What this sounds like is it takes a sequence from DaVinci Resolve and then can quickly match it to a look that you show it, and it does it with standard corrections that can be sent back to Resolve without using XML at all and it puts the grade on nodes.
It is supposed to be perceptual matching of shots to reference shots. Obviously I need to try it out before I can comment on how it works, because I have just watched a few videos on it for now. And most impressively is how it creates 8 versions of the match so you can pick your favorite.
The video above is pretty long winded, but very interesting. I certainly want to give it a try.
OK so I know this is probably going into the weeds way too much for most readers (if there even is anyone currently reading my blog), but this has been an annoyance to me for some time.
I use Mozilla Firefox as my primary browser and have for a good many years. Now I use Safari on iOS because all browsers on iOS are using the same Safari engine anyway, so might as well use Apples. And I do use Safari once in a while on my mac, especially to manage my bookmarks which manage to get pretty messed up at least once a month so I need to go back to my most recent backup of Firefox bookmarks and replace them to clean them up, but for general browsing I use Firefox.
Now I recently took a jump into trying out using Vivaldi browser, because it has built in ability to have my tabs on the left or right, but I don’t like them as well as Firefox’s plug in Tree Style Tabs, plus I find Vivaldi to be a bit of a resource hog when I have a lot of tabs open and I often have way too many tabs open. Don’t get me wrong it is a good browser, but I have always preferred Firefox even if it supposedly more of a resource hog than either Chrome or Safari. I have always liked it plug ins better, and it just the most customizable especially if you delve into the about:config settings and even more so if you delve into CSS by customizing your userChrome.css file (which is a text file you put into your profile folder within a chrome folder.
Because I use Tree Style tabs on the left of my browser, I have wanted to get rid of the tabs along the top and with some coding help I managed that.
I added the following to my userChrome.css file and this hides the top tabs, which saves a little space at the top of my browser.
Now I wanted to make the damn white title bar at the top be dark. I know it was possible to get rid of it (and it is gone on Windows already), but I like having the site title at the top.
So again I entered about:config in the url bar of Firefox to go into the advanced settings.
And first set browser.tabs.drawInTitlebar to true, and it was set to false which allows the OS to draw the title bar, when set to true Firefox draws the title bar so the color can be changed using a #titelbar tag in the css. When I set this the title bar went away, but I was able to turn it back on in the customizetoolbar settings. To get there right click in the toolbar and select customize toolbar,
Then in the bottom right hand corner there is a checkbox for the title and I turned it back on, though it was still bright.
Next again in about:config, I set the setting for widget.macos.respect-system-appearance to true, which made the title bar follow the settings for dark mode, and now my title bar is dark. WOOHOO!
No more top tabs and the title bar is dark, I couldn’t be happier!
As soon as I switched my Mac to dark mode, I immediately began to hate all the white on web sites. It is glaring to see so much white on web sites, when everything else on your computer is dark. Some web sites, switch from bright to dark when they detect dark mode, but most have done nothing about it. So it turns to web browser plug ins fill in the gap. Unfortunately most do not work well.
My favorite is the free open source Dark Reader. It is available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge, though strangely costs $5.99 for safari, and doesn’t work quite the same with the site list, though it still does the conversion of pages just as well.
The plug in gives you options to change your settings on a site by site basis.
And you can keeps sites from being affected or set individual sites to work. It is a great plug in and works the best of any dark mode I have seen and it doesn’t send your user’s data anywhere.
Wow, that is a little scary. I have worked at many places where you literally cut a rough cut in a day, then did b-roll coverage on day 2 and clean up and music on day 3 and shipped behind the scenes pieces.
Of course as an editor I have always felt that just letting an editor edit will give better more organic material as it is based on not just what they are saying, but how they are saying it, but there are certainly places to start with a paper cut and if you can do a paper cut this easily the $199 is literally nothing.
Now I love that there is an Adobe User Voice forum and that you can request new features for Premiere Pro, and if you get enough hopefully Adobe will notice and consider adding your feature in a new version.
What blows my mind is how some of these posts have so few votes, while others have so many. And maybe if anyone is reading my posts they can give some votes to some of the things I care about.
Honestly I wish there was a way to merge some of these into one so that Adobe might take a look at the issue.
MERGE CLIPS
Let’s start with Merge Clips. Merge clips in Premiere has some serious issues that need to be dealt with, and so there are a lot of posts about Merge Clips. And I know you can use Multi-cam instead of merge clips to fix many issues, but it also adds some. Merge clips really needs to deal with the fact that you can’t go back to the original files, and it actually renames the audio files, and changes there timecode so that you can’t export AAF or OMF correctly to a mixer.
So currently Premiere Pro when you go to export a file it defaults to the last place you exported to across whatever projects you have opened, instead of being per project or at least relative to the project file.
Now there already the free app Post Haste from Digital Rebellion which I have talked about before, and it allows you to create both folder templates on your hard drive, but also include a project with a template set up within it. The thing is most people don’t know about it, and from getting projects from other editors, they could use some organization as well, and I think including project and hopefully hard drive folder templates within Premiere would make a huge difference and improvement on many workflows.
Premiere does not deal with Audio Metadata at all, though does pass it on as long as you don’t merge clips, but there is data that could be displayed like which audio track is what.
Well that is it for me today. Took a lot longer than I thought, but these are all things that really could use some help in Premiere Pro. Sorry that the links don’t always do the whole line, I have no idea why wordpress is doing that, but whatever.
So not a good thing for Final Cut Pro and AVID, but great for Premiere users. Having Frame.io fully integrated, not just as a plug-in could be amazing.
Honestly the biggest issues I have had with Frame.io notes is people tend to use it as a discussion or even chat, which can make the notes fairly confusing at times. There almost needs to approval of notes, so it is easier to understand as an editor, who will be getting notes from so many people that can be so contradictory.
A $4000 price drop on it’s 12K camera is amazing, especially considering the worldwide chip shortage! The hard drive space for 12K is too much for me, but still an impressive price drop. This is going to really get this camera in allot of hands!
