Creative Cloud for video What’s New: Fall 2016
Connected Creativity
What’s New for Video in Adobe Creative Cloud
Creative Cloud gives users the industry’s best, most integrated workflows: an immersive
creative experience that empowers filmmakers, broadcasters, and web content creators to
imagine, craft, and deliver stories that connect with their audiences. With the new features
coming to Creative Cloud video and audio tools, you’ll experience unmatched creative
workflows, easier ways to collaborate with your team, and incredible performance
improvements.
Adobe Creative Cloud
Creative Cloud gives you all of
the Adobe video tools, along with
industry-leading design, web, and
photography apps. Get high
performance for editing and
motion graphics, easy-to-use
color and audio tools, and
support for the latest formats all
in a single integrated workflow
across desktop, touch and mobile.
With frequent updates, training
resources, amazing mobile apps,
powerful collaboration tools,
and access to your content from
almost anywhere, Creative Cloud
puts everything you need at your
fingertips.
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Free online tutorials
Get started on Premiere Pro, After
Effects, Audition; Character Animator,
and Adobe Media Encoder!
Collaborate With Ease—Supercharge your production pipeline with new collaborative features that
help you stay on top of projects—whether you’re working with a team or across Creative Cloud
applications. Team Projects, a new hosted service coming to Creative Cloud, lets artists work
simultaneously on projects with ease.
Unmatched Creative Workflows—The Adobe video tools give you more than the industry’s best, most
integrated production workflows. They are an immersive creative experience that empowers the artist to
imagine, craft, and deliver.
Incredible Performance—A variety of performance optimizations removes workflow bottlenecks within
and across applications. From GPU-acceleration to faster Dynamic Link, which eliminates intermediate
rendering between applications, you can move freely from application to application, try out ideas,
iterate, and refine—without interrupting the creative flow.
Team Projects
Sharing assets and ideas across
workstations has never been easier with
new Team Projects. Share editorial
workflows across your production
facilities without requiring additional
dedicated hardware. This service adds
deep collaboration features like version
control and smart conflict resolution to
Adobe Premiere Pro CC, After Effects CC
and Prelude CC. Post-production
professionals can work simultaneously
in shared sequences or compositions
within Adobe Creative Cloud
applications and access version control
features that significantly reduce
project conflicts and make reverting to
older project iterations simple.
Team Projects lets you collaborate with others.
With Team Projects, you can store files Easily share team projects and manage who has access.
locally or share lightweight proxies via
Creative Cloud. Easily convert existing projects to shared team projects. There’s nothing new to learn and,
aside from your VPN or Internet connection, no new setup or hardware is required.
Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Adobe Premiere Pro is a professional
video editing application.
Edit video faster with Premiere Pro CC, the industry-leading nonlinear editing application. With support
for a huge range of native file formats, a new proxy workflow, integrated color, effects and audio
workflows, a clean, customizable interface, and versatile output options, Premiere Pro provides a
complete post-production hub that will help you deliver your best work for any screen.
Who uses Premiere Pro CC?
Editors and online content
creators can get straight to work
with nearly any format in Premiere
Pro, customizing preferences to
tailor their workflows, and helping
them deliver world-class work on
schedule.
Filmmakers and production
companies count on the powerful
Premiere Pro toolset and deep
integration with the other Adobe
video applications to bring stories
to the screen collaboratively and
cost-effectively.
Corporate and event videographers rely on Premiere Pro to
quickly edit and share events to
enforce key messages.
Students and educators turn to
Premiere Pro and Creative Cloud for
state-of-the-art production tools so
they can learn the filmmaker’s craft,
and position themselves for success.
Premiere Pro is a Complete Post-production Hub
The next version of Premiere Pro CC will give you:
Better caption and subtitle tools
Expand your audience with captions and subtitles, whether to enliven silent auto-play video previews on
Facebook, generate versions
for different languages, or
improve accessibility for
hearing impaired viewers with
closed captions. Easily create,
fine-tune, and version captions,
including tasks like text
manipulation and altering
duration and location right in
the timeline. The new Edge
Color feature ensures captions
are easy to read on any color
background. You get an easier
workflow for creating captions Better captioning tools help deliver to wider audiences.
from scratch as well. Deliver video content that speaks to more people and meets captioning
requirements for web and broadcast in jurisdictions around the world.
Refined Lumetri Color tools
The color toolset in Premiere Pro is ever-expanding, allowing editors to work deeply with color. Deliver
the best color viewing experience for your audience with support for HDR10 metadata workflows,
enabling editing of HDR10 and output for new HDR-enabled TVs and displays, providing greater
precision for delivering brilliant imagery that makes the most of the viewing environment. The Lumetri
Color toolset now includes a more refined color picker when working with HSL secondaries or white
balance, allowing content creators to access powerful color correction and Look design tools in a
dedicated color workspace.
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Improved Virtual Reality Workflow
Introduced earlier in 2016, the VR
workflow in Premiere Pro now offers
additional improvements. Users can
work with stitched equi-rectangular
video to show field-of-view so you can
replicate viewing experiences while
you edit your content. Premiere Pro
also exports correctly tagged VR files
so that VR-capable video players, such
as YouTube, can play the media. Added
to this release, is the new auto-aware
VR, which detects whether your media
is monoscopic, stereoscopic over/
under or stereoscopic left/right and
automatically applies preferences for
the correct viewing environment.
New auto-aware VR in Premiere Pro detects whether your media is monoscopic,
stereoscopic over/under or stereoscopic left/right and applies the correct settings.
Expanded Destination Publishing – now including Publish to Behance
Sharing your projects via Destination Publishing allows you to render and share videos to popular web
locations from directly within Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder CC. With the addition of Publish
to Behance, you can publish your videos directly to your Behance portfolio, the world’s largest creative
community. Whether you’re posting to your favorite social media site like Behance, YouTube, Facebook
or Twitter, or want to share your productions privately to Creative Cloud, Destination Publishing gives
you a fast delivery system to meet your needs.
Improved Live Text Templates
Live Text Templates allows users to include dynamic graphics with their video content in Premiere Pro,
including the ability to edit text within those
graphics, without requiring the editor to
work directly inside After Effects. Live Text
Templates are ideal for adding visual
production value to any type of recurring
content, such as tutorial videos, web series,
broadcast graphics, and more. Editors who
need to work with branded graphics content,
Create motion titles in After Effects and easily make edits with Live
like lower-thirds, will appreciate Live Text
Text Templates in Premiere Pro
Templates improvements that allow for
simple manipulation of text layers directly inside the Effect Control Panel. Automatically sync missing
Typekit fonts, eliminating the need to find fonts manually, and take advantage of a new file format that
allows you to share Live Text Templates via Creative Cloud Folders and import them directly into
Premiere Pro without requiring an After Effects license.
Additional File Format Support
Broad file format support is one of the key strengths of Adobe Premiere Pro. Just load your files and start
working, even during ingest, whether you elect to work with native source file formats, or lightweight,
auto-linking proxies. Along with more efficient ingest of camera media, the next version of Premiere Pro
adds support for Native QT DNxHD / DNxHR export.
More Audio Effects
This release brings new and improved audio effects to Premiere Pro, providing higher quality sound
processing and improved fidelity from Adobe Audition including: Adaptive Noise Reduction, Dynamics
Processing, Parametric Equalizer, Automatic Click Remover, Studio Reverb. New hi-DPI aware effects
include, Analog Delay, Chorus/Flanger, DeHummer, Guitar Suite, Phaser, Single Band Compressor, Tube
Modeled Compressor, Vocal Enhancer and Multi Band Compressor. Some legacy Premiere Pro audio
plug-ins will be deprecated and they will be removed in a future version.
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And More
Additional features include the ability to render sequences faster with new GPU-accelerated effects and
improved support for Apple Metal. New visual keyboard shortcut mapping makes it easy to discover,
adjust and customize keyboard shortcuts. Improvements to Dynamic Link between Premiere Pro and
After Effects makes working with both applications more streamlined. Premiere Pro and Adobe Media
Encoder now offer stitching of multiple clips from camera media into a single file on ingest for easier file
management. Use the new Global FX Mute button in the Program Monitor to toggle on/off all video
effects in a sequence, to improve playback performance, or view the clips without any effects applied.
And a new launch screen offers beginners a variety of learning options and approaches—whether it is
examining a completed sequence, how to optimize a project, or a step by step through a featured tutorial.
Adobe After Effects CC
Adobe After Effects is the
industry-leading motion graphics
and visual effects application.
Who uses After Effects CC?
Motion graphics designers and
visual effects artists use After
Effects to produce intricately
designed short-form content such
as TV commercials, broadcast
graphics, and film titles, and to
create a wide range of visual
effects shots.
Deliver cinematic visual effects and sophisticated motion graphics with industry-standard animation and
compositing tools. A powerfully integrated workflow gives you new features that are complemented with
performance enhancements and quality improvements making After Effects more responsive.
The next version of After Effects CC will give you:
New 3D Render Engine
Cinerender, Maxon’s Cinema 4D’s rendering technology, provides outstanding render performance—
from high-end systems to lower-end laptops—with no GPU acceleration needed. Now in After Effects,
artists can utilize the Cinema 4D render engine to natively create and render elements inside After
Effects, including extruded text and shape layers, without the need for specialized hardware.
Video editors and postproduction professionals
use After Effects together
with Premiere Pro, providing
a comprehensive solution for
delivering stunning production
value.
Designers love the flexible tools
in After Effects that help them
easily prepare dynamic media
for interactive projects or to
prototype motion and effects in
user interfaces for digital products
and services.
The new 3D rendering engine in After Effects makes working in 3D faster.
Get outstanding 3D performance on your CPU with the standard renderer from MAXON Cinema 4D.
A Faster Workflow
The new video preview architecture in After Effects lets you play raw footage in real-time eliminating the
need to cache before previewing footage. Interactive performance optimizations and new GPUaccelerated effects, such as Hue/Saturation and Brightness/Contrast, remove compositing bottlenecks
and makes everyday tasks easier.
Shared Templates
Create new projects from your own After Effects template and automatically set color management
settings and project structure to ensure consistency. Share templates via Creative Cloud Folders to
ensure team members and freelancers are working from the same framework.
And More
Other features include automatic syncing of Typekit fonts from your After Effects compositions. The
ability to keep track of multiple outputs from the same file over the life of a project by adding date and
time tokens to your file name output template. Marker and scripting improvements helps users fine-tune
compositing details. A 360-degree preset gives users a better viewing of monoscopic equirectangular
video. Optimized time remapping, combined with faster Dynamic Link, improves overall workflow
efficiency, saving more valuable time for users.
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Adobe Character Animator CC (Beta)
Adobe Character Animator is an
innovative, accessible, and powerful
2D character animation application.
Since it was first unveiled as a public preview, Adobe Character Animator has benefited from thousands of
users’ feedback and even got a starring role on The Simpsons, where it made history as the first live
animation broadcast. With Adobe Character Animator, you use your webcam and microphone to give life to
your creations. Character Animator matches your facial expressions and head movements in real-time.
Who uses Character Animator?
Animators who work in Illustrator,
Photoshop, and After Effects
have an easy and efficient way to
animate their characters.
Designers and artists can bring
life to their illustration work and
extend their creative toolkit.
Students and educators have
a new way to bring narrated
presentations or other
communications to life.
Character Animator makes puppet creation and sharing faster.
Animate your puppets movements using your computer’s webcam. Mash-up
different parts of multiple puppets to create new ones quickly. Share puppet
creations with others via Creative Cloud Folders.
The next version of Character Animator CC (Beta) will give you:
Faster Puppet Creation
New features make puppet creation easier and faster. When combining puppet parts created from
multiple Photoshop and Illustrator files, Character Animator will allow you to “mash-up” different body
parts to create multiple puppets fast. Recording options have been streamlined to include grouped
keyboard trigger recordings with more precise editing options. Make changes to your puppets faster with
enhanced round-trip functionality between Photoshop and Illustrator and share files easily via Creative
Cloud Folders. New users can learn Character Animator quickly with a new interactive getting started
tutorial.
