Adobe Announce Video Tools Update Ahead of NAB 2019

Adobe announces updates of its video tools ahead of NABshow 2019 available for download today. DDC will be at NAB 2019 covering all that's new with the powerful feature set of updates.

Try the new features yourself!

Explore new features with guided instructions and beautiful free footage from Adobe Stock:

Explore Content-Aware Fill in After Effects

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Explore Freeform in Premiere Pro

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Explore Titling with new Rulers and Guides in Premiere Pro

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Adobe gives you creative control with tools you can count on. Industry-leading applications for
editing, motion graphics, audio, and animation, combined with the world’s best ecosystem of
creative tools and services, provide a rich production platform for film, broadcast, and video
content, empowering you to deliver on schedule and tell stories that stand out.

The April 2019 release of the Adobe video and audio tools offers improved performance, polish, and the power of
Adobe Sensei AI to accelerate post-production. This guide provides an overview of what’s new in Adobe Premiere
Pro, After Effects, Audition, and Character Animator.

Work creatively and efficiently with the Freeform Project panel
Organize your projects and storyboard your media in the new Freeform Project panel in Premiere Pro.
Visually arrange your clips as you select shots and build assembly edits. The Freeform Project panel gives you
a place to brainstorm ideas, without the constraints of a traditional list or grid view.

Streamline titling and motion graphics
Rulers and Guides in Premiere Pro make it easy to align text and graphics within the editing workflow and
ensure consistency across teams and deliverables. Work with familiar Adobe design tools, save and share
Guide Templates, and streamline titling and motion graphics.

Premiere Pro is the industry-leading video editing application, offering robust native format support,
efficient workflows, and rich creative tools for color, graphics, and audio. Craft and deliver beautiful
content for film, TV, and online viewing.
The latest release is focused on improved performance and refining the toolset.

With more media and tighter deadlines, editors need tools that help them manage their content
without losing sight of their stories. The new Freeform view expands the Project panel into an open
canvas for organizing your media and visualizing ideas. Arrange clips, sequences, bins, and other assets
into layouts that work with how you think. Color code clips, stack them in groups to save space, make
hero shots bigger and build assembly edits you can drag onto the Timeline.
Save different layouts for different tasks inside the same bin and move between layouts as you work.
With options to show multiple types of metadata or just clip thumbnails, you control the look of your
bin. The Freeform Project panel helps you work efficiently and think creatively.

Layout titles and graphics with greater precision and consistency. New Rulers and Guides with
improved snapping bring familiar Adobe design tools into your video editing workspace, making it
easier to size and align graphics, still images, and video. Color code Guides for added efficiency and
share Guide Templates to ensure brand continuity across your content.

Premiere Pro now has a dedicated View menu, consolidating Program Monitor commands and new
commands for Guides and accessing or saving Guide Templates.

Work more efficiently with text in the Essential Graphics panel with all your titling and graphics tools in one place. Enhance titles with new options for adding multiple strokes and stroke styling to text, as used in Japanese and Korean titling and lower thirds. Make text and titles stand out with background fills or use masks with text for added impact.

Working with fonts is easier, too. Sync free Adobe Fonts automatically, avoiding issues with commonly used missing typefaces; define your own default font as a fallback option. Replace fonts in your whole project with one click to easily update a design.

Try it yourself!

Explore the Titling tools with new Rulers and Guides in Premiere Pro with instructions and free footage from Adobe Stock

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This release gives you more options for creating graphics and animations in Premiere Pro. Group
shapes and apply masks, all from the Essential Graphics panel. Drag and drop multiple Motion Graphics
templates into the Essential Graphics panel for added efficiency.

Ambience add atmosphere and a sense of place to video content. Auto Ducking leverages the power of
Adobe Sensei technology to detect speech and automatically adjust the volume of ambient sounds
below dialog, music, or sound effects. Adjustments are keyframed so you can fine-tune your mix.

Your audio workflow just got better with user-requested improvements that let you re-order audio
effects in the effects rack. Copy and paste effects and settings between audio tracks to improve your
efficiency while refining your sound.

