A worthwhile post as I didn’t realize you could do this with Plumepack (though I have posted about how you can do it by exporting an XML).
I do just wish Adobe would fix Merge Clips even if it breaks old projects merged clips, or just remove the feature.
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.
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.
Adobe had previously added Click and Drag to mutiple track targets in Premiere Pro Beta by holding down cmd/ctrl or adding shift to invert, but they have extended that it:
Toggle Track Lock
Toggle Sync Lock
Toggle Track Output
Mute
Solo
Woohoo, this is awesome!
From Hourdan Aldredge at No Film School, I love this because I love 90’s animation as that is when I was in college, so when I was most into anime.
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…
Nathaniel Pangaro at Apple Insider has an article entitled, “The best video editors for MacOS when iMovie doesn’t cut it.” and basically takes a look at Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.
An interesting review of the EOS R10, canon’s new APC camera with new R series Lens. It does sound like a pretty impressive camera, though maybe the R7 is worth the $400 for a more pro camera?
Nick Lear at the Pro Video Colation has a great article on Codecs in Premiere Pro.
I still am not a fan of editing with H.264, or any compressed codec. I don’t like JPEG or MP3 either, but I know most people don’t convert to ProRES for editing like I do.
