Premiere Pro February 2022 Release (version 22.2)

Adobe has released Premiere Pro February 2022 (Version 22.2).

Its new features include on-device Text to Speach which will be 3x faster on M1 and Intel Core i9 and 2x faster on other hardware, Remix powered by Adobe Sensei to intelligently remix music to match you video, faster 420 HEVC exports on Windows with NVIDIA GPU’s, more GPU Accelerated effects, support the the M1 MacBook Pro Notch and support for the Canon EOS RS C Camera.

You can read detailed info on each feature here.

Still in beta are the new Auto Tone feature in Lumetri Color, and improvements to the import mode, including project naming in the title bar.

I have been looking forward to REMIX, and am glad the new Import mode isn’t there yet, as I have not been a fan of it in the beta, I actually find it it a huge step backwards in usability. They seem to think hitting more buttons to do the same thing is better, and it just isn’t.

Scott Simmons at ProVideoCoalition on moving projects from Avid to Premiere Pro or vice versa

Scott Simmons has a great very tongue and cheek article on what your answer should be if asked to move your project form AVID to Premiere or Vice Versa.

And he is so right. Yes of course you can move sequences with varying degrees of success, but projects don’t move back and forth, and doing it is a bad idea. You should stay in the program that the project is started in.

I have of course ended up moving to Resolve, and then having to make edit changes there and wishing I could move the project (damn I wish they would bring back SpeedGrade).

9to5Mac on Automated workaround for overnight bluetooth battery drain on MacBooks in macOS 12.2

Ben Lovejoy at 9to5Mac posted about Jordi Bruin’s FluTooth App which disconnects Bluetooth when you close your macbook and engages it again when you open your macbook, so it won’t drain overnight.

Of course this isn’t a solution for people who use their MacBooks in closed position with bluetooth accessories this won’t work, so we will has to wait for an apple fix or manually turn bluetooth off and on at night.

Macworld on Apple Silicon Mac Pro

Jason Snell at Macworld has an article, Forget Everything you know about the Mac Pro which is speculation on Apple Silicon.

Of course we know some, like a bigger version of the M1 Max with more cores and more graphics cores and more memory.

And of course that means a smaller box than the current Intel Mac Pro.

And of course less expansion, because it is unlikely to have PCI slots especially since it doesn’t need an afterburner since it is built into the processor now, and only thunderbolt for expansion.

So really we are not saying anything new here. And sure it is all speculation.

I personally hope for more storage options. It would be great to have at least 2 banks of raided SSD’s, as I am sure there won’t be any room for spinning hard disks (though I would love a bank of 4, but am sure that will need external needs).

Honestly the New MacPro will likely be pretty damn small, but with some fans to cool the processors down for better performance.

ProVideoCoalition on Puget Systems using 12th Gen Intel Processors

Jose Antunes at ProVideoCoalition has an article on Puget Systems new systems featuring the new 12th Gen Intel Processors which deliver up to 50% performance improvements in Premiere Pro. Woo!

I still prefer Mac, and the new M1 Max certainly seems to have some serious speed improvements, but a 12 Gen Intel i9 with an NVIDIA would seriously crank for Premiere.

Knights of the Editing Table releases Anchor for Premiere Pro

Knight of the Editing Table have released a new Premiere Pro Extension Anchor.

Anchor allows you to move the anchor point of a clip without moving the clip itself.

It has an alpha mode for Clips with transparacy.

And it works with already Animated Clips.

Anchor is $15.

I am buying every plug in from Knights of the Editing Table. These guys are amazing.

Appleinsider on the 2019 MacPro being 3 generations of PCI Behing

Mike Peterson has an article on the 2019 MacPro, likely the last one with expandable PCI, is now 3 generations of PCI Behind.

This is because PCIe 6.0 has officially been released, though there is no hardware that supports it yet, while the 2019 MacPro is on PCI 3 which was released in 2010. It is pretty bad since PCIe 4 was released a 2 years before the MacPro, and PCIe 5.0 has been out since 2019.

I am still excited for the next MacPro, though I doubt it will have any user available PCIe slots anyway, though hopefully it’s hard drive attaches faster than PCI 3. Likely it’s only expansion will be Thunderbolt 4 (which it will hopefully have more than 2 buses and 4 ports).