At PVC: Premiere Pro News Notes #09

There's another collection of news on tutorials, tips, and related tools assorted with Adobe Premiere Pro at PVC:

Premiere Pro News Notes #09.

Always-on auto-kerning in After Effects

There's a bug that sometimes pops up that prevents the Kern method preference from sticking, so you have to constantly change the setting each time you open After Effects, and in each version you have installed.

There an easy fix: edit the preference file. For details, see Quicktip: Optical Kerning preference in After Effects.

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MaskTracker+ extends features of Mask Tracker

MaskTracker+ is a new AE script from Mamoworld that expands features of the Mask Tracker in After Effects, opening up planar tracking capabilities that allow you to do much more than just moving masks.

Read more at Pro Video Coalition...

Premiere Pro News Notes #08

Catching up on the latest news on Adobe Premiere Pro tutorials, tips, and related tools. And there's more to come.

See Premiere Pro News Notes #08 on Pro Video Coalition.

CycoreFX plug-ins in AE & Premiere Pro

Over the last several years a few users have experimented with using CycoreFX ("CC") plug-ins built into After Effects inside of Premiere Pro. The current version that ships with AE, the only supported host app for the product, is CycoreFX HD (AE Bundle Only). CS6 saw an upgrade of dozens of the effects to 16-bpc and 32-bpc color depth.

Perhaps because of piracy, it's become trickier to use these plug-ins in Premiere CC 2014.

Read the rest at PVC, in Using CycoreFX plug-ins in Premiere Pro and After Effects.

Unmult, premultiplied, and straight

 
Two resource roundups were posted on PVC this week: Alpha channels: premultiplied vs straight and “Unmult” with and without a plug-in, on Unmult, Xmult, and channel and matte effects.

Creative Cloud June 2014

This April, Adobe revealed many of the new features of Creative Cloud at NAB 2014, but that was for After Effects, Premiere, & the other video apps. It appears there's more -- over 1000 updates for 14 desktop apps, and numerous mobile and cloud updates.  

Creative Cloud NAB 2014 Reveal was already detailed new features of the video apps, including additional tutorials and reviews by others. Highlights for the overall release is at PVC, Creative Cloud 2014 Release.

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Note: The new versions (2014) install next to old versions, so plug-ins can be integrated when feasible. They may not all work correctly and this let's you manage your migration to the new app. If you don't see the 2014 updates, restart the Creative Cloud desktop application.

Adobe Add-Ons are available as plug-ins, presets, HTML5 panels, and such (with forum). The new After Effects HTML5 panel SDK & plug-in SDK is also available. Scripting update notes were already posted at the bottom of Todd Kopriva's new and changed detail notes. ProEXR v1.9 was released with After Effects CC 2014 (13.0); download for older versions from fnord software website.