Pro Video Coalitions Ian Anderson has a great article on ProRes

Iain Anderson at Pro Video Coalition has a must read article on Why ProRes?

Luckily ProRes has become pretty standard across my editing. Most cameras can record to it, and it works great, with so little processing power. Personally I don’t even like bringing any MP4’s in, and convert even them to ProRes Proxy.

Of course now with a Blackmagicdesign 6k Pro I have been shooting BlackMagic RAW and it in 6K certainly seems to take more processing power than ProRes, but it is also more compressed.

I would like to see how the M1 processors can handle H.264, which might mean less recompressing. I just see standardizing on a format to make Premiere work more like AVID, which has always been the most stable editing system.

Storyboarder for Mac, Windows and Linux is awesome, but needs an iPad version and soon

I ran across this free app Storyboarder, which is an impressive storyboarding app that can import a script and you can do the artwork of storyboards with onion skinning and various pens, and it will export to Premiere, Final Cut, AVID, PDF or animated GIF. And it includes a shot generator with 3d figures.

Honestly my only complaint is that it needs an iPad app (which they say they are working on, but are a very small team, so who knows). Using it on the Mac would be better if my WACOM tablets hadn’t been EOLed.

MacRumors takes a guess on the Apple Silicon Mac Pro

Harlety Charlton at MacRumors has an article, “Apple Silicon Mac Pro Configurations: Everything We Know.”

Of course we don’t really know anything, other then it is coming, so it is literally all speculation. We think it will be based on the M2, and it might be 5nm or even 3nm, and we don’t know ports and it is rumored to have 40 cores, or double the M1 Ultra.

I wish this machine was a known quantity as it really should be my next machine if it isn’t too expensive.

Adobe Updated Premiere Pro to Version 22.6 August 2022 Release, nothing major that will affect my workflow

Adobe has updated Premiere Pro to Version 22.6 the August 2022 release.

This has Finer Mask Controls for Titles. Something I have honestly never used, as I do anything complicated in After Effects.

Context Menu for text and shape layers. Anything to make essential graphics easier is a good thing,.

Export Titles as Text Files, for proofreading.

Adjustable fades for Audio Ducking.

They have GPU accelerated Unsharp Mask and Posterize Time

On first launch of a new installation or driver update Premiere needs to initialize the GPU and you will get a progress bar.

Nothing mindblowing, but anything to improve essential graphics is a good thing.

9to5Mac on Gurman talking M1 Mac Pro, Mac Mini Redesign, and iMac Pro

José Andorno at 9to5Mac has this article on an interview Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman gave.

It is really interesting that it says there was a M1 MacPro ready but they decided to wait for the M2, which means they won’t make the 2 year promise on the move to Apple Silicon.

Honestly it is likely because the M1 could only do dual, and the performance would not have been hugely more than the Mac Studio if there was not a quad option. So likely the M2 can do Quad.

I am having issues with Autokroma’s BRAW Studio in After Effects

I have been using Autokroma’s BRAW Studio Plug in since I got my Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6k Pro, because it allows you to select multiple clips to decode BRAW in Premiere vs the Black Magic plug in that works on one clip at a time.

I have run into issues with using these clips in after effects, with the current version I get the effects flashing on and off throughout the clip. You can see the results here.

This is a short from the Misadventures of Bear that I am currently working on finishing.

Talking to support and moving back to 2.7.1 resolved the flashing, but then removed the added built in LUT, which also screwed up the green screen.

My only solution was to use the Plug-in to save out sidecar files of the BRAW settings, and then compress them in Media Encoder which uses the settings of the sidecar and render the clips into ProRES HQ. I then had to individually relink the clips in After Effects, but then I could get the render to work with the correct settings applied.

I am still in contact with autokroma’s support, so hopefully this will get resolved, but they are having trouble recreating the errors on their end.