I would have posted on the latest features of Premiere Pro 23.4 earlier, but I have not been able to use it yet. I used all the features in the beta, but 23.4 does not function for me. It is completely unresponsive, which way too much beach ball being seen. Adobe's what's new page shows the big new features. Text Based Editing, is such a huge addition. You could already transcribe sequences, but I still think it has one huge problem. And that is if you cut from a sequence, it cuts as subclips instead of original clips, and there should be an easy switch for this instead of it just doing subclips, as with multiple audio tracks, getting mixed down to stereo is just not OK. Still this is a huge feature, and a huge plus of Premiere over AVID. Background Auto Save is something that should have been in the prgoram for years, and you can save as close as 1 minute. HELL YES! WHY HAVEN'T WE HAD THIS FOREVER! Dashboard for Background Processes is nice to see. Smoother Mouse scrolling movement is actually quite nice as I have seen in the beta. I hope it also helps with the timelines, as I have recently found I often get timelines dragged and get hamburger timelines when I am just trying to click another timeline. I hope this is fixed with the added responsiveness. New Format Support with Sony Venice 2 Version 2.0 and iPhone Cinematic Clips. There is not enough info on this, but does this allow refocusing of Apple iPhone Cinematic Clips? I will to try this out and see. AND IN THE BETA. SRT Support means it can now stream video to a client Viewer. THIS COULD BE HUGE! OMG if I can stream straight out of premiere to a client, finally since this was in original Final Cut Pro 7, though not with built in security. This could allow work at home so much more easily for all editors. This is amazing. Color Manager .is something that also is huge and we have needed this for ages. DaVinci has such better color control. I just hope that the fucking Alexa AMIRA plug in is not automatically applied anymore, I want to control my color. This could be huge, but will have to see how it works before I comment further on it. Invite to Collaborate on Team Projects. Restore Projects through Recovery Mode. This could be a great thing, but I have to see how it works.

Marco Sebastiano Alessi on how to add Text in DaVinci Resolve.

Entertainment Weekly reported on this insanity. This judge has no idea how it works? People get cut out of films all the time and a trailer comes out long before a film is finished, so how can you be held responsible! Especially since it is usually the PR department who cuts the trailer anyway! This has to be overturned.

It is time to spend time with the family! Woohoo, Happy Holidays everyone!

Autokroma has some great customer support and sent me out beta versions and fixed the issues I had been having with BRAW Studio in After Effects. This was the glitch I was having that they quickly fixed, Now I am still having some problems between ProRES RAW 6K, BRAW Studio, and Maxon Primatte Keyer 6. I think my iMac Pro may be having some serious issues, after all it is getting old and is likely full of dust. I also get the feeling that nothing was every optimized for the Radeo Pro Vega 64X 16 GB, as it came out at the end of the lifecycle.

Scott Simmons at the Pro Video Coalition has an in depth review of a new pro SSD RAID the Iodyne Pro Data.

Wow, hit over 500 posts today (can't believe my 500th post was about Windows). Pretty surprising.I hope people are enjoying my blog. I know I have gotten hits about my heart surgery, but not so sure on other hits, though I am slowly getting more followers on twitter, where all of my blog posts are linked to.If you are out there, thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoy my posts.

So there is a lot of controversy and ire on the web over Apple's removal of Google Maps and adding their own map with less functionality. And for the most part I agree.As for Googles Maps application, I liked having street view, and more accuracy, but Google maps on iPhone was dreadfully slow. And no turn by turn directions on iPhone, but yes on Android also sucked. Of course I only have an iPhone 4, so no turn by turn directions for me (though they work for Tom Tom, so why not here). And while I could get them on my iPad, that would require me to have the internet turned on all the time, and I don't have that, as most places I go have WIFI anyway (though I do have the 4G Verizon model).The 3D is rather cool, though takes a while to load. This is where I have been working.Here are the normal directions just like they used to be without turn by turn.The apple Maps app is fast though, and I like the 3D view  (though again can't use it on my iPhone where it might be useful), though it doesn't over much area, but downtown LA looks cool. My biggest problem so far has been inaccuracies in traffic, and it might have to do with crowd sourcing the traffic from other iOS phones, and maybe not many are out at 6 Am when I leave, but I had an extra 30 minutes added to my yesterday travel home time because the traffic report in the app was so wrong. That is unacceptable! And it mostly just shows RED and accidents, no Orange, and the roads are already yellow, so you can't see when it is yellow. I want more date for traffic, faster and more accurate, as being in LA, it is all about traffic!And if maps in inaccurate, it is pretty useless. How can they have bought 2 companies and be using Tom Tom data and have it wrong?UPDATE: Tried using the traffic function again this morning, and in Los Angeles at 6AM, it was totally incorrect. Showing no red on the Freeway where I was, where it should have been solid red, and showing clear where it should have been orange later in my drive. I would rather not have a traffic function than have on that is this bad and this off!

Vincent Laforet has a must read on his initial impressions of using the new Blackmagic Designs Cinema Camera. And it seems very impressive, other than the very small sensor size, the non-removable battery and not being able to format an SSD with the camera. Still sounds pretty darn good.I would like to give this camera a try especially since I have so many Canon EF lenses already.