Adobe has ditched the “CC” from its name and replaced it with exciting performance and enhanced features. In this blog, you will learn about all the new features in the latest version of Adobe Premiere Pro 2020.

Auto Reframe

The biggest new feature is unarguably Auto Reframe, this feature uses Adobe Sensei machine learning to be able to identify objects that humans find interesting. Basically they took a lot of pictures and told the computer to analyze how human retina reacts to them and learn the patterns. 

So how does this feature that automates the task of reframing videos for different aspect ratios, fit in everyday editing workflow? Firstly, you should be aware that this is not an apply-and-forget kind of tool. While it will work great for some shots, for most cases the result will require you do delete or edit position keyframes that will be applied. It may not recognize the most important object in a shot or just frame it in a wrong way. You probably had a reason for compositing an image in a certain way and this tool is still far behind reading indentions. But in the future, as machine learning improves it may be right 99% of the time.

With that in mind, I think this is a great addition to the toolkit but will be most useful for simple sequences with people, animals, and other isolated moving objects. For more complicated projects it will still help to have a nice starting point.

Audio volume rubber band and time remapping

For most users, these two updates are long-awaited and much appreciated. Both raise the limit for the maximum value you could apply. Time remapping maximum speed is now increased to 20,000%. The previous limit of 1,000% made it very inconvenient if you wanted to time remap a longer clip. The only downside to this is how much time it will take to apply that maximum value. You’ ll need to drag the cursor up quite extensively. 

And secondly, the range for audio faders and for volume rubber bands has also been increased to +15db. With the previous maximum being +6db, which for many users was just not enough. With this new feature, the first thing you'll notice is the new neutral position of the rubber band. It's not in the middle of a clip like it used to be. It's a little bit higher. Visually it can be a little weird but it makes a lot of sense. This way manipulation of volume across the entire range should be more intuitive and precise.

Shortcuts

Honestly, I'm most excited about the ability to assign a keystroke to a keyframe. My second favorite would be the ability to enable and disable Motion Direct Manipulation for a selected clip. 

Though the rest of the shortcuts will be very useful as well. I'm disappointed that we still aren't able to edit a shortcut for getting rid of the program bar and maximizing the program area on your screen. This is one feature that I would have loved to have and hoping to see this in an update in the future. 

Overall this is a good release, Adobe gave us a lot of what we were asking for and a little more. If you are interested in learning more about photography or videography, please don’t hesitate to reach out! We’d love to hear from you. You can reach The Burnette Agency by email at info@theburnetteagency.com or give us a call at 404-850-2081.