Premiere Pro, After Effects and Frame.io - More AI, 3D Workspace and AWS Cloud
[15:02 Wed,13.September 2023 by Rudi Schmidts]
As has been customary for years, Adobe unveils news from its video and audio applications just in time for IBC. And again this year, there are some fresh features in new beta versions to try out.
Adobe Premiere Pro
Since May, "pure" text-based editing has become an official feature of Premiere Pro, allowing video clips to be edited even in the raw text of the transcription. This popular functionality is now complemented by the new "Filler Word Detection" feature. These filler words are understood to be clears of the throat and ahs, which usually interrupt the word flow of a clip unnecessarily. With a simple click, such filler words or even longer pauses can be removed from all clips in the timeline. As a user, you can also adjust the sensitivity of the detection.
Adobe Premiere Pro can now automatically detect and remove fill words.
Equally popular is likely to be the new "Enhance Speech" feature, which allows many forms of noise to be removed from a clip with a single click. The short demo worked very impressively and also left the user with the option of leaving a freely definable proportion of ambient noise uncorrected.
Adobe also proudly points to very drastic performance increases in the rendering of the Premiere Pro timeline. Thanks to new redraw routines, the timeline is now said to be built up to five times faster - mind you, compared to the last version 23.4. We&re very curious to see what this ultimately means for flabbiness.
And also in the color processing there are news over and under the hood: So the automatic tone mapping should now have 3 new methods. Among other things, these are controlled via new, merged settings in the Lumetri Color Panel. And there is finally a Quicktime Gamma Fix to automatically compensate for the sometimes different Gamma Defaults in Quicktime files.
This is joined by many small new features based on suggestions from the community - such as metadata and timecode as a "burn in" effect.
Last but not least, Adobe promises that Premiere has improved its stability once again and can now track down problematic plug-ins with the Effects Manager, for example.
After Effects
In After Effects, this time it&s all about 3D in the truest sense of the word, because the program now gets (s)a long-awaited, true 3D workspace. Like in a typical 3D animation program, 3D models can now be imported, animated, shaded and rendered photorealistically.
After Effects with 3D Workspace
Of course, typical Motion Graphics 2D elements can still be used in the new 3D Workspace. Through Creative Cloud Libraries, users will also have curated 3D models available for immediate use.
Also new is an AI-powered rotoscoping tool that can crop objects by simply "painting" on them. The quality of the edges is said to be far above previous tools, which of course makes us very curious. First demos looked quite promising.
Frame.io
Frame.io has now added a very helpful comparison view to its interface. With this, differences between two versions can be displayed visually. And this works not only with video clips, but also with audio or image files. Even a comparison between two PDFs is possible.
Frame.io with comparison function
Furthermore, new, "fresh" sources for Camera2Cloud (C2C) were introduced. First, ProRES RAW and 10-bit 4K workflows with the new Atomos Ninja and Ninja Ultra recorders. Then direct C2C upload with Accsoon Seemo and Seemo Pro gadgets. And last but not least, the FUJIFILM GFX100II medium format camera introduced yesterday can now directly send 102 MP RAW photos as well as 10-bit 8K videos to Frame.io in the cloud.
In addition, it should soon be possible to use one&s own rented cloud storage with Frame.io via "Storage Connect". The support of Amazon&s AWS S3 cloud storage, which can now be accessed directly with projects, was shown here in advance.
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