Apple has created a new video format, Apple ProRES RAW and you can check out the White Paper here. They claim it will render 6.3 times faster than red .r3d format. It will be smaller file size than Apple Pro Res 4444. It will soon work with the DJI Xenmuse X7. And the Atomos Sumo 19 and the Shogun Inferno will support it, as well as the Panasonic EVA1 and the Varicam LT. It will allow for tweaking of the ISO and color balance in post.
I would be more impressed if they brought back ProRes Support for Windows, as without that it just can’t be a ubiquitous format.
Hopefully Adobe and AVID will support it soon.
it ships on April 9th with Final Cut Pro X 10.4.1.
OK it is good that Apple has hired pros to come in and work with them on projects and help shape the future of all Mac Pro products, and they claim to be working with 3rd party developers and not just apple products, though it sounds like Panzarino only saw Apple Logic and Apple Final Cut Pro X edit bays. And what really scares me is the modularity seems to be things like the external eGPU’s for Laptops, and using multiple iPad Pros with an iMac Pro as control surfaces. None of these are bad things, but they are not PCI slot rich MacPro’s that can use off the shelf PC Cards to expand and enhance the mac, and Thunderbolt is not ever going to be as fast as the fastest PCI slots.
And honestly if Apple is so into working with 3rd parties to make their products work, how about working with NVIDIA to include their Web Drivers in their system updates? Many of us struggling Mac Pro users are using the most powerful modern video cards in our old Cheese Grater Mac Pro’s and that means using NVIDIA cards. And while with some system updates have not required me to swap back to my old Apple flashed video card, most of them do. So I now dread system updates. Not because they are undoable, but because they take me so long to have to swap out my video card and run the update and then upgrade NVIDIA’s drivers, before I swap back to my old video card. And it never goes perfectly, and always takes hours. If you want to care about Pro users, help us NVIDIA users out!
Also Final Cut Pro X was my final straw in trusting Apple Pro software. I bought it and it just didn’t work for me at all. It forced an entirely new way of editing and seemed to only work with that one workflow. While with AVID and Premiere Pro every editor has their own methodology that they use, and that is how Editors like it, not being forced to work one way and one way only with a completely uncontrollable timeline. And Apple has killed so much great pro software. Final Cut Pro 7. Shake. Color. Aperature. I just don’t trust them anymore. And I almost wish they would get out of Pro Software completely and just work with AVID and ADOBE to make their software work better. Now they claim to be working with them in this article, but it doesn’t sound like they have AVID and Premiere Pro edit bays at Apple for their pros they have hired. And who are these pros? I would love to know. And I would love to hear them talk a bit, not just some tech writers.
I have said it before and I will say it again. I want the Cheese Grater Mac Pro upgraded with modern technology! Yes it should include Thunderbolt so it can be modular and use eGPU’s if I want to, but I want to use off the shelf PCI cards to upgrade it. And I want internal storage! And not just one hard drive, multiple hard drives. And hell an attachable RAID that takes drives directly without a sled would not be horrible, but I can always get an external. All this modular talk scares me.
The more I hear the more scared I get that I will end up replacing my aging MacPro with a Windows Box. And I know Windows has gotten better (I have a Surface Pro 3), but I still don’t like using it like I use a Mac. I am just worried that all this modularity talk sounds more and more like something like the Trashcan macpro that just isn’t what people want, as making a new cheesegrater should not take 2 years! It sounds like they are trying too hard. And when Apple tries too hard we get things like the Trashcan or the Mac Book Pro with weird ass touch strip instead of the touch screen that everyone actually wants.
Who is Apple talking too? Who have they hired? The high end people working big movies like those mentioned, are not working on their own gear. They have rental gear, or working at a company. What about us Editors who work on our own gear? Or small companies with a few Mac Pros? Are they in the mix and talking to Apple?
Or even worse maybe the Apple making it’s own Chips rumors is true, and they are waiting for that. Which would be a disaster. Making it harder to maintain Mac and Windows versions.
And what happens if my Mac Pro finally kicks the bucket before then? I have already replaced a -power supply. I am not moving to an iMac, so that will likely mean I move off the Mac completely.
Apple as a Pro users I am well and truly scared, and if you cared you would be working faster, and not taking 3 years to show a machine that might not work at all for me and might finally drive me well and completely to windows.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
