Adobe has added Composition Profiler to it’s beta of After Effects as it announced in it’s BETA Forum. You enable it by clicking the snail in the lower left of the timeline window and it will show render times for each layer so you can can see the render times for each layer and know which layer is slowing you down.
This is very cool. Just a great feature so you can quickly see what is slowing you down.
Adobe made the announcement in the beta forum in their communities.
Woohoo, something I never asked for but will certainly use. Just removing the disabled clips and empty tracks is very cool.
Now if only they could also un-merge clips (since merged clips break audio metadata so a mixer is basically unable to relink clips because their names and timecode change) and maybe flatten multi-cam as well, though you can already do that.
I do love that Adobe all the suddens seems to adding new features at a prodigious rate, but I just hope they will still go back and fix what is broken and has been for a long time.
So adobe updated After Effects to version 18.4. The July 2021 update has the following features:
Improved Default Property naming in Essential Graphics Panel.
Support for MKV Files.
Automatic default audio device switching on Windows.
And it looks like Multi-Frame Rendering has remained in the beta for the moment.
Nothing too monumental here, unlike the Premiere Pro update today.
And it is on by default, though you can return to the new method if you want to (but why would you). She is also reporting that the tab bar will make a return on iPad OS 15 in a future beta.
I had posted about this and was using it in Safari Technology Preview in Big Sur. A new version hasn’t been released, but I will take a look at it once it comes out, to see if it is improved. Now if only Apple would add the option of tree style tabs, ha one can only dream.
Scott Simmons at the ProVideoCoalition has a great article on the new import and export workflows that are being premiered in the latest Adobe Premiere Pro Betas. As Scott says these look like dumbed down versions of software for new users, but as long as they don’t supplant the old ways of doing things, and they keep adding features like projects and don’t mess with the timeline too much I am OK with new low end features too.
Adobe also has a Page up on the new features.
One problem with the whole screen thing, is that it is completely taking over the Premiere Pro interface, and my automatic response was to go to the red button on the top left to close the window, which closes the whole program. To close the export panel you have to go to the EXIT button on the bottom left. Which the hell knows about?
Honestly I kind of see where they are going here, as the export instead of a window is now basically a workspace, but if that is the case treat it like a workspace and have it with the workspaces (at the top of the list) and to exit it you go back to your workspace. It is going to take me a bit to break me of closing it as a window if I need to.
Or they realized and put an exit in because might not realize that you leave by going to Edit instead of export, but this makes the edit workspaces a second tier (since you have to click twice to access and select them now, and they are only within the edit interface and not within the export interface. And why the hell is the Exit button on the bottom right of the Import dialogue and left of the Export dialogue?
A single unified Workspaces would make much more sense to me instead of 2 tiers, and it is 2 tiers as the workspaces have now been moved to their own button, and in both Import and Exit they are greyed out.
And the default Export Settings is so much less pro now, being renamed to destinations. Well OK you can include upload settings, but it is not something a pro will normally use.
All these “Destinations” are so web oriiented, how about some master settings, or at least export full resolution timeline at it’s settings (which should be the top setting). Honestly I never use an automatic upload. Anything that is for mastering needs to be exported then watched then uploaded anyway, so having all these “destinations” is completely useless to me. And how about a Frame.io destination which could be a bit useful at least, but still should be watched before uploading.
Now it is easy enough to add new ones, based on the settings you make with the media file settings.
And as for getting to the compression settings, everything is harder to get to now, taking multiple clicks to do what could be opened by one before.
And you cannot type in a number in the bitrate, only use the slider to set bit rate. No thank you, I need to be able to type in a bitrate as I used to be able to. (UPDATE: in the forums they have said they are working on this).
I am really not sure about the new header bar, and it’s hiding the workspaces in favor of Import/Edit/Export which becomes a new tier of workspaces, and ones that I don’t use as much as my edit workspaces on a day to day basis.
