As Al Mooney, Product Manager for Professional Video at Adobe said: “Our goal was to reduce the flash and flatten the interface to make it easier to get into the editing.”ĭuring a press presentation last week, Bill Roberts, Senior Director of Product Management for Creative Cloud for Video at Adobe, announced that Adobe Premiere Pro CC was exclusively used to edit David Fincher’s feature film: Gone Girl ( Kirk Baxter, ACE, was the editor), Saturday Night Live uses Premiere for all their comedy roll-ins, and a variety of broadcast networks around the world are also now using Premiere, including: ABC, BBC, CNN, NBC Sports, ITV, Viacom and others. Globally, Adobe refreshed the interface for all their video products.
Powerful new media and project management features, including Consolidate & Transcode Search Bins and Multi-project Workflows offer more ease and flexibility, at the project level, so Adobe Premiere Pro CC users can complete tasks more smoothly.A refreshed user-interface across all the video applications supports HiDPI displays for both Mac Retina Displays and Windows 8.1, providing a cleaner appearance, and enabling video pros to stay focused on their projects.Performance enhancements include accelerated Masking & Tracking and new GPU-optimized playback that delivers better performance when viewing extremely high resolution 4k and ultraHD footage from Phantom Cine, Canon RAW and RED R3D files. Key updates extend native file support, with the addition of the GoPro CineForm intermediate codec and AJA RAW. Support for cutting-edge hardware and standards is accelerated via Adobe Creative Cloud, enabling the company to respond quickly to new hardware and software standards.This article details what Adobe announced and features an exclusive interview with Bill Roberts, Senior Director of Product Management for Creative Cloud for Video at Adobe, explaining why Adobe made these changes.
The update will be offered free to all current Creative Cloud subscribers. While no pricing or specific release dates were announced, if the past is a guide, the new versions should ship sometime in late October. This morning, at IBC 2014, Adobe Systems revealed forth-coming updates to: