Adobe has posted it’s bug fixes for the new version of Premiere Pro.
One thing it does not mention is the OMF and AAF export which was totally messed up in the last version of Premiere. It did not stay in sync, and the solution was to export the sequence and open it in an earlier version of premiere and export from there.
Adobe has updated Audition CC to version 11.10 April 2018 with a bunch of new features.
Audition now has improved sequence import from Premiere Pro with the ability to open Premiere Pro sequences directly, instead of having to use dynamic link. And it works with all the original files.
There is a New Track panel that allows you to show and hide tracks or groups of tracks, and you can create your own track groups and save them as presets.
Consolidated Media Container means importing a media file imports and audio and video tracks as a consolidated media container.
New on-boarding video tutorials from the launch screen.
Dropped support for Quicktime 7 era formats and codecs.
And some new features to speed up your workflow.
Adobe has updated Adobe After Effects to version 15.1 April 2018 release.
Master Properties within the Essential Graphics Panel now show up when you nest a sequence in After Effects so you can control the effects within the current sequence along with master properties. And you can have different effects with the same sequence now allowing for all your changes without duplicating a composition. VERY COOL!
The puppet tool has become the Advanced Puppet Tool, with new functionality and smoother deformations. And it nows deals with deformations to curve and bend your animations.
More VR support includes Adobe Immersive Environment and improved VR Plane to Sphere.
Essential Graphics Panel has been improved. 2D point, scale and angle propeties. You can add all transform group properties. You can drag multiple selected properties. You can undo and redo adding removing and reordering properties. When you duplicate a composition in the project panel it also duplicated properties and comments. You can also right click a property in the essential graphics panel and reveal it in the timeline.
You can now use the Property Link pick whip to create complex animations so you don’t need to use expressions. It is in the parent & link section.
You can now open a Motion Graphics Template as a project.
There are Data-driven animation improvements, with support for comma or tab separated value files. Each individual property has an expression applied.
The Video Limiter is GPU accelerated and compresses luminance and chorminace.
The Lumetri Color Custom Lut Directory works in After Effects as well as Premiere Pro.
Improved GPU memory usage.
Grain effects CPU performance has been improved.
Added Video formats, and hardware acceleration for h.264 in windows as well as dropping quicktime 7 era formats and codecs.
A new importer for BMP, FIG and animated GIF that no longer depends on quicktime.
Team Projects has been improved with improved presence for online collaborators, better project management and render a team project using teamproject flag.
The missing files dialog has been consolidated to show all the missing files.
You can disable the missing fonts dialogue.
You can disable proxies for multiple footage items.
You can copy and paste in the project panel into a selected folder.
You can drag properties from the timeline panel to the composition panel to create text layers. And use value of text layer to represent a value for JSON data sources.
You can center anchor points in new shape layers. This is an option in preferences.
You can create shapes or masks from text creates a layer above the selected layer.
Darken, Lighten and Soft Light blend modes have been updated to the same engine as photoshop.
Layer menus command has been cosolidated.
Looking forward to trying it.
Adobe just updated Adobe Premiere Pro CC to version 12.1 April 2018.
Adobe Lumetri Color has been updated, and you can now compare your shots while color correcting either side by side or split screen.
They have also added an FX Bypass option to temporarily turn an effect on and off, and reset an effect.
There is also a new Match Color across shots with a single button click using Adobe Sensei technology.
They have added a new Lumetri Color Custom LUT Directory and they will show up in Creative Looks dropdown or the Input and Output LUT’s come from the Technical directory. Thee are both local user and all user directories.
These can be found for a local on a mac at:
/Users/<user_name>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/LUTs/Creative
Or for all users on a mac at:
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/LUTs/Creative
These can be found for local users on a mac at:
C:Users<user_name>AppDataRoamingAdobeCommonLUTsCreative
Or for all users on windows at:
C:Users<user_name>AppDataRoamingAdobeCommonLUTsCreative
Premiere Pro now has the Essential Sound Panel within Premiere Pro and it has Auto-Duck for Music.
And you can now directly open a premiere pro sequence in Adobe Audition to save steps.
For Graphics, you can search for Motion Graphics Templates across local folders, creative cloud libraries and Adobe Stock.
You can now create Gradients and Shapes in the Essential Graphics Panel with editable opacity.
You can replace Motion Graphics Templates with new versions by alt/option dragging an updated template onto one in your sequence, and you can chose to replace one instance or all in the sequence.
You can now toggle animation for each property of graphics layers in the essential graphics panel.
There is an improved interface and new controls for Motion Graphics Templates including 2D position, rotation and scale.
There are VR enhancements for immersive monitor support, and Windows Mixed Reality as well as improved VR Plane to Sphere.
Team Support has updated, with improved tracking of online collaborators. There is also better project management, and view read only versions of your project.
The Timecode panel has been improved with more options for viewing.
The Video Limiter has been improved and it can be added per shot or as an output effect.
You can now Copy and Paste sequence markers.
There has been H.264 Hardware acceleration in Windows 10 with 6h generation or later intel core processors.
File formats have been added for Canon C200, Sony Venice, and Red Image Processing Pipeline. Also Quicktime 7 era formats and codes have been dropped.
Tutorials have been added within the app from the new project as well as the learn workspace.
Awesome, can’t wait to try it out.
