Adobe’s AI art generation tool Firefly enters Beta

And you can currently sign up for the beta on the Firefly site right here.

AI has made such an explosion lately, especially Midjourney, which I so want to play with, but don’t really want to pay for just to play. This adobe version seems ideal for me as someone who already subscribed to the creative cloud, and with elements that can be used within Adobe products.

And the Text Effect seems really amazing.

I really want to see one of these that you can put your own images into it and get variations on that coming out (I do believe midjourney does that).

PVC on Adobe video tools being used on the Majority of 2023 Sundance Films

From Jose Antunes at Pro Video Coalition.

Of course so many people are using Frame.io now, especially now that you get a free version with your Adobe License.

Still you usually see these articles for Blackmagic since DaVinci is the defacto color correction software, but here we have Premiere, After Effects and Photoshop being used on so many films.

And with Productions Adobe is so much more powerful and works like AVID for features, though I do see so many people saying they are moving to DaVinci Resolve instead, but having used it, I still don’t think the editor is at the same level as Premiere.

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.

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.

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.