It is called AVID Media Composer FIRST, and will be heavily feature limited. Including only being able to save a limited number of saves and those saves can only be made to the cloud, and you can pay for more space.
It is a good idea for AVID to do for sure, and I would like to see Adobe do it with Premiere Elements at least.
BlackMagic have announced two new impressive looking cameras at NAB.
The first is the URSA Mini which ranges from $2995 for the 4K EF Mount, to $5495 for 4.6K PL mount!
Most impressive is that it has a global shutter at 30 FPS, and rolling shutter at up to 60 frames per second, with 15 stops of dynamic range! (I didn’t realize that the 4K sensor does Global Shutter at up 60 FPS, but only has 12 stops of dynamic range, or that the Mini loses it’s upgradeability that it’s big brother has) Wow!
Of course the shoulder kit is another $395 and the full viewfinder instead of the side screen is $1495!
This looks like fun, though obviously a work in progress for animating Photoshop or Illustrator characters. Not sure how much use I will have for this, but will likely learn it anyway!
At it’s Moving Colors blog, adobe has teased the next version of Adobe SpeedGrade. Unfortunately it doesn’t really go into the program itself, just going into it’s integration with Adobe Premiere Pro. I was really hoping for multi-monitor support, as I find it the biggest problem of SpeedGrade. I want to be able to put my scopes huge on a second monitor so I can see them!
Anyway, here are the features that they list, and the videos which I have already shown in the Premiere Pro post.
•The Lumetri Panel in Premiere Pro.
•Curves, Hue and Saturation in Premiere Pro
•Lumetri 3 Way Color Corrector in Premiere Pro
•Taking it SpeedGrade, your Lumetri color correct in Premiere Pro shows as a single Lumetri Color Layer in SpeedGrade.
•Introducting Project Candy. This is a new app for your phone that lets you take a photo and color match it in 3D color space and save it to your Creative Cloud library and apply it in Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop or SpeedGrade. To me it doesn’t seem all new, but an update the existing iOS Adobe Color App that would let you take photos to make color swatches. The funny part is while I think it is a cool idea, I would rather have the tech built into After Effects or Premiere, so I could do this with a photo on the computer, as I am much more likely to find a reference image that I want to use instead of a photo I am going to take with my phone.
Adobe has teased the next version of Adobe Media Encoder at the Adobe PremierePro blog.
Here is a quick breakdown of the new features.
•Time Tuner to retime your sequences 5% with predictable results or even 10% at times.
•Dolby Digital output.
•JPEG 2000 MXF Support.
•User interface refinements
Adobe has teased the next version of Audition at it’s Adobe Audition blog.
Here is a quick breakdown of the new features revealed.
•Dynamic Link Streaming to play back Premiere Pro sequences directly.
•Full Screen Mirror Video Display on a second monitor.
•Relink Media
•Automatic Session File Backup
•Copy Imported Assets to Session Folder
•Schedule Recording
•Custom Level Meters Crossover Values
•Import/Export Markers
•Brazilian Portuguese Language Support
•Audio Driver Performance and Stability Updates
This is a program I need to delve into more, but really I hope to pass my audio on to a real mixer, so it has never been as important to me.
Here is a quick breakdown of the new features.
•Creative Cloud libraries to share graphics and looks between Premiere, Photoshop and Illustrator.
•Greater Interactive Performance thanks to a new architecture. Let’s hope it doesn’t break all current plug ins!
•Unified and Simplified previews.
•A preview of Adobe Character Animator.
•Face Tracker Effect.
Yes this all sounds pretty exciting, though the character animator seems pretty niche.
Adobe has revealed some features from it’s next version of Creative Cloud at it’s PremierePro blog.
Here is a quick breakdown.
•Lumetri Color Panel. Adobe has integrated more of the color engine of SpeedGrade directly in Premiere Pro, but with simpler to use controls for editors, but all grades will easily pass over to SpeedGrade. Now you get SpeedGrades videoscopes, and controls simplified to work like Lightroom as well as a new Lumetri 3 Way Color Corrector.
•Morph Cut allows you to seamlessly morph between to edits in a talking head interview to make it look like a single cut (kind of scary, but also an incredible tool if it works as described).
•CC Libraries have been integrated into Premiere Pro and After Effects so you can save looks and graphics wherever you are logged into Creative Cloud.
•Premiere Clip, Adobe’s portable editing solution has an upgraded workflow.
•Task Oriented Workspaces for editing, coloring, audio work or other needs (much like AVID’s similar functions).
•New formats including ProRes 4444XQ Avid DNxHR, Canon XF-AVC and Panasonic 4K_HS.
•Closed Caption Support
•Composite Previews during trim
•Simpler Keyboard numerical import
•Source Settings as Master Clip Effects
•Improved AAF Exports
•Improved Audio Routing
•Improved Audition workflow, where audition will play the video directly from your media instead of rendering a video of your video.
•Improved Mercury Transmit Performance
•Time Tuner in Premiere and Media Encoder to allow you to retime a show up to 5% easily and possibly up to 10% in either direction without losing quality.
Sounds impressive. I am looking forward to getting my hands on it!
Next Week at NAB Adobe will be showing off the next release of Adobe Creative Cloud’s video suite with updates to apps. We knew this was coming as Adobe announced on March 18th that the next version of Creative Cloud will only work with Mac Os X 10.9 Yosemite and higher.
Check out this video that shows the most exciting new features!
Adam Garstone at Definition Magazine gives a quick overview of these 3 powerful 3D Compositing Programs. Work a read.
After learning Shake years back I would love to get into one of these, but can’t afford either Nuke or Smoke, but once a free Mac version is released of Fusion by BlackMagic Designs I will probably spend the time to learn it, and hopefully they will have added a good 3D camera tracker by then.