ProVideoCoalition on using OpenEXR format in After Effects

Chris Zwar has an article at ProVideoCoalition on using OpenEXR format for rendering in After Effects. OpenEXR support has recently been updated to include compression, and it is a stll format in case of crashes, you save your renders (though have to also render out audio if necessary). EXR is a format developed by VFX Proffesionals for the purpose.

Sony has announced the forthcoming Alpha 7 IV for $2500 arriving in December

Sony has announced it's new Alpha 7 IV camera with 33 Megapixel Full Frame Image Sensor and 4K Video at 60 FPS in 10 Bit 4:2:2 vs 4K 30 in 8 bit for the mark III. The 4K at up to 30 FPS uses the entire 7K Width of the Sensor, which 4K 60 FPS uses a 1.5x crop, which uses 4.6K and can use SD UHS II cards except one setting which needs a CFExpress Type A card. And it can record for more than hour without overheating! The one big video issue is that unlike the III you can't do 16 Bit RAW Video to an external recorder, in fact their is now RAW video, which is very unfortunate. Still I would love this camera, but the video capabilities of the BlackMagic 6K Pro are superior, but it doesn't have the still capabilities of this camera. My current still camera is non full frame DSLR the Canon 60 D, so I have lenses that would work for the Blackmagic, but this would be an amazing replacement.

ProVideoCoalition Adobe Insights on Performance Improvements for workflows and adobe sensei in Premiere Pro

ProVideoCoalition has an aticle on streamlined workflows with Productions in Premiere Pro as well Speech to Text using Adobe Sensei as well as the upgraded Roto Brush 2. I can honestly say I don't ever want to work without Speech to Text, it is amazing, and game-changing, it really is. And Roto Brush 2 I can't say that I think it is a better roto necessarily, but it is so much damn faster that it is mindblowing.

Knights of the Editing Table has a new tool called Grave Robber to Un-nest nested or Multicam Sequences in Premiere Pro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl8UE8d-RJ4 Knights of the Editing Table has created a new tool called Grave Robber for $15 (currently on sale for $12). It un-nest nested sequences or multi-cam sequences (not just flatten). This company is amazing, Excalibur has become my favorite tool for Premiere Pro in how it speeds things up. And they just keep coming out with new tools.

Chris Zwar at ProVideoCoalition on After Effects Binning, and layer rendering order

Chris Zwar at ProVideoCoalition has an article on Bining and After Effects Rending order in the public beta of After Effects. The embedded video is about 45 minutes long, but well worth checking out. And you should also check out his 18 part series on After Effects and Performance which I have talked about before. The video goes into 2D layers and precomps (rendering from the bottom up), and then 3D layers which is where Binning comes in, which connects all 3d layers that are next to each other in the timeline as a single render so you don't get motion blur issues of individual layers in a created object. The new beta includes labels to show you how 3d layers are binned in the timeline, which will prove very useful to anyone who does a lot of 3d within After Effects. It is funny, he started on After Effects 3, and I believe I started on version 4, though he is certainly more of a master than I am.

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

I have posted about this before, but here are some more topics that I can't believe don't have more upvotes. The first is with a problem that has been bugging me lately that Essential Graqhics automatically scale when you change the sequence size, and I want them not to, or to have control if they automatically scale as you can do with Motion Effects. I often have to do a 1920x1080 and a 1080x1080 sequence so I cut it in 1920x1080 then do a 1080 version. Now I want the graphics to stay the same, but they don't. Bug: Essential Graphics scale when changing sequence frame size with 5 votes. Option to not resize graphics when resizing a sequence with 2 votes. So I have long hated the AMIRA lut added to Alexa Footage. It has been notorious since it was added, and has been known to cause project bloat. It used to show up as a Master Clip effect (now a source clip effect) but this has been changed (though strangely I can't find it anywhere in the Premiere Pro help files) to be in the new Interpret Footage Color Management section. Moving the AMIRA LUT to Interpret Footage Color Management takes more steps to remove the AMIRA LUT, How about an option to not apply ever. And yes this is mine. Option to disable or delete Amira LUT with 8 Votes. These are just a few more issues that Adobe needs to deal with, let me know if you have any that you think should be dealt with quickly by Adobe.

