Adobe has released Adobe Premiere Pro Best Practices Workflow Guide for Long Form and Episodic, and it is a must read

Adobe has followed in the footsteps of Blackmagic and done a really great in depth manual, but this one specifically for Long Form and Episodic Workflows in Premiere Pro.

You can Download the PDF here, and it really is a must read for pros.

It goes in Depth on Hardware and settings, workflows with Dailies, Proxy workflows, working with Productions, Mutli-Camera editing, dynamic link with after effects, turnovers, remote & cloud workflows, panels and integrations, and resources & tutorials.

And right on the first stage of text it tells you why not to use Merged clips (though it doesn’t tell about the exporting XML workaround to fix it, and honestly would rather have Adobe remove the feature if they are going to say this, though really I would rather have them FIX IT).

This guide is a must read for all editors working in Premiere Pro. I love that Adobe has done this.

OWC’s Rocket Yard on Online Vs. Offline Editing: Why You Still Need To Consider Proxy Videos

Conner Stirling at Rocket Yard on Online Vs. Offline Editing: Why You Still need to Consider Proxy Videos.

Most things I work on professionally are 4K for a 1080 delivery, so you really don’t need Proxy with a fast enough RAID and mechanical hard drives, but my experience with 6K DaVinci Resolve RAW footage I have realized that a proxy workflow may be back in my future.

The problem is that for VFX work I need to work with RAW and my iMac Pro with only 64 GB of RAM is really starting to show it’s age.

Some Hyperlapse footage I shot on my OSMO Pocket 2 at San Diego Comic Con 2022, SDCC

My wife and I were at Comic Con for a screening of her film GROUNDED which played at the San Diego International Children’s Film Festival 2022, after having screened at the Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival 2022, Love Your Shorts 2022, and Kids First! Film Festival 2021. It was an awesome experience.

Scott Simmons at PVC on Avid Media Composer 2022.7 adding keyboard layouts for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve

Scott Simmons posted this article Avid Media Composer updated to 2022.7, now with competing keyboard layouts.

I can honestly say I never though I would see the day when AVID was really trying to get people from Premiere and DaVinci.

Personally I always learn the default keyboard setup of a program, but this is great for a quick jump for people.

Oliver Peters at digitalfilms on six Premiere Pro Game Changers

Oliver Peters at digitalfilms on Six Premiere Pro Game Changers. And these are on fairly recent adds.

The Auto Transcribe is really a huge game changer, though I don’t use for Captioning though, I use it for Testimonials, and it is amazing and could really use a new interface for that use. It is amazing, and makes cutting testimonials so much faster and better.

iPad OS 15.6 fixed an issue with Mail I have been having, if only it fixed safari as well

I have been having an issue with Mail on my iPad Pro of late. For some reason the mail app was having issues loading. I would open it and it would be empty and blank, and take up to a minute to load if it loaded without crashing. This also meant I was unable to send e-mail from other apps unless, I first got Mail itself to load. And this only started recently.

I had tried turning off all my mail except my Apple mail account, and even tried resetting network settings, but mail was not working correctly for the last couple of weeks, and it was driving me nuts. I was about to backup and wipe the ipad, but was waiting for the update to see if it fixed it.

Yesterday apple released iPad OS 15.6 and after updating the Mail issue has been solved, if only that was the only issue that recently cropped up on my iPad.

At the same time as the mail issue, Safari has started losing logins for web sites. Sites that for years have stayed logged in, must be logged in every time that I got to the site. So every time I use bing or google I need to log in again. Super frustrating, and unfortunately not fixed by 15.6.

Scott Simmons at PVC on his single most loved feature in Adobe Premiere Pro, customization, and he is right

Scott Simmons at the ProVideoCoalition has a great article entitled, “My single most loved feature in Adobe Premiere Pro.”

Customization is really the best thing about Premiere Pro.

Of course AVID was the start of this because every editor doesn’t want to work the same way or have the same setup to work on, so being able to have your own setup is so important and AVID premiered this feature in the editing space.

The original Apple Final Cut Pro also had this feature.

The new Final Cut Pro, previously Final Cut Pro X, did away with this and wants you to edit their way. You don’t have as many ways to do things and you really can’t do a lot of customization in the workspace.

DaVinci Resolve has added editing to it’s color correction program and it is great, but it also does not let you customize, it is once again how they want you to edit. Yes you can use one or two monitors, but the windows are all very fixed where they are.

Premiere though is like AVID in customization, but adds to it, especially with so many available 3rd party extensions, like from AESCRIPTS, and it’s extensive keyboard shortcut options.

Scott Simmons is so right that Premiere’s customization abilities are it’s absolute best feature and it is a shame that DaVinci Resolve doesn’t allow the same customization.