The screen not updating during tracking was an improvement in 13 or 14.x, I believe, because that slowed the process.    Thank you for confirming this. As I mentioned, I seem to recall it was working before.  I do mask tracking on most of my projects.   I'm not sure what else to try, since reinstalling has no effect.  I may have to go Medievel and delete everything Adobe related on my system, and start fresh.  Perhaps installing a third party effect borked it.  I have quite a few installed.  About the same time, I installed the upgraded Impact Transition suite.  Could be a coincidence, too. ... View more

No, a reinstall of the OS just does the OS.  All your documents, plug-ins, apps, mail, settings, etc. are safe - as long as you don't use the "erase and install" option.  Since the only utility I've found that works on Catalina is the Apple Disk Utility / First Aid, a reinstall is the only thing that clears up OS related problems, as far as I'm aware. ... View more

You don't have to reinstall plug-ins.  They don't get wiped when you uninstall.  I have dozens of audio plugs, and they have to be rescanned after a reinstall, and that take about three or four minutes.  I have dozens of video plug-ins and scripts as well, and they too are unaffected by uninstalls.    Even the Adobe Cleaner tool leaves dozens of files behind.  I don't recommend using that - ever.   Reinstalls aren't as bad as they used to be.   I didn't mention imaging, but I clone my boot disk before doing OS updates, just in case; and weekly to have backups of my mail and documents.  I don't use Time Machine.  I only let Spotlight index my boot disk, too. I exempt all my RAID drives from indexing.   BTW, when I got this new Mac, I did a clean install of EVERYTHING with the latest installers.  It took a day and a half.  I only used Migration Assistant to bring my Documents over from my previous system.   Anyway, you're welcome, and good luck. ... View more

Well, you do what you gotta' do.  I can attribute at least some of my fixes to reinstalls.  When Pr stops working as expected, either a pref delete or reinstall fixes it.  When the Finder disappears, or app switching stops working, reinstalling Catalina fixes it.    I have gigabit ethernet, so reinstalls of Pr take 5 minutes, and Catalina 15 minutes.  Not as bad as some prior one-hour reinstalls with High Sierra, etc.   I do not have a Pegasus RAID, and I agree that seems a remote candidate for the video module issue.  I have three other external RAIDs attached to my MacPro at various times.  Some times, all three have been running while I phased out the oldest one.  Two of them have proprietary drivers - ATTO and OWC (SoftRAID).  AFAIK, all they do is affect RAID operations - mounting and RAID health monitoring. You can easily eliminate the Pegasus as a suspect by uninstalling the hardware and drivers.  If the issue persists, that exonerates the Pegasus. ... View more

I've been running 14.01 and now 14.0.3 on 10.15.3 on my MP7,1 with Vega II with few problems for months.  I work all day most days on Premiere and Ae, and finish a new project on average every three days. If you haven't tried these, and your issues persist on multiple projects with different kinds of media, maybe you should:  uninstall Premiere then reinstall (I've done this at least ten times on CC2020.) boot into the utility and reinstall Catalina (at least five times) ^^^ Do either or both after you've trashed prefs, caches, video previews, etc. to no avail, and ruled out corrupt project, sequence, or media. If CC 2019 is working for you, then that's great.  IMO, the only new features in 2020 worth having are the increased speed ramp values and audio gain.  I could easily live without either, because I already have for my entire life. ... View more

Neil, we've gotten off-topic here, but while we're at it...   I complained about the Track Matte effect years ago.  At the least, Adobe should add a checkbox for the matte not to scale with the tracked layer.  In the meantime, nesting is the only workaround in Pr I know about.  Synching keyframes can be a challenge, but at least when we double-click a nest, the CTI matches the relative location in the nest as in the holding Sequence.  I do a bit of jumping back and forth between the two, do the keyframing bit by bit.  I use Ae when I want something more complicated.  I prefer to stay in Pr to do my work when I can.  I'm surprised no third party developer has taken the challenge to make a usable track matte effect.  Hard to believe there isn't more demand for one.  FCP7 had alpha and luma track mattes in their menu of compositing modes where Add, Multiply, etc. resided.  How Adobe can't (or won't) even get similar functioning to ages old After Effects capabilities is beyond me. ... View more

