Adobe Bridge 13.0.3 is in Death Star mode on my Mac mini M1...
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Adobe Bridge 13.0.3 Has A Memory Leak On Mac M1 With macOS Monterey 12.6.2
Thursday, July 13, 2023
Adobe CC Free Sound Effects Library Download
If you are like me, you always need more and more varied sound effects for your editing. Adobe gives away a small but useful collection of sound effects. I downloaded it in 2015, and I don't think it's been updated since.
Go to Adobe download page, or click on individual links below.
https://www.adobe.com/products/audition/offers/AdobeAuditionDLCSFX.html
The sounds are conveniently grouped by theme and the total space for each is indicated.
Ambience 1 (1.3 GB)
Ambience 2 (1.16 GB)
Animals (95 MB)
Cartoon (83 MB)
Crashes (80 MB)
Drones (1.3 GB)
Emergency Effects (180 MB)
Fire and Explosions (490 MB)
Foley (121 MB)
Foley Footsteps (128 MB)
Horror (108 MB)
Household (311 MB)
Human Elements (203 MB)
Imaging Elements (273 MB)
Impacts (727 MB)
Industry (94 MB)
Liquid and Water (585 MB)
Multimedia (180 MB)
Noise, Tones, DTMF, and Tests (213 MB)
Production Elements (866 MB)
Science Fiction (73 MB)
Sports (81 MB)
Technology (166 MB)
Transportation (1.4 GB)
Underwater (974 MB)
Weapons (53 MB)
Weather (396 MB)
Thursday, July 6, 2023
iZotope False Advertising: Everything Bundle Advertised at $199, In Reality Is $499
iZotope is misleading users by falsely advertising prices in email campaigns.
Here is iZotope email to me, advertising the Everything Bundle for $199:
And when I click on the link, the actual price of the Everything Bundle is $499:
What gives iZotope?
My Final Cut Pro Vertical Videos Exports Look Blurry! Why?? It Has To Do With Custom Destinations
I was using a previously created custom settings preset to export a vertical video in FCP and my export was really blurry.
I just updated to Monterey 12.6.7 and immediately thought the update broke my custom presets/destinations.
It only happened with vertical / portrait videos, in this case 1080x1920. Horizontal / landscape videos were unaffected.
See for yourself:
This shit happened on FCP Share/any previously created custom presets/destinations, and in Compressor as well if I used any of the previously created custom presets.
Creating a new custom preset worked just fine in Compressor and in FCP as well after adding the presets as destination. Exporting to File, using h264 or ProRes was not affected, just custom presets, and only the ones that I created before (or so I thought) 12.6.7 update.
And it was not just the custom h264 presets, previously created custom ProRes presets were blurry as well, less so, but still visibly blurred.
And it was not a case of a corrupted Project. I created a brand new vertical 1080x1920 Project and the same thing happened.
Horizontal / portrait videos, ex. 1920x1080 below, were not affected:
On the left, export using previously created destination/custom preset. On the right, export using Export File (default.) They both look fine. (Click on the photo to see it properly.)So to me it looked like all custom presets created in Compressor prior to Monterey 12.6.7 were now screwed when exporting vertical videos... 🤬
Or were they?
Not so fast grasshopper!! I was quick to blame Apple on this one, in fact I was the one to blame!
What was the cause of my torments then?
Simple: I created and saved custom presets that LIMITED THE RESOLUTION TO 1920x1080.
You see the problem? My vertical video that's 1920 pixels tall was resized to 1080 pixels tall, of course it was blurred! On top of this I had modified the Quality settings of my saved presets which COMPOUNDED THE BLUR problem.
And actually, if I had looked at the Inspector within Quicktime Player, I would have seen that the video had a resolution of 608x1080... Way smaller than the Project's 1080x1920 resolution.
And so, that's why horizontal 1920x1080 videos exported just fine with the old presets still. And why creating a new preset, leaving the resolution to the default 4K, exported just fine as well.
That's it, a small thing indeed. So next time your export looks blurry, maybe it's just a setting somewhere in your custom presets.
That's it. Happy Exports!