Adobe Premiere + Media Encoder Ultimate Crap On Mac M1

 I've been fighting Premiere and Media Encoder for a while now. I can tell you that they are not ready for serious work that involve h264 as of v. 22.6.2 and v. 22.6.1 respectfully.

Do not use Premiere or Media Encoder for anything serious with h264 in your workflow and a deadline, it's totally unreliable. The software will give you random problems at any time during post. h264 footage? Forget it! h264 exports? Hell no!

You've been warned.

Here is the first seconds of yesterday's export (h264 VBR 2):

Jagged edges, total fuck up of the animated title. Thanks Adobe!

Here are the first second of today's export (h264):

More jagged edges, extra flickering for fun.

Another royal clusterfuck courtesy of Adobe.

Mind you these are 20+ minutes exports, and only the first second is fucked up. Consistently. With various degrees of fuckery. No way to know what it looks like until it's finished encoding.

This is what it supposed to look like:

Of course when I only select the first second of program, the export is fine.

So now I have to output a ProRes422 version that I will use to encode to h264 with Compressor. One more hour of work, plus 100GB of wasted space.

F.U.C.K Y.O.U. Adobe.

Premiere Is Such A Buggy Piece Of Software

 I'm loosing hours everyday because of Premiere's instability and multiple bugs.

It feels like an old software (it is), and it feels like it's trying to catch up, but not really. Premiere was buggy from day one, and it still is.

Avid got (part) of their act together, and cleaned up some code. Not entirely, but enough to get you by.

Adobe on the other hand seem to be building more code on top of buggy code. Throwing new features constantly, but never fixing what needs to be fixed. As new features get implemented, new bugs appear, on top of old ones.

The traps are endless. It's hair pulling, and it's killing your business if you are an independent editor. Do not use Premiere if you have hard stop deadlines, you will be burned.

Today just opening the full screen playback got me a crash. I force quit stupid Premiere and the full screen is still active, frozen, and does not want to go away.

Restarting Premiere, no go. Nothing happens. It froze the entire computer, now I have to restart.

F#$K YOU PREMIERE!

Adobe Please Add This Feature Request To Premiere That 400+ Users Are Asking For

Reorder / Rearrange Video and Audio Tracks

It would be amazing to simply grab a track and move it up or down in the order of the sequence. This was something I could do easily back when I used Vegas Pro. Occasionally, I have big, complex sequences and would like to reorder the tracks for organization purposes or for shipping off to audio master. Thanks!

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/33891022-reorder-rearrange-video-and-audio-tracks?page=1&per_page=20

Seriously, yes!

Adobe, users have been asking for this feature for 4 years now. Please add it to Premiere ASAP, it is mind boggling that it it still does not exist in Premiere. It should be a priority.

Every other NLE / DAW does it. Even your own Audition does it! Why not Premiere?

On top of it, as of version 22.6.2 on Mac M1: Premiere screws up h264 footage. Premiere has a Warp Stabilizer bug. Premiere has a bug displaying Multicam audio waveforms. AME has a Create New Ingest Preset bug.

What are you guys doing, Adobe?

Adobe Premiere And Media Encoder Are Totally UNRELIABLE On Apple M1 Silicon macOS Monterey

 Premiere 22.6.2 and Media Encoder 22.6.1 have been pissing me off for the past few weeks. I had to take over this project that was started in Premiere, and I have experienced problems after problems with Sony MP4 and GoPro footage.

Image tearing up randomly, no matter what I try, it happens one way or the other. Premiere or Media Encoder, Silicon or Intel version, GPU, no GPU, Hardware accel, not accel, whatever I try, nothing works and I end up with tears and macro blocking on export.

I finally got fed up and transcoded everything to Apple ProRes. It's just 10 x the media size, whatever.

 Guess what. Freaking AME teared random images in the middle of random clips! I kid you not, this is not even edited, this is a raw MP4 clip from a Sony camera, transcoded to ProRes with AME.

And this is happening, at random:

What on earth is going on Adobe? Look at this macro blocking! Two minutes into a 10 minutes clip. This total crap goes on for a full 30 frames!!! An entire second of media screwed by Adobe.

This is a second attempt at the same transcode. Perfect. Wait, what???

Conclusion: Adobe is not ready for Silicon M1 Macs. Do not use Premiere or AME for reliable operation if you are on a Silicon Mac with Monterey.

Adobe, FIX THIS NOW!  And don't tell me it's Apple's fault. FCP and Resolve work reliably with MP4 footage. There is zero reason why this is happening but your laziness. At this point you should give me money to use your a$$ software, not the other way around.

Everything Is A Subscription 👹 Now, Including My Services As An Editor. I'm Looking At You Sony.

 Everything is a subscription 👹  now, not only do we pay a hefty price for cameras, Sony's in particular, but now Sony wants more money from us 🥀🌸CREATORS🌷 to use all the camera's features in post. And of course it is a subscription 👹, what else!

I present to you 🙌Catalyst Prepare Plug-in🙌, a free crippled plug-in for (crippled) Sony cameras - I kid you not. Or if you fork additional extortion money, a (semi) full (semi) featured (kind of) plug-in on a subscription 👹 plan for $99/year (at the moment, I'll bet you it will increase way faster than inflation):

The price for the rip-off annual plan is determined by the rabbit in the hat, and by the way, we can cripple the software any time you won't see your money back. So long suck3r! Err, we meant to say: 🦌Dear 🥀🌸CREATOR🌷!

Brought to you by Sony 💪uber functional😵 🙌Imagine Edge Software Division🙌 . I would not touch this 💩 with a yard long stick. But we Sony offer you this gift, oh revered 🥀🌸CREATOR🌷.

