Issues with Premiere Pro on M2 Ultra Studio and it has to do with Mac Spaces

Having a new M2 Ultra Studio, and always using 2 monitors to edit, makes this an issue close to my heart. Especially because to fix it, you must set you mac to Display have separate Spaces, which means you can’t have windows party between 2 windows and you are forced to have a dock that switches between the 2 windows (seemingly at random) and menus confusingly on both windows.

The current workaround is posted on Adobe Community from a question by Igal Hect.

From Kyle Plumadore an Adobe Employee.

I have a quick update for anyone experiencing poor playback performance on M2 Mac Studio Multi-display setups. We’ve identified an issue where disabling the MacOS system setting “Displays have separate Spaces” under “Desktop & Dock” degrades playback performance. By default this setting is enabled. We’re still working on an official resolution but in the meantime you can try re-enabling that setting as a workaround (requires system reboot to take effect) 
I have a quick update for anyone experiencing poor playback performance on M2 Mac Studio Multi-display setups. We’ve identified an issue where disabling the MacOS system setting “Displays have separate Spaces” under “Desktop & Dock” degrades playback performance. By default this setting is enabled. We’re still working on an official resolution but in the meantime you can try re-enabling that setting as a workaround (requires system reboot to take effect) 

Kyle Plumador, Adobe Employee

And with the issue not fixed in Sonoma or in Premiere, I think this is going to go on for a long time, and I HATE IT.

Thunderbolt 5 is announced with double the speed of 4, and triple for video!

You can read about it at AppleInsider or also the Thunderbolt experts at OWC.

I love that it will continue using the USB C port, but the fact that it allows so much more power scares me as it means hubs will be even more expensive, and I use so little in powered from the ports. I would love the speed though, and even better for video, so you could get better resolution at higher frame rates.

And you know this will show up in an Apple product first, maybe the next Mac Studio? That would make sense to me.

Apple announced the iPhone 15 Pro and it will shoot Spacial Video for Apple Vision Pro

So Apple has announced the iPhone 15 Pro, and it has some pretty interesting video features, from being able to record to an external hard drive (at higher rez) better low light, and later this year it will be able to shoot Spatial Video for the Apple Vision Pro.

Coming later this year, iPhone 15 Pro will add a new dimension to video capture with the ability to record spatial video for Apple Vision Pro. Users will be able to capture precious moments in three dimensions and relive those memories with incredible depth on Apple Vision Pro when it is available early next year in the U.S.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/apple-unveils-iphone-15-pro-and-iphone-15-pro-max/

So it will be able to shoot 3D footage? Or is it 2D with a depth map, like Portrait mode, which could be very exciting for compositing.

I was actually wondering if they were going to use the depth map of portrait mode to make 3D photos for the Vision Pro since you can already make them 3D in Facebook, and since it is Apple photos, Apple must be able to do that as well.

Larry Jordan Commentary, What’s The Future of Apple Final Cut Pro?

What’s the Future of Apple Final Cut Pro?

I really agree with this. I was someone who bought Final Cut when it came out and got a refund after 2 weeks, but years later when the program was better I bought it and learned it and got really good and made a list of thoughts and bugs, many of which have not been fixed all these years later.

And it insane that they haven’t given FCP Enterprise features and started using it on their shows for Apple TV, but without a big investment in time and money it really isn’t made for that.

They will keep it around, and have brought out a feature cut (and subscription) version on iPad, but they really aren’t pushing it, like they were with FCP 7 when they had actually overtaken AVID.