In past Red Giant has also released in depth videos showing off how to use the new features, but unfortunately it looks like they haven’t done that this year. Hopefully this isn’t how things will always be with the now Maxon owned company, bug I have the feeling it is. I guess will just have to play around.
The video for Real Lens Flares looks good, but will have to see if it is better than optical flares from Video Copilot.
Excitingly it includes Frame.io Integration and thus Camera to Cloud support, you just login with your creative cloud ID and you get a 100GB account, of course it isn’t free as creative cloud has gone up $2 a month, but still cheaper than buying your own account.
I was at a company that was trying to test using Creative Cloud for offline edit workflows, and it was an interesting experience. Not quite there, especially how it creates it’s own h264 previews and you can download low and high, but it isn’t really a remote editing solution yet, but still a powerful review software.
And the biggest feature isn’t the redesign of the Import and Export panels and the new preset manager, and the new header bar, which have been being tested in beta for a while now.
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I still think there is too much twirling down to be done in the presets for export, which is more clicks, which I am never for.
At least the new Header Bar has been listened about and you can now show 3 workspaces as well as Import, Edit and Export. In their original implementation the workspaces were all in another menu, which is slower, when only real beginners need Import, Export all the time.
Auto Color powered by Adobe Sensei should help beginners get a quick starting place for color correction, unlike the old version. This was cvalled Auto Tone in the beta, and is a powerful start to color correction, if only Adobe would bring back a full Lemtri color suite like SpeedGrade.
And the new show hide Marker colors very cool for those who use a lot of markers, like me, when I log footage I use makers instead of subclips.
Other new features include Speeech to Text for Cantonese, Trim Playback Looping from Playhead instead of nearest edit, a Remix Progress indicator, Support for Sony Venice 2, Change est Size in text Panel, and customized clip name in EDL exports.
I have been trying these out in the beta since release, but I still think there are some issues with too many twirl downs for settings especially in exports. I am of the school of less button clicks is always better than more. Also I find Import and Export much less important on a daily basis than the Edit modes, of which you can only show 3 at all times, in the huge bay, which has so much wasted space. Oh well it is in release now, and at least you can show the 3 edit spaces (originally they hid them under the menu only).
The Frame.io for all is now integrated into Premiere and After Effects, with 100GB of space, which is great, though I don’t like that they are also raising the creative cloud rate by $2 a month, but it is still cheaper than a frame subscription.
And Auto Color, formerly known as Auto Tone in the public beta is much improved over the useless feature in previous versions. The AI makes for a great starting point.
And After Effects has moved it’s M1 Compatibility to the full version.
And built in AI powered scene detection is also huge. I use a script for it, so will certainly give this a try.
This is a huge one honestly. Looking forward to when I can take a look later today.
I have to admit the AI powers of ColourLab 2.0 look very impressive, and I love that they have added Adobe Premiere and Apple Final Cut Pro integration instead of just DaVinci Integration.
Colourlab is a subscription for creator which is $129 a year for Premiere and Final Cut, $299 a year for Pro which includes DaVinci or $599 for a permanent license, which is by far the best deal.
It is certainly an improvement to their upgrade which was going to hide workspaces behind multiple clicks, while this allows for single click to your favorite workspaces.
This new version is not the default which just shows the active worksapce, but if you click and select show workspace.
You can now scroll through workspaces or edit workspaces to edit which ones show.
Certainly an improvement from hiding workspaces completely, I still am not sure about the new header bar, which seems to make import and export more important than the meat of editing itself, butt this is at least an improvement.
Jose Anutunes wrote this article with the impressive fact that 61% of the films at the Sundance Film Festival were cut on Adobe Premiere Pro.
The whole Sundance Film Festival could be viewed online this year, and it is more impressive that so many films were cut in Premiere. And 78% of the films used Adobe Creative Cloud tools, especially After Effects and Photoshop.
There was certainly a time when films would only be cut in AVID, but with Productions it is so much easier to have a large project, and even multiple users.
Honestly I love the online thing, having been to Sundance Before, I was blown away by how crappy some of the venues were, and just being able to see the films online really does expand who can see the films.
Styles are certainly a quick way to get font styles in Premiere, so you can easily make changes, and have matching styles throughout. Now Adobe needs to implement the ability to batch change styles, like you can now see all the text in the text panel for spell check.
Its new features include on-device Text to Speach which will be 3x faster on M1 and Intel Core i9 and 2x faster on other hardware, Remix powered by Adobe Sensei to intelligently remix music to match you video, faster 420 HEVC exports on Windows with NVIDIA GPU’s, more GPU Accelerated effects, support the the M1 MacBook Pro Notch and support for the Canon EOS RS C Camera.
Still in beta are the new Auto Tone feature in Lumetri Color, and improvements to the import mode, including project naming in the title bar.
I have been looking forward to REMIX, and am glad the new Import mode isn’t there yet, as I have not been a fan of it in the beta, I actually find it it a huge step backwards in usability. They seem to think hitting more buttons to do the same thing is better, and it just isn’t.
