Autokroma PlumePack Options Explained

Here are all of Autokorma's Options explained. Honestly Media Manager in Premiere Pro barely functions anymore, and yet we have Adobe doing stuff like making the import and awful export panel instead of fixing things that were actually broken. At least we have companies like Autokroma fixing broken things, but why isn't this Adobe's focus?

Node based compositing in After Effects with MagicNodes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jp0QTKfTbA 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.

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.

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.