Two recent Adobe events come to fruition today: the company’s acquisition of Frame.io last fall and its announcement of a drastic redesign of Premiere Pro’s import and export interfaces.
Today the company announced that Frame.io will be included as part of Premiere Pro and After Effects subscriptions, with 100GB of online storage on top of the 100GB of Creative Cloud storage that subscribers already get.
A video-editing collaboration service couldn’t come at a better time, with knowledge workers now heavily trending toward working from home, making for geographically separated teams. The plans allows for up to five active projects, and users can upload and download directly from within the Premiere Pro and After Effects apps, which now include a Review with Frame.io panel to achieve the integration.
Frame.io keeps track of versions and lets collaborators comment on, annotate, and approve work. Reviewers can see projects in the web browser and Frame.io iOS app as well as in the big Creative Cloud programs.
The new Camera-to-Cloud feature automatically starts uploading media as soon as a shot ends, in a reduced proxy format for quicker transfer that allows for editing right away. The editing collaboration feature is limited to two users, though unlimited reviewers are allowed.
Premiere Pro is also getting a promising new editing tool, some workflow tweaks, and access to more free stock media. The import page (above) more clearly shows sources and includes hover scrubbing. The export page, shown below, lets you output to multiple social media services and pick appropriate settings for each, saving you fiddling with detailed format settings.
Auto Color is the only actual new editing tool in Premiere Pro, and it uses Adobe’s
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