Jason Boone at Frame.io on Premiere Pro Audio Tools

Jason Boone at Frame.io insider has an must read article entitled “These Premiere Pro Audio Tools Will Make You A Mix Master.”

I am an editor and not a sound guy, so this is certainly useful. I do spend a lot of time with the essential sound panel to get a passable mix, but for me a mix should go to a mixer, but that doesn’t always happen, so learning as much as you can is a great thing.

I do plan on doing some more sound specific lessons for Premiere and Audition in the future, but I have not delved into it to much as of yet.

Blackmagic has released an updated web presenter in 4K for $695 a great solution for work from home streaming

Blackmagic design has done it again and have released a 4K streaming version of the web presenter.

The previous $495 version could accept a 4K signal, but it only could output at 1080, but this can output at a full 4k for a better signal for $695.

And like the previous model it has a USB C out so you can connect it to your computer as a web cam to use in Zoom. And with my UltraStudio 4K I could easily run it via the SDI input without bothering the HDMI out (though it also has an HDMI out).

I was talking to a DP with the director on a notes call and I really wished I had this setup so We could do live sessions. I know a lot of producers like to do a session in person and being able to stream live to a producer and talk really is something I need to add to my setup soon so I can continue to work at home. I am really looking forward to trying out Sofi Marshall’s setup and getting this going.

Billy Rybka’s 4 top DaVinci Resolve Plugins for 2021

You can also read about these 4 plugs in at 4K Shooter.

OK I haven’t used these yet, but I want to try them all out.

I use Optical Flares from Video Copilot for flares in my motion graphics all the time, so I do love having access to flares and $39 for LensMaster Flares is ridiculously cheap.

And I have to admit to hating doing audio mixes and cleanup, and though I do use Essential Sound in Premiere it doesn’t do as much as it looks like Alex Audio Butler does. And I really want to get my hands on the ERA 5 Bundle. I don’t really mess with EQ and compression unless I have to, so these tools would be amazing to have.

And I just installed Reactor from We Suck Less. I haven’t delved too deep into Fusion as of yet, but I have played a bit. And to have this amazing set of tools for free. Wow! I can’t wait.

Apple has updated the available graphics cards of the Mac Pro with 3 new high end AMD cards

In a fairly surprising move, Apple has changed out 3 video cards for the Mac Pro and added 3 new models. You can see them at the Mac Pro Specs Page. They are an AMD RADEON PRO W6900X with 32 GB of RAM for $2400, an AMD RADEON PRO W65900X with 32GB of RAM for $5600, and a AMD Radeon Pro W6800x DUO with 64 GB of RAM for $4600. These are all very pro level current generation cards and should give a noticeable improvement to the graphics for those with a Mac Pro, and they all add 4 Thunderbolt 3 slots and can be linked together for more graphics power (and expense)

I am glad to see that Apple is still doing some things to update the MacPro, now lets hope the rumors are true and they update the CPU one time before moving on completely to Apple Silicon.

Oliver Peters on Audio Plug-ins for editors

Oliver Peters at his digitalfilms blog has written 2 article son Audio Plug-ins for Editors. Parts 1 & 2 focus on categories, such as equalizers and compressors, part 3 is on the audio plug-ins from FabFilter Software Instruments and 4 is on Free Plug-ins.

You should go to his blog and check out parts 1, 2 , 3 and 4.

Sound is my worst part of editing. So often of late I am working for companies that expect me to mix, when an audio guy can add so much to a mix. Maybe this can help a little with audio if you want to dive into it.

Bloomberg thinks Apple will hit it’s 2 year deadline on Apple Silicon and release a MacPro

So both 9to5 mac and AppleInsider are reporting that Mark Gurman at Bloomberg believes Apple will hit it’s 2 year deadline on Apple SIlicon in it’s whole lineup including a new MacPro.

With the whole microprocessor issues hitting the world right now this will be impressive if true, but I assume they don’t need too many MacPros compared to their other machines, though that depends if the price is right.

The rumors point to a very powerful machine for the new MacPro. Who knows if it will be expandable or have any PCI slots, but if it has Thunderbolt 5, that might not be an issue. If they don’t have PCI slots, will they still offer an Apple Afterburner, or if they have a version of the MacPro with it built in?

If the Mac Pro is like current M1 macs it will likely not be expandable after the fact, so might need a larger initial expense, maxing out RAM and everything else you need because of lack of expansion ability after the initial purchase. And you will really need to maximize the RAM since it will likely share the video ram with the normal ram like all the M1 Macs do.

AppleInsider reports that Thunderbolt 4 details were accidentally leaked by an Intel Exec’s photo on Twitter

Malcolm Owen has an article at AppleInsider on Thunderbolt 5 details leak via deleted Twitter photo by Intel Executive.

So pretty exciting, especially since it keeps the USB C form factor and doubles it’s speed from 40Gbps to 80Gbps.

Already I love being able to use Thunderbolt 4 hubs on my Mac, and hopefully the new Mac Pro will use Thunderbolt 5 for impressive speeds from it’s ports.

RedShark News on the Global Chip Shortage

Phil Rhodes at RedShark News has an interesting article on the Glocal Chip Shortage and how it is affecting the industry.

I would bet it is pushing back the Apple Silicon pro releases as well. Sure they won’t be big sellers but why waste their chips where there won’t be huge sales. And even if Apple is designing it’s own chips, it isn’t manufacturing them themselves, so…