As every year, Adobe is presenting some new features in its video applications in the run-up to NAB. Most of the innovations are in Premiere Pro, but there have also been some changes in After Effects and Frame.io.
Premiere Pro
The first innovation, which regular users will certainly welcome euphorically, is called "Media Intelligence" and concerns the internal search field. This allows you to search for local clips using AI (and hopefully find them too ;). Premiere can use AI to analyze clips and catalog them using keywords. The search is carried out using normal language, for example "All clips that were shot in a garden". But metadata can also be included in the search, for example all clips that were shot on a specific day. It is important to note that the clips do not migrate to the cloud for analysis, but that the AI of Media Intelligence works locally and therefore even works without an active internet connection.
The next innovation, which is by no means irrelevant, is that "Generative Extend" now supports resolutions up to 4K (formerly HD) as well as the portrait format. We have already presented this function in more detail in a small slashCAM workshop - and can point out once again that it can often be very helpful to have a few more frames available for a successful clip transition or connection.
Anyone who sends their film on the festival circuit will appreciate the new functions for the automatic generation of foreign-language subtitles. Subtitles can now be automatically generated and managed in 27 languages directly in the text panel. Several subtitle tracks can be displayed at the same time for control (and also for direct comparison).
Color Management in Premiere Pro has been given a new Wide Gamut Pipeline, from which other color spaces such as REC709/SDR or certain HDR dialects can easily be derived during playback. With six presets, Adobe promises hardly any possibility of errors and a lot of transparency through clear terminology, even for color space-agnostic cutters. Most well-known cameras should also automatically integrate correctly into the color management when the clips are imported.
After Effects
The High Performance Preview Playback is now available in After Effects, which should enable immediate playback of the entire composition on any computer without having to fill a RAM buffer beforehand.
The 3D tools have also been expanded: There are new menu items for previously complex 3D workflows and animated ambient lights for even more realistic 3D compositing.
The possibility of a direct HDR preview on laptops or HDR reference monitors also sounds exciting.
Frame.io
There is particularly good news here for teams that are already using V4. With this version, the available storage space now scales directly with the number of team members. This means that every Frame.io user on a project contributes to a larger total storage, which is a logical idea in itself.
In addition, there are new text markup tools and (as a beta) a searchable transcription of the audio and video files of a project.
The collaborative comment function has also been more deeply integrated into Premiere Pro. V4 users also get the previously exclusive Pro option of using Apple TV to provide a preview of the project for a presentation.
There are also other "minor" features such as customized templates for your own project and improved management of group rights and restricted folder access for sensitive data. Automatic watermarks for content that "goes outside" can now also be set up.
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