Kollaborate
Pro Maintenance Tools
Pro Media Tools
CinePlay
Post Haste
Preference Manager
FCS Remover|
Maintain, optimize and troubleshoot your NLE
|
Professional cloud workflow platform
|
Simplified media management
|
Ever wondered what each tool in Creative Suite does? Here's a great summary.
How to build a Thunderbolt Hackintosh
A guide to building a faster Mac Pro with Thunderbolt for half the price.
Smoke ConnectFX: Damage and Deform Nodes
Great overview of two useful nodes in Smoke 2013.
This is an overview of changes in the new DNG specification. DNG is an open alternative to proprietary raw still image formats such as Canon CR2 and Adobe offers a free DNG converter.
Performance Enhancing Visual Effects Techniques
List of various VFX techniques to enhance an actor's performance or improve story clarity. I seem to do #7 a lot, often having to add establishing shots or remove entire characters from the movie.
What could the new Mac Pro look like?
I'm not convinced Apple will go for a modular Mac Pro design (and the jury's still out on whether the Mac Pro will ever be updated) but it's an interesting and well-designed proposal regardless.
We've got more important, useful and bizarre bugs this week that you should know about.
A fix for the hang when scanning media folders is coming in 6.0.3.2
Various issues with ExFAT drives
Avid FX installer does not install the Avid FX plugin by default
Issues with AMA linking 24p CanonXF files
Despite what it says on Avid's site, the Artist Color only fully supports MC 6 and higher
New Mac NVIDIA drivers improve CUDA stability
Audio goes offline after pasting clips from another project
Application windows may appear offscreen if you disconnect a monitor (Windows but may affect Mac too)
Playback stops several frames after you pressed Space
Tip: to enable CUDA support, delete the entire cuda_supported_cards.txt file instead of editing it
QuickTime HDV file issues in Premiere Pro CS6 for Windows
Various issues with standard definition media
Here's more important, useful and bizarre bugs that we discovered this week.
Media Composer and Symphony 5.5.3.5 released
MC launches slowly unless network access is disabled
'Online Resources' window hangs Avid
Typing too quickly in Subcap causes characters to be swapped
Workaround for unsupported foreign characters in Marquee
Canon EOS clips appear blank when Perian is installed
Workaround for "Audio has attempted to overrun its buffers" error when capturing
Adobe has released updates for a security issue on Windows
The main problem affecting users of Adobe products is that the code signing certificate will now expire on October 4th, which could cause Windows error messages or problems with anti-virus tools. It is therefore worthwhile installing the updates before October 4th. Mac users do not need to update.
Problems with Adobe Application Manager on Windows showing applications not installed
Workaround for titles not appearing in exports
Retimed clips need to be nested in order to add additional effects to them
Very useful list of frequencies you can equalize to remove or enhance certain elements of the sound.
What are secondary storylines in FCPX and how do you use them?
Macbreak Studio provides a great overview of this useful Final Cut Pro X feature.
David Bourne on his reasons for switching to a PC.
DaVinci Resolve: Which GPU provides the best acceleration on the Mac Pro?
Radeon GPUs seem to perform poorly with Davinci Resolve when compared with NVIDIA cards.
Demystifying the After Effects CS6 Performance Cache
Overview of the new caching system in CS6 that aims to improve performance.
Little fix to make using Premiere CS6 a little bit better
A set of smaller cursor icons for Premiere Pro CS6 to fix the problem where cursors appear large when zoomed in. Note that you'll probably need to re-add them whenever you install a new Premiere Pro update.
Here's another roundup of some of the important, interesting or bizarre bugs we came across this week.
Unable to relink to an image sequence from an EDL
OS X 10.8.1 approved for MC / Symphony 6.0.3.1 and 6.5
Background Tasks window not appearing after OS X update
SuperDrive not appearing when cards are in the third PCI slot
We've compiled another list of critical, interesting or unusual bugs you should be aware of.
You can no longer mark in and out to select an audio region for keyframe adjustment in MC 6.5
Clips in bin not staying highlighted
Corrupt audio transitions can throw duplicated sequences out of sync
H.264: How would you like that wrapped?
Interesting discussion about MP4 vs MOV containers. We recommend MOV for the reasons mentioned in the article and also the fact that it supports timecode tracks.
Freddie Wong details why his company is switching from Mac to PC. He makes some good points and it's the same reason why we're developing for both Mac and Windows now.
Adobe Premiere Pro Plug-In for ARRI RAW
Adobe has released a beta Premiere Pro plugin for ARRI RAW files.
File Naming for Video Editors, Designers and Photographers
Premium Beat provides lots of useful tips for file naming. Our free Post Haste tool is useful at enforcing naming conventions.
RED has introduced a $42k black and white camera. It will be interesting to see how well it sells.
Round Trip between Avid Media Composer and Davinci Resolve
Video tutorial showing how to roundtrip between Media Composer and Resolve. The comments are worth reading too.
This week we've got more critical, interesting or unusual bugs that you should be aware of.
Adobe released Premiere Pro CS 6.0.2 with many bug fixes
Unable to change position / scale of retimed clips
CUDA processing unavailable with multiple monitors
Premiere doesn't maintain folder structures when importing directories
Maximum bit depth creates strange artifacts
Avid Media Composer 6.5 released
Here's a list of some of the smaller changes in MC 6.5
A site bug is preventing students from upgrading to MC 6.5. Avid is working on fixing it
Dupe detection disappears when effects are added
Quad split reverts back to single frame when playback stops
DVD Studio Pro keeps burning an old version of a DVD
Avid AMA Best Practices
This has been a hugely popular post so check it out if you haven't seen it yet.
Anatomy of an iMac Suite
Walter Biscardi details how he built a Premiere Pro iMac editing suite with Small Tree shared storage.
When to use and when not to use Fixed Resolution in Motion 5
Interesting discussion about Motion 5's Fixed Resolution option for imported objects.
Twenty Premiere Pro CS6 Power Tips for FCP Editors
More useful Premiere Pro information from Clay Asbury.
SpeedGrade 6.0.3 Update
Adobe has released a SpeedGrade update with Retina support and various bug fixes.
Smoke 2013 Pre-Release 3
Autodesk has released a new pre-release of Smoke with a big overhaul to the conform workflow.
5 After Effects Tips and Tricks for Video Editors
Excellent tips for navigating in After Effects.
Exporting Low Res QT from Avid…Fast
Great tip from Shane Ross for quickly exporting low-res QTs in near-realtime with timecode burn-in. Also check out the comments for additional tips.
This week we've got more serious, unusual or interesting bugs that you should be aware of.
Crashes and kernel panics with new CUDA drivers
Workaround for conforming multiclips
Almost invisible interface text
Workaround for keeping handles when sending to After Effects
Remove Effect also removes locators
Third-party plugins can conflict if they reference different versions of a third-party framework
Cut Notes
CinePlay
Aspect Ratio Matte Generator
Video Space Calculator