Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 18 Beta and a whole Cloud workflow with new hardware

They have released the Beta of DaVinci Resolve 18. It has extensive new features in addition to Cloud Collaboration. This includes Blackmagic Cloud, a new Proxy generator with simplified proxy workflow, intelligent Media Management.

New features include Intuitive object mask, automatic depth map, track moving warped surfaces, and updated resolve fx beauty. It also has enhanced subtitles, reverse shape, iris and wipe transitions, it can view 25 multicam angles, and has YouTube and Quicktime Chapter Markers.

Fusion updates include GPU Accelerated Paint and Text and Shape Acceleration.

Fairlight updates can convert legacy projects to flexbus for high track counts, automatic binaural rendering, decomposition of nested timelines and innovative space view 3d display.

Other new features include DaVinci Neural Engine Acceleration, Laptop HDR Monitoring on Apple Displays, Atmostpheric Simulation, Edge Detection, DaVinci WIde Gamut Color Space, 8K Real Time Color Correction and better M1 Ultra Performance.

AI Tools include a Person Mask, Superscale uprez, smart reframe for Social Media, Stylize with Open FX Library, Fave Refinement, Dead Pixel Fixer, Object Removal, Patch Replacer.

For Content Creators it adds upload to YouTube, Vimeo and Twitter, Import ATEM Mini Projects, Advanced Noise Reduction, optical flow speed change, Mix 2000 tracks in reral time, track and follow objects, and upgraded Color Warper for Refined Grading.

Also new is the Blackmagic Cloud Store drive with 4 10G Ethernet Ports for local network and built in cloud share via dropbox, with proxy creation. It has super fast SSD drives.

There is also a Cloud Store Mini for smaller situations or where you will use your own 10GB switch.

And the Cloud Store Pod, which can have 2 USB C drives connected to it.

And the HyperDeck Shuttle HD a desktop recorder and player for ATEM MIni Switchers, that can also be used with the Cloud Store.

Wow, this is huge. A full cloud solution for DaVinci including sync. This is so impressive. I wonder if there will ever be solutions to use this with Premiere?

Adobe releases After Effects April 2022 (Version 22.3) with Apple Silicon Support

Adobe has released After Effects April 2022 (Version 22.3).

This brings native Apple Silicon M1 Support to the production version of After Effects. Still not sure about M1 Ultra Support as of yet.

It also includes Frame.io integration with the free account you now get with you adobe account.

3D Extended Viewer for 3D previews.

Scene Edit detection for which I have been using Magnum 3 from AE Scripts. Love that this is built in now.

Binning indicators for 3D layers to see how layers are composited.

And constrained shapes, where you can create perfect squares and circles by holding down the shift key when you double click the rectangle or ellipse tool.

And in the Beta, Separated Dimensions Preference.

So you can have x, y as separate lines.

Premiere Pro April 2022 release (version 22.3) is out for most (though I don’t have it yet) here are the new features

For most Adobe has updated Premiere Pro to April 2022 release (version 22.3) and here is there page on new features.

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.

Import
Export
Export Preset Mananger

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.

Final Cut Pro 10.6.2 update with duplicate clip from Scott Simmons at PVC

Scott Simmons from Pro Video Coalition has the latest on 10.6.2 update of Final Cut Pro.

I can’t believe they finally added duplicate clip detection, I have though there was no chance, as it had been so long that this had been missing, when every other editing program has this. And it has 2 ways to see the clips.

Final Cut Pro updated to 10.6.2 along with all of the Apple Pro Apps and a big iMovie for iOS update

The AI based Voice Isolation also sounds very interesting.

And now we will hopefully really see performance on an M1 ULTRA.

Adobe announces an updated Premiere Pro and After Effects and included Frame.io from Scott Simmons at PVC

Scott Simmons has the news on Adobe releasing updated Premiere Pro and After Effects today with the new Import and Export Modes.

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.