Adobe Updates Premiere Pro CC to versions 12.1 April 2018

Adobe just updated Adobe Premiere Pro CC to version 12.1 April 2018.

Adobe Lumetri Color has been updated, and you can now compare your shots while color correcting either side by side or split screen.

They have also added an FX Bypass option to temporarily turn an effect on and off, and reset an effect.

There is also a new Match Color across shots with a single button click using Adobe Sensei technology.

They have added a new Lumetri Color Custom LUT Directory and they will show up in Creative Looks dropdown or the Input and Output LUT’s come from the Technical directory. Thee are both local user and all user directories.

These can be found for a local on a mac at:

/Users/<user_name>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/LUTs/Creative

 
/Users/<user_name>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/LUTs/Technical

Or for all users on a mac at:

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/LUTs/Creative

 
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/LUTs/Technical

These can be found for local users on a mac at:

C:Users<user_name>AppDataRoamingAdobeCommonLUTsCreative

 
C:Users<user_name>AppDataRoamingAdobeCommonLUTsTechnical

Or for all users on windows at:

C:Users<user_name>AppDataRoamingAdobeCommonLUTsCreative

 
C:Users<user_name>AppDataRoamingAdobeCommonLUTsTechnical

Premiere Pro now has the Essential Sound Panel within Premiere Pro and it has Auto-Duck for Music.

And you can now directly open a premiere pro sequence in Adobe Audition to save steps.

For Graphics, you can search for Motion Graphics Templates across local folders, creative cloud libraries and Adobe Stock.

You can now create Gradients and Shapes in the Essential Graphics Panel with editable opacity.

You can replace Motion Graphics Templates with new versions by alt/option dragging an updated template onto one in your sequence, and you can chose to replace one instance or all in the sequence.

You can now toggle animation for each property of graphics layers in the essential graphics panel.

There is an improved interface and new controls for Motion Graphics Templates including 2D position, rotation and scale.

There are VR enhancements for immersive monitor support, and Windows Mixed Reality as well as improved VR Plane to Sphere.

Team Support has updated, with improved tracking of online collaborators. There is also better project management, and view read only versions of your project.

The Timecode panel has been improved with more options for viewing.

The Video Limiter has been improved and it can be added per shot or as an output effect.

You can now Copy and Paste sequence markers.

There has been H.264 Hardware acceleration in Windows 10 with 6h generation or later intel core processors.

File formats have been added for Canon C200, Sony Venice, and Red Image Processing Pipeline. Also Quicktime 7 era formats and codes have been dropped.

Tutorials have been added within the app from the new project as well as the learn workspace.

Awesome, can’t wait to try it out.

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