Adobe’s Speech Analysis is still chugging along in Premiere Pro CS5.5

When Adobe introduced CS4 they also introduced a new feature that many thought would be the suite’s first real killer feature: Speech Transcription. I think the fantasy might have been this: gone was the day of paying a human to transcribe footage as the machines could finally do it for us. That wasn’t the reality as the results were often a garbled mess. The humans continued to do a better job. Adobe’s transcription accuracy has been improved since version 4 and with CS5.5 it’s actually usable. I used it recently and I’m convinced it saved a lot of typing.

Critical Evaluation goes OLED

The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.  Sony’s BVM-E170 and E250.

The place: Palm Springs.  The time: February.  The audience: a generous portion of the world’s best informed, most demanding users of professional monitors all gathered for the HPA Tech Retreat 2011.  It was here that Sony chose to introduce our second-generation OLED monitors: the critical evaluation BVM-E170 and E250.  According to Debra Kaufman, blogging for Studio Daily, the retreat’s emcee Mark Schubin called these monitors “what we’ve been waiting for.”  You can read Mark’s own blog posts here and here.  Pro Video Coalition’s Adam Wilt recaps the technical presentation here.  So why are these monitors such a big deal?  What relationship do they have to today’s high dynamic range cameras?  And what does OLED imply for you? 

Video Is Just Another Form Of Literacy

With production and post costs plummeting, will everyone use video as another form of writing?

In this episode of The Terence and Philip Show, the discussion revolves around the question of whether or not “video production” is ‘just another form of literacy’.

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Want to beta test some maintenance tools for Avid and Premiere Pro?

If you’ve been using Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Studio for any length of time then you’re probably aware of FCS Maintenance Pack. It’s an incredibly useful set of tools from Digital Rebellion that aims to help diagnose, troubleshoot and fix problems with Final Cut Studio and its related applications. I liked this little set of tools so much I did a Q&A with the creator a while back. Now they are looking to move the tools to Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro for the Macintosh and they’re looking for beta testers.

Audition: Made for Video (Part One)

Adobe recently released Production Premium CS5.5. With this new release, there are some amazing new features designed specifically for motion graphic designers, vfx artists, and editors.

I was fortunate to get a chance to try out early versions of several of the applications, and couldn’t wait for the release date this past April. My reason? In addition to the numerous updates to applications in the Production Premium suite – including ‘major upgrade’ features like the new Warp Stabilizer, Camera Lens Blur and Light Falloff features in After Effects - I was really excited about the inclusion of Audition into the Production Premium and Master Collection suites.

Here is a look into my own real-world workflow using Audition.

Internships in Post, Good Idea or Bad?

In episode 27 of “The Terence & Philip Show” Philip and I are joined by former intern and current Alpha Dogs’ employee Isai Espinoza in a discussion about the value of Internships to both the employer and the intern.
How to get the best out of an internship, and what’s in it for the employer are the main subjects.
In typical fashion, this quickly leads to a discussion about breaking into the business, and what it takes to make it.

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Update Alert! Apple ProKit 7.0

Yesterday Apple pushed out a Pro Applications update in the form of ProKit 7.0 for Snow Leopard 10.6.6 and later. It doesn’t look to be anything more than some minor issues with FCP, Motion, Soundtrack Pro and the Logic apps. This one: “Fixes leaks and improves stability for the color picker and timecode interface in Final Cut Pro and Motion” intrigues me a bit. I installed yesterday and so far all seems well. It’s available from the above link or via Software Update.

Native Format Editing in Adobe Premiere Pro

In the past few years, a barrage of new video acquisition formats and recording methodologies have sprouted like mushrooms after the rain. The major shift has come in the form of tapeless, file-based acquisition that uses equipment that has its roots in the information technology industry.

As video post-production has scrambled to keep up, editors have been left with little choice than to become ersatz compression specialists and computer technologists. We all wear a few extra hats these days, but there are times when you just want to do what you do without a lot of additional work.

Adobe Systems has heard the cries of editors everywhere, and kicked open the door on a completely different way of working with tapeless, file-based media. Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, which is available standalone or as the anchor application of the Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium bundle for both PC and Mac, is the company’s latest gambit in the evolution of non-linear editing and post-production. If you tried and dismissed Premiere sometime in the past before the software received a ground-up rewrite and gained the “Pro” suffix, it’s time for a second look. In this article, I will review both the general theory of the tapeless native file format workflow, and also give specific instructions (including video demonstrations) on how to get up and running quickly.

Disclaimer: Yes, I am an unabashed fan of this workflow, and can’t help sounding like a kid in a candy store about some of it - but read on and you’ll soon understand why.

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