Premiere Pro (May 2022 Release) New Features

Adobe has updated Premiere Pro to the May 2022 Release, and here is a quick overview of the new features. Export GIFs with transparency. Distribute objects in titles and graphics so they are equally distant from each other. 10x faster exports for 10-bit 4:2:0 HEVC on Mac OS for Intel and M1 systems. Select HEVC from the Format drop-down under Export Settings to enable this option. Then under the Video tab, go to Encoding Settings. If the system supports hardware encoding, the Performance field is set to Hardware Encoding. Set the profile level to Main 10. Setting it to Software Encoding will disable hardware encoding, and Adobe Premiere Pro won't use hardware to encode the media. On Apple M1 systems, HEVC HLG 4:2:0 10-bit encoding still encodes via software. 10x faster exports for 10-bit 4:2:0 HEVC on AMD To enable this option, select HEVC from the Format drop-down under Export Settings. Then under the Video tab, go to Encoding Settings. If the GPU card supports HW encoding, the Performance field will be set to Hardware Encoding. Set the profile level to Main 10. Setting it to Software Encoding will disable hardware encoding and Adobe Premiere Pro won't use AMD hardware to encode the media.  Improved Quicktime screen recording playback Smart rendering improvments HDR Proxies Nice, the HEVC speed icnreases sound amazing, though it is still a format that I don't use much except for capture on my iPhone.

PVC on Apple Motion being every editor’s secret weapon

I\ain Anderson of Pro Video Coalition on Apple Motion being every editors secret weapon. It is an interesting article, and it is true it is such an inexpensive program, that everyone should use it. I have personally used it extensively while doing an edit job on Final Cut and found it essential for using Final Cut Pro with some features that are much easier to use than After Effects with more power, but others I thought far inferior, harder and with huge bugs. And I was not at all impressed by it's Motion Blur which After Effects does so much better. Much like Final Cut I find it i a powerful program but with huge caveats. And while I do have it, I don't find it as useful as other similar programs.

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 Users5 Projects100 GB StorageCamera 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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQG5BfHv2QE Red Giant has updated Universe to version 6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZUeLt-ynXU VFX Suite 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnddPjuAtVQ Magic Bullet Suite 16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q152QWFo_XE 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.

Adobe releases After Effects April 2022 (Version 22.3) with Apple Silicon Support

Adobe has released After Effects April 2022 (Version 22.3). This brings native Apple Silicon M1 Support to the production version of After Effects. Still not sure about M1 Ultra Support as of yet. It also includes Frame.io integration with the free account you now get with you adobe account. 3D Extended Viewer for 3D previews. Scene Edit detection for which I have been using Magnum 3 from AE Scripts. Love that this is built in now. Binning indicators for 3D layers to see how layers are composited. And constrained shapes, where you can create perfect squares and circles by holding down the shift key when you double click the rectangle or ellipse tool. And in the Beta, Separated Dimensions Preference. So you can have x, y as separate lines.