Better Editor on Mixing Audio with the loudness Meter in Premiere Pro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5FUySTrBeE&t=2s The Better Editor YouTube Channel has this very interesting video on Mixing Audio with the Loudness Meter in Premiere Pro. I have to admit as an editor I certainly need to get better at my Audio Mixing, as so many places aren't even doing a proper mix before going on the air, which is insane to me. A mixer can do it quickly and so well, but it is certainly a skill that as an editor you will have to use more and more, so this is certainly something you should learning about.

CineD on newly released Colourlab Ai color grading software using Artificial Intelligence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm4N6bndB1M Jeff Loch at CineD has an article on Colourlab Ai which works with DaVinci Resolve to match color using Ai. You can check out Colourlab Ai at their site and try a free trial, or you can get it as well as Look Desinger and Grain Lab for $49 a month or $490 a year. What this sounds like is it takes a sequence from DaVinci Resolve and then can quickly match it to a look that you show it, and it does it with standard corrections that can be sent back to Resolve without using XML at all and it puts the grade on nodes. It is supposed to be perceptual matching of shots to reference shots. Obviously I need to try it out before I can comment on how it works, because I have just watched a few videos on it for now. And most impressively is how it creates 8 versions of the match so you can pick your favorite. The video above is pretty long winded, but very interesting. I certainly want to give it a try.

Making the Title Bar dark in Firefox on a Mac in dark mode, and tree style tabs only

OK so I know this is probably going into the weeds way too much for most readers (if there even is anyone currently reading my blog), but this has been an annoyance to me for some time. I use Mozilla Firefox as my primary browser and have for a good many years. Now I use Safari on iOS because all browsers on iOS are using the same Safari engine anyway, so might as well use Apples. And I do use Safari once in a while on my mac, especially to manage my bookmarks which manage to get pretty messed up at least once a month so I need to go back to my most recent backup of Firefox bookmarks and replace them to clean them up, but for general browsing I use Firefox. Now I recently took a jump into trying out using Vivaldi browser, because it has built in ability to have my tabs on the left or right, but I don't like them as well as Firefox's plug in Tree Style Tabs, plus I find Vivaldi to be a bit of a resource hog when I have a lot of tabs open and I often have way too many tabs open. Don't get me wrong it is a good browser, but I have always preferred Firefox even if it supposedly more of a resource hog than either Chrome or Safari. I have always liked it plug ins better, and it just the most customizable especially if you delve into the about:config settings and even more so if you delve into CSS by customizing your userChrome.css file (which is a text file you put into your profile folder within a chrome folder. Because I use Tree Style tabs on the left of my browser, I have wanted to get rid of the tabs along the top and with some coding help I managed that. I added the following to my userChrome.css file and this hides the top tabs, which saves a little space at the top of my browser. /* hides the native tabs */ #TabsToolbar { visibility: collapse; } Now I wanted to make the damn white title bar at the top be dark. I know it was possible to get rid of it (and it is gone on Windows already), but I like having the site title at the top. Now to get some help I posted my question in the Reddit Firefox CSS section and got the answers very quickly. So again I entered about:config in the url bar of Firefox to go into the advanced settings. And first set browser.tabs.drawInTitlebar to true, and it was set to false which allows the OS to draw the title bar, when set to true Firefox draws the title bar so the color can be changed using a #titelbar tag in the css. When I set this the title bar went away, but I was able to turn it back on in the customizetoolbar settings. To get there right…

The Best Dark Mode Browser plug in to make all those bright web sites dark is Dark Reader

As soon as I switched my Mac to dark mode, I immediately began to hate all the white on web sites. It is glaring to see so much white on web sites, when everything else on your computer is dark. Some web sites, switch from bright to dark when they detect dark mode, but most have done nothing about it. So it turns to web browser plug ins fill in the gap. Unfortunately most do not work well. My favorite is the free open source Dark Reader. It is available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge, though strangely costs $5.99 for safari, and doesn't work quite the same with the site list, though it still does the conversion of pages just as well. The plug in gives you options to change your settings on a site by site basis. And you can keeps sites from being affected or set individual sites to work. It is a great plug in and works the best of any dark mode I have seen and it doesn't send your user's data anywhere.

PremiumBeat on things to Check When Adobe Premiere Pro is Lagging

Logan BaKker at PremiumBeat by Shutterstock's blog on Things to Check When Adobe Premiere pro Is Lagging. Honestly I wish I had written this, and have written about some of it previously, especially not working with compressed formats. And it cracks me up that people don't render in to out when necessary, not only does it speed up playback but also exports significantly! This is a must read!

PostPerspective on Digital Anarchy’s new Text-to-video paper cut conforming tool for Premiere

Randi Altman at his postPerspective site has an article on Digital Anarchy's Text-to-Video Conforming Tool for Adobe Premiere Pro. Digital Anarchy has expanded it's Premiere Pro transcription tool to add Rough Cutter. And it can use a transcription from any source including the free Adobe Sensei captions, and it will literally make a paper cut. And for only $199. Wow, that is a little scary. I have worked at many places where you literally cut a rough cut in a day, then did b-roll coverage on day 2 and clean up and music on day 3 and shipped behind the scenes pieces. Of course as an editor I have always felt that just letting an editor edit will give better more organic material as it is based on not just what they are saying, but how they are saying it, but there are certainly places to start with a paper cut and if you can do a paper cut this easily the $199 is literally nothing.

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.