I have tried using Lumetri as a track matte.  It's not ideal.  Rather than stack 4K clips in a 1080 timeline, you have to nest them first in a 4K sequence because the Track Matte scales with the matte layer.  What would make this scenario even better is if Adobe would implement a Minimax effect (Ae has one.).  That would allow us to grow or shrink our track matte layers.  Neither Lumetri or Colorista allow for matte growing or shrinking; just blurring which results in shrinking, and "giving away" the effect.  That could also be implemented in the effect without resorting to Minimax and separate layer mattes. I investigated ColorCone.  Looks pretty cool and reasonably priced, but I have a resistance to FxFactory, and how you have to install their app to use their plug-ins.  Sadly, RedGiant has adopted a similar model with their Application Manager app that's constantly "phoning home" on my computer, according to my Little Snitch network traffic monitor. Please let us know if you find ColorCone has changed your life. jasonvp, thanks for the info on Metal, etc. ... View more

Hi Neil, Normally, I export from Pr for my review movies, but yesterday, I was mastering some approved videos and had a use for how AME allows for two simultaneous encodes of the same sequences.  In this case I was exporting H264 and ProResHQ. I've got iStatMenus on my menu bar, and I noticed that AME was using, and maxing out all my cores AND my GPU while encoding.  I hadn't notice that before when exporting from Pr.  I had read that AME uses the same renderer as Ae and Pr, so this surprised me a little.  My computer got sluggish, too, as expected when all my resources are being maxed out.  But, normally when I'm exporting from Pr, I can switch over to Firefox, Mail, Excel, etc, and not notice any reduction in overall performance. Sounds like you've got a pretty nice setup going.  I'll look into ColorCone.  I've been researching alternatives for color work.  I found a cheap ($25) plug-in on AeScripts called ClearPlus that does AMAZING things with blown out skies, but it tends to introduce artifacts and posterization on some settings.  I'm looking for that "magic bullet" (by any company) that can do the same thing without the downsides, if that's possible.  So far, I haven't found anything close.  What it seems to do is add contrast to highlights only.  I can get close with the Curves in other plug-ins, but not close enough.  I corresponded with the developer, and he told me that it uses some of the Adobe Content-Aware technology.  I can see that internally, it's creating a secondary, due to the glow effect I see on secondaries I often create in Lumetri and Colorista. Shame on Apple for telling people to deprecate a superior technology.  The onus is on them to bring their Metal tech up to par, if not exceed what they're telling people to diminish.  I keep hoping the next rev of Catalina will bring that, and sooner rather than later. ... View more

Hi Sumeet.  Good to meet you.  I have the AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 32 GB in my new MacPro7,1.    Yes, I've applied hundreds of effects to hundreds of clips since I got this computer in December.  I'm a full-time editor working out of a home office.  Almost every clip gets color correction.  Many clips with interviews get Digitial Anarchy's Beauty Box for it's excellent Shine Remover.  It's GPU accellerated.   I first noticed the difference with Red Giant Colorista IV.  It was a remarkable downgrade over Lumetri in my 2012 MacPro5,1 with Nvidia Titan X on Pr CC18, in which Colorista was fantastic, with real-time updating.  On the new Mac on Pr CC 19 or 20 (or 13.x or 14.x), I get very sluggish performance using Metal, and significantly better in OpenCL, but both are still clunkier than I was experiencing with CUDA.    So, now, I'm using Lumetri as my primary effect for color.  There are things I like better about Colorista, mostly the secondary matte creator.  I like the idea of the flesh tone overlay, but I've found it to be erroneous and unreliable. Being available for hire to multiple clients, I use a variety of source media, but the majority of it since December has been Sony MXF, RED RAW 8K, some Canon C200, DJI, and GoPro.  I've done a couple projects with lower end codecs - 8-bit, Long-GOP, 4:2:0, AVCHD.  That may not help, due to the variety.   I'm naturally experiencing significantly better performance and faster rendering of codecs and effects that use the CPU, as my new MacPro is 24-cores. ... View more

