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After Effects CS6 : what’s new and changed

CS6 is released until December 31, 2012

• Global Performance Cache

• 3D Camera Tracker

• ray-traced, extruded text and shapes

• conversion of Illustrator vector graphics to shape layers

• variable-width mask feather

• new Cycore (CC) effects and upgrade of dozens of effects to 16-bpc and 32-bpc color depth

• Pro Import After Effects functionality based on technology from Automatic Duck for importing projects from other applications, including Final Cut Pro and Avid software

• improved integration with mocha-AE

• new and greatly improved GPU acceleration features for previews and final-quality rendering

• conversion of Illustrator vector graphics to shape layers

• Pro Import After Effects functionality based on technology from Automatic Duck for importing projects from other applications, including Final Cut Pro and Avid software

• ability to import ARRIRAW footage from ARRIFLEX D -21 or Alexa digital cameras compositing

• 3D Camera Tracker

• variable-width mask feather

• improved integration with mocha-AE extruded graphics and 3D animation

• ray-traced, extruded text and shapes

• bending 2D layers in 3D

• 3D environment maps

• new 3D material options

• new layer bounding boxes and selection indicators

• new draft preview modes effects and color

• upgraded many effects to 16-bpc and 32-bpc color depth, including Drop Shadow, Spill Suppressor, Timewarp, Transform, Set Matte, Photo Filter, Fill, Linear Wipe, Iris Wipe, and Radial Wipe effects.

• new Cycore (CC) effects with inclusion of CycoreFX HD suite, all of which use 16-bpc or 32-bpc color

• Rolling Shutter Repair effect

• extended Apply Color LUT effect to use Adobe SpeedGrade .Look files, cineSpace .csp files, and overrange IRIDAS .cube files performance

• Global Performance Cache, which caches frames and intermediate results so that After Effects doesn’t need to re-render any cached item

• persistent disk cache, which stores cached items between sessions and across projects

• Cache Work Area In Background, which fills the cache for one or more compositions as you work on something else

• new GPU -accelerated preview features

• new GPU -accelerated ray-traced 3D renderer miscellaneous

• numerous scripting language additions and improvements, including support for the new variable-width mask feather feature

• ability to use network rendering (aerender and watch folder) without activation of render-only nodes: After Effects CS5 .5 had to be activated (serial number entered) on render-only machines due to licensing restrictions for certain codecs. In After Effects CS6 , you can now run aerender or use Watch Folder in a non-royalty-bearing mode, activation not required. In this mode, some codec-specific features are disabled—primarily use of MPEG codecs.

Premiere Pro CS6 : what’s new and changed

• redesigned, efficient, customizable user interface

• dynamic trimming, including trimming with JKL and other keyboard shortcuts

• adjustment layers

• Warp Stabilizer effect

• expanded multi-camera editing, with more multicam angles and improved interface

• improved performance, extending GPU processing to some systems using OpenCL

• new and more powerful audio features, including adaptive audio tracks, customizable audio channel mapping for output, and improved Audio Mixer panel

• new native import of ARRI Alexa, RED Scarlet, RED Epic, and Canon Cinema EOS C300 footage

• improved color features, including integration with SpeedGrade and redesigned Three-Way Color Corrector effect

• improved workflows with other applications in Adobe Creative Suite, as well as with Final Cut Pro and Avid software

• faster Adobe Media Encoder, redesigned to make authoring for multiple outputs and mobile devices easier

• button editor, with which you can customize the buttons in various panels

• improved icon view in Project panel and Media Browser panel, with ability to scrub/preview media in thumbnails (“hover scrubbing”)

• improved usage indicators in Project panel, including tooltips and indications of which sequence(s) a clip is used in

• new default Editing workspace with better use of screen space for video content

• option to remove work area bar and instead use In and Out points for features that previously relied on the work area

• full-screen playback on primary monitor

• dozens of new and changed keyboard shortcuts, with option to continue to use Premiere Pro CS5 .5 keyboard shortcuts

