PVC on Adobe video tools being used on the Majority of 2023 Sundance Films

From Jose Antunes at Pro Video Coalition.

Of course so many people are using Frame.io now, especially now that you get a free version with your Adobe License.

Still you usually see these articles for Blackmagic since DaVinci is the defacto color correction software, but here we have Premiere, After Effects and Photoshop being used on so many films.

And with Productions Adobe is so much more powerful and works like AVID for features, though I do see so many people saying they are moving to DaVinci Resolve instead, but having used it, I still don’t think the editor is at the same level as Premiere.

The Misadventures of Bear is a semi finalist in the Hollywood International Golden Age Film Festival

My short film The Misadventures of Bear, has just been reported as a Semi Finalist in the Hollywood International Golden Age Festival for March 2023! WOOHOOO!!!

So that is the 4th festival it got into! We have the Kids First! Film Festival, and the 17th Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival at Wondercon, showing on Saturday March 25th, in the 1:00 PM block in Room 303AB at the Annaheim Convention Center. And it was a Semi Finalist at the Austin International Art Festival.

I just feel so honored that my little film has been accepted at 4 Festivals! So exciting!

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.