Autokrama has fixed the After Effects flashing issues in BRAW Studio with version 2.7.7 and 2.7.8

Autokroma has some great customer support and sent me out beta versions and fixed the issues I had been having with BRAW Studio in After Effects.

This was the glitch I was having that they quickly fixed,

Now I am still having some problems between ProRES RAW 6K, BRAW Studio, and Maxon Primatte Keyer 6. I think my iMac Pro may be having some serious issues, after all it is getting old and is likely full of dust. I also get the feeling that nothing was every optimized for the Radeo Pro Vega 64X 16 GB, as it came out at the end of the lifecycle.

Appleinsider reported in July that Drobo has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

I can’t believe I missed this news, but here it is reported by William Gallagher at AppleInsider.

Now I have never owned a drobo, but I always aspired to for backup, but even if the company is still around this sure makes me worry.

The thing is that there just aren’t that many NAS’s that are great with Mac.

At one point I had a Synology where I tried moving my iTunes lIbrary, but that did not work out. It jacked up my whole library and lost a bunch of media, so I lost thousands of songs, and years of track metadata as well. And there is the whole issue of companies like Synology making you move to new hardware for software updates, since they use proprietary system software.

There was a recent article at Maximum PC on rolling your own NAS using Ubuntu Server LTS build which does major releases every 2 years instead of 6, and because each release is supported with 5 years of full support, and 5 years of extended security support, but that runs NTFS, and not mac HFS+ which scares me, and it since it is not in the Linux kernal, it can’t be written to (though it can be read).

It is too bad Mac doesn’t make a simple NAS software so you can roll your own drobo type device for Time Machine.

Selectable Track Mattes in After Effects could be the biggest and most exciting change to come to the program in years!

I hadn’t noticed this features introduction to the After Effects Beta till I saw this video from Creative Dojo.

This will clean up After Effect Timelines to now end, as you can basically add Track Mattes nodally, so you can add just one to a comp and use it for as many layers as you want, and if you save to an older version it will automatically add to all of the layers it is attached to.

This makes Track mattes the best of both world! OMG, need this for adjustment layers too, so they can be added selectively.

Wow, Adobe, this is such a cool addition.

ProVideoCoalition on How to Troubleshoot HDR iPhone Footage in Premiere, According to Adobe

Michelle DeLateur at ProVideo Coalition has an excellent article, “How to Troubleshoot HDR iPhone Footage in Premiere, According to Adobe“

It is a problem with tone mapping, which is currently handled best by the beta.

This isn’t necessary until you run into it, and go wait, it doesn’t look like this on my iPhone, but that has an HDR screen, so…