specs Page. They are an AMD RADEON PRO W6900X with 32 GB of RAM for $2400, an AMD RADEON PRO W65900X with 32GB of RAM for $5600, and a AMD Radeon Pro W6800x DUO with 64 GB of RAM for $4600. These are all very pro level current generation cards and should give a noticeable improvement to the graphics for those with a Mac Pro, and they all add 4 Thunderbolt 3 slots and can be linked together for more graphics power (and expense)
I am glad to see that Apple is still doing some things to update the MacPro, now lets hope the rumors are true and they update the CPU one time before moving on completely to Apple Silicon.
So both 9to5 mac and AppleInsider are reporting that Mark Gurman at Bloomberg believes Apple will hit it’s 2 year deadline on Apple SIlicon in it’s whole lineup including a new MacPro.
With the whole microprocessor issues hitting the world right now this will be impressive if true, but I assume they don’t need too many MacPros compared to their other machines, though that depends if the price is right.
The rumors point to a very powerful machine for the new MacPro. Who knows if it will be expandable or have any PCI slots, but if it has Thunderbolt 5, that might not be an issue. If they don’t have PCI slots, will they still offer an Apple Afterburner, or if they have a version of the MacPro with it built in?
If the Mac Pro is like current M1 macs it will likely not be expandable after the fact, so might need a larger initial expense, maxing out RAM and everything else you need because of lack of expansion ability after the initial purchase. And you will really need to maximize the RAM since it will likely share the video ram with the normal ram like all the M1 Macs do.