With the introduction of the SpeedGrade CC 7.1 and Premiere Pro CC 7.1 Updates today, everyone will get their hands on the awesome new Direct Link feature between Premiere Pro and SpeedGrade. This feature allows us to quickly open a Premiere timeline directly in SpeedGrade do our color correction and then return to Premiere without having any of the complications of rendering, xmls, edls, or intermediate files. In my early testing, I can attest to the ease of the new workflow, but there is one caveat I wanted to make sure everyone is aware of. Watch the video for full information and warning about using Lumetri Looks in Premiere and sending them over to SpeedGrade.
Category: Premiere Pro
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Saturday Night Live Film Unit Adds reLink reTooled to Workflow for Stefon’s Farewell
When the Saturday Night Live season finale aired on May 18, the cast bid farewell to longtime Weekend Update correspondent Stefon in a sketch that used pre-recorded elements conformed on the innovative new tool reLink reTooled.
The short was directed by Rhys Thomas and shot by Alex Buono. Editor Adam Epstein cut the piece inspired by 1967’s The Graduate using Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. Colorist Emery Wells of Katabatic Digital color-corrected the footage in Scratch and rendered the final material to Apple ProRes 4444 for the final conform process. The piece was shot using a combination of Arri Alexa, Red Epic, and Canon EOS 1D-C cameras.
In previous edits, Epstein was forced to realign every shot in the Premiere Pro timeline, redo any repositions, blow-ups, and speed changes and make sure they matched the original offline cut. For the final Stefon sketch, Epstein turned to reLink reTooled, the groundbreaking tool that uses industry standard XML to relink to files of different durations and file names without the frustrations of traditional editing applications.
With the tight timeline of SNL production and post schedule, Epstein shaved precious time off of the process by automating the relinking process and maintaining key information like speed changes and motion properties. “We’re always working up to the last minutes before air, and the final color-corrected overcut is normally the final step. Being able to automate what is often a frantic process and have spare time to focus on other details of the piece is an immense help,” he said.
reLink reTooled can be used with programs like Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro and allows editors to relink timelines with user-selectable metadata.
Watch Stefon’s sendoff:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/491721Learn more about reLink reTooled:
http://www.retooled.net/?page_id=784Pricing and Availability
reLink reTooled is available immediately, priced at $39.99.
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New Features in Premiere Pro CC 7.0.1 Update!
Well, it seems Adobe has kept their promise to use the new Creative Cloud platform to deliver a whole slew of new features. Now I don’t just mean bug updates as we had seen in the past with the Creative Suite, I mean upwards of 25 new features. In this video we go through the biggest changes to Premiere Pro CC and what you should know and expect from these new features.
And yes, I don’t talk about in this video and I haven’t tested it myself, but there is a fix in this update for the horrible Multicam bug that a lot of users were experiencing!
Check out the video as these really are some big new features.
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Media Manager or Project Manager in conjunction with reLink reTooled – Work From Home
Ok, so if you’ve been following the site you probably know about reLink reTooled. You know that it was created to be able to relink files of different titles and durations, for things like relinking an offline edit to a color correct.
What you may not have realized is there is a ton of other ways to use it. In this video, we talk about using it in conjunction with Final Cut Pro 7’s Media Manager or Premiere Pro’s Project Manager. Now we all know we can use these features to archive our projects to make our project smaller. But we can also use them to be able to take our projects on the road without the overhead of all of the original media.
So here’s the scenario, you’ve been working all day on an edit and its starting to get late. You want to finish up the edit at home, but you don’t have time to copy all of the media to an external drive. After all, a large edit could easily contain hundreds of gigabytes worth of footage. Sure, you could media manage your project so you can trim your sequence down to just a few seconds of handles to finish your edit, but how would you then get your edit relinked to your original media when you get back to the office.
Enter reLink reTooled…
Just remember, all of your media needs to be .mov files for this workflow to work!
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Working Around a Premiere Pro CC Bug to Sort in Icon View
So, if you are like me, you were really excited that Premiere Pro CC got the much needed ability to sort in Icon View. There are a number of predefined methods you can sort by, and you can even create a custom sorting order by using metadata in list view and choosing the “List View Sort”. For more info on these great new features, see this article.
However, the big disappointment is that as of right now, these custom sort methods don’t actually work in List View or Icon View. Meaning, you can click on the column header to sort, but it just won’t take! You can see this issue in the video linked to above. Now, this post isn’t intended to bash the engineers at Adobe, hopefully they are hard at work on the solution as we speak. It is merely intended to give you guys a potential work around.
For me the issue was that I wanted to be able to sort in Date Created order. I had a number of cameras that name their files differently, shoot to different formats and frame rates, and don’t shoot any meaningful timecode. If I merely sorted by Name, it would sort each camera in Date Created order, but all 3 cameras would be separated from each other. I wanted to see all 3 of the cameras placed in the right order and mixed in with each other.
I decided that my only solution needed to happen before I ever took my clips into Premiere Pro. I opened up Bridge CC, made sure to sort my folder of videos by Date Created, and simply evoked the Tools-Batch Rename option. There, I set up a few custom rules to basically keep my original file names while adding a 3 digit sequential numbering to the front of my file name.
Now, when I load my clips back into Premiere I can simply sort by Name and know that my clips are in the right order. I should warn that this project is a single person type of operation, so if you are sharing clips with others and need to make sure you have the same file names this would not be the way to go. This is a distructive process (unless perhaps you save the originals in metadata and find a way to go back), so please use caution when using this workaround yourself.
To make sure Adobe knows about this bug and sees there is demand to fix it, file a bug report by clicking here.
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Marker Features and Changes in Premiere Pro CC
WARNING, THIS ARTICLE IS OUTDATED. SEE UPDATES AT THE BOTTOM:
Markers saw a major overhaul in Premiere Pro CS6, and these features saw a few enhancements in Premiere CC. While these features may not address all of users issues with the marker system in Premiere, it certainly goes a long way to improving a few of the pain points.
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Introducing Color reTooled – Color Correction Looks Presets for Premiere CC and SpeedGrade CC
Color reTooled is a collection of over 55 presets for Adobe Premiere Pro CC and Adobe SpeedGrade CC.
As an Online Editor and someone who cuts his own short films, I know that sometimes it’s a hastle to take your work into another program to do color correction and sometimes, you just want to drag on a few simple looks and go about your business. I also know that a lot of editors don’t enjoy or know how to color correct. That is why we developed Color reTooled.
In Premiere, you can easily drag and drop the looks onto your clips. This makes it extremely simple for an editor with little color correction experience or in a hurry to make changes to the look of their clips. From the most simple brightness and contrast effects, to black and white, vignettes, and tints, there are looks to fit all of your color correction needs.
Color reTooled is being launched today, to coincide with the launch of Premiere Pro CC and SpeedGrade CC. We wanted to make the package affordable on any budget so that productions from large to small get get up and running with the new Premiere and SpeedGrade interoperability.
Click here to order! Color reTooled is on sale now! Just $12.99!
See samples of all of the looks now:
