Details of After Effects & Cinema 4D integration from Todd Kopriva at Adobe.

Todd Kopriva at Adobe has posted a document with details on the integration between After Effects and Cinema 4D in the new After Effects. He links to more extensive discussions, and then has extensive details on this.

Damn this makes me want Cinema 4D! I wonder if Autodesk and NewTek are on the horn working with Adobe to add something like the for their programs as this will really make Cinema 4D the number one 3D for ease of use between it and After Effects.

Adobe officially announces Adobe Anywhere for Video

Adobe has put up it’s page on Adobe Anywhere, the exciting new technology which will let you edit from anyplace, with all your data stored on a single server! This is going to be interesting to see what kind of server it needs to be run on, but this could really change things.

Unfortunately you don’t see enough places willing to let editors work remotely right now, but this could change. They could have a couple of high end suites in the office, for meeting with producers and clients, and the rest of the work could be done from home without even having to give the editor the information, it just all streams. Wow! Just have to get companies to understand how great this is, so us editors can spend more days working from home!

PVC Early look of new Premiere Pro

Scott Simmons at the Pro Video Coalition has a 3 page look at the new Premiere Pro.

This is getting me even more excited. The best thing is actually way down in the article, that you can now view audio with one click or keystroke in the viewer! Woohoo! Back to FCP 7 style ease of audio editing in the viewer!

And i sure do hope my Behringer MIDI control surface will work and not just EUCON and Makie surfaces! Hopefully any MIDI surface will work! Please please please Adobe!!

I do love that they are listening, even if it seems to take a little while, it certainly is faster than Apple ever did, if they ever listened at all, which to me FCP X proves they have not.

Now I just hope more companies chose Adobe over AVID, especially with the NVIDIA GTX 680 coming out for Macs!

Adobe on the new Premiere Pro

Adobe on their blogs has released a whole lot of info on the new version of Premiere Pro.

the next version of Adobe Premiere Pro offers a slew of new features and refinements that let you move through your projects efficiently and intuitively, including Editing Finesse workflow enhancements, Link & Locate to help you find files faster, an expanded audio toolset, an even more responsive Mercury Playback Engine, and a powerful new closed captioning workflow.  We’ve also added the Lumetri Deep Color Engine to Premiere Pro, so you can apply .look files from Adobe SpeedGrade to your clips and cut with the aesthetic of the grade. A library of preset Lumetri looks is included, offering simple, beautiful looks without leaving the application.

And the Top New features:

▪ Editing finesse: multiple refined tools and workflows to help you work faster than ever
▪ Redesigned Timeline: a cleaner look and feel for intuitive workflows
▪ Customizable track headers with the option to save track header presets
▪ Duplicate frame markers: see which frames have already been used
▪ Paste attributes: paste the attributes of customized effects
▪ Link & Locate: Allows for much faster and simpler clip relinking and media management
▪ Lumetri Deep Color Engine: Apply rich color presets to clips from the new Lumetri Looks browser, or apply LUTs or .look files from Adobe SpeedGrade to clips
▪ New Audio Clip Mixer for adjusting levels on individual clips
▪ Audio control surface support
▪ New audio Plug-ins including the TC Electronic Loudness meter
▪ Support for VST3 and Audio Unit plugins (Mac OS only)
▪ Adobe Anywhere for video integration. Just launched, Adobe Anywhere is a modern, collaborative workflow platform that empowers users of Adobe video tools to work together, using centralized media, across any network. Learn more here.
▪ Industry-standard mezzanine codecs DNxHD (in MXF), and ProRes are built-in(ProRes encode requires Mac OS X 10.8.x)
▪ Natively edit more formats including Sony XAVC and Panasonic AVC-Intra 200
▪ Import, edit, repurpose, and export Closed Captions
▪ OpenCL and CUDA support on Mac and Windows, and far more supported GPUs than ever before (plus the ability to enable an unsupported GPU)
▪ AAF and XML import improvements to allow you to move projects and sequences from Avid and Final Cut Pro 7 (or earlier) systems

Not Knowing more, I am most excited about being able to Paste any attributes, duplicate frame markers, Link & Locate (WOOHOO, this will save so much time), audio control surface support, ADOBE ANYWHERE which I have talked about before, and am so excited to be able to have centralized media and edit from anywhere, better CUDA support including being able to enable unsupported GPU’s!

And check the site for the full list of new features which is extensive. They really are listening! What a concept from an editing software company as Apple never did, and you never knew with AVID.

CAN’T WAIT!!!!