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.

ProVideoCoalition on should you be uploading 4K Video to YouTube

Nick Lear at the ProVideoCoalition has a must read article on if you should upload 4K video to YouTube. I do love that since YouTube re-compressed everything you should basically upload in your editing format, since they don't have upload limits like Vimeo. It is pretty funny that Adobe Media Encoder's YouTube settings are H.264, but I guess it saves your bandwidth.