At NAB Adobe Introduced Text-Based Editing in Premiere Pro and a Properties Panel in After Effects

From Eric Philpott’s article at Adobe Blog.

This is huge and I love that it’s awesome transcription feature is being expanded out of for captions into actual editing.

I will have to see automatic tone mapping in action, I always get footage from different cameras, but I don’t think this will be what I need (I tend to throw the clips in DaVinci and make a LUT that will match them perfectly).

Background Auto Save is exciting, and I might turn it up so it saves more often.

Dragging to select track targets should have been there from the start! I will use that literally every day!

And bulk editing titles in the Timeline is huge, and has been needed since you could see all the Text of titles with the text tool.

And After Effects Properties panel could be a huge game changer, as on a daily basis i get frustrated when duplicating sequences how it doesn’t show the same properties that I was manipulating on the copied layer, but with a properties panel this should be faster, and anything faster I will adopt immediately.

And I really need to do a deep dive in to ACES and OpenColorIO workflows so I can try it out in After Effects.

And select able track mattes usable for multiple layers is pretty awesome, though you could do it by doing it on a matte layer and using it as the matte.

And defaulting colorama to the default color picker to save clicks is another time saver, and I always want time savers.

Node based compositing in After Effects with MagicNodes

MagicNodes for After Effects. A license is $89 for a basic license and only corrective updates, or $149 with Premium with 1 year free maintenance, learning center, and $69 a year maintenance after the first year.

I have not given this a try but would like to. I really loved node based compositing in Shake, and then in DaVinci Resolve, so the ability to have it in after effects is amazing.

Erik K Swanson on Title Safe Still Matters: Especially for Online Video

I have to admit I have always respected Title Safe, and hated when After Effects switched from 80% for Title Safe and 90% for Action Safe to 90% for Title Safe and 93% for action safe. I switched back to the original safer settings and this article is why you should to.

It is by Erik K Swanson, and well worth checking out.

Save as Popup Window Closes with right arrow in newest Adobe Apps on Mac OS Ventura

This was driving me buggy, I thought it was just Ventura, or maybe Default Folder, but it seems to affect just Adobe Apps right now. Went to Adobe Support Community to report it and luckily someone already did.

Thanks for reporting this problem. We are aware of this issue and currently investigating a fix. It is unfortunately affecting After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Media Encoder, so all three will need an update to fix this issue. Any fix will become available in the Beta builds, and then the next public release.

John, After Effects Engineering Team 

You can currently use the mouse to get around this, but it is fiddly, so lets hope they fix it fast.