Adobe Premiere Pro (February 2023 Update)

I know i am a little late on this as it was released on February 17th, 2023, but Adobe released Premiere Pro version 23.2 (February 2023 Update).

This version includes Automatic Tone Mapping for HDR footage an SDR Sequence. This is especially helpful with iPhone HDR Footage, as it always previously looked blown out in Premiere, but now it will be tone mapped to SDR. It also works for Panasonic, Sony and Canon Log, and HLF Color Space. This can be turned off in the sequence settings.

It also added Sequence Locking for Offline Editing.

New Languages in Speech to Text.

And an updated Reset Options at launch by holding down CMD on Mac or CTRL on Windows.

Node based compositing in After Effects with MagicNodes

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.

LA International Children’s Film Festival Supporting a young Ukranian Filmmaker for it’s Festival at Wondercon 2023

My short film The Misadventures of Bear is going to playing at the Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival at Wondercon this year on Saturday March 25th in the 1:00 PM showing in Room 303AB of Anaheim Convention Center. I will post when it is able to be viewed after it finished it’s appearance in all the festivals it has been accepted in.

Anyway, on to the important bit, the Festival is supporting a 12 year old Ukrainian Filmmaker and wants to bring her to festival, but it needs to raise the money to do so, so they have started a GoFundme Page for her to bring her here for the festival.

Please consider giving to the GoFund me to bring her from Poland for festival.

She has 2 amazing documentary films about her experience in the war, and they are a must see.

And here is her Facebook page.

And for the Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival, here is their Instagram, and Twitter. And Wondercon’s Twitter.

Scott Simons at PVC on how to Unlock all the Resolve for iPad pages with this simple trick

This is very cool.

It basically shows that the whole software is in here, but not activated for iPad yet, so that means it will likely be added in eventually.

I have seen people who are so negative on DaVinci for iPad, but I am psyched for it. To me it is basically the first full pro software for the ipad and I can’t wait to use it it with my Blackmagic camera.

AppleInsider has a disturbing article on extended file attributes in iCloud

Chip Loder has this article on How to store extended file attributes in iCloud.

I hate that any of this is necessary, because iCloud should not be doing anything to your files. It is the whole problem with iTunes and it’s cloud services that can ruin your whole iTunes Library.

Apple needs to fix this, but I think they see it as a feature not a bug.