• options to show or hide user interface items such as time ruler markings

• new settings buttons and menus in monitor panels for easy access to commonly used view options

• gestural control on Mac computers with trackpads, including pinching to zoom and using two-fingered swipes for scrolling importing and sequence setup

• integration with Adobe Prelude for ingest, logging, transcoding, and rough cuts

• alert when adding clip to an empty sequence if sequence settings don’t match footage characteristics, with option to match sequence settings to clip

• new native import of ARRI Alexa, RED Scarlet, RED Epic, and Canon Cinema EOS C300 footage

• new HD color bars and tone, which comply with ARIB STD -B28 editing

• improved markers, including import of markers from Adobe Prelude and display of marker comments in time ruler

• dynamic, keyboard-driven trimming in the monitor panels and Timeline panel, without needing to enter the Trim Monitor

• new keyboard shortcuts for working with edit points, navigating in the timeline, and performing other basic editing tasks

• new Render In To Out command for rendering preview for span between In and Out points marked in a sequence effects and color

• Send To SpeedGrade, which exports a sequence for color work in SpeedGrade

• Warp Stabilizer effect

• Rolling Shutter Repair effect

• uninterrupted playback, which continues previews even while you modify effect properties and perform many other operations

• improved Dynamic Link, including removal of limitation of Dynamic Link to only work within a suite (i.e., Dynamic Link will now work between applications purchased as individual products)

• redesigned Three-Way Color Corrector effect

• double-click to apply effect to selected clips performance

• GPU processing (Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration) extended to use OpenCL on some systems: AMD Radeon HD 6750M and AMD Radeon HD 6770M graphics card with 1GB VRAM in MacBook Pro computers running Mac OSX v10.7

• use of GPU acceleration by additional effects and transitions, including Warp Stabilizer effect and Push transition

• Mercury Transmit, a new interface making it easier for third-party I/O hardware manufacturers to interface with Premiere Pro, allowing for more robust and stable systems audio

• new Audio Mixer panel, with features and design from Audition

• redesigned Audio Meters panel

• new standard audio track type, which can contain either mono or stereo audio

• extremely flexible and customizable multichannel audio mapping for output

• ability to choose which clip to use timecode from when using merged clips exporting and Adobe Media Encoder

• new Preset Browser in Adobe Media Encoder for finding and using encoding presets

• parellel encoding in Adobe Media Encoder, which encodes multiple outputs simultaneously for greater performance

• redesigned Adobe Media Encoder user interface, with panel-based workspaces as in other Adobe professional video applications

• dozens of new keyboard shortcuts in Adobe Media Encoder

• new scaling and cropping options in Adobe Media Encoder, which make it easy to resolve mismatches between output dimensions and source dimensions (e.g., prevent black bars) miscellaneous

• removed Device Central, but extended encoding presets for mobile devices in Adobe Media Encoder effectively fill a similar need

Are there betas of either of these yet?

I think no, maybe available in the end of this years, like what I said above.

>We will stop selling CycoreFX HD on Monday, May 21st (21-05-2012) So, CS6 release date confirmed?

I was hoping they’d bring out the beta to run alongside the Photoshop beta

What’s new in AE CS6

Don’t post things from my blog without giving credit and a link back.

Here are my blog posts from which the posts at the beginning of this thread were copied:

what’s new and changed in Premiere Pro CS6 : http://adobe.ly/HDKYpx

what’s new and changed in After Effects CS6 : http://adobe.ly/HCGNMJ

ToddKopriva said
Don’t post things from my blog without giving credit and a link back.

Here are my blog posts from which the posts at the beginning of this thread were copied:

what’s new and changed in Premiere Pro CS6 : http://adobe.ly/HDKYpx

what’s new and changed in After Effects CS6 : http://adobe.ly/HCGNMJ

Sorry, I just got this post from CGMeetup

No real 3d engine yet ? dammm