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Performance is a topic of never-ending interest to me. How do we make the most of our existing gear? How do we pick new gear without breaking the bank?
Last week, as I was prepping for up-coming classroom training on Premiere Pro, I learned two interesting facts: First, when you open a Premiere Pro project, every element in it is loaded into RAM. Since projects are stored on disk in a compressed form, opening a project can often expand into gigabytes of memory; far more than any media caches.
Second, Premiere Productions are designed to minimize the amount of RAM needed for complex projects - whether they are edited by a team or a single editor. I've always known that Productions are designed for collaboration. What I didn't know was the benefits they provide to solo editors. This insight became my lead story.
Link: Adobe Premiere Pro Productions Boost Editing Speed & Project Organization
My lead story got its spark from Adobe's "Best Practices & Workflow Guide For Long Form and Episodic Post Production." This is an in-depth resource for any Premiere editor regardless of what projects you work on. It provides guidance on how to optimize your system, features you may not know about, workarounds for known problems and just a wealth of really helpful information. If you haven't read it, it will be well worth your time.
Link: Adobe Best Practices Guide
Apple released bug fix versions for Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion and Compressor. No new features, but squashing bugs is always a good idea. Here are the details.
Link: Apple Releases Bug Fixes for Final Cut Pro, Motion and Compressor
In the news:
FXFactory announced DialogueEnhance. This audio plug-in removes background noise and automatically applies EQ and compression to fix recordings made in noisy environments or by inadequate microphones. This AI-based audio plugin supports Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Logic Pro, GarageBand, Audition and Avid Pro Tools.
Link: https://fxfactory.com/info/dialogueenhance/
Filmworkz is promoting DVO Velvet. This tool removes extreme video noise, manages low light shots and makes otherwise unusable shots usable. This is part of Nucoda DVO Tools. A free trial is available.
Link: https://filmworkz.com/dvo/dvo-velvet/
EditShare announced they are launching EditShare One at IBC in September. EditShare One gives a single, streamlined experience across all of the company’s high performance production asset management and media storage solutions. EditShare One boosts productivity by simplifying interactions, with an intuitive user experience at every stage of the creative process.
Link: EditShare One Features
Sony launched its version of Camera-to-Cloud: "Sony Ci." Recently Teradek and Sony collaborated on a webinar demoing how this system works.
Link: Sony - Camera-to-Cloud
Maxon announced significant updates for Maxon One users. These include RedShift, Trapcode 2023.4, Forger, and Capsules. The list of specific new features is too long for this newsletter.
Link: Maxon One New Features
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