Going to be interesting to see how Adobe makes it standard across apps, as I am assuming that will just mean video apps, but we shall see.
I can honestly say I don’t need the Import and Export all the time on my title bar, I would rather have quick access to my custom workspaces than have those. Many times I import most everything at the start then only need a graphic here and there so don’t need it on the title bar.
I think it should all be one workspace system or at least make Edit a drop down with your workspaces.
So now it is two clicks for me to change workspaces instead of 2. That is not an improvement.
You can discuss the new features at the Adobe Support Community, here is for the Header Bar, Import Workflow and Export Workflow. And the Export discussions says the layout is still being worked on, and they are going to add BACKGROUND RENDERING as well as the already added multiple outputs.
And I really wish Adobe would fix Merge Clips rather than adding new stuff.
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This is what when I tried using the Transcribe sequence in Premiere Pro for a while yesterday. And I realized I don’t ever want to cut a testimonial without the transcription.
It is amazing I can start making selects on my first pass with the transcript. And my comprehension is better. Man this is a feature I can’t live without.
Unfortunately it looks like their 3rd party cloud infrastructure took a hit today.
I am pretty sure Adobe is going to have to expand their infrastructure because this is going to be a popular feature.
#SpeachtoText @AdobeVideo
I am editing testimonials and an assistant already cut down sequences so just the best bits are in a sequence.
All you have to do is go to the captions workspace and hit the Transcribe Sequence and it renders and uploads the audio track, and very quickly transcribes. I have had it take 3-7 minutes depending on length.
It then very quickly auto transcribes. And yes it has some errors, that are easily fixable. Basically I duplicate the sequence after transcription and make a cut version that I can cut out the pieces I want and cut them into another timeline. You can immediately jump around or search in the transcription, and just having the transcription follow along on the sequence helps my comprehension of what is being said.
This is truly life-changing! This is the most amazing new feature I have run across in an editing program.
And you can also export a txt file with the transcription though it doesn’t contain the timecode or the speakers, and I would love to see the ability to add in the timecode and to add the speakers for more than single speaker transcriptions. Currently the export txt is grayed out in Premiere Pro 2021, but works in the beta.
Transcriptions have always been helpful to find specific things in a long testimonial, but having them connected to the sequence where you can literally jump to an individual word is beyond amazing!
Javier Mercedes has this video on a new feature that Adobe is beta testing right now, automatic Speech to Text using Adobe Sensei.
Unfortunately it isn’t just in the Premiere Pro beta, you have to request access, because I could use it right now.
This feature would be mind-blowingly amazing for cutting testimonials, which as a commercial/direct response editor I could use almost every day.
The video shows just how impressive this feature is.
It makes me wonder if they will expand on the feature to allow editing via text, or if the jumping to the place in the sequence via the text will be the extent of it.
I also would like to see the options for exporting the text, as I would love some way to automatically export these as documents that could be automatically uploading to producers.
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And here is the Adobe page for the new feature. You can also sign up for the feature there.
So Adobe is releasing Public Beta from within creative cloud.
If you look in your creative cloud application you will see the Beta Apps on the left, which I have highlighted with red. Currently it is for the Video Suite, though they will add all apps eventually. The apps use the same plug ins as the current version.
And when you open the app you get 2 new buttons.
The will be blue every time their are new features and you can read about them.
And the second lets you report bugs and go the forum for the beta.
Already there have been almost daily updates.
And they fixed the issue I was having with After Effects 2020 and Alexa footage, though I wish you could remove the damn forced AMIRA LUT entirely from the workflow.
Maximum PC takes a look at the newly released Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 Beta. And goes through new features, like the improved healing brush, the upright tool, the radial gradient tool, and a few others.
I will download if and when I have some time (could be unlikely with a 12 hour a day job coming up soon) as I find Lightroom the best tool to deal with Camera RAW (and yes I have tried Aperature and other than it’s interoperability with iPhoto it is just not as good).