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…

Apple has released macOS 12 Monterey and it is time for the Ars Technica Review

Apple has released macOS 12 Monterey, you can read about it here. And this means it is time for the awesome deep dive review with Andrew Cunningham at Ars Technica. This is always the way to learn the ins and outs of the new system, and I always look forward to the article, and have been reading them for every OS release for so many years. I would love to upgrade, but I always have to wait. Before you upgrade you should always check out what apps might have issues and to find out I always check out the forum at MacRumors, which has a post with a sticky at the top with Apps that are working and not working. Now it doesn't do version numbers, so it will almost never answer my most pressing issue, which is what versions of Premiere Pro will work on the new OS (yes the new version works). Now it does seem better than most OS upgrades, but some apps are still having issues or sure. I have companies that work completely on 2019 (which you can't even install and should not be using anymore), and I don't know how you run a newish MacPro on that old of an OS, but I digress.

Adobe updated Adobe Fresco to Version 3.0 October 2021 at Adobe Max

Adobe has updated it's awesome drawing app for tablets, Adobe Fresco to it's October 2021 release, version 3.0. It's new features are: •Apply Motion (ipad and windows) which I am interested in checking out. •Perspective Grids (ipad and windows) to help do proper perspective •Send to Illustrator on iPad •Vector jitter brushes to give a more organic feel to vector brushes Awesome, I need to spend more time in Fresco as it really is such an impressive and powerful painting program, and am certainly interested in seeing what the motion does, and see if will be useful for any video projects in the future.

Adobe has updated Photoshop to version 2022, October 2021 release, version 23.0 at Adobe Max

So Adobe has updated photoshop to 2022 with more Sensei Features. THE NEW FEATURES ARE •Automatic Selections on Hover via Adobe Sensei (can't wait to give this a try) •Share for Commenting via Creative Cloud •Improved Interop with Illustrator, import vectors with color, stroke, and properties as well as layer structure and vector masks. •New and improved Neural Filters, with betas of Lanscape Mixer, Color Transfer and Harmonization powered by Adobe Sensei •Improved Gradients Improved Export As worklfows

More with the Mac Gamma Shift and tagging video with the 2.4 gamma in DaVinci, following my post on color correction in Premiere Pro

So yesterday I had a post how Adobe's new color correction feature in Premiere Pro 2022 didn't do anything to fix the gamma shift issue on Mac on exports, and I posted a link to my post in a facebook group on Premiere Pro for Pro users. Responses included finishing everything in DaVinci, which does nothing about Premiere's handling of the issue, and people saying just work on a PC which will fix the issue, though it won't if you have people viewing on Mac, because the gamma shift will happen then. And then there were the responses about putting the Gamma 2.4 tag in DaVinci in fact tagging the clip wrongly to display correctly on Mac, and I decided to do a little test with Parallels to see how the clips show up in Windows. And I know that putting the Gamma 2.4 tag on your footage is ignored by YouTube, which ignores a 121 tag on footage and in fact forces 111 which will then have the gamma shift. So to start this is short film I am working on, and the first part are the clip set with the DaVinci Gamma tag set to Gamma 2.4 on export. This is the Gamma Tag I am talking about. So I exported the show with this tag. So the left is the 111 tag and the right side is the 121 tag on mac in quicktime. The 121 is much closer to what I am seeing on my external monitor So this is the 111 on left and 121 tag on right, these look the same, and actually look better than the 121 tag in Quicktime, So the left is the clip with 121 tag in quicktime and the same clip in VLC on the right, VLC looks like the correct look, so VLC is still the best solution. Now I wanted to see about the tags and how they would look in Windows, so I have Windows 11 installed in Parallels, and I used both just Windows viewer and VLC in Windows, now I just used whatever size they opened at so I will scale down the other images to match framing. And the frame might be slightly different as I couldn't figure out how to go frame by frame in Windows player. This is all on my iMac Pro, though screen shotting form mac, find it interesting that the 121 Gamma 2.4 tag matches on Windows to Mac, but VLC on Mac and WIndows doesn't and VLC on Mac looks closest to what is on my external monitor. So the 111 on the left and the 121 on the right tag look the same in windows. So this is the 111 tag on the left and the 121 tag on the right in VLC in windows. And this is the 111 tag on the left and the 121 tag on the right and to me the color correct looks the same. On the left is the 111…

Adobe updated After Effects to 2022, October 2021 version 22 at Adobe Max

So at Adobe Max yesterday Adobe upgraded After Effects to version 22, October 2021 release, of course this is now the unified version number of the video suite, so after effects 22 works with Premiere Pro 22. New Features are •Fast Previews and Renders with Multi-Frame Rendering which has moved over from the beta •Reimagined Render Queue with Remote Notifications via the crative cloud app on your phone, tablet or even watch •Composition Profiler, which will help you see which layers and effects take the most time •Speculative Previews, After Effects will now render when you have been idle for a set period of time •Export faster with Adobe Media Encoder using mult-frame rendering, and you can continue working •Improved 10 Bit HEVC playback •Enable LUT Interpolation method selection, either Triliner or Tetrahedral CURRENTLY IN BETA •Scene Edit Detection using Adobe Sensei

