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Adobe Releases Creative Cloud 2015

17 Wednesday Jun 2015

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Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015 Splash Screen

Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015

This week Adobe released the 2015 versions of its Creative Cloud suite of apps. There are lots of new Premiere Pro features, including many intriguing features centered around mobile interactivity. But the big ones that look like I could incorporate into my workflow immediately are:

  • Lumetri Looks, for simpler, faster color grading
  • Morph Cut, which seamlessly blends two clips to hide a jump cut
  • Dynamic Link improvements, for better integration with After Effects and Audition

There are more cool features, like Character Animator, integration with Adobe Stock, Creative Cloud Libraries, and lots of other stuff. Check out the full list of changes here.

Creative Cloud 2015

OS X El Capitan Promises Adobe Performance Boost

09 Tuesday Jun 2015

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OS X 10.11, "El Capitan"

OS X 10.11, “El Capitan”

Apple announced the next iteration of OS X yesterday – El Capitan. Along with a few minor features that look promising (split view, tab muting in Safari), Apple is touting improvements in graphics rendering that could lead to performance boosts in Adobe Creative Cloud apps like Premiere Pro.

Adobe claims their own tests showed an 8x improvement in After Effects rendering.

The update will be released this fall, but early adopters can volunteer as beta testers at apple.com.

Official El Capitan Page at Apple.com (Scroll to the bottom for Beta program signup.)

Apple OS X El Capitan to Improve the Performance of Adobe CC Apps

Move Presets from Media Encoder CC 2013 to 2014

17 Monday Nov 2014

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If you’ve installed Adobe Media Encoder CC 2014 and want to get your custom presets from 2013, it’s actually pretty easy. Do this:

  • Find your 2013 Presets directory. Mine was in /Users/jmatthewturner/Library/Preferences/Adobe/Common/AME/7.0/Presets
  • In Media Encoder 2014, in the Preset Browser panel (top right by default), click the Import Preset button.Import Preset Button
  • Navigate to your 2013 Preset directory, highlight all your presets, and click Import.

That’s it! You can use them immediately without even restarting.

Premiere Pro Audio Synching Pitfall on Large Files

12 Wednesday Nov 2014

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"Could not synchronize one or more clips in the current selection because a match could not be found."

So impatient!

Just a quick tip: if you’re seeing the error message “Audio synchronization failure – Could not synchronize one or more clips in the current selection because a match could not be found” when trying to create a multicam clip synched via audio tracks on large files (inhale) – make sure you’ve waited long enough for the audio to conform.

This threw me off today after importing two hour-long clips that I needed to use for a multicam clip. When I checked each clip, Cam A was fine, but Cam B had no audio. Since I was using a rented camera for Cam B, I assumed something might have gone wrong with the on-board mic (Cam A had the real mics), before remembering to check if the audio had been conformed yet.

Since audio takes so long to conform in Premiere Pro, I had already googled the problem and read three different dead-ends before I opened the clip again and discovered the audio magically appeared.

Conforming Audio

Conforming Audio

An easy mistake to make, so I just thought I’d post this for anyone else impatiently googling that error and not finding the answer. Check the bottom right of your screen to see if it’s still conforming!

Use NeoFinder to Reclaim Hard Drive Space

28 Tuesday Oct 2014

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NeoFinder

Duplicates Found

I’ve written about NeoFinder before. It’s a great tool to keep tabs on files across multiple external hard drives. (Basically, it creates a searchable database of every file on each of your drives, which you can then quickly search even when those drives are not plugged in.)

Ok, so that’s great. Easily worth the cost of a license. But what’s even better is the built-in “Find Dupes” feature. Once you’ve cataloged all your drives, just hit the Find Dupes button and it will let you know what projects or files are living on multiple drives.

I cleared over 100 GB in just a couple minutes when it reminded me that I had started a recent project on one drive and then moved it to a portable drive to finish it. (And it found quite a bit more than that, which I’ll deal with when I have a bit more time.)

Check out NeoFinder if you haven’t already. Really – I’m totally vouching over here. Great stuff.

Adobe Premiere Pro / Audition Roundtrip Tutorial

09 Thursday Oct 2014

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I created this tutorial for anyone who needs an overview of working with audio in Adobe Premiere Pro and Audition. It includes a basic roundtrip, splitting a stereo track into mono tracks, normalizing speech with the Speech Volume Leveler, and EQ’ing for voice.

Adobe Doesn’t Care about Android People

06 Monday Oct 2014

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Adobe Premiere Clip

Andrwhat?

Adobe just announced the release of mobile versions of its Creative Cloud apps for media creation. Which is great, except that for Adobe, “mobile” apparently means “iPhone.”

At least for any of the apps that matter. A few are available for Android, but not Premiere Clip, not Lightroom Mobile, and not Photoshop Mix.

