Re: Vision Effects has released updates to all of it’s plug ins to support Adobe CS6 After Effects and Premiere Pro.
Personally I can’t live without Twixtor and ReelSmart Motion Blur, so these are welcome updates.
Check it out at her blog. She looks at the Mercury Graphics engine, Camera Raw 7, Photographic Blur Effects, and straightening with Adaptive Wide Angle, as well as new type styles, shape Layers and the new Crop Tool. Worth checking out.
Little Frog in High Def has an article on getting output of an AJA to work with 23.976 footage playing out to 29.97. The disturbing part is that he doesn’t think that Black Magic has this option right now, so black magic won’t play out 24P footage to a monitor that only supports 29.97 like Final Cut Pro will do. I will keep on this and see if this is true. If so they really need to fix this and fast!
Todd Kopriva has an article on GPU acceleration in After Effects CS6 including CUDA and OpenCL.
Todd Kopriva has an article on Premiere Pro using OpenCL on AMD Radeon HD 6750M and AMD Radeon HD 6770M graphics card with 1GB VRAM in MacBook Pro computers running Mac OSX v10.7 Awesome that they give some acceleration to non-CUDA macs since there are barely any available CUDA cards for Mac, and most Macs have AMD cards. Still they need further support in the future.
Still makes me thing that in the not too distant future a PC will be my main editing machine as it will have superior CUDA support.
Adobe blogs has a great little piece on how they continue to want feedback on Premiere Pro and will continue to update it, especially for Creative Cloud users (who are paying more anyway).
The great thing about Adobe is that they do talk to their users and do listen. Look how great Premiere Pro has gotten in such a short time, and it will only get better.
Sounds like the non-CUDA acceleration is pretty damn good, though as I have said I keep wishing for more NVIDIA on the mac, but it looks less and less likely to happen every day.
David Lawrence has an excellent article over at Creative Cow.
He really sums it up in a Creative Cow Forum Post.
Believe the hype, the Conan boys are right. It really is Adobe’s Final Cut Pro 8.
Though later says:
Is Premiere Pro 6 Adobe’s Final Cut Pro 8? If you ask me, the answer is no. It’s something different and potentially better. Is there room for improvement? You bet. If you miss certain features, let ’em know. They’re listening.
I am so looking forward to Premiere CS6, and do hope it is an FCP 7 replacement, though that also makes me wish for more NVIDIA CUDA cards for the Mac, or it looks like editing is going to move all PC in the future.