Adobe has unveiled a series of updates for Premiere Pro including new colour management tools, a new Properties panel and a new design.
The new Adobe Premiere Pro (beta) brings in colour management and performance updates to help editors deliver video projects “faster than ever before.”
The new colour management system in Premiere Pro transforms raw and log formats from nearly every camera into consistent footage instantly upon import — without requiring LUTs.
A new context-sensitive properties panel “puts the tools editors need right at their fingertips and enables modifying multiple clips at the same time to reduce mouse mileage.”
The new colour management system is aimed at editors who “need a foolproof system that gives them great results with minimum input, while also providing deep pros the level of control they need to create custom workflows.”
Premiere colour management provides:
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An entirely new colour management system that automatically transforms RAW and log footage from nearly every camera into great-looking SDR and HDR, so users can spend less time managing LUTs and start editing right away.
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A new wide gamut working colour space that’s vastly larger than Premiere’s HD Rec.709 working space in which all image processing operations are performed. This new wide gamut colour space leverages Hollywood’s industry standard ACEScct with high-fidelity tone mapping that provides the kind of colour and fidelity results that were previously impossible with Premiere Pro.
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Six simple “set-it-and-forget-it” presets in Sequence Settings and Lumetri color settings let users work in traditional Rec.709 for legacy projects or the new wide gamut colour ACEScct with ease.
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Most-used effects, like Lumetri, are now colour space aware with smoother and more flexible control for refining skin tones, balance, and creative looks when working in a wide-gamut preset.
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Consistent colour and brightness when using Dynamic Link to send clips to and from Adobe After Effects for motion design and compositing.
The new Properties panel in Premiere Pro makes it “easier to learn for beginners and makes video editing even faster for experienced professionals.”
It takes the most popular effects, adjustments, and tools in an all-in-one, easily surfaced, and context-sensitive panel that shows editors everything they want to adjust and hides anything else based on the media type selected in the timeline — whether it’s video, audio, graphics, or captions. This reduces mouse travel, provides fast access to relevant panels for advanced work, and eliminates the need to search and navigate multiple panels to get to the needed tool.
With the Properties panel, editors can now do things like crop video directly from the Program monitor, or highlight and adjust the properties of multiple clips or graphics at the same time.
Adobe says the updates make Premiere Pro “faster and more reliable for every job. With even more hardware acceleration, you’ll have faster playback for codecs like AVC and HEVC. ProRes exports are now up to 3x faster so editors can deliver cuts to clients faster and get home earlier.”
There’s added format support for more Canon, Sony, and RED cameras so users can import native files and start editing immediately.
There’s also a new design that’s “modern and more consistent.” There are two dark modes, a light mode, and high-contrast accessibility mode. There are also cleaner fonts and typography for better legibility and consistency with other Adobe Creative Cloud apps.
The new features are available now in beta and are planned to be generally available this autumn.
Staff Reporter
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