Adobe announced that it has added new features to its digital video and audio applications to help creators, editors and animators create more personal and creative work. For example, Premiere Pro has updated text and shape tools to improve performance and workflow, while new features in Adobe Character Animator help users design and animate puppets more easily and quickly.
Premiere Pro text, shape tools
In Premiere Pro’s new Text panel, speech-to-text and subtitles workflows are introduced for the first time. Editors can search through all subtitles and images in a sequence, perform Global Search, Replace and Spell Check, and more easily correct spelling errors in hundreds of image sequences to save dealing with large projects time.
The new Universal Text Engine makes it easy for producers to use multiple languages in the same video. In addition, creators can also control the production of subtitles in the Essential Graphics panel when dealing with subtitle scenes similar to Chinese right-to-left order.
New shape tools allow editors and creators to add polygons to images, with more precise control over polygon size, adding and adjusting rounded corners. In addition, Premiere Pro also unleashes the performance of the latest technology, with new hardware acceleration for Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max systems delivering up to five times the performance of 4K and 8K ProRes formats. The high-resolution HEVC format works faster on all Macs with macOS 12 Apple M-series chips. Windows system display technology has been improved after integrating the GPU, and the playback performance of all formats will be improved by 5% to 40%. Color matching is also 30% faster, and the lens matching workflow is accelerated.
Character Animator Puppet Maker
Animation helps increase audience engagement with video content, and the new Puppet Maker gives creators the tools they need to create and customize characters in Adobe Character Animator. In previous versions, users had to build puppets in Photoshop or Illustrator or use preset puppets in Character Animator, but now Puppet Maker allows users to freely design various styles of puppets from Character Animator.
After the puppet is created, creators can use a videoconferencing camera or any camera connected to a computer to animate the character with voice, facial expressions and body movements, greatly enhancing the interactivity and workflow of recording and animation. In addition, users can use the Puppet Maker innovative toolset to incorporate their animations into social media posts, or in videos of corporate presentations.
The new version of Character Animator also provides animators with a new Transcript-based Lip Sync feature, allowing creators to use written scripts, subtitles, or subtitles generated through Premiere Pro’s speech-to-text feature. Animate in sync with your character’s lips. This new feature, currently only available in English, now provides more accurate results thanks to the power of Adobe Sensei.
After Effects
In addition to the new general text engine mentioned above, the new version of After Effects also has the latest version of Cinema 4D Lite, which supports the full version of Maxon Cinema 4D R25.
Adobe is committed to improving program performance and ensuring that new features meet user needs before they are officially released. Through the public beta, users can try out features in development and provide feedback to the product team. Beta versions of Adobe’s digital video tools are available for download through the Creative Cloud desktop app.
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