Adobe Updates Premiere Pro CC to versions 12.1 April 2018

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

 
/Users/<user_name>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/LUTs/Technical

Or for all users on a mac at:

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/LUTs/Creative

 
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/LUTs/Technical

These can be found for local users on a mac at:

C:Users<user_name>AppDataRoamingAdobeCommonLUTsCreative

 
C:Users<user_name>AppDataRoamingAdobeCommonLUTsTechnical

Or for all users on windows at:

C:Users<user_name>AppDataRoamingAdobeCommonLUTsCreative

 
C:Users<user_name>AppDataRoamingAdobeCommonLUTsTechnical

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.

Yabdab WordPress for RAPIDWEAVER Plug In, got it working!

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.

So this was the second problem I was having. My posts were showing up as just dates, and not getting the posts to show up at all. It seems the issue was having a custom Style selected, when I switched back to THEME, the posts now show up as can be seen bellow.

WTF Adobe has EOLed Adobe Muse!

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!

Comply Foam Tips are life changing!

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.

http://www.complyfoam.com/

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.

It’s December, where is the iMac Pro? And this doesn’t bode well for the Mac Pro!

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.

Apple releases iTunes downgrade to return App Management for iOS

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.

Crashplan closing it’s consumer backup plans is b******t

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Crashplan recently announced that it was getting rid of it’s consumer plan and moving to business only plans and when your current plan runa out you would need to switch to one if their other more expenaive plans. And yes you get a sicount on year but can only move over 5 TB of your saves, but i have 7 Tb of saves so i am screwed!

And i just renewed not 2 months ago, but what is the poont of continuing backup to a service that is going to delete a third of my backup? And then I pay more? They should really regund the rest of my plan so i can use it to move to another less expensive service like Back Blaze!

Apple Giveth and Apple Taketh Away. Taking away ringtone support from iTunes 12.7.

So Apple has released iTunes 12.7 and after years of people complaining have removed some parts of itunes to relieve all it’s complaints of bloatware.

They have removed the iOS App store and the Ringtone manager completely from iTunes.

Unfortunately there is no way to now organize or control your ringtones from within iTunes. You can manually drag ringtones to your phone with iTunes, but they have removed the sync feature. This is a feature I used all the time, and this is just frustrating. I make my own ringtones, as I don’t want to pay Apple for them, but they obviously just want me to buy ringtones from them.

Of course I still want custom Ringtones. Luckily the latest version of Rogue Amoeba’s Fission has updated Ringtone support, that saves the files locally (since it can no longer install them) and you can manually install them using iTunes.

Of course there is the problem of getting the old Ringtones out, but luckily I have Ecamm’s PhoneView, which I could pull the ringtones back out to my Mac (as well as backup texts and messages and many other thing).

I hate how Apple has a propensity to remove features that they no longer care about, but many people use all the time and have been using for years!

And I am not looking forward to when I get my next phone and have to re-install all apps via download instead of directly from my Mac!

Adobe has announced it’s next set of Premiere Pro features

Adobe has announced the next set of features that will be added to Premiere Pro this year. You can read about them at the Adobe Blog.

Strangely they aren’t going into the features that I am most excited about, which the Premiere Bro Blog actually does.

Adobe is mostly focusing on it’s new VR abilities which are extensive, though something I likely will never use. And then it’s shared projects features, which will be awesome. Much more AVID like abilities in sharing projects and locking aspects of projects. And the Responsive Design tools sounds great with more ability to edit graphics without having to open premiere.

And in their they mention that you can finally open multiple projects at the same time, much like Final Cut Pro could do! That is awesome!

What the Premiere Bro Blog mentions is being able to preview fonts in the Essential Graphics Panel and set favorite fonts (hopefully also a different default font), and an additional 8 label colors for a total of 16, which is small but awesome addition!