How to reorder your Tracks in Adobe Premiere Pro with PlumePack from Autokroma
The excellent PlumePack which replaces Adobe’s awful media mananger, also allows you to re-order tracks, here are instructions.
Node based compositing in After Effects with MagicNodes
MagicNodes for After Effects. A license is $89 for a basic license and only corrective updates, or $149 with Premium with 1 year free maintenance, learning center, and $69 a year maintenance after the first year.
I have not given this a try but would like to. I really loved node based compositing in Shake, and then in DaVinci Resolve, so the ability to have it in after effects is amazing.
Crumblepop on How To Remove Plosives from Vocals: 7 Ways to Remove Pops
JG McQuarrie at Crumblepop has an excellent post on 7 ways to remove Plosives, in both recording and after the fact (always worse but most people will want you to fix it in post).
StrongMocha on Learning How to Make Sound Effects
Jana at StrongMocha has this excellent post on making your own sound effects.
Of course not being a sound guy I have found the lack of audio plugs ins to be an issue with sound fx in editing programs, but possibly I do need a small suite of audio plugs ins to improve my ability to work on sounds effects and make them better.
Adobe has lost it’s Pantone Swatches, and you can pay to get Pantone, but the functionality is not the same
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and In Design have all lost their Pantone Swatches, and you can pay $15 for a Premium Service, which is supposed to restore some Pantone Functionality, but it is not the same and doesn’t restore the old swatches.
You can now install the Pantone Connect plug in and use a free account, but functionality is not as good.
Obviously this is saving Adobe money, but with the old Pantone swatches becoming unusable even with the paid subscription this is not a great solution.
Maxon One Fall Update, includes all Red Giant Products
Maxon One Fall Update has arrived and includes updates for almost everything.
About Red Giant
The new version of Red Giant includes updates for nearly every tool and over 100 new presets for Generators and shiny text effects.
Trapcode
Trapcode provides over 75 new animated sprites for 2D shapes and bursts. The loading time for the Particular Designer has been dramatically improved
Magic Bullet
Magic Bullet 2023 adds the recently released Halation and Diffusion tools to Looks in Cinema 4D. Improved Looks C4D workflow in OCIO mode. Major improvements to the Looks integration in Unreal Engine 5. Denoiser is now available for Final Cut Pro and compatible with Apple M1 machines.
VFX
Red Giant VFX 2023 offers enhanced performance and stability. Bug fixes for Supercomp, Primatte, Real Lens Flares and more.
Universe
Universe 2023 provides added support for alpha layers in Avid Media Composer. Generate text effects, track mattes and more. Universe 2023 comes with over 100 new presets for Generators.
PremiumBeat by Shutterstock has 40+ Free Plugins and Filters for After Effects
Charles Yeager at Premium Beat has the article, which includes quite a few from VideoCopilot that have all recently been updated to M1 support.
Video Copilot adds M1 support to all of it’s plug ins!
Video Copilot has added M1 support to all of it’s paid and free plug ins, and they are of course free updates.
Also nice to have download links to all the free plug ins in one place.
I love all these plug ins and use them all extensively, so this is great news.
In fact I am really using the free ORB for a short I am working on right now.
Red Giant Updates for NAB 2022
Red Giant has updated Universe to version 6.
VFX Suite 3
Magic Bullet Suite 16.
And a new tool Real Lens Flares.
In past Red Giant has also released in depth videos showing off how to use the new features, but unfortunately it looks like they haven’t done that this year. Hopefully this isn’t how things will always be with the now Maxon owned company, bug I have the feeling it is. I guess will just have to play around.
The video for Real Lens Flares looks good, but will have to see if it is better than optical flares from Video Copilot.