Adobe Premiere Pro 2023 May 2023 Update (23.4)

I would have posted on the latest features of Premiere Pro 23.4 earlier, but I have not been able to use it yet. I used all the features in the beta, but 23.4 does not function for me. It is completely unresponsive, which way too much beach ball being seen. Adobe's what's new page shows the big new features. Text Based Editing, is such a huge addition. You could already transcribe sequences, but I still think it has one huge problem. And that is if you cut from a sequence, it cuts as subclips instead of original clips, and there should be an easy switch for this instead of it just doing subclips, as with multiple audio tracks, getting mixed down to stereo is just not OK. Still this is a huge feature, and a huge plus of Premiere over AVID. Background Auto Save is something that should have been in the prgoram for years, and you can save as close as 1 minute. HELL YES! WHY HAVEN'T WE HAD THIS FOREVER! Dashboard for Background Processes is nice to see. Smoother Mouse scrolling movement is actually quite nice as I have seen in the beta. I hope it also helps with the timelines, as I have recently found I often get timelines dragged and get hamburger timelines when I am just trying to click another timeline. I hope this is fixed with the added responsiveness. New Format Support with Sony Venice 2 Version 2.0 and iPhone Cinematic Clips. There is not enough info on this, but does this allow refocusing of Apple iPhone Cinematic Clips? I will to try this out and see. AND IN THE BETA. SRT Support means it can now stream video to a client Viewer. THIS COULD BE HUGE! OMG if I can stream straight out of premiere to a client, finally since this was in original Final Cut Pro 7, though not with built in security. This could allow work at home so much more easily for all editors. This is amazing. Color Manager .is something that also is huge and we have needed this for ages. DaVinci has such better color control. I just hope that the fucking Alexa AMIRA plug in is not automatically applied anymore, I want to control my color. This could be huge, but will have to see how it works before I comment further on it. Invite to Collaborate on Team Projects. Restore Projects through Recovery Mode. This could be a great thing, but I have to see how it works.

Scott Simmons at PVC Reviews Final Cut Pro on the iPad

https://www.provideocoalition.com/review-final-cut-pro-for-ipad/ I still am not a big fan of Final Cut Pro, though I am an expert on it, so I doubt I will even try it out on the iPad, but some of the omissions do seem curious, like having limited color correction when DaVinci has full color (though missing the edit page, so you really can't talk about DaVinci). Still the fact that the already wonky Project naming schemes seems different here is literally insane. Just follow fucking industry standards already! And no second storylines also seems pretty huge.

Google Authenticator has added cloud sync, but it is not end to end encrypted

I was excited to see that Google Authenticator, for 2 factor authentication has added cloud sync between devices, but as reported at PCWorld and MacRumors, it is not secure. This is awful of google, an awful company. The whole point of Google Authenticator is to have safe secure 2 step verification and to have it's sync not be end to end encrypted is unconscionable.

Having Issues with Premiere Pro 23.4, it just beachballs

And here are posts at Adobe Forums where other people are also having the issue. And I ended up trying it quickly because of the whole issue with the export window not working, as I was running the beta to get around it, so I tried this right when ti came out, and no matter what Project I opened the whole thing just beachballed, but the Beta continues to work, but for release version I had to jump back to 23.2, since it is before the damn export bug. I had been enjoying the text editing features, except how if you edit from a sequence it cuts in subclips and not the original clips (there should be a switch for this, as I can't think why you would want it to edit out subclips). I just feel the beta runs a little less stable than the release versions, so for paid work I need to stay on a stable release version, and it would be nice if 23.4 worked for me, but it just doesn't. And I basically erased all of my Premiere Pro preferences, the entire folder to try and get it running, as it kept pulling old preferences from earlier versions, but even completely trashing all Premiere Pro sequences on my hard drive it is still beachballing. So be wary of 23.4 as it does not like my iMac Pro at all.

9to5Mac on LumaFusion adding a full multicam editor to LumaFusion for iPhone and iPad

From Fernando Silva at 9to5Mac. LumaFusion is really the first normal video editing program on the iPad that works like AVID and Premiere Pro (Not Final Cut Pro) and it just keeps getting better and more powerful. I have edited on it and it was well worth using, though of course I love keyboard editing the most, so the iPad will always be a second class editor.