Blackmagic Design updated DaVinci Resolve to version 17.4, anyone else annoyed by forced full screen mode on mac, took me a minute to figure out how to turn it off!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73CUWtTs0kM Blackmagic Design has upgraded DaVinci Resolve to 17.4, with support for the M1 Pro and M1 Max and a ton of new features. Unfortunately they have gone Full Screen as default and it took me a while to figure out how to turn it the hell off, but when I did it fixed a big complaint which was DaVinci hiding my damn dock. I love DaVinci, and I love all the free updates at a rapid pace, but my biggest complaint about DaVinci is it's lack of customization, and I find forcing full screen mode to be another customization annoyance. My big complaint with Final Cut Pro (x) is that it feels designed by engineers who want to force you to use a program how they want to, and not how you want to. I have always felt AVID and Premiere allow you to set things up how they work best for you, and I always customize allot, with DaVinci you are forced to work how they want to, down to being forced to hide my dock, and now being forced into full screen mode. And honestly my biggest complaint of this is the menus. i want the menus there all the time, not dissapearing and coming back when I put my mouse there, that loses efficiency! OK anyway, to turn it off, you have to bring up the menu, then when you see the stop sings, hit the green one. Full Screen Mode in Davinci with Hidden menus When you put your cursor in the menu, the dots come up under the menu and the green turns off full screen. Exit Full Screen And even better once I exited Full Screen mode, DaVinci added something new, for the main screen I can now resize the window and it even shows my dock! WOOHOOO. I have never liked Full Screen nor having my dock go away, as I leave it up always on my main monitor, so actually I think this is great. Now if only the second screen worked like this as well, this is how the second monitor works in Final Cut Pro and I hate it there as well. And there is a ton more to like in the new update, look at all these features: What's new in DaVinci Resolve 17.4 Key Features• Hardware accelerated Apple ProRes on Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max.• Faster DaVinci Neural Engine performance on Mac OS Monterey.• Native HDR viewers and 120 Hz playback on supported MacBook Pros.• Native Dropbox and Dropbox Replay integration with render presets.• Sync markers, comments, annotations with Dropbox and Dropbox Replay.• Export timeline markers as YouTube video or QuickTime chapters.• Steinberg VST3 support with access to even more audio effects.• Simplified auto color management settings with SDR and HDR selection.• Improved 3D keyer and matte finesse controls.• New Resolve FX including film halation and custom mixers.• Text+ support for combined glyphs, right to left text and vertical layouts.• Subtitles can auto resize backgrounds and…

Did Adobe hide the Amira Lut instead of trying to fix it? NOPE THEY MOVED IT, but it still is automatically applied, and now takes more steps to de-activate it

OK AMIRA LUT CAN BE TURNED OFF, SEE BOTTOM OF POST ON HOW TO DO IT, I STILL WANT THE ABILITY TO NOT HAVE IT APPLIED THOUGH, WHY AM I FORCED TO HAVE THE DAMN AMIRA LUT APPLIED? AND WHY DOES IT TAKE MORE STEPS TO TURN IT OFF NOW THAN IT DID BEFORE? Yes Sorry I was yelling. ---- Adobe released Premiere Pro 2022 this week, and I was playing with some Alexa footage, and looked at the source in the effects window and there is no AMIRA LUT anymore, but the LUT is still being applied. WHAT IS GOING ON? Honestly I have been complaining about the damn AMIRA LUT for years, and I just wanted ADOBE to remove the fucking thing. I never want it automatically turned on, I want to work with the RAW footage and I can add an Adobe LUT if want it. So in 2019 I have Alexa footage, that if I bring into the project it has the AMIRA Lut applied. Alexa Footage with AMIRA LUT Automatically Applied AMIRA LUT IN THE MASTER SETTINGS The Alexa Footage with the AMIRA LUT Turned off Now lets take a look in 2022, and it looks like in 2021 as well. Alexa Footage in Premiere Pro 2022 This files Effects Panel with no Lumetri The Source (renamed from Master) of the Alexa clip within 2022, no AMIRA LUT, but it is being Applied. So it looks like Adobe saw that people were complaining about the AMIRA LUT being automatically added to footage and instead, of listening to us and just not adding it, they are now automatically adding it to any ALEXA footage you import into Premiere without the ability to remove it. WTF!!!!! THIS IS NOT THE DAMN SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM ADOBE!!!!! -------- OK HERE IS HOW TO TURN OFF THE AMIRA LUT, given by a very helpful Adobe Engineer in the Adobe Premiere Pro Editors facebook group, though my post was removed for being too emotional, so the solution is no longer available there. So Right Click on a clip and go to Interpret Footage The Modify Clip panel go to color Management, and you see embedded AMIRA LUT In the drop down menu you can select none to remove the AMIRA LUT OK so you can remove the AMIRA LUT, in a different way than you previously did, but why am I forced to have this LUT Applied. Adobe give me a way to not have the AMIRA LUT applied! And why does it actually take more steps to remove the "Embedded" LUT than it previously did? Of course I was also told by an Adobe Engineer on UserVoice that the new top navigation bar is far better than the old one, even though it takes more clicks to switch between workspaces, but enough people complained, and now we at least get 3 that can be at the top, so I will continue to complain. And especially when things are made…