Premiere Pro's new AI-powered tools aim to make video editing a lot easier

Date:
Fri, 14 Apr 2023 04:00:52 +0000

Description:
Adobe adds Sensei to Premiere Pro to help streamline some editing tasks.

FULL STORY ======================================================================

Ask any video editor and they will tell you post-production can take forever to finish. In an effort to ease up the workload, Adobe is currently working
on a number of new editing features for its Premiere Pro and After Effects software.

Between the two, Premiere Pro is taking the lions share of the upgrade sporting some AI-powered tools in its package . Text-Based Editing, in particular, utilizes the companys Sensei AI framework to automatically [analyze] and [transcribe] clips into text. That way, another editor or producer can grab said text as it appears and then paste it into a videos timeline in any order. To further help with consistency, Adobe is introducing Automatic Tone Mapping and Log Color Detection allowing users to combine HDR (High Dynamic Range) footage from different sources into one project. This could eliminate the need to manually tweak footage just to have a uniform look. New collaboration tools

Additionally, Adobe is throwing in some collaboration tools. Sequence
Locking, for example, allows editors to lock a portion of a video so it becomes view-only to everyone else. Work While Offline, as the name suggests, lets you continue working offline where you can then upload your changes at a later time without messing with other people's edits. And there are Presence Indicators that show whos working on what.

Other notable features in the update include GPU acceleration for select professional formats like Sony Venice V2, support for four new languages like Swedish in Speech to Text, plus background autosave. The company also claims this is the fastest version ever of Premiere Pro thanks to some significant under-the-hood improvements, but other than the aforementioned GPU acceleration, Adobe doesnt provide exact details on how much better it is. Affecting After Effects

The changes for After Effects are mostly optimizations like faster timeline layer selection [and] new keyboard shortcuts for Selectable Track Mattes. The Properties Panel will now display context-sensitive options based on software selections so tools are more easily available. Plus, you dont have to dig through a maze of menus. Arguably the biggest change is the addition of the ACES (Academy Color Encoding System) and OpenColorIO tools to ensure footage quality stays consistent when sharing assets with other post-production apps.

We reached out to Adobe to see if theres any way users can try out these features before release. A company representative told us people can download Premiere Pro Beta to get their hands on just Test-Based Editing. The rest of the update will be on display at the 2023 NAB (National Association for Broadcasters) Show from April 15 19 in Las Vegas. For those not going,
you'll just have to wait for the official launch set for some time in May 2023.

Its no secret Adobes software is expensive and not the most user-friendly, to say the least. If youre looking for other options, be sure to check out TechRadars list of the best After Effect alternatives for 2023 .



======================================================================
Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/news/premiere-pros-new-ai-powered-tools-aim-to-make- video-editing-a-lot-easier


--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64)
* Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100)