Jose Antunes has this article at the ProVideCoalition.
I have to admit I have known about Lightworks but I have still never tried it. I have never heard of a place that required it or even used it, so I have never played with it.
This is pretty cool the new colorchecker passport has both video and photo’s combined in a single passport. I have one of these, though from before calibrite made them, but it still works great. Really great for color correction DaVinci Resolve.
Honestly this post is a question to anyone why might know, as I have been running into something very frustrating with DaVinci Resolve, and that is, why when I duplicate a timeline do I lose the render completely and have to let it sit and re-render footage that is still rendered and has not changed from the previous Timeline (DaVinci’s name for a Sequence).
This is especially frustrating while working on my short film, which has full color corrects and a good deal of noise reduction, so a render can take hours and hours.
I looked for this on the DaVinci forums and don’t see anyone mentioning it, nor any posts on YouTube.
Selection improvements, is really impressive what the AI can do to select, and how easy it is to edit and fix these masks. Sure it might not be perfect, but what an incredible improvement.
One-click Delete and Fill, will be a huge addition for when you are separating the subject from the background as you will not have weird edges left to screw up any effects you put on your background image.
Invite to edit for collaboration features.
Share for review (beta) with shareable links, where you can get and manage feedback. I wonder if this uses Frame.io’s tech.
Photo Restoration Neural Filter (Beta) uses AI to restore old photographs. And it can use local AI, or higher quality but slower server based.
Other changes and enhancements to content credentials, substance 3d materials, and preference settings.
And Beta Features:
Live Gradients, which will be fast an amazing.
Live Gaussian Blur, more speed improvements.
Backdrop Neural Filter powered by AI.
After being briefly shown in Apple’s introduction video fro the new iPad Pro, Blackmagic Design has officially announced DaVinci Resolve for the iPad.
For now it will only have 2 tabs, the color tab shown above, and the cut tab.
Here;s hoping that the cut page will work with the DaVinci Speed Editor, which is Bluetooth, so that would only make sense.
They have also said there will be a free version and a paid Studio Version from the iTunes Store.
With the M2 Chip in the new ipad pro this should work, though the limited ram might be a bit of an issue, as will storage, so hopefully it will work well with external hard drives.
This will be released in quarter 4 of 2022!
How can Blackmagic Design manage this, when Apple hasn’t manged a version of Final Cut Pro for the iPad.
Adobe has updated Premiered Pro to the 2023 version.
Inner and outer strokes for graphics, updated in essential graphics.
Flexible alignment controls, allow you to line up text and shape elements.
Bulk edit titles on the timeline is a huge signature feature. You can batch change attributes across graphics files (this has been coming since you could see the ext in earlier versions).
2x Faster Motion Graphics templates, with multi-grame rendering being 2x faster.
Improved performance for AVC Intra, 10-bit AVC Intra formats are 2x faster on Apple Silicon.
GPU acceleration for Lumetri Scopes, is just going to speed things up, which is always great.
Improved Previews on Windows and macOS, with Apple ProRes now being the default codec for previewing most video formats. This could be a huge performance and quality boost. I already use ProRES as my default, but nice to have it be the norm.
AAF Support for Apple Silicon, actually makes me wonder why this was not working for so long. Sure you could run premiere not in native mode to get it to work on Apple Silicon, but this is a pretty necessary feature.
And a very intere4sting feature in the BETA.
Assemble rough cuts from transcripts, from the built in transcripts feature in the Text Panel.
This could be really interesting, and certainly speed things up. Anything that makes the awesome transcripts feature more center is a great thing.
Not huge features, but some pretty important ones, that will make our lives easier.
I know I was busy working yesterday as I didn’t see about this release until last night, but for Adobe Max they have updated After Effects, and already the Select Track Matte Layers is included! WOOHOO!!!
Select Track Matte Layers is the signature feature that will help clean up every timeline. Instead of having to have a track matte in the layer above every layer, you can use a single Track Matte layer and pick whip it to layer you need. And you can change it from alpha to luma with a button and invert the matte with a second button.
The only thing that could make this better would be sticky folders, so you could put all your track mattes in a folder and stick it to the top or bottom (and even better if you could have 2 timelines showing, so you could keep some of them locked to the top of your tracks, but that is all wishful thinking.
Anyway, Select Track Matte Layers is going to be just a huge time saver and organization saver.
Native H.264 Encoding has returned, it used to work through quicktime, but now it is back and native.
Composition Presets have been revamped and include social media platform sizes (though why is their only a 24p 1080 instead of 23.976?).
New Animation Presets, they have added 50 new presets, with a lot of changeable controls and new text animation controls.
Faster Timeline Navigation, is a simple thing that should have been in there years ago! Thank you adobe. Basically if you select a layer, the J and K keys just move along it if you hold down shift, or you can select a single property.
Cinema 4D Optional Installer instead of automatically installing the light version.
And Currently in Beta Features added.
3D Model Import, you can now import 3D models directly into your composition without additional plugins.
Properties Panel, allows quick access to important properties of selected shapes in the timeline (anything to get faster).
OpenColorIO and ACES Color Management.
These are not flashy new features, but to me these are some of the biggest updates to my daily life I have ever seen.