I updated both of my web sites with the Nick Cates Design Marvel theme. I also was able to use new Marc’s Place BlogSpot stack for rapidweaver to replace RapidBlog (and EOL’ed plug in) so I can integrate my blogger blogs into Rapidweaver on this site, and on my Whale of a Tale Productions Site I used the new Yabdab The WordPress Stack to integrate my movie reviews blog.
FIXED THE ISSUE! Going to buy another copy.
I was unable to get the plug in to work and YabDab tried to help, but the exchange got more and more heated until they just refunded my money, but I have now fixed the issue.
The initial problem, it stems from my hoping I could replace my WP-Blog page so that the new page had the same address as the old page, but when I try and do that the page doesn’t show up and I figured out why, and it was because of how I used to use WP-BLOG, so I had the JSON Admin panel set to address of the page with the WP-BLOG plug in so I could access the admin panel directly from the page where the blog is. Well the YabDab WordPress plug in, that they kept telling me to enter where my wordpress install is and it wasn’t working, and that is because it works using the JSON address and not the install address, and the two can’t be the same for it to work. So to access the JSON I have to change it back to where the install is and use the URL of the install to go to the ADMIN. This is fine, but this is what the other issue I was having was. So a simple notation in the instructions would fix this issue so no one else has it.
You can see the announcement right from Adobe, they haved end of lifed Adobe Muse! There newest web design program is poof up in smoke! WTF! And it isn’t like it is just a program we purchased but that we have continued to pay for in a subscription!
They already killed Adobe SpeedGrade once it became an indispensable part of my workflow and now they are killing Muse with which I have sites I am paid to update and maintain and have paid a lot of money in plug ins for.
And it isn’t like they have a replacement! They are just killing it all together, just like SpeedGrade.
Honestly this is starting to make Adobe feel about as trustworthy as Apple. They killed Color, Shake, DVD Studio Pro, Final Cut Pro 7, and now we have adobe following suite. At least with Apple though I wasn’t paying a subscription for the software month after month!
Fuck you Adobe! Fuck you!
For years I have had problems with earphones sticking in my ears. The rubber tips just never worked well for me. And no matter which size I tried I would think they worked, but I would be constantly adjusting my headphones. They basically never fit nor stayed in my ears.
About a year ago I got a pair of beats 3 headphones that I loved, but they never stuck in my year. I was literally considering getting custom ear pieces made so that the headphones would fit. That is when I started google searching, and I found Comply Premium Earphone Tips.
They make various memory foam headphone tips. You can get them in 3 packs of small, medium and large, or in single sizes. I got the 3 sizes and the medium seem to fit perfectly. You squeeze them and insert them and they re-expand and fit. Now I can walk for an hour and they are still comfortable and never need to be adjusted.
The Comply earphone tips are so good that I feel like Apple should buy them and include them with every set of earphones.
Then I was given a pair of 1More Lighting headphones for my iPhone X and was also having the issue with the rubber earphone tips. So I ordered Comply Earphone Tips and they fit perfectly and sound amazing! What a difference!
Now I got the Sport versions as I use them when I walk and sweat and they are supposed to make a sweat barrier, but they have many different kinds that I have not tried, but I would be willing to.
These are literally the best thing to happen to in ear earphones in a long time! I LOVE THEM! My highest recommendation.
So after being announced 6 months ago, the iMac Pro is said to be coming out in December. Well it is December 4th and there is no more word on it. In fact we still don’t know any real tech specs on the speed of processors or the like. And we are right at the end of the fiscal year, so if it doesn’t make it out this year, people just might hold off. After all the rumors seem to point to the fact that the processor speed will in fact be much slower than the current iMac 5K, so only being faster in apps that make heavy use of multi-core and faster graphics cards.
And I have to be honest this makes me worry more for the next “modular” MacPro. What the hell is taking so long? I get that the iMac had to have some heavy engineering to fit pro components into the iMac frame (though why it couldn’t have been bigger and easier to clean out I just don’t know). With the MacPro the last time Apple spent so much time on thinking they knew what people wanted and needed we got the un-expandable trashcan which was a disaster. I don’t want Apple to re-invent the wheel here, I want a cheese grater mac with new technology including thunderbolt. And standard off the shelf PCI expansion with USB 3.1. I don’t need it to be Modular, it doesn’t need to re-invent anything. In fact I don’t want it to.
Hell I would go for a bigger version of the cheese grater, with more PCI slots and more RAM slots and more hard drive slots. It could have built in raid with a chasis-less housing for hard drives.
The thing is if it was going to be that it wouldn’t have needed to take 6 months. It could have been done and released by now if that was the case. Apple is trying to come up with something new again, and that scares me.
I had been on the edge of buying a PC to replace my MacPro 4,1, but the announcement gave me hope that my next computer could be a MacPro instead of a Windows Machine, but no word on the MacPro and no word even on the iMac Pro gives me pause.
I don’t think Apple really gets the pro market, and I don’t think they care about it. It is too small of a market (even though it is the market that saved them in the dark years), but they used to understand that it was the pro market’s coolness that trickled down and made people use Macs at home. Now they will string us along and give us something new that we really don’t want. And I am scared that my MacPro may be the last Mac I ever own.
Since Apple released itubes 12.7 they removed both App management and Ring Ztone management from itunes completely. Well because of complaints Apple has now released iTunes 12.6.3 which features app management, of course once you install it you will no longer get notices for new versions of iTunes and it will eventually break.
Apple should just admit they were wrong and either put the functionskity back or make a new app that has just iOS management.