It would be faster to just put the four points where I want them with the pen tool, if it weren't for the bizarre handle behavior.  The default rectangle is rarely in the part of the frame where I want it to be.  That's an OK workaround, but not great, and counterproductive if the mask handles would simply default to typical Adobe conventions where they are linear until made otherwise.  Perhaps this could be preference in a future release. ... View more

I'd like to add that I find it very annoying that the default for mask points seems to be bezier handles.  My most used masks are rectangular, and when I try to move a point, it turns into a bezier handle, and that's not what I want for the default.  This is the OPPOSITE of how masks work in Ae and Ai.  Whey the inconsistency between apps from the same company? ... View more

It's working fine in 14.0.3.  That should tell you something.  But, I might try this later also when I have time to kill. ... View more

It may be related to being a third-party effect, Beauty Box.  I was dragging the slider, and never rendered the clip with the FX toggle off.  So, that rules out a previously rendered state.  I'll have to get back with you later about your suggestions to try, as I have projects to deliver, and am back on 14.0.3. It was discouraging to find a bug in the first two minutes of using an "update."  I should have known better than to update with projects ongoing, but I always have projects ongoing.  At least Adobe offers a fairly painless way to retrograde backwards. ... View more

Full agreement, Neil. Kerning should be consistent across all Adobe apps. It appears that Adobe acquired their text graphic technology for Premiere from some other company and tacked it on. Weird, because Adobe wrote the bible of PostScript, scalable font technology.  Thanks for discussing this with the powers-that-be.     ... View more

Neil, thanks for your thoughtful reply.    Perhaps I'm a bit too agency centric in my criticism of .mogrts.  I can see the benefit of them is one has dozens or hundreds of graphics to knock out that have the same design.  My main beef, which I've voiced many times is the kerning is ridiculous.  It doesn't follow the same Adobe format of placing the cursor between characters and using option-left right to increment the spacing.    Also, a bit of background.  For a time, I worked at the largest ad agency in the world (Omnicom).  There was an art director who would come to the edits just to inspect the kerning I made in the Avid Title Tool.  At the time, I thought that was ludicrous, but ever since, I can't help but notice bad kerning, and give all my text graphics a once-over for it.    About half of my clients are Fortune 500 companies who supply branding guides for their media.  After Effects is a design tool.  Essential Graphics isn't (although I do know we can make and color palette brand mogrts in Ae for use in Pr).  When I get GFX packages from clients' ad agencies, they're invariably Ae projects.  Logos have to be edited for video in Illustrator.  I'm linked at the hip to Adobe, whether I like it or not.  My recourse is to vent about the shortcomings.    "Until morale improves, the beatings will continue." ... View more

They are way too close to the green screen.  They shouldn't be casting a shadow on it.  The shadow area isn't green any more.  It looks mostly black and in the same color range as the guy's shirt.  That close, you also risk picking up green reflections on the talent that will key out.  You may need to rotoscope to fix this. ... View more

    One thing you can try when your background color to be keyed varies is to dupe and stack your footage, and key the different areas separately.  Create a mask on Opacity of the higher video layer. ... View more

I didn't know Elements was still on offer.  Perhaps that's what a majority of the people on this forum should be using, as by my observations, most posts are from amateurs too lazy to RTFM. If I were running the show, I'd strip all the "Essential" panels from Premiere.  They're not essential, as people who've been editing for decades, like me, have gotten along without them for a a long time.  I'd strip off the .mogrt support, as pros using MoGFX are likely to be using Ae, a more flexible design tool.  Adobe could eliminate the lame audio ducking feature if they'd just implement side-chain support for their and third-party compressor/limiters that's standard in most DAWs. It's this bloat with features for amateurs that's likely causing much of the instability and poor performance from Premiere "Pro," and costing Adobe the allegiance of many actual pros who need a stable, dependable editing platform. ... View more