Mask Tracking is significantly faster, even at high resolutions, for more efficient Lumetri Color and
effects workflows. Hardware encoding for H.264 and HEVC is improved for smoother playback. Metal
acceleration improves playback for RED footage. Better load-balancing for multiple GPUs, including
eGPUs, provides faster rendering and exporting, especially with professional codecs, like Apple ProRes,
RED, and others. A new System Compatibility Report utility checks for known issues, such as out-ofdate
graphics drivers to help ensure reliable performance.

After Effects is the industry standard for motion graphics and visual effects, used by animators, editors,
designers and compositors to create sophisticated animations and composites for compelling video.
The latest release adds new features for removing objects from video clips, a better way to create
Expressions, and more.

With tight production and delivery schedules, the ability to repair or re-purpose a shot can make a big
difference. First introduced in Photoshop, Content-Aware Fill is now available to editors and visual
effects artists allowing them to remove unwanted elements from video clips, such as production
equipment, boom microphones or special effects wires that have inadvertently been included in a shot.

Powered by Adobe Sensei, Content-Aware Fill replaces masked objects, shadows, or blemishes with
backgrounds generated from adjacent pixels and other frames in the clip. Incorporating technologies
such as optical flow and 3D tracking, Content-Aware Fill estimates motion and depth of the masked
object to intelligently assemble a replacement background. For complex shots, you can refine your
results with reference frames edited in Photoshop.

For 360 VR projects, Content-Aware Fill is an indispensable tool since there is nowhere “off-camera” to
hide crew, tripods or lights. Content-Aware Fill can also be used to salvage footage by eliminating visual
distractions or fixing continuity issues, like a car driving through the background of a scene, dust on a
camera lens, or a misplaced prop.

Try it yourself! Explore Content-Aware Fill in After Effects with guided instructions and free footage from Adobe Stock

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Writing Expressions just got easier and more colorful with the Expressions Editor, a full-featured code
editor built into After Effects. Expressions are snippets of JavaScript used to link properties for flexible,
dynamic animations, without having to create hundreds of keyframes. Designed to help you code faster
and more accurately, the Expressions Editor allows you to navigate your code visually with syntax
highlighting, line numbers, matching brace highlighting and code folding.
Customize your experience with a wide range of color themes to show the structure of your code.
Locate issues faster with in-line error messages that give you the context you need to find the solution.
Building on the Expressions engine, added in the Fall 2018 release, the Expressions Editor provides an
improved workflow for creating compelling animations.

Experience accelerated rendering when applying GPU effects such as Roughen Edges and Change Color.
Both effects now support 16- and 32-bit color. Sync missing typefaces automatically with new
automatic syncing for Adobe Fonts in After Effects and for Motion Graphics templates. Complex Team
Projects now load faster and offer improved workflows between Premiere Pro and After Effects.
Work more efficiently with RED RAW footage with new deBayering support for Metal on macOS.
Support for Sony VENICE v3 has been added. After Effects also offers improved hardware decoding for
H.264 and HEVC, providing smoother playback performance.

Ensure visual consistency in your designs and across your team. Save Guide Templates in After Effects
and share them with editors for use in Premiere Pro.

Try it yourself! Explore the Titling tools with new Rulers and Guides in Premiere Pro with instructions and free footage from Adobe Stock
adobe.com/go/tryit_titlesandgraphics

Adobe Audition provides a comprehensive audio post solution for virtually any type of sound
production work - from broadcasting to podcasting - including the best NLE integration in the industry.
The latest release offers full Punch and Roll recording, Auto-Ducking for Ambience, and workflow
refinements that improve efficiency.

New Punch and Roll recording in Audition provides efficient production workflows in both Waveform and Multitrack for long-form voiceovers and narration. Use it to accurately punch in replacement audio and continue recording a performance without interrupting your flow. An adjustable pre-roll, to match the cadence of your original recording, and visual countdown indicator achieve great results whether you are recording in a vocal booth or sitting at your workstation.

Create richer soundscapes and bring more atmosphere into your mix, without obscuring other audio.
Part of the Essential Sound panel, Auto Ducking uses Adobe Sensei to automatically adjust the volume
of background tracks around foreground dialog or music. You tell Audition which audio clips you want
the audience to focus on and Auto Ducking creates a mix. You can “set it and forget it” while it works in
the background or manually adjust keyframes afterwards to fine-tune the final result.

