Adobe Creative Cloud Video Production Suite updates for NAB 2019

So Adobe has updated it’s video suite in time for NAB 2019 with some exciting new features, and hopefully some stability improvements.

Obviously the most exciting new features is the content-aware fill for video in After Effects.

I am pretty excited to try this one out, as the results from the demos look impressive, but I think it will work best with moving footage so the pixels exist somewhere.

And the new expression engine in After Effects looks amazing.

I can’t wait to try that out.

For Premiere we get the Freeform view as a kind of visual storyboard.

This is pretty neat, though not a mind blower for me.

And the new rules and guides will make placing things much easier.

Pretty neat. And Faster Mask tracking will always be helpful.

Overall some cool new features, though I am hoping for more stability overall.

Adobe has released Premiere Rush for the iPad

The formerly only available through an invited beta, Adobe Rush has been released for the iPad and iPhone. It is an online editing system that converts everything to H.264 and can do simple edits, and they can even be exported to Premiere Pro though he desktop version requires 10.13 on the mac.

It seems to be a simple and quick editing program to upload web videos, and has to be better than the previous adobe clip, which was pretty basic.

I have downloaded to my ipad, but have not played with it yet.

Adobe has release After Effects 16 also known as After Effects CC October 15th 2019

You can check out all the features at Adobe.

I am most excited about the new JavaScript Engine for expressions and especially the ability to save your favorite expressions in a library!

And I am excited that the new Mocha included is a plug in instead of a stand alone application. I have not upgraded to the latest Mocha as it is a bit expensive, so am glad that this has been updated.

I am just hoping that this fixes some of the problems I have been having lately with UHD projects and not being able to open without either trashing my prefs (which also trashed my Workspaces) or importing the project into a fresh project which works until I have to re-open it. This has been incredibly frustrating!

Adobe released Premiere Pro 13 Today, also known as Premiere Pro 2019 October 15 Update

You can check out the full release notes at Adobe.

I am most excited about being able to access multiple lumetri effects from the Lumetri Panel, instead of only being able to access the last added one, and having to make changes in the effects panel.

Also looking forward to trying the Intelligent Audio Cleanup Tools.

I haven’t really played with Templates from After Effects, since I do my own graphics, and it just seems easier to make the graphics all the way in After Effects, but I will eventually play with it more.

No mention of having fixed the having to render audio to see audio in a multicam clip in the timeline. I am hoping that bug is fixed. I hate having to render every time I open the project, it is just frustrating and unnecessary.

Scott Simmons at PVC article on editing a complex feature in Premiere Pro with no crashes

Scott Simmons at ProVideo Coalition has a great article on how he edited a whole feature on Premiere Pro without any crashes.

It is certainly worth a read. Now I don’t see how he edits a whole doc with only one sequence, as I like to make stringouts of shots and use markers to mark them up, and he must subclips things, which I find slower.

And I already render at ProRES, but I have also started rendering everything over to ProRES before editing, because highly compressed formats cause too many issues (as do JPGs), though I have had to do it before import, because I have found that using the Ingest feature doens’t work, as it often crashes and loses it’s progress completely.

And I am going to start moving more sequences out of my project into archive projects as I go to see if that helps with stability.

After Effects error: Unable to allocate enough memory to render the current frame

So I am running After Effects CC 15.1.2 on a MacPro 5,1 with 32 GB of RAM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 with 4GB of VRAM on MacOS High Sierra 10.13.4. I have 6GB reserved for other applications, so am running with 26GB of RAM.

I am running UHD 29.97 P ProRES HQ footage, and it mostly works fine while I am running, but I do get crashes sometimes, and the problem is either with a crash or with saving and closing and re-opening the project. When I re-open the project I get the error After Effects error: Unable to allocate enough memory to render the current frame.

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This happens as soon as the project has re-opened, and happens immediately as soon as the project opens, and it happening every time with different projects and different footage (though all UHD 29.97 ProRES HQ.

I have found 2 workarounds that let me keep working, but are both a major pain in rear end.

The first workaround is If I open a new project and import the old project things work fine until I close AE or it crashes, then the same problems occurs.

The second is to hold down shift-option-command and delete the preferences when I re-open, but this also trashes my custom workspaces. And it seems Custom Workspaces no longer sync anymore? As if I restore my Preferences from the Sync my workspaces don’t come back (I know these used to sync, why don’t they sync anymore?).

Any solutions would be greatly appreciated as this is really frustrating.

VoluMax 3D Photo Animator Template for After Effects Tests

So I recently found the VoluMax 3D Photo Animator template available on Envato VideoHive for $55.This is an incredible plug in that allows you to use After Effects to create 4K photo animations of still photos giving them a fake 3d look. and the effects are incredibly effective.

I tried a couple of tests on my Surface Pro and the setup was quick and easy, though pretty brutal render times, though I am sure my tower would be much faster.

Here is an animation I did of a portrait of my lovely wife.


VoluMax Portrait Test from Jonah Lee Walker on Vimeo.

I am blown away by the portrait results! This is so impressive!

And this is a photo of a ww2 plane I took. it works, though not quite as well.

VoluMax WW2 Plane Test from Jonah Lee Walker on Vimeo.

I love the results. The plane warps a little strangely, but still impressive.

Volumax Landscape Test from Jonah Lee Walker on Vimeo.

This is an HDR shot I took in France. I can’t believe how great this looks!

So I also tried this image of buildings in Grand Turk.

VoluMax Buildings Test from Jonah Lee Walker on Vimeo.

You can certainly see the straight lines warp quite a bit, but the effects is still pretty impressive.

And I did another lanscape test and this is another place where VoluMax really shines!

VoluMax landscape tesr Xunantunich from Jonah Lee Walker on Vimeo.

I did this one without any lens flares or dust and the effect is very impressive!

This is such an impressive template! I look forward to using it in the future! Awesome!

Premiere Bro on the Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018 (12.1) update

Premiere Bro has an in depth feature on the latest update to adobe Premiere Pro 2019 (12.1) and goes much more in depth than I have seen elsewhere.

Like I hadn’t realized that the comparison tool could be used for things besides color, such as Warp Stabilizer, Shot Resoration, Motion Graphics Template Chagnes and Fonts and Text placement. Or that it worked within Lumetri Color Scopes to help match shots with scopes! AWESOME!!

I also hadn’t realized about gradients in Essentials graphics with transparency.

Thanks, awesome look at the new features.