Creative Cloud / Mobile Apps

So, Adobe: a little help?

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A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film

03 Friday Oct 2014

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A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film

A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film

Didn’t mean to post two of these in a row, but this guy’s videos are pretty great. This one is about the evolving visual representation of the internet/technology in film.

I first noticed the on-screen texting thing earlier this year in Chef (2014). I guess I need to get out more.

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What David Fincher Doesn’t Do

03 Friday Oct 2014

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What David Fincher Doesn't Do

What David Fincher Doesn’t Do

This video beautifully articulates all the reasons I love David Fincher. Mind you, I didn’t realize these were the reasons before I watched it – but as I watched I just keep thinking, “yep, yep, that’s right, yep, love that, yep, ooohhhhh THAT’s why….” Etcetera.

Simple, Efficient Backup for Creatives

04 Wednesday Sep 2013

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ImageNOTE: This article was originally posted 8/11/2013.

Backing up our data is important. We all know that. But particularly for creative professionals, our data is our livelihood. Lose one project due to hard drive failure, and your reputation is ruined with that client forever. And yet, so frequently I find that freelancers and even small companies don’t maintain adequate (if any) backups. Why?

Expense is always an issue, but with today’s hard drive prices, it’s no excuse for risking your client’s work and your reputation. If the confusion inherent in the backup landscape is your excuse, then I’m here to help. You don’t need a RAID array or a NAS or a SAN or a data locker to take basic precautions for data redundancy. Below is a simple, effective backup strategy I developed for a small production company I used to work for, and which I implement now in my own freelance practice.

Step 1 – The Archive
This is where your projects go to die. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. Let’s say they “retire.” Because you never know when a client will want an update to something you produced for them two years ago, or if you’ll want to go back and grab an old After Effects animation to use as a template in a new project. The Archive is where projects live after you think you’re done with them.

The Archive is simple. For every hard drive you need to keep archived material, you buy two. So if you have 1 TB worth of old projects, you buy two 2 TB drives. You put all your projects on one of them (leaving room to grow), and then you mirror it to the second. Whether you need one, two, or twenty drives, you keep them all mirrored, all the time. There’s no mismatching – each hard drive has an exact mirror. There’s no throwing projects just anywhere and then trying to remember to back them up somewhere else later, when you get a chance, and THEN trying to remember where on Earth either of those copies went. Projects enter The Archive chronologically, so when you need something you just need to remember approximately when you finished it, and then find that drive.

Step 2 – The Working Drive
Next, for active projects, you get a portable drive and a place to back it up, and do the same thing. If you’re a freelancer, that’s pretty much it. If you’re a company with multiple editors, you give each editor a personal portable Working Drive and a place to back it up. They keep all their active projects on that drive, and they keep it with them for those inevitable times when a client needs something unexpected over the weekend.

If you’re a freelancer, it works in the other direction – your Working Drive is always available to bring to a client’s location when necessary, and always has your current work on it. You can just buy two identical portable drives, but a cheaper solution is to back it up to another desktop drive. I use Time Machine to back up my portable to my Time Machine backup drive along with all my system files.

Step 3 – The System
Now we have a simple, elegant backup solution. Keep all current work on your portable Working Drive, and keep that drive either mirrored or backed up to a desktop drive. When you close the books on a given project, move that project to The Archive, make sure that it’s mirrored, then remove it from your Working Drive to reclaim the space for your next project.

You can perform the mirror backups manually, or you can use software to automate the process. If you’re on a Mac, Carbon Copy Cloner is a free program that will keep two drives matched, always updating one to match the other whenever changes are made. (If you’re using a PC, then you probably have 20 different options, none of which actually work any better than CCC.)

Bonus Level – Off-site Backup
If you’re serious about backup, you need to also think about off-site backup. Keeping all your drives mirrored protects you in case of hard drive failure, but in case of fire/flood/theft/volcano, you’re still hosed. So if you want to take that extra step, it’s built into the system: just take those mirrors and keep them somewhere else. If you’re a freelancer, keep them at a friend’s or family member’s house, or store them in a bank safe deposit box. If you’re a small company, send the mirrors home with some trusted employees. You’ll need to retrieve them when it’s time to update the mirror, but c’est la vie, amirite?

Agitator Level – But what about the cloud?
If you’ve got Verizon FiOS or an OC-3 connection, by all means, just dump it all to the cloud and forget everything I said. Crashplan has some reasonably priced plans and comes highly recommended by the interwebs. But for the rest of us, HD video is far too massive to realistically back up to the cloud. It would take days of a constant streaming upload to backup just a few hours of footage. So please stop showing off; if we had FiOS in our area, we wouldn’t rub your nose in it.

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