Adobe Media Encoder CC provides
fast, reliable ingest, rendering and
transcoding for video content.
Who uses Adobe Media Encoder?
Video editors count on Media
Encoder for reliable ingest
and export rendering of their
projects for virtually any type of
deliverable.
Filmmakers use Media Encoder
throughout their productions for
creating dailies, DCPs for review,
and for high quality final output.
Broadcast professionals
transcode and render content
during production and rely on
Media Encoder as their workhorse
for rendering content for web and
televised broadcast, including
AS-11 content packages.
Adobe Media Encoder CC
Ingest and deliver brilliant video content for web, broadcast, and cinema. Media Encoder is now your go-to
application for all your media processing and includes handy presets for a wide range of formats.
Background encoding means you can keep working while your files are rendered.
The next version of Adobe Media Encoder CC will give you:
Stitched Ingest, Faster Output and Direct
Publishing to Behance
Stitch clips from camera media into a single file on ingest to
jump start your editing process. Get to your final output
faster with less waiting, thanks to faster sending of
sequences from Premiere Pro and improved support for
native import of Premiere Pro projects. Publish video
content created in Premiere Pro directly into a Behance
portfolio, removing time consuming processes of separate
export and upload.
Destination Publishing to Behance
Publish your videos directly to your Behance portfolio,
the world’s largest creative community.
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Adobe Audition CC
Adobe Audition is a professional
audio editing application.
Mix, edit, and create pristine audio content for video and broadcast with a comprehensive toolset
including multitrack mixing, waveform editing, and a spectral display that allows you to visualize and
manipulate sound with incredible precision. Accelerate your video production and audio finishing
workflows with more efficient features that give you a perfect, polished mix for every project.
Who uses Adobe Audition CC?
Video editors and filmmakers rely
on the roundtrip workflow between
Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe
Audition to enhance the production
value of their work with clean,
impactful audio.
Broadcasters and podcasters count
on Adobe Audition to edit audio
efficiently and deliver pristine audio
content for the airwaves or the
Internet.
Audio pros use Adobe Audition
for accurate analysis, precision
restoration, and to build captivating
soundscapes for games or any other
projects that demand great sound.
Learn Audition quickly with step by step tutorials waking you through the process.
Choose from a variety of training options such as how to reduce background noise or mastering the
essential sound panel.
The next version of Audition CC will give you:
A New Getting Started Experience
Users who are new to Audition will find new guided walkthroughs of common tasks, such as reducing
background noise, mixing audio elements, or producing a simple podcast. The new onboarding
experience empowers newcomers to get started and feel successful from first launch.
Adobe Stock
With access to over 55 million high-resolution assets, including our new Premium collection, spend
more time creating and less time managing your stock images. The streamlined, integrated Adobe Stock
workflow takes the stress out of image searching, licensing, and reporting so you can find the perfect
asset to jump-start your next project. And because Adobe Stock is built right into Adobe After Effects
CC, Photoshop CC, Premiere Pro CC, and other Adobe desktop apps, you can add images and videos to
your Adobe Creative Cloud Libraries—and immediately access them across your desktop and mobile
devices, and share them with your team. Plus Adobe Stock for enterprise lets your creatives find the
perfect image while meeting the critical licensing requirements of large organizations. And it’s all
curated by Adobe, the world’s leading creative community. Request a free trial at adobe.com/go/
stockforbusiness.
Get Adobe Creative Cloud
Access all Adobe professional video applications, as well as Photoshop, Illustrator, and many other
creative tools with your Creative Cloud subscription. Get easy and constant access to your graphic assets
through the Creative Cloud Libraries panels built into After Effects and Premiere Pro. Use Adobe
CreativeSync technology to keep all your creative assets—media, Looks, and more—up to date and
instantly available wherever you need them—across desktop, mobile, and web apps. To download and
learn more about Creative Cloud, ºvisit: www.adobe.com/go/video
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