Adobe, Avid, Blackmagic Design: The Big 3 NLEs at NAB 2019
By Jim Bask
This year at the NAB Show 2019 we saw some of the most anticipated releases in video editing software history from the Big 3 NLEs: Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere & After Effects and Black Magic Resolve.
Perhaps the most celebrated is Avid Media Composer’s new user interface, coming out end of May with a release that also includes a 32 bit full float color pipeline, ACES support, and other improvements for finishing.
A refreshed user experience has been at the top of many user’s feature request lists for years, and after nearly six years of Avid Customer Association feedback and a handful of annual ACA votes which ask users to rank their needs, a new UI has emerged. This was undoubtedly no small task, as Avid had to tear down a 25 year foundation and create an experience that would appease new and veteran users.
Avid’s facelift also comes with shiny new code, making performance faster than before. Sloughing off the excess and cutting down time wasted loading projects, importing, and exporting. They now offer background rendering and transcoding and live timelines with edit-during-playback.
Adobe and Blackmagic Design have done the same with Premiere Pro and Resolve 16 respectively, announcing huge innovative leaps towards AI and machine learning. Their newest features alleviate common tedious editing tasks, while boasting faster and more efficient ways of GPU performance. Click here for the full article.