The Free features of this 🙌amazing🙌 plug-in are as follow:

1) Color Adjustment (Exposure Index, LUT, ISO.)

2) Importing Shots Marks

3) Importing OK/NG/KEEP Flags.

The give me rent money or go 👆 yourself SUBSCRIPTION 👹 ONLY features are:

1) Image stabilization and Lens Breathing Compensation. (Not supported by any cameras at the moment.)

You see there is a WATERMARK HERE if you wish not to pay for the subscription 👹. Really, really we do care.

Whoa! I'm floored! Wonderful! Delicious! Oh! So pretty Sony!

Hmmmm. Hard sell Sony. Nixing in-camera IS and in-camera BC for what? More work later in post?

OK basically Sony wants 🥀🌸CREATORS'🌷 money for features every single NLE already have, and for the privilege of using a newer (crippled) Sony camera and for doing in post what other cams do in the box.

 Yo! IS and BC are available in post man!

 Not a feature Sony. Bad premises Sony. Going backward Sony. 

Only available for Premiere Pro, how about FCP? Avid MC? Resolve? Everything else? Uh?, as of now it's: 👆 yourself losers, it's Premiere or nothing. We Sony tell you 🦌Dear 🥀🌸CREATORS🌷 what to use, not the other way around.

Not looking forward to the future according to Sony.

Hey Mr Sony, how about interchangeability in post? I guess whomever bleeds for the subscription first (hey dude I bought this cool cam, look, shit I need to pay more dough to actually use all these cool features... OK I'm a suck3r already, here is more $ Sony), will have to convert all the footage with baked-in IS and lens BC. Actually it doesn't even deliver the BC part, that's for later, but we'll take your money now anyway, cause you know, F.👆.C.K Y.👆.U. 🦌🦌🦌Dear, Dear 🥀🌸CREATOR🌷.

All The Best, Have fun with our cameras!

Now we want to take over post.

Signed: 👹👹👹 Sony Imaging Division 👹👹👹

Invasive Mosquitoes Attack And Grow In Number In Los Angeles California - Real Bugs

 The mosquito population is growing in LA. Two invasive species in particular: the Asian Tiger Mosquito or Aedes albopictus, and the Aedes aegypti.

https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/pages/Aedes-aegypti-and-Aedes-albopictus-mosquitoes.aspx

https://cisr.ucr.edu/invasive-species/asian-tiger-mosquito

Not sure which ones are in larger numbers in my area, but I feel the ones I battle nowadays are the darker Tiger Mosquitoes. The pesky creatures are invading parks and yards, and sneaking into buildings without windows screens, or as soon as the screen is opened to allow for air circulation, which is needed these days as we get hit by successive heatwaves.

Both species are bad news anyway since they can carry dangerous viruses and transmit them to humans, plus they are incredibly annoying and sting badly.

Aedes aegypti (Wikipedia)

Aedes albopictus (Wikipedia)

As mentioned in the UCR and CDC articles, it is agressive and bites anytime during the day, although I notice that, like all the mosquitoes, they are more active at and around dawn.

It is also very sneaky, it flies in zig-zags around you for a moment and then attacks relentlessly. If disturbed it will fly off and hide for a while. Makes you think it's gone. Not at all, it is just resting nearby, usually in a shaded and cool area, before laughing it's next attack.

It is small in size making spotting it relatively difficult. When biting, it monitors the environment around it with its sensors, so a swift move is needed to splat it, else it will escape if you're too slow.

It likes to bite your ankles the most. I also got bit on hands, elbows, behind the knee and upper leg, feet and on the neck. It bites through light fabric as well, like thin socks.

I find using an electric but zapper (or electric swat racket) works well when the insect is flying if:

1- You have the patience to observe and follow the insect movement as it figures where it's gonna bite, you need a good vision.

2- You "scoop" the insect with the racquet in a bottom-up movement. If you try to zap it sideways or from the top down, and you're not fast enough, it will detect your presence and escape. From the bottom up you need less speed as it seems to be much less aware of what's moving/coming from under it.

You can also monitor your ankles, legs and feet, as it is likely to attack there first. Again be patient, let it land. Approach your hand no closer to about one foot (any less distance and it will detect you and escape) and then strike as fast as you can.

Before going to bed, inspect your bedroom, I found a few specimen hanging on the white walls. They will bite you as you sleep, so kill them before they can attack you.

Mosquitoes repellents or loose clothing that cover your skin (or both) work well if you can't be bothered with all that hunting nonsense. But know that it only repels them for a while, and if they are still alive, they will continue to attack. I've killed 20 of then last week alone.

Adobe Media Encoder Stops Encoding In The Middle Of A Job - Warp Stabilizer Bug

Mac M1, macOS Monterey, Premiere Pro 22.6.2, AME 22.6

  Two weeks on Adobe Premiere / AME and I'm fighting hell daily. Premiere is the plague of the business.

OK so after the unresolved issue of Premiere tearing up h264 footage on export, now AME decides to stop in the middle of a job (Premiere Project / Timeline / Export Media / Send to Media Encoder.)

The program is 21min., AME stops at 11min. No warnings, no message, nothing, just stops as if it was done. Whatever Entire Source or In/Out Selection is used, same result.

Checking the Timeline I see that Warp Stabilizer has been used on some clips (I inherited this project) right where AME calls it quit.

In the Timeline it actually shows a black frame at the tail of each of these Warp Stab clips. Why? Another Premiere bug.

I killed all these stabilization effects, and what do you know, it goes through encoding the entire program this time, no problemo.

So basically Warp Stabilizer in Premiere is UNUSEABLE, at the minimum UNRELIABLE and it makes AME stop encoding the program as soon as it is encountered.

Adobe, fix this NOW!