Defringe in Adobe Lightroom 4.1: A Killer Feature.
The New Defringe menu in Lightroom 4.1
Fringing, the bane of a photographer’s existence. Unlike Chromatic aberration, which is more consistent, Fringing is due to errors in the camera sensor or lens that often cause color shifts around in focus objects. Oftentimes this will appear as green and purple, with different color behind and in front of your in focus area of the image. Most often they appear when shooting a lens wide open. High end full frame camera’s can fix this automatically, but for others fixing this usually involved some Photoshop work.
However there is now a simple yet robust way to do this in the newest version of Lightroom 4. Above you see the new defringe panel, it allows you to precisely pick colors to defringe via sliders or even better the eydropper tool for accuracy. Lets take a quick look at this great new tool in action. (more…)
Adobe: Give us a Muxing status in Media Encoder!
It's quite annoying when after a 20+ hr render it just stops, goading you that the file isn't complete.
Adobe Media Encoder is a wonderful program. Adobe’s encoding side program to Premiere Pro, it an excellent video encoder with fast multi-core and Nvidia GPU acceleration. Aside from more native format compatibility, I only have one problem with the program: there is no progress bar for the muxing of the file.
For those who don’t know, multiplexing or muxing is when a program puts an audio and video stream into one file. Media Encoder renders both streams then after rendering will put the files together. For example say you want to create a h264 video file. Media Encoder render the video .m4v and a .aac file for audio then combines them in an MP4 file.
Normally this isn’t a problem at all, as a five minute video takes 30 seconds or less to splice together. However when the video is long, and that leaves you waiting with the bar reading 00:00:00 and crossing your fingers it is working properly.
I had to wait 30 minutes with no sign of the current status of the file, no indication of that status or if the files were being combined at all.
Select "None" in Media encoder to get the Audio and Video files sperately.
Media Encoder does allows you to render the streams without muxing them, so you can do it separately with another program if you wish (I’m a fan of MP4tools). But for convenience I sincerely hope Media Encoder CS6 will have a status bar showing the muxing status of my file. It’s simple and convenient.
Space Shuttle Endeavor.
Night time launch of the space shuttle Endeavor on February 2nd 2010.
