Adobe Updates Premiere Pro, After Effects and Character Animator (Dec. 2021)

This morning, Adobe announced new features and updates for Premiere Pro, After Effects and Character Animator.

PREMIERE PRO UPDATES

5x faster ProRes on Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max systems:

• New hardware acceleration for Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max systems delivers up to 5x faster performance for 4k and 8K ProRes formats.
• High resolution HEVC formats are also faster on all Apple silicon Macs running macOS 12.
• Display technology optimizations on Windows systems with integrated GPUs will see playback performance improvements ranging from 5 percent to 40 percent across all formats.
• Color Match is now 30 percent faster, accelerating shot matching workflows, and two more effects are now GPU-accelerated.

Title and graphics improvements in Premiere Pro

• Using the new Text panel, first introduced for the Speech to Text and captions workflow, editors can now search all of the titles and graphics in their sequence and perform global Search and Replace along with spell checking.
• A new universal text engine makes it easy to work with different languages and scripts, even within the same graphic.
• New shape tools allow editors and creators to add polygons to their graphics with precision controls for sizing and the ability to add and adjust rounded corners. Users who are familiar with the Adobe design tools in applications like Photoshop and Illustrator will feel right at home.

AFTER EFFECTS UPDATES

• After Effects now has a Universal text engine that enables you to seamlessly create and combine text using any language, or script in a single type layer.
• The latest version of After Effects now supports the Cinema 4D R25 features.

CHARACTER ANIMATOR UPDATES

Puppet Maker in Character Animator

• Puppet Maker gives creators the tools they need to create, customize, and animate their own characters in Adobe Character Animator. Previously, users had to first build and rig a layered puppet in Photoshop or Illustrator, or use one of the pre-built puppets in Character Animator.
• Puppet Maker gives users the immediacy of starting in Character Animator and the freedom to design their own character from a variety of styles, without leaving the application.
• Also new in Character Animator, Transcript-based Lip Sync allows creators to animate their character’s mouth movements using written scripts or transcriptions, including transcripts generated with Speech to Text in Premiere Pro.

LINKS FOR MORE INFORMATION

• What’s New in Premiere Pro — December 2021 release (version 22.1.1)
• What’s new in After Effects — December 2021 release (version 22.1.1)
• What’s New in Character Animator — December 2021 release (version 22.1.1)
• Performance Updates

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