Adobe wanted to let you concentrate on the creative aspects and remove the distractions of a complex workspace. Of course, you can always revert to a CS5 workspace if you get homesick.
Major user interface UI changes include: a larger area dedicated to source and program monitors with simplified transport controls that are now user-customizable; a tabbed window in the lower left that joins the Project panel with Media Browser, Info, Effects, Marker and History windows; a centrally located toolbar and a nice big audio VU meter to the right of the timeline with independent solo buttons for the left and right channels.
To make way for this sleeker interface, some things had to go. The shuttle and jog controls are now extinct. Adobe says after surveying users, they found that the controls were just not being used. There are inexpensive USB controllers that will give this back to you if you need it. No tears shed here. Warp Stabilizer was the first new tool we had to check out not that we ever shoot shaky footage.
We simply dragged the Warp Stabilizer effect onto the clip and left all the settings at their defaults. Premiere Pro then analyzed each frame in a background process allowing us to continue working in the program. Since every frame was in motion, this took a lot of analysis but after three minutes and 32 seconds, what was a very shaky shot with plenty of tilt and roll was a perfectly stabilized shot.
We applied the effect to other stationary shoulder shot clips that took far less time but the results were equally stunning — rock solid images! The only artifacts we found were some blurring when the camera was jostled faster than the shutter speed could keep sharp. You no longer have to painstakingly add the same effects to every clip on the same layer or get tricky and nest sequences. It works just like it does in Photoshop or After Effects. CS6 gives you lots of new ways to trim edit points.
You can also use the numeric keypad to assign a set number of frames to trim or even dynamically trim by selecting the Roll Edit then double clicking on the edit point. This displays both clips in your program monitor allowing you to drag the edit point in the timeline or adjust directly in the program monitor window. These are tools designed to speed up the process, but we found it took some time to get used to how they worked.
Once we spent some time with them, we found ourselves using them more often. We will not spend time reviewing the new pricing and subscription model or shared features that we already discussed, so be sure to check out part one of this review for those details. Perhaps the biggest new feature in After Effects CS6 is its greatly improved responsiveness.
Its Global Performance Cache includes a unique combination of a persistent disk cache, global RAM and graphics handling; you will no longer need to wait for a timeline to re-render all your layers in a preview just because you changed the properties in another layer. Depending on the size of the files and speed of the disk you have assigned to serve as your disk cache, the reloading will be less than real-time but in all our tests it was between 15 and 20 frames per second; far faster than the initial rendering.
Adobe cites tests done by NVIDIA as performing certain types of tasks, such as playback of higher resolution formats and larger compositions, as being between 1. You can also now render compositions in the background, allowing you to continue working on other parts of your project. Even while background rendering an effect-heavy work area, we did not notice much of a hit to our real-time performance.
You now have a host of new 3D tools to turn 2D shapes and text into beveled, extruded objects and flat objects into curved surfaces. At the heart of this new capability is the ray-traced 3D rendering engine. For those of you familiar with dedicated 3D programs most of the new tools will be very familiar. If this is your first step into 3D, After Effects makes it painless.
Not only can you now quickly give depth to your shapes and text, but you now have sophisticated material controls such as diffusion, transparency, reflection, refraction, specularity, environmental mapping and many more. You can curve any 2D image in 3D space by tweaking the Geometry Options with controls for curvature and the number of segments.
The greater the segment count, the smoother the curve up to a practical limit. By using the ray-traced 3D renderer, you do give up some common 2D functions such as blending modes, layer styles and others, but After Effects will remind you of this with a handy alert when you select the ray-traced 3D render for the first time and again each session if you choose.
The 3D camera tracker allows you to easily place objects such as text, shapes, nulls or images into 3D space. The key word here is easily. You have been able to do this before but only with a great deal of painstaking effort and even then, with only mixed results.
Now you simply have After Effects automatically analyze your 2D footage. This step can take some time depending on the length and complexity of your footage but it does operate as a background process so you can continue to work on other elements.
Once this step is complete you have a small constellation of points that, when hovering your pointer over them, give you various perspective plane targets on which you can place and parent your element. We experimented with a variety of footage types and found that the camera tracker gave us good 3D point options and solid tracking results each time.
Creating shapes from Illustrator CS6 vector layers is now a breeze. Just import a vector graphic, create a new composition, select create shapes from vector layer and you have a shape layer ready for animation.
If you have a very complex Illustrator file, the calculations can take a while and some types of Illustrator information, such as gradients, may not import accurately. But we found all of our test imports imported and converted quickly and precisely. Until now, you only had controls for X and Y-axis mask feathering. With the addition of the new Mask Feather tool, you have nearly limitless control of both the location and amount of mask feathering.
By dragging on mask feather points away from the central axis of the mask, you increase the amount of feathering. Not everyone needs degree support, but if you happen to be shooting spherical footage e. Not all video editors offer this support, and the ones who do offer it with varying degrees of functionality — so if VR or video is your thing, do check the software support for it before you buy.
Depending on what kind of videos you want to produce, you might look for a range of other advanced features. While the tools do lack a high degree of refinement, that can only be expected from a completely free video editing program. The only downside is limited export options and a subtle but non-removable watermark on your finished output.
This Hollywood-level video processing software is available in a completely free version that works on Windows, Mac and Linux.
If you want to get started on the path to becoming a pro, this is a great free choice. This free movie maker warrants a mention for its free VFX toolkit, professional editing tools, and extensive free tutorials. There are several easy-to-master video editing programs, but Adobe Premiere Elements is definitely one of the simplest. It features a wealth of AI-based tools that make video editing easy, plus guided edits that step you through various processes.
The Google Photos app has a free inbuilt video editor. This allows you to do basic edits like trim, stabilize, crop and rotate your videos, and add a selection of filters and granular edits. Got any other questions? Need help deciding? Disclaimer: All recommendations are impartial and based on user experience, with no bias to the products or the brand.
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