Adobe Releases Creative Cloud 2015

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Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2015

This week Adobe released the 2015 versions of its Creative Cloud suite of apps. There are lots of new Premiere Pro features, including many intriguing features centered around mobile interactivity. But the big ones that look like I could incorporate into my workflow immediately are:

• Lumetri Looks, for simpler, faster color grading
• Morph Cut, which seamlessly blends two clips to hide a jump cut
• Dynamic Link improvements, for better integration with After Effects and Audition

There are more cool features, like Character Animator, integration with Adobe Stock, Creative Cloud Libraries, and lots of other stuff. Check out the full list of changes here.

Creative Cloud 2015

Move Presets from Media Encoder CC 2013 to 2014

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If you’ve installed Adobe Media Encoder CC 2014 and want to get your custom presets from 2013, it’s actually pretty easy. Do this:

• Find your 2013 Presets directory. Mine was in /Users/jmatthewturner/Library/Preferences/Adobe/Common/AME/7.0/Presets
• In Media Encoder 2014, in the Preset Browser panel (top right by default), click the Import Preset button.
• Navigate to your 2013 Preset directory, highlight all your presets, and click Import.

That’s it! You can use them immediately without even restarting.

OS X Yosemite and Adobe Creative Cloud 2014

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When Adobe released its 2014 Creative Cloud applications earlier this year, I put off upgrading due to the usual concerns of “I am not your guinea pig.” But with Apple’s release of Yosemite this week, I decided it was time.

OS X Yosemite

I installed Yosemite this morning, and promptly spent an hour on Apple Maps doing 3D flyovers of various cities. (I gather this feature has been available on Mavericks for a while, but since I never use Apple Maps, I only found it when it got added back to my dock.)

After that I had to download and install an update to TotalFinder (my older version was broken on Yosemite, and I simply cannot be without it for a moment). Although the update is listed as beta, it seems fine so far.

I’ll spare you the laundry list of changes (if laundry lists are your thing, check out Apple’s product page and Lifehacker’s Top Ten Hidden Features), but I do like the changes to Spotlight, and why on Earth it took them this long to make the Full Screen button actually make an app go full screen, I’ll never understand.

Adobe Creative Cloud 2014

Next I installed Premiere Pro 2014, and opened up a recent project to putz around. I immediately had to download new versions of and reinstall my plugins (and in one case buy an upgrade) to get everything to work properly. But once that was done, smooth sailing.

Of course the previous version of Premiere sits alongside 2014, so I was able to go back into my old project when I needed to gather some details to recreate one of those upgraded plugin effects.

All told, it has so far been relatively painless. I did have one crash the first time I opened Premiere, but I’ve closed and reopened it many times since then and it hasn’t repeated. (I suspect it was related to one of the outdated plugins sitting in the timeline.) Editing the project to recreate the various plugin effects exposed no problems, and an export through Media Encoder 2014 worked perfectly.

In sum, this Late 2013 iMac seems to be running both Yosemite and Premiere 2014 without a hitch. I’ll install the rest of CC 2014 in the coming days and update this post; I’ll do the same upgrades on my Mid 2009 MBP soon and post those results separately.