Premiere Pro April 2022 release (version 22.3) is out for most (though I don’t have it yet) here are the new features

For most Adobe has updated Premiere Pro to April 2022 release (version 22.3) and here is there page on new features.

Excitingly it includes Frame.io Integration and thus Camera to Cloud support, you just login with your creative cloud ID and you get a 100GB account, of course it isn’t free as creative cloud has gone up $2 a month, but still cheaper than buying your own account.

I was at a company that was trying to test using Creative Cloud for offline edit workflows, and it was an interesting experience. Not quite there, especially how it creates it’s own h264 previews and you can download low and high, but it isn’t really a remote editing solution yet, but still a powerful review software.

And the biggest feature isn’t the redesign of the Import and Export panels and the new preset manager, and the new header bar, which have been being tested in beta for a while now.

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Export
Export Preset Mananger

I still think there is too much twirling down to be done in the presets for export, which is more clicks, which I am never for.

At least the new Header Bar has been listened about and you can now show 3 workspaces as well as Import, Edit and Export. In their original implementation the workspaces were all in another menu, which is slower, when only real beginners need Import, Export all the time.

Auto Color powered by Adobe Sensei should help beginners get a quick starting place for color correction, unlike the old version. This was cvalled Auto Tone in the beta, and is a powerful start to color correction, if only Adobe would bring back a full Lemtri color suite like SpeedGrade.

And the new show hide Marker colors very cool for those who use a lot of markers, like me, when I log footage I use makers instead of subclips.

Other new features include Speeech to Text for Cantonese, Trim Playback Looping from Playhead instead of nearest edit, a Remix Progress indicator, Support for Sony Venice 2, Change est Size in text Panel, and customized clip name in EDL exports.

ProVideoCoalition Adobe Insights on Performance Improvements for workflows and adobe sensei in Premiere Pro

ProVideoCoalition has an aticle on streamlined workflows with Productions in Premiere Pro as well Speech to Text using Adobe Sensei as well as the upgraded Roto Brush 2.

I can honestly say I don’t ever want to work without Speech to Text, it is amazing, and game-changing, it really is.

And Roto Brush 2 I can’t say that I think it is a better roto necessarily, but it is so much damn faster that it is mindblowing.

Adobe has updated Photoshop to version 2022, October 2021 release, version 23.0 at Adobe Max

So Adobe has updated photoshop to 2022 with more Sensei Features.

THE NEW FEATURES ARE

•Automatic Selections on Hover via Adobe Sensei (can’t wait to give this a try)

•Share for Commenting via Creative Cloud

•Improved Interop with Illustrator, import vectors with color, stroke, and properties as well as layer structure and vector masks.

•New and improved Neural Filters, with betas of Lanscape Mixer, Color Transfer and Harmonization powered by Adobe Sensei

•Improved Gradients

Improved Export As worklfows

Adobe updated After Effects to 2022, October 2021 version 22 at Adobe Max

So at Adobe Max yesterday Adobe upgraded After Effects to version 22, October 2021 release, of course this is now the unified version number of the video suite, so after effects 22 works with Premiere Pro 22.

New Features are

•Fast Previews and Renders with Multi-Frame Rendering which has moved over from the beta

•Reimagined Render Queue with Remote Notifications via the crative cloud app on your phone, tablet or even watch

•Composition Profiler, which will help you see which layers and effects take the most time

•Speculative Previews, After Effects will now render when you have been idle for a set period of time

•Export faster with Adobe Media Encoder using mult-frame rendering, and you can continue working

•Improved 10 Bit HEVC playback

•Enable LUT Interpolation method selection, either Triliner or Tetrahedral

CURRENTLY IN BETA

•Scene Edit Detection using Adobe Sensei

Adobe Premiere Pro is adding an Adobe Sensei Speech to Text Auto Transcription feature, and I wish I was beta testing it right now

 

Javier Mercedes has this video on a new feature that Adobe is beta testing right now, automatic Speech to Text using Adobe Sensei.

Unfortunately it isn’t just in the Premiere Pro beta, you have to request access, because I could use it right now. 

This feature would be mind-blowingly amazing for cutting testimonials, which as a commercial/direct response editor I could use almost every day.

The video shows just how impressive this feature is.

It makes me wonder if they will expand on the feature to allow editing via text, or if the jumping to the place in the sequence via the text will be the extent of it.

I also would like to see the options for exporting the text, as I would love some way to automatically export these as documents that could be automatically uploading to producers.

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And here is the Adobe page for the new feature. You can also sign up for the feature there.