I just cut a 4K sequence with 8K RED RAW source footage.  I was able to play the source footage at 1/2 resolution with no dropped frames, and my Sequence at 1/2 resolution with Colorista IV and Lumetri effects applies in real time with no dropped frames.  I could switch to full resolution, and get occasional playback without frame dropping.  This is likely only possible because I have a 2019 28-core MacPro with 256 GB of RAM and an 8-drive SAS RAID with between 600 and 1800 MB/s sustained io. I had a pretty beefy 2019 iMacPro for a few weeks last year, and my performance with Pr 2019 wasn't much better than it was on my 2012 MacPro5,1 cheesegrater.  What that, plus the host of tales of woe on this forum tells me is that Pr works fine on a super computer, but isn't well optimized for older, lower end computers and large format media sources. I think that Adobe should split Premiere into Pro and just plain NLE (not even premier, a word that means "best") that's optimized and maybe trimmed down, feature-wise for other than the best, fastest, most expensive current computers.  BMD seems to be doing this well with Resolve, according to the abundance of enthusiastic reports I've read. ... View more

Nice tip, Neil.  Looks like a workable way to get an idea of how the different LUTs are affecting footage. I'm working with a mixture of footage currently.  Some of it is 8K RD3, which you know has a Source Settings option in which we can apply a LUT.  What would be almost as helpful with RAW footage would be to see a preview of the LUT on the footage in a pane in the Import dialog.  That would make it easier to cycle through a variety of LUTs before choosing one to apply to the footage selection. If you have or have used the Default Folder for OSX, you should have an idea how this would work and look.  It's a very useful utility for enhancing navigation around drives and folders, that can display a preview of image files in Open and Import dialog boxes, among other features. I've already found that some LUTs crash Pr when applied to Lumetri that don't crash it when applied to the Source Settings for RAW or Colorista IV.  Some trigger an Event notification, but otherwise don't seem to have an adverse affect.  I haven't tried crashing MB Looks yet, but it's not as useful for scene to scene corrections as the others I have. ... View more

Neil, that's not quite satisfactory for my purposes.  I'd like to see what the LUTs look like on MY clips.    If you have MB Looks, or some of the BCC stylize group, and I suppose the GenArts plugs is that you can see the effects on your clip when you open their effects browser.  It would be nice for a plug-in (or whatever) to access a folder of LUTs, and show what the clip looks like on thumbnails of all the LUT's in a designated folder or favorites list. ... View more

Great points.  I typically use presets and LUTs as starting points, as I'm sure you and many other editors do.  I'm just looking to speed things up a bit.  I'm mostly using the LUTs from the camera makers. Sidebar: I spent about a year thinking I could color correct without using LUTs at all, but after watching some tutorials on-line, I learned (belatedly) that I was making the job harder than necessary.   I have the Resolve demo, but haven't installed it on this new computer I'm using yet.   Thanks for the insight. ... View more

I wish they'd get on it.  I'm not sure if this poor Metal performace is an OS thing or an Adobe thing. My hopes were raised when I read on MacRumors that NVidia might come around and write drivers for Catalina, which means I might be able to stick the Titan X in my box and use CUDA again.  But, I think Adobe would have to play along to use it in Ae and Pr, right?   One stark difference is with Red Giant Colorista IV, which on Pr 2018 with CUDA was smooth as butter, played in real time, and rendered quickly.  On Pr  2019 and 2020, the GUI is very laggy (two seconds can pass between making adjustments and seeing the result on the Program tab), making adjustments are jerky, there's no real-time playback with it applied, and rendering takes about 5X longer (!) than it did in my old 2012 CUDA equipped Mac Pro.  As I mentioned previously, it's faster with Open CL than Metal selected as the renderer.  IOW, Colorista IV is practically unusable on this new super duper machine.  Back to Lumetri, which is the cat's meow as far as response.  Now that it's the New Roaring Twenties, I'm using terms like "cat's meow."    23 Skidoo. ... View more