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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFokByqJS_Q 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.

Adobe Premiere Pro (February 2023 Update)

I know i am a little late on this as it was released on February 17th, 2023, but Adobe released Premiere Pro version 23.2 (February 2023 Update). This version includes Automatic Tone Mapping for HDR footage an SDR Sequence. This is especially helpful with iPhone HDR Footage, as it always previously looked blown out in Premiere, but now it will be tone mapped to SDR. It also works for Panasonic, Sony and Canon Log, and HLF Color Space. This can be turned off in the sequence settings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG4ox4sqFMA&embeds_widget_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.adobe.com%2F&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.embedly.com%2F&embeds_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.embedly.com&feature=emb_imp_woyt It also added Sequence Locking for Offline Editing. New Languages in Speech to Text. And an updated Reset Options at launch by holding down CMD on Mac or CTRL on Windows.

Adobe Support Community is blowing up over Premiere Pro’s New Export Screen

And I am one who agrees that is is not an improvement, but I am not much of a fan of the import page either. The discussion at Adobe Support Community thread THE NEW EXPORT SCREEN IS CLUMSY, BULKY, AND REQUIRES MORE CLICKING [EXPORT] at this point has 27 pages of comments. Much of the discussion is way too filled with vitriol, and too many talking about DaVinci Resolve, but there are still some very salient points of the export page. The lack of customization, which in the edit page is what makes Premier so much more powerful than DaVinci Resolve or FCP, as every editor does things their own way, if awful. And everything is so big. I will never use the whole first section, destinations, because videos should be checked before upload, so I should be able to hide it! The settings are set with so many twirl downs, needing more clicks. Then once you open you need to click more to see most of the settings, and then everything is so big you have to scroll to see more. And the Preview Window, which is way too big and can't be hidden. I don't need to see the preview ever, and while I like seeing the timeline it needs to be smaller. It is honestly a mess, and the old one was so much more customizable. And since the latest version doesn't remember your previous settings, like Match Sequence Settings, there are just more clicks needed. The biggest problem with the thread is all the vitriol just makes Adobe shutdown and not care. And it doesn't help that they put so much head to the beta test period, which not only was not very long, but is something that can be hard to do if you are in production.

Knights of the Editing Table has updated Grave Robber with the ability to Unmerge!!!

I already think Excalibur is the single most must have plug in for efficiency in Premiere Pro. It is like having Launchbar for Mac, once you use it you will feel any system is broken without it. And Grave Robber is another must have with it's ability to un-nest nested or multicam sequences, but now it can un-merge clips and preserve all keyframes and effects! Why couldn't adobe do this years ago? I mean seriously merge has been broken since day one, if someone else can make an unmerge, why can't Adobe? Pay the $15 and then check out Excalibur, you won't be sorry!