Mix audio with greater precision. Manual keyframe value editing ensures your adjustments are exactly
what you intend. Move clips between tracks without taking your hands from the keyboard with useful
new shortcuts. A new Zoom to Selected Clips command gives you a flexible option for instantly
zooming in or out to see your whole selection.

Character Animator unlocks a new level of artistry and enables expressive, performance-based
animation in any genre, including real-time livestreaming

With growing numbers of animation studios and productions embracing Character Animator, this
release is tightly focused on streamlining the toolset, including better Puppet rigging and tagging,
improved jaw movement and lip-synching, a new Twitch extension, and more.

Shape the gestures and movements that give personality to your characters more easily. With better
Puppet rigging you can apply behaviors, tag layers, and search through puppet rigs, allowing you to
accomplish more within your established workflows. Apply attributes to single layers or any group of
layers, simplifying the setup for complex puppets that allow for more nuanced performances. A new
search filter makes it easy to locate layers and behaviors for improved efficiency.
An improved visual interface for adding tags within the Puppet panel makes it faster and more intuitive
to designate layers and layer groups as mouths, eyes, and so on, without relying on perfect layer
naming. A new option to Swap Left & Right Tags makes it easier to modify puppet designs. You can now
copy and paste handles from one layer to another layer on the same puppet for perfectly aligned
magnets.

Now a character’s jaw can automatically move in conjunction with their lip-synched, editable mouth
visemes. Compute nutcracker jaw movement from scene audio; the power of Adobe Sensei generates
better automatic lip-sync, by reducing the impact of noisy audio.

Use the new Character Trigger extension for Twitch to enhance livestreaming performances by allowing
viewers to trigger on-the-fly costume changes, impromptu dance moves, or signature gestures and poses.
Surprise and delight your viewers, while adding interactivity and monetization to your Twitch channel.

Characterizer is an Adobe Sensei feature that turns artwork into puppets you can animate in Character
Animator. Characterizer now offers a faster UI, three new styles, and better final results, thanks to the
power of Adobe Sensei.

The Adobe video and audio tools are part of Adobe Creative Cloud, a unique collection of world-class
applications, including stalwarts like Photoshop and Lightroom, innovative new apps, like Premiere
Rush, Adobe Dimension and Adobe XD, and integrated services, like Adobe Stock, a diverse
marketplace for buying and selling high quality footage and Motion Graphics templates. Integrating
apps and services puts a wealth of tools at your fingertips, empowering you to leverage your strengths,
expand your skillset, and deliver amazing content.

Adobe Stock offers over 10 million curated, royalty-free cinematic HD and 4K videos sourced from leading agencies, including exclusive content from GoPro, and collections from Pond5, Discover Footage, ATW Media, Rubberball, and more. Adobe Stock makes it easy to find fresh, contemporary footage for establishing shots, to fill gaps in your project, or to enrich your storytelling.

Stock also offers Motion Graphics templates, including animated titling and lower-thirds with editable effects and text, to add sophistication and polish to video content. Accessible via the Essential Graphics panel in Premiere Pro, you can search and preview templates in Adobe Stock, and add them to the Premiere Pro Timeline with drag-and-drop ease.

Adobe applications are designed as an open platform, including a rich and growing library of APIs to
support sophisticated integrations with third-party solutions, such as Media Asset Management tools,
plug-ins and extensions for audio, color, effects, and optimized performance on hardware, such as
shared storage. No man (or woman) is an island and no software operates in isolation. The Adobe tools
connect technologies and deliver a seamless production experience for large enterprises, small studios
and everything in-between.

Try the new features with free footage from Adobe Stock!

Explore new features in this release with guided instructions and beautiful free footage from Adobe Stock:

Try Content-Aware Fill in After Effects

adobe.com/go/tryit/contentawarefill

Try Freeform in Premiere Pro

adobe.com/go/tryit_freeform

Try Titling with new Rulers and Guides in Premiere Pro

adobe.com/go/tryit_titlesandgraphics

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