Creative Suite 4 updates on Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects

The 4.1 updater for Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder are fairly critical updates for the CS4 user. If you are using Adobe CS4 Production Premium, After Effects also has a new updater, 9.02. To see some of the major changes in these updates for Premiere Pro review the datasheet. For After Effects, check out the release notes. I’ve also created a “What’s new in Premiere 4.1” video to get you up to speed.

Click below for the videos

For RED camera users, both Premiere Pro 4.1 and After Effects have new workflows for RED R3D files. I do a quick run through of the new features on the new RED workflow in the 4.1 video above but here is a completely new Adobe RED video, which walks you through the new workflow in detail.

Open Screen Project-Reinventing Storytelling in the Digital Age

At NAB 2009, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen and Disney Interactive Media Group CTO A.D. Albers discussed how digital technology has acted like a catalyst on the media industry.

If you’d like to see a larger version. Click the video link below.

New Short&Suite on AdobeTV…and a new look

Hello, my friends! As previously mentioned several weeks ago, I finished shooting Series 2 of Short & Suite with Karl Soule, and they’ve just released the first episode, available NOW!

Searchable Video Now Available For You To Create

It looks like we’ve taken another small step forward in making video searchable on the web easier than ever before.  Recently, a page on searchable video was updated to include a downloadable excerpt from a book on making video searchable and a SWF player that you can use to embed your video with the search ability.

So, while its out there, I encourage you to visit the site, check out the excellent book and of course, download the SWF player.  If getting video online is your thing, connecting it to people who want to see it should be job #1.  This tutorial and SWF player should help you do that.

Look at the bottom of the page for the bits I’m talking about.

[Production Premium searchable video]

Perfecting Green Screen Photos

My friend Rufus Deuchler recently gave me a challenge. I started in video production working with virtual sets and chromakeying over a decade ago. I’ve used many different technologies over the years to remove green screens and blue screens, and found various techniques for preserving the original colors in the remaining video. However, I had never used Photoshop to do it before. It’s actually quite easy using the new Adjustments and Masks panels in Photoshop CS4.

Let’s start with a picture of Rufus, where the green has already been removed. Look at the color of the edge of the hair, and the side of Rufus’s face. It has a green tinge to it.

64 Bit

I’ve had some more thoughts on the ideas of 64bit and it’s value in light of this poor economy.  I mean what’s the point of talking about 64bit if you can’t actually use it?  With that in mind, I set out to see how much moving to 64bit on the PC platform would actually cost the average consumer.

64 bit OS and Adobe products

I blogged on a tutorial from Event DV around editing workflows with AVCHD.  In that same issue, contributor Jan Ozer wrote an article called CS4 at 64 that delves into the differences that he observed between Adobe applications and how they perform differently between 32bit Windows XP and 64bit Windows Vista.

NLEs: How Native Workflows Help You Save

I recently received the latest issue of Event DV, which is an excellent magazine with some solid writers.  Each month they’ve got some excellent contributions from Photoshop wiz, Lance Gray and an editorial from Jan Ozer.

Event DV also has a recurring tutorial called Cut Lines which represents how to do things with Apple’s Final Cut Pro. It too is good, but I can’t help but often compare how things are done in Premiere Pro (call me biased.

This month’s article was about how to edit AVCHD content.  If you’re curious to read the article, you can view it here.

Author Joe McManus does a very good job of outlining the basic steps to editing content inside of FCP as well as outline one potential technical pitfall that he encountered.

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