Premier ePro new version reveal

[Walter Soyka]

[Scott Witthaus] “I can’t speak for the AE improvements, but what I see from the Premiere stuff (the color corrector is the nicest thing, IMHO) in no way makes me want to jump up and subscribe.”

I think the Ae improvements are hugely significant. In my mind, this release is as important as CS5 when Ae went 64-bit.

I know you don’t like Premiere, so out of curiosity, what would it have taken to make you want to jump up and subscribe? Wouldn’t it be nice to see the same kind of continuous, iterative development and improvement with FCPX?

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[David Cherniack]

[Scott Witthaus] “Problem is that it’s in Premiere…”

I’m sure there’ll be a 30 day free trial when they release it so the only obstacle would be ideological and surely no-one here is an NLE idealogue….

David
https://AllinOneFilms.com

[Dennis Radeke]

Among the other bits that are out there talking about new features/workflows is this 30 minute video video

It tries to hit all of the big points with some detail in a reasonable amount of time. Something else to look at.

I’ll be in Vegas until end of next week but will jump on the forums as I can.

Dennis – Adobe guy

[Eric Santiago]

Too funny about this Morph Cut option.

Now what if Apple came up with this….

GO!!

[Oliver Peters]

Morph Cut is a lot like Avid’s FluidMorph, except a lot better. But a process that has been used for years. This is essentially the same as the technique T.Payton posted about how to do a similar process in X. Except his was not a one-effect solution.

I’m surprised you guys are scoffing at this. It’s a fantastic solution when used appropriately. I do a lot of testimonial-style commercials and you can’t go to a cutaway when you are right at the beginning of the spot. A lot of time you are just trying to clean up verbal flubs, so it really isn’t a matter of deceiving.

Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Oliver Peters]

Yes, the color panel is a good combo of Lightroom’s tabs and SpeedGrade’s controls.

Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Walter Soyka]

[Scott Witthaus] “the color corrector is the nicest thing, IMHO”

I really like their approach with color: make it fast, make it familiar, and layer complexity to suit different needs of different users.

If you’ve used Lightroom, you already know a lot of Lumetri Color in Premiere, and you can dial in a nice look very quickly with just a couple of sliders. If you need a little more, use curves and wheels. If you need a lot more, bring it all into SpeedGrade.

I’m also excited about the related Project Candy [link] and cloud-enabled Libraries, for a couple of reasons. This is a great idea from an art direction standpoint, making reference directly usable in production. It’s also our first good look at thinking beyond the desktop and exploiting mobility and the cloud.

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
@keenlive   |   RenderBreak [blog]   |   Profile [LinkedIn]

[Ryan Holmes]

[David Cherniack] “They are clearly working hard”

Yep.

[Tim Wilson] “And in case y’all didn’t see on the index page, here’s Kylee Wall’s complete coverage of Adobe’s Creative Cloud announcements. Some pretty wild-looking stuff….”

From Kylee’s article:
“New support for Apple ProRes 4444 XQ, Avid DNxHR with compressed alpha, Canon XF-AVC, MXF-wrapped JPEG 2000, and Panasonic 4K_HS allows for expanded native editing.”

I’m surprised that they are already incorporating codecs from cameras that just got announced yesterday! Obviously. they’ve been in talks with Canon, Apple, Panasonic, etc but that’s very on-top of it. So when the new Canon C300 Mark II ships in September Premiere will natively edit the footage. I’ve rarely seen any of the major “A’s” be that aggressive in new camera support.

Ryan Holmes
http://www.ryanholmes.me
@CutColorPost

[Dennis Radeke]

[Ryan Holmes] ”
I’m surprised that they are already incorporating codecs from cameras that just got announced yesterday! Obviously. they’ve been in talks with Canon, Apple, Panasonic, etc but that’s very on-top of it. So when the new Canon C300 Mark II ships in September Premiere will natively edit the footage. I’ve rarely seen any of the major “A’s” be that aggressive in new camera support.”

We do work with many camera manufacturers as it is essential for everyone to be able to edit quickly if possible. I’m really rather proud of our aggressive support for the past several years.

Dennis

[Mark Suszko]

Morph cut looks great. I know I could put that to use. Sure, it could be used for evil. But there’s a lot of bad training and interview material out there that this can fix.

Also, nice to see improved captioning support. Still waiting to see advanced captioning tools in FCPX. We do stuff with federal money backing it from time to to me, all that stuff absolutely requires captioning, but frankly, MacCaption is kinda clunky and too expensive. i want, check that, NEED decent broadcast-legal captioning and hopefully transcription tools, as plug-ins or inside of FCPX itself. This one feature would grantee a lot of institutional purchases of the NLE.