It’s new features tie into the new features of After Effects and Premiere Pro, most excitingly with COLOR MANAGEMENT FOR H.264 and HEVC on Import and Export! WOOHOO FInally working around Apple’s fucked up color on the mac, and like DaVinci before it, letting you export compressed video with proper metadata tags so that it will display correctly whoever is looking at it! I literally have problems with this every single day, so I can’t wait to give it a try. This is game-changing if it works!
Also included is Color Management for Sony XAVC-L-HDR and Faster Rendering for After Effects with multi-frame rendering, should be 3x as fast! Woohoo!
Adobe has updated Premiere Pro as they go into the onine Adobe Max this morning. I have to say I much enjoy being able to see all of the classes online.
*We get unified version numbers across the video suite, so all compatible versions will now be version 22 (should’t they have just gone back to 1?)
*Speach to Text Improvements with improved accuracy for pop culture terminology and better formatting of dates and numbers
*Simplify Sequences has moved from Beta, I still think this could have been a great spot to add in unmerge, since merging audio clips is totally broken.
*Color management for H.264 and HEVC H.265, WHICH IS HUGE! You can now include correct color space metadata on exports, like DaVinci has allowed you to do for a while. So people on Macs should actually see what your show will look like correctly.
*Improved 10 bit HEVC playback and improved M1 support (lets hope it includes M1 Pro and Max support)
•Color management for Sony XAVC-L-HDR
•A new colorized vectorscope
•Improved Histogram
•Lumetri curve refinements
•Restore trim selection in the timeline
•Improved Media relinking for Team Projects
•Improved Bars and Tone for both HDR and SDR.
•New GPU Acceleration for effects, Alpha Glow, Mirror, Reduce Interlace Flicker and strobe are GPU accelerated.
AND IN BETA
•REMIX powered by Adobe Sensei, to intelligently re-arrange songs so that music matches your video, instead of cuts and crossfades let it do it itself. I can’t wait to try this out.
•Auto Tone, better auto color in Lumetri, a good start point.
*Speech to Text on-device without the internet for faster results.
*Improvements for new Import Mode, which is good because it needs a whole lot of work.
So I have written about Sofi Marhsall’s Ultimate Rea-Time Editing Workflow (That Won’t Break the Bank) and just wanted to give a little Update on how i have updated that workflow because of my setup, and the difference for me is that I run a older Blackmagic UltraStudio 4k as my video out, which I run to a Samsung HDTV.
I followed her instructions and got a BlackMagic Web Presenter, but got the UltraHD version so I can do 4K video, and it does seem to work just fine with either the front or back USB C unlike the older version she used.
And because I am not using USB-C to HDMI cable for my setup, which is also going to eat up a more of your video ram (displaying as a second monitor. Instead I ran a BNC Cable from my UltraStudio 4k into my BlackMagic Web Presenter, while my Samsung is running out of the HDMI out of the UlraStudio 4k. Sofi’s version is setting up the web presenter as a second monitor, but I am already using a second monitor on my computer, and would rather run the direct output from my UltraStudio from Premiere (or DaVinci or AVID) into my Web Presenter, and you don’t need to setup the web presenter as a second monitor.
My Web Presenter lives on top of my UltraStudio 4K (the Emotive is a DAC I use for listening to music off my computer) someday I will get a rack mount to put them in.
Whatever you are playing back shows up on both monitors for me, and I can see on my TV, which is the black line at top with the power cable running down the wall, and the usb cable to the computer allows the web presenter to act as a USB web cam.
Premier Video Output Settings
Premiere Pro Menu > Preferences > PlaybackMy playback settings set to Blackmagic Playback with Disable Video Output when in background disabled!And the Blackmagic playback setup settings for my UltraStudio 4K
So in Premiere I am playing back through Blackmagic playback via my UltraStudio 4K, and I have disable video output when in background (which I usually have checked, disabled, so the signal keeps going to the webcam constantly.
Now again differing from Sofi Marshall here I have the audio setup differently, as she is using Loopback to send the audio to the Web Presenter, but I am using Premiere Pro directly. I am still using Loopback, but differently as I will show.
So for Premiere Pro I go to Premiere Pro > Preferences > Audio Hardware to setup direct audio to the UltraStudio 4K.
Premiere Pro Menu > Preferences > Audio HardwareAudio Hardware Preferences, default output to Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4k and Map Output to Blackmagic PlaybackDefault Output selections, I actually usually use Edirol UA-1D which I have an optical cable coming out of to my Edirol and an Emotica AMP for my Speakers as well as a FireStone Audio Headphone amp, and use blackmagic to show sound sync on my TV, but I can live with the sync being the same as the computer monitor most of the time, but for this I use send the audio to the Blackmagic UltraStudio 4k.
I then follow Sofi Marshall’s directions on creating Loopback Device 2, which combines the iMac Microphone (her external microphone) and the audio from the Web Presenter.
I have created my mic for zoom, the “Mic & web Presenter” with the External Microphone and the audio from the Web Presenter 4K combined.
So here is my loopback microphone setup so my cut can be shown with audio and they can here the microphone.
Now since I am running the audio directly to monitor my audio for me it would be coming out of my TV which would then show up in my microphone, so I can’t have that, so I must mute my HDTV, and I want to hear my edit through my headphones. My headphones are running through my Edirol though could be just the headphone jack, so I have made a loopback to send Premiere to my Edirol.
I have also made a setting for DaVinci exactly the same but with DaVinci.
These send my audio from Premiere or DaVinci to my headphones. Now we need to setup zoom.
Zoom Menu > PreferencesZoom Preferences ? Video for Camera I have selected my Web Presenter 4K as the video, with original ratio and HD.And Zoom Preferences for Speaker I send the audio to my Edirol (which could be headphone jack) and for the microphone I select Mic & Web Presenter which I created in Loopback.And make sure to turn on High-Fidelity Music Mode and Stereo Audio.
Now you can do a zoom using my video out from Premiere and Web Presenter. Thanks to Sofi Marshall, as I would have never done this without her.
Yes yes yes, cleaning up After Effects Projects is a must, and sometimes I wish that Template makers spent more time making theme easier to use and modify as I basically never use them exactly as intended. Anything to clean things up so if another graphics artist comes or even you after a break will be able to quickly figure things out.
Expressions are amazing, and I wish I was better at writing them instead of just using them, and this goes through the expressions so you can get some information about how it works.
I guess this was inevitable with Adobe creating a second revenue stream for it’s 3D apps, but it is complete horseshit. Removing features that we have had for years so Adobe can make more money is beyond crap. Adobe should include everything in it’s one subscription.
