Premiee Pro has the unfortunate issue of not being able to open Projects in previous versions, or save to previous versions. Josh Cluderay has released this online tool to reset the version number of your project file. It is a hack, and so it might have issues with plugins and the text tool for sure, but it is a quick hack that might work.
Adobe has posted it’s bug fixes for the new version of Premiere Pro.
One thing it does not mention is the OMF and AAF export which was totally messed up in the last version of Premiere. It did not stay in sync, and the solution was to export the sequence and open it in an earlier version of premiere and export from there.
Adobe has updated Audition CC to version 11.10 April 2018 with a bunch of new features.
Audition now has improved sequence import from Premiere Pro with the ability to open Premiere Pro sequences directly, instead of having to use dynamic link. And it works with all the original files.
There is a New Track panel that allows you to show and hide tracks or groups of tracks, and you can create your own track groups and save them as presets.
Consolidated Media Container means importing a media file imports and audio and video tracks as a consolidated media container.
New on-boarding video tutorials from the launch screen.
Dropped support for Quicktime 7 era formats and codecs.
And some new features to speed up your workflow.
Adobe has updated Adobe After Effects to version 15.1 April 2018 release.
Master Properties within the Essential Graphics Panel now show up when you nest a sequence in After Effects so you can control the effects within the current sequence along with master properties. And you can have different effects with the same sequence now allowing for all your changes without duplicating a composition. VERY COOL!
The puppet tool has become the Advanced Puppet Tool, with new functionality and smoother deformations. And it nows deals with deformations to curve and bend your animations.
More VR support includes Adobe Immersive Environment and improved VR Plane to Sphere.
Essential Graphics Panel has been improved. 2D point, scale and angle propeties. You can add all transform group properties. You can drag multiple selected properties. You can undo and redo adding removing and reordering properties. When you duplicate a composition in the project panel it also duplicated properties and comments. You can also right click a property in the essential graphics panel and reveal it in the timeline.
You can now use the Property Link pick whip to create complex animations so you don’t need to use expressions. It is in the parent & link section.
You can now open a Motion Graphics Template as a project.
There are Data-driven animation improvements, with support for comma or tab separated value files. Each individual property has an expression applied.
The Video Limiter is GPU accelerated and compresses luminance and chorminace.
The Lumetri Color Custom Lut Directory works in After Effects as well as Premiere Pro.
Improved GPU memory usage.
Grain effects CPU performance has been improved.
Added Video formats, and hardware acceleration for h.264 in windows as well as dropping quicktime 7 era formats and codecs.
A new importer for BMP, FIG and animated GIF that no longer depends on quicktime.
Team Projects has been improved with improved presence for online collaborators, better project management and render a team project using teamproject flag.
The missing files dialog has been consolidated to show all the missing files.
You can disable the missing fonts dialogue.
You can disable proxies for multiple footage items.
You can copy and paste in the project panel into a selected folder.
You can drag properties from the timeline panel to the composition panel to create text layers. And use value of text layer to represent a value for JSON data sources.
You can center anchor points in new shape layers. This is an option in preferences.
You can create shapes or masks from text creates a layer above the selected layer.
Darken, Lighten and Soft Light blend modes have been updated to the same engine as photoshop.
Layer menus command has been cosolidated.
Looking forward to trying it.
Adobe just updated Adobe Premiere Pro CC to version 12.1 April 2018.
Adobe Lumetri Color has been updated, and you can now compare your shots while color correcting either side by side or split screen.
They have also added an FX Bypass option to temporarily turn an effect on and off, and reset an effect.
There is also a new Match Color across shots with a single button click using Adobe Sensei technology.
They have added a new Lumetri Color Custom LUT Directory and they will show up in Creative Looks dropdown or the Input and Output LUT’s come from the Technical directory. Thee are both local user and all user directories.
These can be found for a local on a mac at:
/Users/<user_name>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/LUTs/Creative
Or for all users on a mac at:
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/LUTs/Creative
These can be found for local users on a mac at:
C:Users<user_name>AppDataRoamingAdobeCommonLUTsCreative
Or for all users on windows at:
C:Users<user_name>AppDataRoamingAdobeCommonLUTsCreative
Premiere Pro now has the Essential Sound Panel within Premiere Pro and it has Auto-Duck for Music.
And you can now directly open a premiere pro sequence in Adobe Audition to save steps.
For Graphics, you can search for Motion Graphics Templates across local folders, creative cloud libraries and Adobe Stock.
You can now create Gradients and Shapes in the Essential Graphics Panel with editable opacity.
