Adobe-Autumn-Update

And after the beta phase of Adobe Firefly, everything is now available. Anyone who wanted to could try out the generated features directly at the stand. And as you can see from the cover picture, we still have to learn how to prompt.

So, let’s start with Premiere – the May update had “text based editing”, which worked quite well. Here you don’t edit the frames, but the text of the automatic transcription like a normal text document, and Premiere assigns this and “cuts” it to fit. This makes it very easy to sort the voice contributions and quickly either find important statements or logically re-sort the flow of speech – we all know that when we digress in an interview.

And there is now also “Filler Detection”, which automatically recognises “er”, “um” and so on. All sounds of this kind are also recognised in multi-channel audio – and can be completely deleted at once. Stoiber could have used that!(The great speech from 2002 – if you want, you can load it into the new Premiere and see what remains after 00:30)

Another cool new feature is the integration of the speech enhancement tool in“Adobe Podcast“. This automatic “audio cleaner” removes echoes, noise and everything else from the audio and improves sub-optimal original sounds, interview partners as well as the later transcription and general intelligibility. And now as a “Noise Remover” in Premiere with one click!

In addition, the timeline should react up to 5 times faster – depending on the workstation and material, of course, Auto Tone Mapping has learned three new methods (for iPhone footage, HLG material and automatic recognition of the Rec709 colour space), LUT management and LUT relinking have also been stabilised, and MetaData/TimeCode-Burn in, ProjectTemplates for quick setups and pipelines, marker batch selection and installer instructions for BRAW have been added at the request of users.

After Effects becomes 3D!

There’s a big new feature in After Effects: there’s now a True 3D workspace where you can import, animate, light, shade (and then render, of course) 3D objects. So you can mix 2D objects, motion graphics and 3D objects however you like. And all this with a GPU-accelerated render engine. So you can prepare yourself for everything flying around and spinning in future adverts.

Oh yes, and the lighting is of course also image-based – if you want, you can also generate these images in Adobe Firefly (Nils has summarised how to do this in the current DP).

Another new feature is “AI-supported rotoscoping”, which is designed to speed up and simplify cropping – and in the demo it coped with the usual stumbling blocks such as overlaps, extremities and hair much better and without long waiting times.

Firefly!

And perhaps the most “historic” update: Firefly can now also be used professionally, i.e. Creative Cloud users can generate commercially usable images. Powerpoints are finally clipart-free! Or whatever else you need. The generative AI functions are now built into Photoshop and generate three variations per prompt including history – so if you want to go back, you can relax, try things out and develop the best results.

If you haven’t played with it yet: At firefly.adobe.com you can log in with your Creative Cloud and try out text-to-image, generative fill, text effects, generative colouring, sketch-to-graphic and 3D-to-image for yourself. Caution: Once the play instinct is awakened, an afternoon like this passes very quickly! Not that we’re saying there’s nothing to do on a bank holiday, but perhaps this would be the perfect day to give Firefly a try.

And more!

As always, all further information and new features – as well as access to the beta versions – can be found at adobeeventsonline.com/IBC/. And for all those who want to see the whole thing in action and want to know how to use it sensibly: Adobe MAX is taking place again from 10 to 12 October – online and on site in Los Angeles. Registration is still open – and the line-up of speakers covers practically all trades – photography, video, 3D, illustration and much more. And we are happily waiting to see what features the next beta versions of Adobe have in store.