Adobe has changed default paste behavior to paste to same track in Premiere Pro’s Beta

Adobe has updated the default paste behavior in Premiere Pro beta, and added 4 new functions that can be added to keyboard shortcuts.

Paste To Same Track is the new default, which is the behavior that I want 90% of the time. I love this because I place things in specific tracks, having a very organized timeline, so I usually wants things to just go where they were in a different place in the timeline.

Old Behavior
New Behavior

And you can also Paste Insert, as well as Paste to Target Track and Paste Insert to Target Track which can also be added to keyboard shortcuts.

Frame.io for Creative Cloud

i just signed up for creative cloud’s frame.io from within Premiere. I didn’t know what level of service it is, but Frame had posted a page about it.

It allows:

  • 2 Frame.io Users
  • 5 Projects
  • 100 GB Storage
  • Camera to Cloud (though doubtful you could do it with that storage)

So I can use it for any client that doesn’t have their own solution for review. Very cool!

They should offer a discount if you upgrade though.

Red Giant Updates for NAB 2022

Red Giant has updated Universe to version 6.

VFX Suite 3

Magic Bullet Suite 16.

And a new tool Real Lens Flares.

In past Red Giant has also released in depth videos showing off how to use the new features, but unfortunately it looks like they haven’t done that this year. Hopefully this isn’t how things will always be with the now Maxon owned company, bug I have the feeling it is. I guess will just have to play around.

The video for Real Lens Flares looks good, but will have to see if it is better than optical flares from Video Copilot.

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.

Import
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.

Adobe announces an updated Premiere Pro and After Effects and included Frame.io from Scott Simmons at PVC

Scott Simmons has the news on Adobe releasing updated Premiere Pro and After Effects today with the new Import and Export Modes.

I have been trying these out in the beta since release, but I still think there are some issues with too many twirl downs for settings especially in exports. I am of the school of less button clicks is always better than more. Also I find Import and Export much less important on a daily basis than the Edit modes, of which you can only show 3 at all times, in the huge bay, which has so much wasted space. Oh well it is in release now, and at least you can show the 3 edit spaces (originally they hid them under the menu only).

The Frame.io for all is now integrated into Premiere and After Effects, with 100GB of space, which is great, though I don’t like that they are also raising the creative cloud rate by $2 a month, but it is still cheaper than a frame subscription.

And Auto Color, formerly known as Auto Tone in the public beta is much improved over the useless feature in previous versions. The AI makes for a great starting point.

And After Effects has moved it’s M1 Compatibility to the full version.

And built in AI powered scene detection is also huge. I use a script for it, so will certainly give this a try.

This is a huge one honestly. Looking forward to when I can take a look later today.

Adobe has redesigned the Premiere Pro workplace switcher again and it is better than their last version

Francis-Crossman an adobe employee has posted a discussion for the Premiere Pro Beta on the Workspace Switcher Improvements in the header bar.

It is certainly an improvement to their upgrade which was going to hide workspaces behind multiple clicks, while this allows for single click to your favorite workspaces.

This new version is not the default which just shows the active worksapce, but if you click and select show workspace.

You can now scroll through workspaces or edit workspaces to edit which ones show.

Certainly an improvement from hiding workspaces completely, I still am not sure about the new header bar, which seems to make import and export more important than the meat of editing itself, butt this is at least an improvement.

ProVideoCoalition reports that Adobe Premiere Pro used on 61% of film at Sundance Film Festival

Jose Anutunes wrote this article with the impressive fact that 61% of the films at the Sundance Film Festival were cut on Adobe Premiere Pro.

The whole Sundance Film Festival could be viewed online this year, and it is more impressive that so many films were cut in Premiere. And 78% of the films used Adobe Creative Cloud tools, especially After Effects and Photoshop.

There was certainly a time when films would only be cut in AVID, but with Productions it is so much easier to have a large project, and even multiple users.

Honestly I love the online thing, having been to Sundance Before, I was blown away by how crappy some of the venues were, and just being able to see the films online really does expand who can see the films.