For quite some time I have been wanting a new Whale of a Tale Productions logo, and I have need for one in 4K as I have been posting some of my DJI Osmo Test Footage on YouTube.
I had recently upgraded a really old logo that had been NTSC to 4K, but wasn’t too impressed with the results, so I decided to create a new one that more closely resembled my new Business card.
So I went to trusty After Effects CC 2017 14.2, as well as Element 3D and Red Giant Tsunami and created the following logo bumper for Whale of a Tale Productions.
Someday I will tackle one in full 3D where the logo can interact with the water, but not right now. For now I am pretty happy with this one.
I am most excited to see the Essential Sound Panel makes it way to Premiere Pro!
Having full Lumetri in After Effects is also very cool, and will be quite helpful, though as you know I still mourn the loss of SpeedGrade as Lumetri is not nearly as powerful. And that in many cases means I have to go to DaVinci instead of being able to finish within Creative Cloud.
I am also interested in the Essential Graphics Panel, which brings both direct graphics creation on the timelines as well as changes to templates made in After Effects.
I am also interested in seeing Camera Shake DeBlur and seeing how it does with Warp Stabilized Footage.
The new Multi-Channel tools in Audition are also intriguing, though I would be happier having them in Premiere (especially if I could automatically move multiracks to multiple tracks instead of a single track), as while I do finish some jobs using Audition and it’s Essential Sound Panel, but mostly I go to a mixer using ProTools.
And having Pond 5 in the Adobe Stock panel is a great addition.
Overall I always look forward to playing with the new features, and am glad they come out as often as they do.
I shot some test footage with 3 of my cameras, my DJI OSMO+ my Canon 60D and my iPhone 6S. I color corrected the footage using DaVinci Resolve 12.5 and did the Visual Effects in Adobe After Effects.
The visual effects include adding the gun shots, light flashes, and color correcting the orange tip of my gun so it is gray.
I was trying to show my ability to color match the footage from such different 3 cameras, as well as add the visual effects to make an interesting little sequence.
Very excitingly a new 3D composition renderer from Cinema 4D, which I have read may be as fast as 20 times faster! Wooohoooo!!!
Performance Improvements with smarter GPU usage and more GPU accelerated effects!
An Improved Live Text template workflow, and Character Animator scenes in After Effects via Dynamic Link.
Also seamless integration of TypeKit Fonts, which will automatically sync if a font is missing when a project is opened (nice!).
New Project from Template with settings like color management and folder structure, which you can sync through Creative Cloud. I am so excited about this!
You can now freeze on the last frame.
You can set marker duration by dragging.
Avid DNxHD codec quicktime writing.
And finally Date and Time values in output name templates (YES!!! I know many companies that need to use this!).
As for new features, the big one is Team Projects. A hosted service allowing collaboration between Premiere Pro, After Effects and Prelude. This could be huge if it works well. I like how media mapping can be different for each user. Finally something to fight AVID in large multi-user environments!
In addition to team projects, it now has enhanced Captions and Subtitle support.
Enhancements to the Lumetri Color Tool Sets, which rocks, though unfortunately likely also spells the death of the separate and more powerful Speed Grade Application which once again is not getting an update here.
There is even more expanded VR support.
And destination publishing (something I will likely not be using).
And something I likely will be using enhanced Live Text Templates from After Effects! As well as visual Keyboard Shortcut mapping tool like AVID has always had.
It also will work better with Apple Metal, and have faster Dynamic Linking, And Media Encoder will stitch together multiple clips to ease file management.
It has the afore mentioned Team Projects, a new 3D rendering allowing bent planes and extruded 3D text and shapes within After Effects using Cinema 4D’s standard renderer!
It has faster performance with GPU’s and more GPU accelerated effects. The aforementioned Improved Live Text Templates, with TypeKit Font Sync.
And more Powerful Dynamic Linking.
And when creating projects from Templates settings like color management and folder structure can be passed on!
Yes there is a new king of the hill in the consumer video card arena, and that is the new NVIDIA TITAN X. I had expected this to take a while to come out after them releasing the new 10 series, 1080, 1070 and 1060, but it was quickly announced and is coming out August 2nd! Wow! And the specs are amazing!
GPU Engine Specs TITAN X GTX 1080
NVIDIA CUDA® Cores 3584 2560
Base Clock (MHz) 1417 1607
Boost Clock (MHz) 1531 1733
Memory Specs:
GbpsMemory Speed 10 10
GDDR5XStandard Memory Config 12 GB 8 GB
Memory Interface Width 384-bit 256 bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 480 320
Thermal and Power
Maximum GPU Temperature (in C) 94 94
Graphics Card Power (W) 250 W 180 W
Supplementary Power Connectors 8 pin and 6 pin 8 pin
That is an extra 1024 CUDA Cores for Adobe Creative Suite to play with, and an extra 4GB of faster RAM for not that much more power draw!
If you have been reading my posts, I have come to the realization that my next computer won’t be a Mac, and have been looking at custom build PC’s like Origin PC or Puget Systems. For a bit I was thinking that maybe 2 SLI GTX 1080’s would be the answer for my CUDA needs, but that would basically eat all of my PCI slots. And I likely need some sort of Black Magic Design card to kick out video at least to an HD Monitor for editing, if not an Intensity Pro 4k. And while I can get a USB 3,1 external Raid for hard drives (as I likely won’t get a ThunderBolt 3 Motherboard, unless I decide to build for myself), so I could live without a raid controller I would like need a Firefire PCI board to deal with my all my old hard drives until I can afford new enclosures.
So it looks like the new NVIDIA TITAN X would be my $1200 card of choice.
I can’t believe I never heard of the Palette when it was in it’s Kickstarter campaign, but this is a fully customizable controller with analogue controls. It has 4 levels of kit from $199-$899mfor a wooden controller,mand you can also get additional buttons, controllers and sliders which are all controllee by the core untit, amd they have programable lcd lights, so you can remember which button is set for what.
This sounds very cool, and I would love to try one out, though the lack of SpeedGrade control makes it certainly not as impressive, though it does work with basically the rest of the suite.
