Premiere Crashing on Checking "Enable Display Color Management" in the Preferences

Premiere is crashing when I check the "Enable Display Color Management" in the Prefs.
And then I get a black empty Program window and a black empty Viewer window on trying to re-open my project. Second try, all I get are BLACK WINDOWS. Nothing loads.
Super Premiere, really cool. OK third time is a charm, re-opened finally. "Enable Display Color Management" has turned itself OFF. I guess it will stay that way.

(Mac Pro 5,1 with Sapphire AMD Radeon 7950 for Mac.)

"This Mac can't connect to iCloud because of a problem with..."

Update!

Grrr... This creepy message is back again, I'm sick of it Apple!

"This mac can't connect to iCloud because of a problem with..."

"Open iCloud preferences to fix this problem"

Grrr... Apple, I've had this problem for weeks now, I've reset the password, nothing works, each time I start again, here comes the message.

Finally today I was able to get rid of it by doing the following:
1) Start the Mac,
2) Go to System Preferences Panel, iCloud and Sign Out,

3) Make sure you are keeping things local if you need to, else all the iCloud related files will be erased from your computer, be careful here, when you are logged out of iCloud,
4) Restart the Mac,
5) The stupido message should not appear this time -duh! You are logged out of iCloud,
6) Go to System Preferences Panel, iCloud and Sign In,
7) Restart the Mac to see if you finally made it.

For me that did the trick, pfff.

Update: Nooooo! It's back!!! What a pain this is.

Adobe CC April Updates + Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve 16 Teaser Page!

Adobe updates CC Apps ahead of NAB 2019.
https://theblog.adobe.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-spring-2019-releases/

Refinements, refinement. Automation galore. If you want to replay the Live Video of Today, head over to: https://www.facebook.com/adobecreativecloud/videos/801757826867284/

Sidenote: Adobe, please time to ditch Facebook for Live events, I can't stand it anymore. You have your own Cloud System; make Live vids on your own.

Whoa! Blackmagic is teasing us ahead of NAB 2019 with Resolve 16!

A revolution in editing has been promised for April 8th 2019 at 9am.

Tune-in to see what it's about.

Down under is stealing the show!

Adobe Encore, AUDIO_TS Folder Build ISO

Believe it or not I am still making DVDs with Encore in March of 2019.

One annoyance I encountered recently is that Encore does not make an empty AUDIO_TS folder when Building an iso file from the current project.

I know this has always been the case. Previously I did not make an iso directly, I created a DVD Folder, manually added a AUDIO_TS folder, and then used Toast to make the iso. Only I a not using Toast anymore. What to do?

Well I actually found a workaround:
1) Build the project as DVD Folder from Encore (Output=DVD Folder, Source/Create Using=Current Project.)
2) From the Finder add an empty AUDIO_TS folder to the newly created DVD Folder as usual.
3) Back to Encore! Select Source/Create Using=DVD Volume instead of Current Project. Select the newly created DVD Folder from the Finder.
4) Select Output=DVD Image instead of DVD Folder.
5) Build!

Voilà, new iso file that includes the empty AUDIO_TS, using only Encore.

FCPX Youlean Meter

A note re. the use of the Youlean Meter, (possibly other meters as well, to be tested), when using it in Final Cut Pro.

The way I do it, I bring my stems in FCP (VO/Dia, Music, Effects) and I group them into a Compound Clip. I apply Youlean Meter to the Compound Clip.

Now that's all fine and dandy, you will notice though that adjusting the level of the CC does not change the reading of the YLM.

So if the volume of the CC is anything other than "0dB", you could have too hot/too low levels on output while YLM shows everything is fine. Watch that one!

If you want to adjust the levels, you must do it on the Stems, inside the CC. Then the YLM actualizes accordingly.

How to delete a color from the Apple Color Picker custom swacth?

The custom color swatch drawer is a great way to store custom colors that I repeatedly use in projects.

But how to delete colors from it? Click and delete does not work, click and drag it away doesn't work either... 

Only way I found is to click and drag the pot of color to the Trashcan! Simple enough... When you know it.

Apple Pro Apps and Apple Pro Video Formats Updates

Apple Pro Apps, Final Cut Pro, Compressor and Motion got an update on 11/15/18, showing up in App Store:

Apple Pro Video Formats 2.0.7 is also showing up in the Software Update on Mojave:

FYI here are the differences between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7: