I am OK Adobe which has fairly regular updates, and the beta channel, but others give less value, especially than they used to, when you paid a price and had software for at least a year.
And the worst is all the iPad apps that have moved to subscription. You used to e able to buy them, but now you have to subscribe to even use most creative apps.
Selection improvements, is really impressive what the AI can do to select, and how easy it is to edit and fix these masks. Sure it might not be perfect, but what an incredible improvement.
One-click Delete and Fill, will be a huge addition for when you are separating the subject from the background as you will not have weird edges left to screw up any effects you put on your background image.
Invite to edit for collaboration features.
Share for review (beta) with shareable links, where you can get and manage feedback. I wonder if this uses Frame.io’s tech.
Photo Restoration Neural Filter (Beta) uses AI to restore old photographs. And it can use local AI, or higher quality but slower server based.
Other changes and enhancements to content credentials, substance 3d materials, and preference settings.
And Beta Features:
Live Gradients, which will be fast an amazing.
Live Gaussian Blur, more speed improvements.
Backdrop Neural Filter powered by AI.
Adobe has updated Premiered Pro to the 2023 version.
Inner and outer strokes for graphics, updated in essential graphics.
Flexible alignment controls, allow you to line up text and shape elements.
Bulk edit titles on the timeline is a huge signature feature. You can batch change attributes across graphics files (this has been coming since you could see the ext in earlier versions).
2x Faster Motion Graphics templates, with multi-grame rendering being 2x faster.
Improved performance for AVC Intra, 10-bit AVC Intra formats are 2x faster on Apple Silicon.
GPU acceleration for Lumetri Scopes, is just going to speed things up, which is always great.
Improved Previews on Windows and macOS, with Apple ProRes now being the default codec for previewing most video formats. This could be a huge performance and quality boost. I already use ProRES as my default, but nice to have it be the norm.
AAF Support for Apple Silicon, actually makes me wonder why this was not working for so long. Sure you could run premiere not in native mode to get it to work on Apple Silicon, but this is a pretty necessary feature.
And a very intere4sting feature in the BETA.
Assemble rough cuts from transcripts, from the built in transcripts feature in the Text Panel.
This could be really interesting, and certainly speed things up. Anything that makes the awesome transcripts feature more center is a great thing.
Not huge features, but some pretty important ones, that will make our lives easier.
I know I was busy working yesterday as I didn’t see about this release until last night, but for Adobe Max they have updated After Effects, and already the Select Track Matte Layers is included! WOOHOO!!!
Select Track Matte Layers is the signature feature that will help clean up every timeline. Instead of having to have a track matte in the layer above every layer, you can use a single Track Matte layer and pick whip it to layer you need. And you can change it from alpha to luma with a button and invert the matte with a second button.
The only thing that could make this better would be sticky folders, so you could put all your track mattes in a folder and stick it to the top or bottom (and even better if you could have 2 timelines showing, so you could keep some of them locked to the top of your tracks, but that is all wishful thinking.
Anyway, Select Track Matte Layers is going to be just a huge time saver and organization saver.
Native H.264 Encoding has returned, it used to work through quicktime, but now it is back and native.
Composition Presets have been revamped and include social media platform sizes (though why is their only a 24p 1080 instead of 23.976?).
New Animation Presets, they have added 50 new presets, with a lot of changeable controls and new text animation controls.
Faster Timeline Navigation, is a simple thing that should have been in there years ago! Thank you adobe. Basically if you select a layer, the J and K keys just move along it if you hold down shift, or you can select a single property.
Cinema 4D Optional Installer instead of automatically installing the light version.
And Currently in Beta Features added.
3D Model Import, you can now import 3D models directly into your composition without additional plugins.
Properties Panel, allows quick access to important properties of selected shapes in the timeline (anything to get faster).
OpenColorIO and ACES Color Management.
These are not flashy new features, but to me these are some of the biggest updates to my daily life I have ever seen.
A worthwhile post as I didn’t realize you could do this with Plumepack (though I have posted about how you can do it by exporting an XML).
I do just wish Adobe would fix Merge Clips even if it breaks old projects merged clips, or just remove the feature.
I hadn’t noticed this features introduction to the After Effects Beta till I saw this video from Creative Dojo.
This will clean up After Effect Timelines to now end, as you can basically add Track Mattes nodally, so you can add just one to a comp and use it for as many layers as you want, and if you save to an older version it will automatically add to all of the layers it is attached to.
This makes Track mattes the best of both world! OMG, need this for adjustment layers too, so they can be added selectively.
Wow, Adobe, this is such a cool addition.
Adobe had previously added Click and Drag to mutiple track targets in Premiere Pro Beta by holding down cmd/ctrl or adding shift to invert, but they have extended that it:
Toggle Track Lock
Toggle Sync Lock
Toggle Track Output
Mute
Solo
Woohoo, this is awesome!
Michelle DeLateur at ProVideo Coalition has an excellent article, “How to Troubleshoot HDR iPhone Footage in Premiere, According to Adobe“
It is a problem with tone mapping, which is currently handled best by the beta.
This isn’t necessary until you run into it, and go wait, it doesn’t look like this on my iPhone, but that has an HDR screen, so…
Nathaniel Pangaro at Apple Insider has an article entitled, “The best video editors for MacOS when iMovie doesn’t cut it.” and basically takes a look at Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.
Nick Lear at the Pro Video Colation has a great article on Codecs in Premiere Pro.
I still am not a fan of editing with H.264, or any compressed codec. I don’t like JPEG or MP3 either, but I know most people don’t convert to ProRES for editing like I do.
