The title says it all - Premiere Pro 15.0 is here.
There are a few new features in Adobe's video ecosystem and I think of it as my duty to let you know about them, together with my commentary 🙂
Meaning the new Text panel I already talked about in the video below. It should make adding, customizing, and stylizing captions and subtitles a lot easier. Later this year it will be updated with the speech-to-text feature.
What I think:
This is a good step and a long-awaited improvement. To be honest, too long-awaited. I already tested this feature together with the transcription feature that is supposed to be added in a few months and it's definitely a much better workflow for captions and subtitles. Much appreciated.
Along with the option of copying individual audio effects, users can now copy and paste complete audio effects racks between audio tracks.
What I think:
So Adobe is treating it as a new feature or maybe an improvement. I think this is a joke. It's more like a bug fix in my opinion... What we really want here is the ability to apply any audio presets (including presets consisting of multiple audio effects) in a quick and easy way. Still not there Adobe...
Finally, we can replace both image and video files in MOGRTs! So when creating a new Motion Graphics template in After Effects we can now specify which layers can be replaced later in Premiere Pro.
Dozens of new Motion Graphics templates with Media Replacement are now available on Adobe Stock.
What I think:
Good step. I've been waiting for that update ever since they introduced MOGRTs. Took them a lot of time but let's not complain too much 🙂 I hope it will be a stable feature because I'm gonna use it a lot!
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allow users to share changes to projects more quickly and search in projects twice as fast as before
What I think:
Enhancements? What?! It's a bug fix! Just making something that should work the way it will work now from the very beginning. There are multiple real enhancements I could suggest to Team Projects. I really like this feature but it looks like Adobe stopped developing it which is a pain. Still - I'm glad it's finally accessible to individual CC subscribers so for that I thank you, Adobe 🙂
The optimized analysis is supposed to be four times faster for UHD footage.
What I think:
Great! Faster is definitely better in this case. Is it only for UHD footage though? I wish they would elaborate on that. I guess users will have to check it themselves...
New Captions Workflow - nice.
Media Replacement - nice.
And that's pretty much it.
I don't expect Adobe to come up with new features every time they release an update.
But their strategy in the last few years has been to drop a new feature (like for example Productions) and forget about it. I would expect them to improve these features once they gather feedback from users. And that rarely happens which is sad...
If you ask me, both Team Projects and Productions should be in constant development.
Oh - and now that we have a new Captions Workflow, I'm waiting for a brand new Markers panel. Please, pretty please 🙂
Also, remember to update carefully! If you need to work with 2020 projects, you can run both versions of Premiere Pro side-by-side (v. 14.x and v. 15.x). Just leave the second checkbox blank:
What's new in After Effects (Adobe website)
What's new in Premiere Pro (Adobe website)
P.S.:
A week ago I interviewed a director/writer/actor that is my personal hero and a huge inspiration to many filmmakers. I'll post our conversation on the channel in a few weeks 🙂
