William Gallagher of AppleInsider has an article on Apple Launching Mac Os X 21 years ago on March 23th, 2001.
I remember getting it. I didn’t run it on my current tower as I was editing, but installed it on my laptop to give it a test run. It wasn’t ready for release, but it was amazing to check out, the literal future in my hands.
Finally dark mode in the creative cloud app. Not the prettiest, but at least it isn’t white anymore.
Version 5.7.0.12.07 is the version.
I know it seems small, but with all my other windows dark, I really appreciate this.
Now if only the damn Facebook app on the ipad would allow dark mode!
Adobe has released After Effects April 2022 (Version 22.3).
This brings native Apple Silicon M1 Support to the production version of After Effects. Still not sure about M1 Ultra Support as of yet.
It also includes Frame.io integration with the free account you now get with you adobe account.
3D Extended Viewer for 3D previews.
Scene Edit detection for which I have been using Magnum 3 from AE Scripts. Love that this is built in now.
Binning indicators for 3D layers to see how layers are composited.
And constrained shapes, where you can create perfect squares and circles by holding down the shift key when you double click the rectangle or ellipse tool.
And in the Beta, Separated Dimensions Preference.
So you can have x, y as separate lines.
For most Adobe has updated Premiere Pro to April 2022 release (version 22.3) and here is there page on new features.
Excitingly it includes Frame.io Integration and thus Camera to Cloud support, you just login with your creative cloud ID and you get a 100GB account, of course it isn’t free as creative cloud has gone up $2 a month, but still cheaper than buying your own account.
I was at a company that was trying to test using Creative Cloud for offline edit workflows, and it was an interesting experience. Not quite there, especially how it creates it’s own h264 previews and you can download low and high, but it isn’t really a remote editing solution yet, but still a powerful review software.
And the biggest feature isn’t the redesign of the Import and Export panels and the new preset manager, and the new header bar, which have been being tested in beta for a while now.
I still think there is too much twirling down to be done in the presets for export, which is more clicks, which I am never for.
At least the new Header Bar has been listened about and you can now show 3 workspaces as well as Import, Edit and Export. In their original implementation the workspaces were all in another menu, which is slower, when only real beginners need Import, Export all the time.
Auto Color powered by Adobe Sensei should help beginners get a quick starting place for color correction, unlike the old version. This was cvalled Auto Tone in the beta, and is a powerful start to color correction, if only Adobe would bring back a full Lemtri color suite like SpeedGrade.
And the new show hide Marker colors very cool for those who use a lot of markers, like me, when I log footage I use makers instead of subclips.
Other new features include Speeech to Text for Cantonese, Trim Playback Looping from Playhead instead of nearest edit, a Remix Progress indicator, Support for Sony Venice 2, Change est Size in text Panel, and customized clip name in EDL exports.
OWC on Apple ProRes Workflows for Windows.
ProRES is a great codec so I can see why Windows users would want to use it.
Scott Simmons from Pro Video Coalition has the latest on 10.6.2 update of Final Cut Pro.
I can’t believe they finally added duplicate clip detection, I have though there was no chance, as it had been so long that this had been missing, when every other editing program has this. And it has 2 ways to see the clips.
The AI based Voice Isolation also sounds very interesting.
And now we will hopefully really see performance on an M1 ULTRA.
I have been trying these out in the beta since release, but I still think there are some issues with too many twirl downs for settings especially in exports. I am of the school of less button clicks is always better than more. Also I find Import and Export much less important on a daily basis than the Edit modes, of which you can only show 3 at all times, in the huge bay, which has so much wasted space. Oh well it is in release now, and at least you can show the 3 edit spaces (originally they hid them under the menu only).
The Frame.io for all is now integrated into Premiere and After Effects, with 100GB of space, which is great, though I don’t like that they are also raising the creative cloud rate by $2 a month, but it is still cheaper than a frame subscription.
And Auto Color, formerly known as Auto Tone in the public beta is much improved over the useless feature in previous versions. The AI makes for a great starting point.
And After Effects has moved it’s M1 Compatibility to the full version.
And built in AI powered scene detection is also huge. I use a script for it, so will certainly give this a try.
This is a huge one honestly. Looking forward to when I can take a look later today.
Since you can get a VESA adapter for the new Apple Studio Display this is a good article on VESA arms for displays.
I highly doubt the 5K 27” iMac is completely dead, sure it is dead for now, in favor of the much more expensive Mac Studio and Studio Display. The thing is that is a minimum $3500, much more than a base 5K Intel iMac. I think a 5K iMac isn’t dead, but with Studio Displays pushing towards a June ship time, Apple just had to chose one or the other. And especially if the Apple Silicon Mac Pro is pushed to 2023, the Mac Studio fills that high end gap much more successfully now, and once there is no supply shortage bet they do do the Apple Silicon 5K iMac that many have been waiting for.
