PostPerspective on Digital Anarchy’s new Text-to-video paper cut conforming tool for Premiere

Randi Altman at his postPerspective site has an article on Digital Anarchy’s Text-to-Video Conforming Tool for Adobe Premiere Pro. Digital Anarchy has expanded it’s Premiere Pro transcription tool to add Rough Cutter. And it can use a transcription from any source including the free Adobe Sensei captions, and it will literally make a paper cut. And for only $199.

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.

Some of the posts with low votes at Adobe User Voice for Adobe Premiere Pro that deserve huge upvotes

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.

Merge Clips with 16 Votes.

Exporting AAF with Merged Clip renames AudioFiles with only 18 Votes.

Batch Autosync and Merge clips with 3 votes.

STOP MERGE CLIPS FROM OBLITERATING METADATA with only 11 Votes.

PLEASE FIX: Merge clips functionality destroys audio metadata with only 9 votes.

Merge Clips Across Multiple Bin Windows with 2 and 5 votes.

Proxies with Merged Clips? with 8 Votes.

Merged clips, effects & OMF with 18 votes.

Attach / create prdoxies to / from merged clips.

Two issues with Merging Clips.

Merged clips/replace form source.

Break down merged clips back to components.

Jesus Christ, let us unmerge audio already for merge clips! with 6 votes.

Project manager doesn’t work with Merged Clips with 2 votes.

Fix Merged Clips AUdio Metada and feature to unmerge for audio-post production with 9 votes.

Automatically Sync Media to Merged Clips with 7 votes.

Please fix, update, or replace Merged clips with something that works with 2 votes.

EXPORT PER PROJECT

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.

Relative Export Paths PLEASE with 105 votes.

Add a ‘set deault export location” option with 33 votes.

Set Default Export Location Per Project with 3 votes.

Option Button: Export to Last Location OR .prproj Location with 3 votes.

Export pathway savrd to project file.

An option for ‘Export Media’ output location where you can save based on the project’s last output with 16 votes.

Maintan export filepaths based on last export per projet with 2 votes, but Under Review.

PROJECT TEMPLATE

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.

Default project with 5 votes.

Add Project Bin Set-up template with 4 votes, though under review.

Add a “New Project Template” for PP like what exists for AE with 3 votes.

Ability to use a saved File as “New Porject Template” with 2 votes.

A Quick Start “Saved Template” For Project Bin Set Up with 3 votes.

New Project Template with bins and ability to make folders on hard drive as well with 1 vote.

AUDIO METADATA

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.

Allow iXML metadata to display as part of audio clip name with 5 votes.

Show sound metadat info in clip with 2 votes.

Enable bin columns (and properties and track names and timline) to show ixml data from audio files (track content) with 12 votes.

ixml with 20 votes.

OTHER

Make Premiere, Audition, and AE Icons different colors again with 321 votes.

When importing a folder with a group of subfolders, the subfolders with only one file are not imported just the enclosed file with 6 votes.

In Premiere Pro Creative Cloud AUthentication make the e-mail field selected when it comes up with 1 vote..

Ability to see audio waveform and video in source window with a whopping 561 votes.

Deselect all tracks shortcut with 15 votes.

One shortcut key to turn all tracks off in the timeline with 5 votes.

Change multiple transition durations at once with 27 votes.

Copy Lumetri color from After Effects to Premiere Pro with 13 votes.

X-Rite ColorChecker Plug-in for Premiere Pro CC? with 636 votes is under review.

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.

Lucasfilm hires deepfake artist who improved on Mandalorian

I can’t believe I hadn’t posted about this before, as this is a dream story, it really is.

IndieWire is reporting that Lucasfilm has hired YouTube Deepfake expert Shamook to work at Industrial Light and Magic after he was able to so successfully improve on the Luke Skywalker Cameo in the Mandalorian!

This guy has dome some absolutely stunning Deepfake work on his YouTube page, so this is absolutely amazing! I couldn’t love this story more!

Adobe agrees to acquire Frame.io


Wow, so Adobe has agreed to aquire Frame.io.

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.

Blackmagic Design updates DaVinci Resolve to 17.3

Blackmagic has updated it’s DaVinci Resolve software to 17.3.

The big feature is 3x faster with Apple Silicon M1 enabling 8k editing and grading. As well as H.265 encoder enhancements.

It also includes the ability to rotate garbage mattes.

Another great sounding free update. Can’t wait to give it a try.

Adobe Photoshop iPad updated with Magic Wand, Healing Brush and Sky Replacement on Desktop

Adobe has announced updates to Photoshop iPad and updates to the desktop app.

On the iPad this includes the healing brush and magic wand as well as canvas projection if you connect your iPad to an external monitor or TV display via hdmi or USB-C.

Photoshop Desktop has updated Sky Replacement with more skies, you can now import 500 skies at once. And updated Transform Warp Bezier Handles.

And Photoshop will be releasing it’s Photoshop Beta program as of next month.

Adobe has also updated Fresco on the iPad with Color Adjustment Layers.

After Effects Beta adds Composition Profiler to show what layers are slowing you down.

Adobe has added Composition Profiler to it’s beta of After Effects as it announced in it’s BETA Forum. You enable it by clicking the snail in the lower left of the timeline window and it will show render times for each layer so you can can see the render times for each layer and know which layer is slowing you down.

This is very cool. Just a great feature so you can quickly see what is slowing you down.

Other World Computing on How to Set Up a Mac for Video Editing

Other World Computing’s Rocketyard has a great video and post for setting up an Editing system. Now of course as a company that sells products they are going to recommend their stuff, but since I mostly use their stuff anyway…

Still it is a little dated since it recommends and iMac Pro (which is EOLed) and a top of the line Intel iMac will likely be faster anyway.

ECaBrams on using Random Expressions in After Effects

A very useful lesson on adding randomization in After Effects.

You should check out the rest of ECAbrams videos on youTube as well.

I really need to dive more into expressions. I can use them and do some modifications, but I am not really an expert or good at creating my own, which is something that really can bring master levels of After Effects.