New Features in Adobe Premiere Pro & After Effects (Jan. 2021)

Late last week, Adobe released a handful of new feature updates and performance improvements for Premiere Pro and After Effects.

Premiere now supports more high-speed frame rates.

Premiere Pro

• Timecode Support for Non-Standard Frame Rates – Added support to display and use any non-standard frame rate timecodes, such as 120fps, 240fps or VFR clips.
• Color space and Gamma changes – The default working space and Gamma curve is modified for all RED files.
• Performance improvements in H.264/HEVC encoding for Intel TigerLake processors.

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Premiere and After Effects modified the working color space and gamma settings for R3D files.

After Effects

• New Lighting Correction in Content-Aware Fill – Handle lighting shifts in footage better with improved Content-Aware Fill. The new Lighting Correction helps you cleanly remove objects from footage where harsh lighting changes occur throughout the footage.
• Color Space and Gamma Changes – The default working space and Gamma curve is modified for all RED files.

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As well, Adobe announced it will be updating terminology across Premiere Pro, After Effects and Audition to provide an inclusive toolset for all users.

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