Adobe Premiere Pro 2020 Color Management for H.264 and HEVC does not solve Apple’s Gamma Shift Issue like I was hoping

So Adobe new update of Premiere Pro says it includes Color Management for H.264 and HEVC as a new features. The feature describes itself as the following: With new color management for H.264 and HEVC formats, Premiere Pro interprets the correct color space when importing these formats, including 10-bit and HDR files. For exports, Premiere Pro includes the correct color space metadata with your output files, ensuring that your colors will display correctly on the destination platform. When creating new sequences, you can choose to Match Source or apply the color space you want to use, depending on your working media.https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/whats-new/2022.html#color-management I was hoping this would add the ability to add tags to exported H.254 videos so that they would display correctly anyplace, but especially on Macs. Macs of course have the weird gamma shift issue because of how they handle color, so Apple's apps work correctly, but everything else has the wrong tags, so you have to watch your video in an un-color managed app to see what the clips will actually look like. Now DaVinci Resolve has the ability to change the gamma tag in an exported H.264 clip. Here is I change the Gamma tag to Gamma 2.4, which is what I am working in to get correct Rec.709 video If I set the Gamma tag to Gamma 2.4, the exported H.264 video plays back correctly both in Quicktime as well as in VLC. I was hoping this is what Premiere was doing. Unfortunately I immediately opened my current Premiere Pro 2021 project in Premiere Pro 2022 and did an H.264 export matching the export i did yesterday, and as far as I can tell it is exactly the same as the clip I exported yesterday with the gamma shift and all in Premiere Pro. I checked out the video info in Quicktime on the clips, and the clip from 2021 and 2022 match exactly like this: Interestingly a video exported from DaVinci with the Gamma 2.4 tag does show up with different info in Quicktime. It looks like this. Unless I am completely missing something in Premiere Pro, I am not sure what they actually changed here. I have posted about this at the Adobe Support community to see if anyone there knows what is going on, or if I have done something wrong, and if I get any responses I will update you.

Adobe Updated Media Encoder to 2022, October 2021 Release version 22.0 at Adobe Max Today

So Adobe Updated Media Encoder to October 2021 release version 22 today, and unifed version numbers of the video apps, so you can tell the version it works with by the version number (if only each version number had it's own icon or color to tell them apart). It's new features tie into the new features of After Effects and Premiere Pro, most excitingly with COLOR MANAGEMENT FOR H.264 and HEVC on Import and Export! WOOHOO FInally working around Apple's fucked up color on the mac, and like DaVinci before it, letting you export compressed video with proper metadata tags so that it will display correctly whoever is looking at it! I literally have problems with this every single day, so I can't wait to give it a try. This is game-changing if it works! Also included is Color Management for Sony XAVC-L-HDR and Faster Rendering for After Effects with multi-frame rendering, should be 3x as fast! Woohoo!

Adobe updated Premiere Pro to 2022, October 2021 or version 22 at Adobe Max this morning

Adobe has updated Premiere Pro as they go into the onine Adobe Max this morning. I have to say I much enjoy being able to see all of the classes online. As for Adobe's new features. *We get unified version numbers across the video suite, so all compatible versions will now be version 22 (should't they have just gone back to 1?) *Speach to Text Improvements with improved accuracy for pop culture terminology and better formatting of dates and numbers *Simplify Sequences has moved from Beta, I still think this could have been a great spot to add in unmerge, since merging audio clips is totally broken. *Color management for H.264 and HEVC H.265, WHICH IS HUGE! You can now include correct color space metadata on exports, like DaVinci has allowed you to do for a while. So people on Macs should actually see what your show will look like correctly. *Improved 10 bit HEVC playback and improved M1 support (lets hope it includes M1 Pro and Max support) •Color management for Sony XAVC-L-HDR •A new colorized vectorscope •Improved Histogram •Lumetri curve refinements •Restore trim selection in the timeline •Improved Media relinking for Team Projects •Improved Bars and Tone for both HDR and SDR. •New GPU Acceleration for effects, Alpha Glow, Mirror, Reduce Interlace Flicker and strobe are GPU accelerated. AND IN BETA •REMIX powered by Adobe Sensei, to intelligently re-arrange songs so that music matches your video, instead of cuts and crossfades let it do it itself. I can't wait to try this out. •Auto Tone, better auto color in Lumetri, a good start point. *Speech to Text on-device without the internet for faster results. *Improvements for new Import Mode, which is good because it needs a whole lot of work. Awesome, looking forward to trying it out.

Appleinser on M1 Pro and M1 Max theoretical GPU Performance VS. AMD and NVIDIA

Malcolm Own at Apple Insider has an article on M1 Pro and M1 Max GPU performance versus Nvidia and AMD. Now it uses teraflops to compare it to what the equivalent processor is, meaning the top of the line is equivalent to a Radeon RX Vega 56 or GeForce RTX 2080. Which also means my Radeon Pro Vega 64x, which can do a bout 13.5 teraflops (12.5 teraflows for the 64) is still better, but still slower than a RTX 3060 Ti or above processor.