In addition, Adobe announced the availability of Adobe Team Projects for individual creative cloud subscribers. This feature will be available for Premiere Pro and After Effects users in August.

Check out some highlights from this article from creativecow.net to learn more.

Adobe also announced the availability of Adobe Team Projects for individual Creative Cloud subscribers using Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects through August 17, as well as a lineup of live presentations previously scheduled for Adobe’s NAB stage, hosted online by Adobe Evangelist Jason Levine, featuring a variety of Adobe customers and live Q&A.

ADOBE PRODUCTIONS
“Productions was designed from the ground up with input from top filmmakers, Hollywood editorial teams, and leading social video creators,” says Van Bedient Senior Business Development Manager, Adobe Pro Video. “Productions is already being used on David Fincher’s upcoming film ‘Mank’ – which is going to be amazing, by the way – and early versions of the underlying technology were battle tested on films such as ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ and ‘Dolemite Is My Name’. Productions provides established professionals and aspiring storytellers with new tools for staying organized, managing multiple projects efficiently and simplifying collaboration.”

The evolution of projects within Adobe Premiere Pro was originally limiting Premiere Pro to a single project, no different than limiting a computer drive to a single folder for every file, or a web browser to one tab. Allowing multiple projects was an improvement, but each of them was isolated from each other.

Productions allows projects to be arranged in relation to each other, in whatever manner makes sense for any particular project. A film might be arranged in reels, or episodic television into acts. “The heart of collaboration is when you have multiple editors working on the same content at the same time,” says Bedient. “How do you keep track of who’s working on what parts, and how do you make sure not to overwrite each other’s work? We’ve done a lot of work to make sure Productions addresses these very effectively and very simply.”

The Production panel plainly indicates who is working on each project within the production, with Project Locking ensuring that nobody else can overwrite your work. Colleagues working on shared local storage can still see the work in progress, and can copy it into their own projects, but can’t make any changes until you release it.

At the heart of Productions’ technology is “cross-project referencing.” If assets are copied between projects, they are not duplicated, which helps keep projects small and fast. Media locations are stored on a per-user basis, which also allows easy transitions as editors bring in footage from sets into the edit suite, or take projects home for editing before reintegrating them into the Production.

Cross-project referencing agency might assign a Production to each client. Assets can be used in any or all projects, again, without duplicating them. The idea is simple, but powerful: organize Productions in any way that makes sense to you, including at the desktop level. Any changes that you make to the file structure in the Finder or Explorer level are updated in the Production, and vice versa.

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GPU hardware acceleration within Adobe Premiere Pro, Media Encoder, and After Effects could be right around the corner for PCs.

For a long time now, Adobe Premiere Pro, Media Encoder, and After Effects have lacked utilization of discrete graphics cards when it comes to exporting media. This leaves it up to your computer’s processor to provide a lot of the encoding power. However, if their latest beta builds are any indication, these applications will have GPU hardware acceleration soon.

That’s right. Premiere Pro Beta 14.3 and After Effects 17.1.1 include something that content creators have wanted for years: GPU hardware acceleration.

Improvements to the ProRes RAW Import on Adobe’s Community Forum.

This new feature allows your discrete graphics card to lend a hand during the rendering process, making your exports faster. Graphics processors are very important during the editing process. They allow better playback and help render specific effects, but they’ve long been absent in the final export process. AMD and NVIDIA cards are both supported in this update, so whether you’re on Team Red or Team Green, you’ll be all set. Here’s how The Verge summed up the announcement:

“Adobe is releasing a new update to Premiere Pro this week that includes hardware acceleration for Nvidia and AMD GPUs. The 14.2 update includes GPU-accelerated encoding using Nvidia’s hardware encoder for the company’s Quadro and GeForce graphics cards, with the promise that video editors will be able to export high-resolution videos up to 5 times faster than by just using the CPU. The changes also apply to Adobe’s Media Encoder, After Effects, and Audition apps.”

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