This article is a must read for Freelance Remote Editors. I so love being able to work from home, especially with my own equipment and not having to deal with Los Angles Traffic.
Rich Young's After Effects roundups are always a must read. Only a month late!
I have never had to use ACES, but here Johnny Elwyn links to a bunch if resources if you do.
I think Strange New Worlds is the first real Star Trek in years (other than Orville which is obviously Star Trek the Next Generation without the name). I am loving the show, so loved the read of Jose Antunes at Pro Video Coalition.
The Alexa 35 looks amazing and it looks like Alexa has done it again, though way out of my price range. Here are some links and videos I checked out about it. Potato Jet has a video Review. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8ZLL3gI5iQ Brian Hallett at ProVideoCoalition has a look at it. As does Yaroslave Altunin at No film School. I edit a lot of spots shot with Arri, so hopefully will run into some footage from one of these soon. I just wish that Adobe would allow us to not have the damned AMIRA Lut automatically applied, especially since it doesn't do this for other cameras. On a pro editing system I want to control it,
Again not in the release notes, but as reported at Adobe User Voice, Adobe gas fixed the ability to chose a name by clicking on a file, though it isn’t thhe same on windows as the post says. I love that adobe is fixing this stuff, but wish it was in the release notes.
This used to be a feature, but then was removed for some unknown reason. Luckily I followed this post at user voice, as the new features list doesn't list this as being a new feature. This has troublesome if you get high speed footage not in the format you want, or if you want to do proxies with footage that is higher than 60FPS. For new features it lists Notification on Encoding or Queue Completion, Computer Shutdown on Queue Encoding Finish and Support for Red V-Raptor camera.
Adobe has updated Premiere Pro to June 2022 (version 22.5). It's new features are: A new Essentials Workspace with everything at your fingertips. A new Vertical Video Workspace. Proxy Workflow Improvements with visual badges in timeline and project panel to make it clear if you are vieweing proxies, and you can now add watermarks on your proxys as you make them, and even better the default proxy setting is no ProRES instead of H.264. Gradients for Strokes and Shadows in Essential Graphics. Improved H264/HEVC encoding on Apple M1 Systems. Support for Red V-Raptor Cameras. And more GPu-Accelerated Effects. For me the Proxy workflow improvements are the best thing here, though the gradients is not a bad thing. New workspaces are great, but I always build my own.
StudioBinder has a free online Storyboard Creator as well as free downloadable storyboard templates for the price of free. I have not played with the online storyboard creation tool but am going to give it a try on my next short film that I am working on (though I am still working on the script right now, while also shooting VFX shots).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U01XE62ehRs This tutorial is thanks to ProductionCrate on YouTube. And their Magic Circle VFX and Magic Circle Vector. Cool.