Behringer U-Phoria UMC204HD Crashes Audio MIDI Setup When Unplugging Headphones...

Behringer U-PHORIA UMC204HD crashes Audio MIDI Setup when unplugging headphones from the headphone jack...

What is this Behringer? Apple?

This is quite remarkable, anybody has experienced a similar problem with Behringer USB audio interfaces, or other vendors USB interfaces? Let me know in the comments.

Premiere Has A Ongoing Problem With Direct Export (PP CC 13.0.2)

Premiere still has a hard time exporting just a few seconds of program via Export/Media/Export. This has been a real plague for a long time and it is a PAIN.

Of course it Freezes! I Force Quit Premiere, it stays open. As seen in the Activity Monitor, it's definitely crashed. Finally I Force Quit, Re-Open the project, nada. It is stuck there with black empty windows, doing nothing.

Alright time to TRASH Premiere preferences, super. Starting PP holding "Option"...
Open Project, going back to yesterday's version. Finally it opens. Great, trying to export a few seconds worth of program, AGAIN.

... Estimated Time Remaining: 44 seconds. 44 seconds once... 44 seconds twice... 44 seconds three times... NOTHING HAPPENS, Premiere is STUCK! I'm now spending half an hour trying to export a few seconds, do you see the problem Adobe?

Force Quit again, "Sorry a Serious Error Happened" fucking message. Launching premiere AGAIN, trashing Prefs AGAIN. Opening the project AGAIN. See the project is not corrupted, it opens fine. OK I'm making this export a whole minute, I'm exporting to another hard drive. Same thing, stuck there doing no export whatsoever. Fuck it.

Exporting and sending to AME via Queuing... WORKS JUST FINE.

Adobe, please fix this.

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.