Premiere vs. FCPX - Part 3

Premiere is very sluggish on this short film, granted I'm not using the proxy workflow, and I have a lot of disparate materials. And some large stills.

FCPX seems to degrade the playback on the fly in such case, but never gets stuck the way PP does. I'm set at 1/2 playback by the way, and sometimes a few seconds pass without anything happening on screen, then it catches-up all of a sudden, and I've missed everything in-between.  All audio goes bonkers as well, it degrades to the point of unbearable noise being introduced. Solution? Stop, and play again.

I like a lot the fact that FCPX always keeps the timing right, no stuttering, only in rare occasions, and the image is never degraded to the point that Premiere degrades it if you playback at 1/4 for ex. That's very, very comfortable. Premiere (and After Effects) still lack on this point.

Even at 1/4, PP is not reacting fast enough to show you images of each clip if you hold the up or down arrow to navigate the timeline. FCPX does, it does not skip clips randomly the way PP does.

Man I HATE this zooming feature of Premiere, and I keep hitting Shift+Z to make my cut fit the Timeline. What is the shortcut to do that in Premiere? Ah! It's "\", well I am remapping this to "Shift+Z" in PP Keyboard Shortcuts. There, and "\" now goes for Zoom to frame.

Grrr, while I'm at it, I am also remapping Add Edit and Add Edit to All Tracks to "Command+B" and "Shift Command+B", instead of "Command+K".

And some more...

Large still pictures are likely the culprit here.

Uh, oh... More Adobe weirdness

So I had this upgrading problem with Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App:
http://humanuser.blogspot.com/2016/09/adobe-creative-cloud-desktop-app-does.html

Since then, all was fine. And then tonight, out of the blue:

MacKeeper has hijacked my Safari browser

I don't know how this page from MacKeeper got opened in my Safari browser on the first place, but now these weasels are feeding some code that block from leaving the page or closing the tab or window in Safari. They are trying to force you to install their sorry ass software.

I found this solution in order to leave this crap page without having to quit Safari:
- Go to Safari / Preferences, turn Enable Javascript OFF.
- Type something in stuck the address bar, like http://www.apple.com
- Go back to Safari / Preferences, turn Enable Javascript ON.

Adobe Premiere love

Adobe Premiere showing some love. Yeah!

To Adobe's credit, the recovered project was spot on where I left it.  That said I manually saved right before the crash.  Had I not...

Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App does not update (Error code: 86)

I'm trying to update Adobe CC Desktop App to v. 3.8.0.310 from the App itself, but NO GO!

That's the third time I try, and the third time it quits in the middle and nothing gets installed.

The App disappears from the Menu bar, when I restart, I'm where I was before: CC App calls for an update...

I when online to Adobe.com and downloaded the stand alone Adobe CC installer:
https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/desktop-app.html

Ran the installer, which initiates a download of CC Desktop as well, in the middle of the download I get an error message:

"We've encountered the following issues:
Another version of Creative Cloud desktop is currently running. To Continue, please quit that instance and click retry. (Error code: 86)"

What the hell? Clicking "Retry" brings the same error message over and over.

- SOLUTION -
https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/uninstall-creative-cloud-desktop-app.html

This is what worked for me:
Download and run the Adobe uninstaller:
https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/help/uninstall-creative-cloud-desktop-app.html

After this goes through, run the Adobe installer:
https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/desktop-app.html

There! This time it worked. Ahh!  The bliss.

My favorite stock music sites

My favorite stock music sites are Premiumbeat and Musicbed.

Why? Because they have a VOLUME setting.  Ahhh!... The luxury.

Take that Audiojungle, Pond5 and others. I can't stand having the music blast my ears off each time I listen to something.

Plus we all listen to online preview while playing our cut in the NLE, and damn it we need some adjustment control here!

Music sites, you MUST have volume adjustment on your previews!