Adobe has announced Premiere Pro 25 and After Effects 25, both of which will be available in October. New Premiere Pro features include an innovative new color management system and a new context-aware Properties Panel, while After Effects 25 comes with enhanced 3D workflows and a whole bunch of new animation presets. Both apps are also said to feature even faster performance and modern, refreshed user interfaces.
Adobe wanted to make it way easier and way faster to drop any kind of RAW or Log format in your Premier Pro timeline and see great looking footage without requiring lots of steps.
To do this they came up with a new Premier color management system.
Adobe’s goal was to try and make color management nearly invisible and automatic so that it is a task that happens in the background.
Adobe believes that you shouldn’t have to worry about it unless you want to dig in and dive deep and you shouldn’t need to dive deep unless you’re a really advanced professional who really knows what they’re doing with color science. While there is nothing wrong with this approach, I would argue that people should learn about color management so they understand what is happening and how to deal with footage.
According to Adove, the new system is going to allow any video editor regardless of experience, to get the color and look they want in Premiere Pro simply by dropping clips in the timeline without requiring lots of effort.
With Premiere Color Management, Adobe is automatically tone mapping and normalizing RAW video and Log encoded media from nearly any camera without requiring lots of steps. They are billing this as a ‘Set it and forget it’ system that is simple and easy enough for any editor to use.
Adobe has managed all of its color management around 6 simple to use, simple to switch presets that let video editors know exactly what they’re getting into. The default setup appears exactly as previous versions of Premiere Pro have appeared in the past. So all of your legacy projects are going to look the same when you update the latest version of Premier Pro Beta.
For the first time, Adobe is also including a Wide Gamut working color space in Premier Pro. Up until now, everything has been in a Rec709 color
space. With this new Wide Gamma color space under the hood, the image and processing pipeline in Premier Pro is actually going to be able to take advantage of all of that RAW video and Log media data throughout your video editing and color pipelines again without the video editors needing to do really anything.
With the inclusion of a Wide Gamut working color space, Adobe has also announced that many of its most popular effects in Premier Pro, including Lumetri color correction are now color space aware. Even though Adobe hasn’t changed the Lumetri color tools with this release when you are working in one of the new Wide Gamut presets utilizing a Wide Gamut working color space, Lumetri is now able to take advantage and see all that RAW and Log data and use it in the color correction pipeline.
Adobe has also introduced a new Properties panel that is claimed to make Premiere Pro easier to learn for beginners and make video editing even faster for experienced professionals.
It takes the most popular effects, adjustments, and tools in an all-in-one, easily surfaced, and context-sensitive panel that shows editors everything they want to adjust and hides anything else based on the media type selected in the timeline, whether it’s video, audio, graphics, or captions. This reduces mouse travel, provides fast access to relevant panels for advanced work, and eliminates the need to search and navigate multiple panels to get to the needed tool.
With the Properties panel, editors can do things they’ve never been able to do before in Premiere Pro, like crop video directly from the Program monitor, or highlight and adjust the properties of multiple clips or graphics at the same time.
Adobe claims that they have been working hard to make Premiere Pro faster and more reliable for every job. With even more hardware acceleration, Adove states that there will be faster playback for codecs like AVC and HEVC. They also claim that ProRes exports are now 3x faster. Format support has been added for more Canon, Sony, and RED cameras so users can import native files and start editing immediately.
There are also Light and Dark work spaces you can choose from.
This feature is supported by Tentacle Sync, Rode, and Ambient. Ambient’s Lockit products, for example, enable syncing with LTC on set, which speeds up post-production workflows, and the NanoLockit even integrates with Frame.io Camera to Cloud for real-time logging.
To help you make it faster and easier for you to create and publish your content, we’ve upgraded Premiere Pro’s export capabilities with the help of some key partners:
Premiere Pro includes a wide range of AI tools that simplify complex tasks and speed up the editing process, including Text-Based Editing, Enhance Speech, and Audio Category Tagging. Thanks to our close collaboration with key partners there’s now a whole ecosystem of AI-plugins that help boost your productivity even further.
For enterprise customers, Adobe is also offering Enhance Speech API and Dubbing & Lip Sync API & UI.
Adobe has also introduce a major set of improvements and upgrades to its 3D workspace in After Effects that make it easier for motion designers and video editors to animate and blend 3D objects seamlessly with real-world footage and 2D elements.
While motion designers and video editors love working with 3D models, they can sometimes appear ultra “digital” and sharp. In order to make it easier to work with 3D models and have them seamlessly blend into 2D environments, Adobe released a number of tools and controls to make it easier than ever to design in 3D and 2D at the same time. Additionally, many After Effects users are new to animating and compositing in 3D. With endless 3D models available from Substance 3D, Adobe Stock, and online marketplaces, motion designers want to be able to craft their work with the embedded animations that come included with their models as they dive deep into the 3D world.
Now in After Effects, motion designers have an expanded range of tools when working with native 3D objects in the 3D workspace. Three major new features allow designers to make their 3D objects blend seamlessly and photo-realistically in real-world environments:
With 33 all new animation presets and number counting presets for infographics, designers in After Effects can spend less time keyframing a wide variety of animations and spend more time on creative motion design.
The Properties panel accelerates workflows by placing frequently used controls in one contextual panel. New for Fall 2024, designers can now adjust and control their cameras and lights in the properties panel to fine-tune their motion designs.
After Effects is also getting faster with hardware-accelerated UI/UX performance on Windows that’s claimed to be up to 4x faster than before.
There’s also a fresh, new design in After Effects (Beta) that’s modern and more consistent so designers and editors spend less time re-learning how to use tools in our different apps and more time creating.
All these features are available now in Beta and are planned to be released in October.
For more information on how to access the beta apps, please visit the Premiere Pro (beta) page today.
Source: https://www.newsshooter.com/2024/09/10/adobe-premiere-pro-25-after-effects-25/
