What’s New in Premiere Pro (Beta)

And a little more depth on the updated context sensitive Properties Panel that lets you make some changes to multiple clips at once (which is so very exciting).

The color management system is very exciting, and I glad Premiere will take an active role in your color management much like DaVinci Resolve’s Color Managed or ACES workflows, though I do hope it works better than the ARRI AMIRA plug in that was forced on us so long ago.

You can actually read about the Color Management System in the user manual from the previous August 16th, 2024 update, though the manual does not seem to have been updated to the latest and new Properties panel.

And any ProRES acceleration is always welcome, always! I just want some Black Magic acceleration as well!

Since Mac OS Sequoia comes out in a 8 days, check MacRumors to see if your software runs

MacRumors forums macOS Sequoia Working and Non-Working Apps.

Looks like the latest Creative Suite currently works, but DaVinci does not, which is not good. And no word on SoftRaid which is honestly my most important software.

Honestly this is always the best place to check, though I do find that specific video editing software isn’t always the real focus here.

ArsTechnica RTO doesn’t improve company value but does make employees miserable

I so agree with this because I started my editing career working from home, then mostly had to work in offices, and finally got to work at home again with the pandemic. And if I had my choice I would never work anyplace but home again.

Beth Mole at Ars Technica has this great article on it, and maybe it will change some minds that it doesn’t improve companies value so maybe companies can downsize office space.

Amazing that companies performing worse enforce return to office more, and ones where the CEO had more power.

I had Verizon FIOS and it became Frontier FIOS and now it is going to be Verizon FIOS again, wtf!

Engadget is reporting that Verizon is about to purchase Frontier.

I got Verizon FIOS years ago as soon as it was available in my area, as my dad previously had it, and it was great. I never had issues, their website was great and I could do anything I wanted to my account via the web and if I wanted to talk to a human it was always someone in the US and they were helpful.

Frontier I never liked as well. Their web site is awful and you have no control over your account or features, having to talk to someone. And that always meant long phone waits. And the speeds were never nearly as fast as they stated, though they have gotten better. I am on 1 gig internet and am getting 902 down and 850 up right now.

I just find it nuts that I started at Verizon, then went to Frontier who I was told was the company that actually did the service in Los Angeles for Verizon, and now back to Verizon.

Will this mean I lose my monthly discount on YouTube TV?

Is it just me or has Alexa become garbage?

For a while Alexa hasn’t worked as well for me as my wife, but lately things have gotten so much worse.

We have 4 Alexa devices in our house, and we use it mostly to play music, set alarms and cooking timers and activate devices with voice control. My wife also makes shopping lists, though they aren’t compatible with shopping list program I use so I don’t it for that.

My issue is how much Alexa actively ignores me, like when a reminder comes on and it just won’t stop (unless I mark it done on my phone).

And even with music attached to my Apple Music account it often can’t find songs, but lately it won’t play songs, or they take a while to start and then only play half way through and stop. This seems to happen about 60% of the time of late. Maybe it is the Apple Music thing, but I don’t pay for Amazon music above my Prime membership.

And Apple music doesn’t explain why I will be talking to one Alexa and ask it to play music and it will play music in another room about 25% of the time. And it isn’t like it can heard me from the other room. I can’t seem to get it to do this with commands myself and it just makes zero sense. Why would it play in another room and not the Alexa that is responding to me?

And I use it to control the light in the Baby’s and I would say that is about 33% successful. It works less than it doesn’t, and I am repeating myself. It is great when it works, but is super frustrating when carrying a screaming baby to get a diaper change.

And then there are the creepy ads that show up all over social media when my wife and I talk about things around Alexa. I fucking hate targeted advertising!

And now they are talking about making a paid tier of Alexa to make it better. Really? Fix what exists first!

Honestly if I could get a bunch of Apple HomePods for cheap enough I would love to replace our Alexa’s! At least Apple places some value on privacy, though I am sure there will have to be new models to deal with Apple Intelligence when that comes out and those will cost more!

Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival Presents Ukrainian Documentary Filmmaker Marusya Shuvalova this Sunday Sept 1

I wish we could be there as we have been looking forward to this for so long, but unfortunately our newborn precludes us from going out much right now, but if you have a chance, please go see this!

Check out there website, facebook, and instagram.