Adobe has introduced a series of updates and features to Premiere Pro designed to speed up the work of video editors and social media creators.
The video editing software now offers streamlined workspaces, proxy improvements, new gradient effects, and better encryption on Apple M1 devices.
Now available for Adobe Creative Cloud Subscribers, Premiere Pros June 2022 edition (opens in new tab) focuses on creating more efficient workflows while adding performance enhancing tools and support.
Adobe Premiere Pro upgrades
The latest update sees the unveiling of the Essentials and Vertical Video workspaces. These spaces are optimized to create more efficient workflows and have simplified interfaces and access to key functions. So users no longer have to switch between workspaces to find the tools they need.
The Essentials workspace, a general-purpose editor space designed for use on single screens and video editing laptopsorders panels from left to right and has a large timeline at the bottom of the screen.
The new Vertical Video workspace offers a similar experience, built specifically for social media creators working in the 9:16 aspect ratio.
A handful of improvements have also been made to the proxy workflow experience. Proxies – small, lower-resolution video clips used as replacements for the raw source images – can now be identified using the new proxy badges. Users can even burn in proxy watermarks to make sure they don’t slip through the net.
Adobe also announced, “proxy files now default to ProRes format, which is a better format to use when working with proxies.”
On the graphics side, users can now add linear and radial gradients to lines and shadows – a popular technique in Japanese and Korean videos. The video editor now includes more GPU-accelerated effects, including Magnify and Wave Warp, with Adobe promising better performance, rendering and rendering of its GPU-powered processing.
Elsewhere, Premiere Pro RED V-Raptor has received camera support and improved H264/HEVC encoding on Apple M1 machines. With the latest release, Adobe says, “The bitrate of the H264/HEVC encoded files on Apple M1 systems is now as good as the bitrate of encoded files on Mac Intel systems.”
The Premiere Pro June updates are out now.