You can replace Motion Graphics Templates with new versions by alt/option dragging an updated template onto one in your sequence, and you can chose to replace one instance or all in the sequence.
You can now toggle animation for each property of graphics layers in the essential graphics panel.
There is an improved interface and new controls for Motion Graphics Templates including 2D position, rotation and scale.
There are VR enhancements for immersive monitor support, and Windows Mixed Reality as well as improved VR Plane to Sphere.
Team Support has updated, with improved tracking of online collaborators. There is also better project management, and view read only versions of your project.
The Timecode panel has been improved with more options for viewing.
The Video Limiter has been improved and it can be added per shot or as an output effect.
You can now Copy and Paste sequence markers.
There has been H.264 Hardware acceleration in Windows 10 with 6h generation or later intel core processors.
File formats have been added for Canon C200, Sony Venice, and Red Image Processing Pipeline. Also Quicktime 7 era formats and codes have been dropped.
Tutorials have been added within the app from the new project as well as the learn workspace.
Awesome, can’t wait to try it out.
You can see the announcement right from Adobe, they haved end of lifed Adobe Muse! There newest web design program is poof up in smoke! WTF! And it isn’t like it is just a program we purchased but that we have continued to pay for in a subscription!
They already killed Adobe SpeedGrade once it became an indispensable part of my workflow and now they are killing Muse with which I have sites I am paid to update and maintain and have paid a lot of money in plug ins for.
And it isn’t like they have a replacement! They are just killing it all together, just like SpeedGrade.
Honestly this is starting to make Adobe feel about as trustworthy as Apple. They killed Color, Shake, DVD Studio Pro, Final Cut Pro 7, and now we have adobe following suite. At least with Apple though I wasn’t paying a subscription for the software month after month!
Fuck you Adobe! Fuck you!
Adobe has announced the next set of features that will be added to Premiere Pro this year. You can read about them at the Adobe Blog.
Strangely they aren’t going into the features that I am most excited about, which the Premiere Bro Blog actually does.
Adobe is mostly focusing on it’s new VR abilities which are extensive, though something I likely will never use. And then it’s shared projects features, which will be awesome. Much more AVID like abilities in sharing projects and locking aspects of projects. And the Responsive Design tools sounds great with more ability to edit graphics without having to open premiere.
And in their they mention that you can finally open multiple projects at the same time, much like Final Cut Pro could do! That is awesome!
What the Premiere Bro Blog mentions is being able to preview fonts in the Essential Graphics Panel and set favorite fonts (hopefully also a different default font), and an additional 8 label colors for a total of 16, which is small but awesome addition!
Many people know that LUTS or look up tables are a feature in Adobe Premiere’s Lumetri controls that you can use different settings to make camera RAW footage look good for rec 709 or whatever format you are editing in. And Premiere has some technical and various Creative LUTs to quickly fix or change footage. And you can use your own LUT, but you have to select that LUT individually every time from your hard drive, as there is no way to add it to the menus in Premiere or After Effects.
Well a quick Google search has various links to sites that explain how you can add your own LUTs to Premiere Pro. Here is one at Premium Beat. The thing is there is a problem with this method.
In this method you open the application package contents, go into the Contents/Lumetri/LUTs/Technical folder and add your LUT and restart the program. Obviously this is something that is changing the actual application so it should be done at your own risk, and any update will likely wipe out your LUTs, but if you are going to do it, YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS!
If you want the LUTs to work in Premiere and to be able to export them with Adobe Media Encoder or use them in Adobe After Effects you need to also install your LUTs into those programs as well. There is no central repository for these LUTs!
Now I have requested with Adobe that they add the ability to add your own LUTs to the menus in a central repository, but that doesn’t mean the feature will be added ever.
For quite some time I have been wanting a new Whale of a Tale Productions logo, and I have need for one in 4K as I have been posting some of my DJI Osmo Test Footage on YouTube.
I had recently upgraded a really old logo that had been NTSC to 4K, but wasn’t too impressed with the results, so I decided to create a new one that more closely resembled my new Business card.
So I went to trusty After Effects CC 2017 14.2, as well as Element 3D and Red Giant Tsunami and created the following logo bumper for Whale of a Tale Productions.
Someday I will tackle one in full 3D where the logo can interact with the water, but not right now. For now I am pretty happy with this one.
Premiere Bro has an awesome in depth article on using Motion Graphics Templates in the latest version of After Effects. It is in depth on using the Essential Graphics Panel and sharing the files that you make! Well worth the read.