Creative Cloud for video What’s New April 2019 Refining workflows for video production Storytelling with smarter tools Adobe Creative Cloud Adobe gives you creative control with tools you can count on. Industry-leading applications for Creative Cloud gives you all of the editing, motion graphics, audio, and animation, combined with the world’s best ecosystem of Adobe video tools; world-class design, web, and photography creative tools and services, provide a rich production platform for film, broadcast, and video apps; and Adobe Stock for content, empowering you to deliver on schedule and tell stories that stand out. sourcing fresh footage and Motion Graphics templates. Get The April 2019 release of the Adobe video and audio tools offers improved performance, polish, and the power of high performance editing with Adobe Sensei AI to accelerate post-production. This guide provides an overview of what’s new in Adobe Premiere powerful color, graphics, and audio tools, integrated workflows, Pro, After Effects, Audition, and Character Animator. collaboration features, and support for the latest formats. With regular Accelerate production with Content-Aware Fill updates and learning resources, Remove unwanted objects and clean up shots with Content-Aware Fill in After Effects, an Adobe Sensei Creative Cloud puts everything you technology first introduced in Photoshop. Advanced algorithms analyze background content and use it to need at your fingertips. automate the process of removing elements, such as logos, shadows, or boom mics from your video. www.adobe.com/go/video 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. 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 adobe.com/go/tryit_contentawarefill Explore Freeform in Premiere Pro adobe.com/go /tryit_freeform Explore Titling with new Rulers and Guides in Premiere Pro adobe.com/go/tryit_titlesandgraphics The Spring 2019 release of Premiere Pro introduces a new Freeform view for organizing assets visually in the Project panel. What’s New in Adobe Premiere Pro 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. Adobe Premiere Pro is a professional The latest release is focused on improved performance and refining the toolset. video editing application. Who uses Premiere Pro? Freeform Project panel • Editors & Filmmakers With more media and tighter deadlines, editors need tools that help them manage their content • Broadcasters & brands without losing sight of their stories. The new Freeform view expands the Project panel into an open • Online content creators canvas for organizing your media and visualizing ideas. Arrange clips, sequences, bins, and other assets • Production companies into layouts that work with how you think. Color code clips, stack them in groups to save space, make • Corporate & event videographers hero shots bigger and build assembly edits you can drag onto the Timeline. • Students & educators 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. Create storyboards and assembly edits Try it yourself! Group clips for Explore the Freeform Project panel review in Premiere Pro with guided instruc- tions and free footage from Adobe Stock. Re-size thumbnails and add labels adobe.com/go/tryit_freeform Use the Freeform view in Premiere Pro to organize your media select shots for your projects. Rulers and Guides 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. View menu Premiere Pro now has a dedicated View menu, consolidating Program Monitor commands and new commands for Guides and accessing or saving Guide Templates. The Essential Graphics panel puts all your design tools in one place Save logo graphics within your designs Use Rulers and Guides in Premiere Pro to align designs and ensure visual consistency Creative Cloud for video What’s New April 2019 2 Try it yourself! Improved Text tools Explore the Titling tools with new Work more efficiently with text in the Essential Rulers and Guides in Premiere Pro Graphics panel with all your titling and graphics tools with instructions and free footage from Adobe Stock in one place. Enhance titles with new options for adobe.com/go/tryit_titlesandgraphics 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 Premiere Pro now supports text styles with multiple strokes font as a fallback option. Replace fonts in your whole project with one click to easily update a design. Graphics enhancements 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 Extend your editing platform templates into the Essential Graphics panel for added efficiency. with Premiere Rush, an all-in- one cross-device app for creat- Auto Ducking for Ambience ing and sharing online videos. Ambience add atmosphere and a sense of place to video content. Auto Ducking leverages the power of Edit wherever you are. Open Adobe Sensei technology to detect speech and automatically adjust the volume of ambient sounds Rush projects in Premiere Pro below dialog, music, or sound effects. Adjustments are keyframed so you can fine-tune your mix. when you need to take your work to the next level. Premiere Rush is included Audio efficiency with Creative Cloud complete Your audio workflow just got better with user-requested improvements that let you re-order audio and Premiere Pro single app. effects in the effects rack. Copy and paste effects and settings between audio tracks to improve your efficiency while refining your sound. Faster Mask Tracking and performance improvements 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-of- date graphics drivers to help ensure reliable performance. Save creative Looks with Adobe Capture, a mobile app available on iOS and Android. Use Capture to grab design elements with your camera phone, such as shapes, type styles, and creative Looks. Extract the interplay of light and color from a scene or photo. Save Looks to your Creative Cloud Libraries for use with the Lumetri Color tools in Premiere Pro and After Effects. Use Mask Tracking in Premiere Pro to add color adjustments or effects to moving elements within your shots. Creative Cloud for video What’s New April 2019 3 What’s New in After Effects 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 Adobe After Effects is a motion Expressions, and more. graphics and visual effects applica- tion. Content-Aware Fill for video Who uses After Effects? With tight production and delivery schedules, the ability to repair or re-purpose a shot can make a big • Motion graphics designers difference. First introduced in Photoshop, Content-Aware Fill is now available to editors and visual • Broadcasters & brands effects artists allowing them to remove unwanted elements from video clips, such as production • Editors & filmmakers equipment, boom microphones or special effects wires that have inadvertently been included in a shot. • Visual effects artists • Designers & animators Remove visual elements to enhance or re-purpose shots Powered by Adobe Sensei, Content-Aware Fill replaces masked objects, shadows, or blemishes with