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…

Lucasfilm hires deepfake artist who improved on Mandalorian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrHXA2cSpNU 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

https://youtu.be/tI7AcNfHXeQ 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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TD3_g8YIeU 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

https://youtu.be/xrKMeeFrMxg 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.

ProVideoCoalition is reporting that Adobe has EOLed Adobe Prelude

Scott Simmons at the ProVideoCoalition is reporting that Adobe has End Of Lifed as of September 8th, 2021. The article also talks about that Bridge remains, and there is Lesspain Software's Kyno, or maybe Hedge which was bought by Divergent Media and could be merged with EditReady. Now I hate to see the creative suite having less apps, and I hated when they removed SpeedGrade (and am still hoping for a return as Lumetro Pro), but while I have opened Prelude I can honestly say I have never used it. Honestly I think Prelude should have been upgraded and made free instead of killed. Adobe Premiere could use a full metadata system and they could learn a lesson from Final Cut Pro X and it's metadata super powers. And if they made Prelude free and easy to use anyplace including on iPad and iPhone to be able to metadata footage quickly and easily and pass it to Premiere it would be beyond useful. I am happy that Adobe seems to be really big on new features in Premiere right now, but axing apps from their suite doesn't seem like a good start.