Jason Druss makes Premiere sparkle at IBC 2025
At IBC 2025, Adobe’s Jason Druss showed how Premiere Pro 25.5 brings Film Impact’s 90+ transitions and real-time effects into the core app. Time to test this!
Cavalry 2.5 Adds Referencing, Tracking, Luminance Blur, and More
Cavalry 2.5 brings scene referencing, planar tracking, new filters (like luminance blur), layout wrapping and API upgrades, useful for animation teams.
After Effects Gets Hands-On: Victoria Nece Shows Off Quick Offset & Co.
At IBC 2025, I talked with Adobe’s Victoria Nece about Quick Offset, Smooth Zoom, and 3D compositing in After Effects. It’s tactile, fast and oddly fun.
Premiere Pro on iPhone: Adobe goes pocket-sized
Adobe shrinks Premiere into your pocket: free iPhone app with pro editing, Firefly AI, and one-tap TikTok exports.
Photoshop 2025.7 adds smarter Remove, Firefly‑model control, and refined sharing
Photoshop 2025.7 (version 26.9) adds non‑destructive Remove from contextual bar, Firefly model chooser and share‑to‑apps export control
Still Taping? You Should Be: Why LTO Is the Only Backup That Ages Well
Your backup drive will die. Your cloud costs will rise. But a £100 tape will quietly last 30 years, if you treat it right. Yes, LTO still matters.
IBC 2024 Adobe Premiere Pro News with Francis Crossman
Francis Crossman shows the new color management, the properties panel and the new look of the Adobe Premiere GUI.
IBC 2024 Frame.io with JJ Powell
The new version 4 of Fram.io has many workflow improvements. And JJ Powell explains how the Frame.io team uses Frame.io in their own workflow.
A second IBC-Interview: Anton Knoblach talks about the new AI features coming to Firefly. This german interview is translated with the new subtitle translation in Adobe Premiere.
What you need to Know: Premiere Integrates AI Video Generation
Adobe rolls out new AI-driven video tools for Premiere Pro, including Firefly-powered features. Enhanced workflows, time-saving tools, and stable performance are the key highlights, and not making editors superfluos.
IBC 2023: Adobe Premiere Pro with Francis Crossman
Francis Crossman shows how to remove pauses and filler words in text based editing and the removing of background noise.
The knights from the cutting table rush to the rescue
As I often work on several projects at the same time with Premiere, After Effects and Photoshop, it's difficult to keep track of the time spent. In my search for a solution, I came across "Knights of the Editing Table".
That’s not a microphone. THAT is a MICROPHONE
Audio recorders are available in all variations and even the wireless microphones from Rode, DJI or Hollyland now have an internal
have an internal memory and can therefore also be used standalone. You can often see on YouTube how someone holds a small microphone in front of their nose. It always looks a bit ridiculous. The Yellowtec iXM microphone is different. The scene from Crocodile Dundee comes to mind: "That's not a microphone. THIS is a MICROPHONE!" And it's big and made of metal with large control buttons. We tested whether it sounds as professional as it looks
YC Onion Chocolate Cameraslider
A cheese that glides smoothly over chocolate?! When I was at this year's IBC in Hall 11, I met the well-known video blogger Aaron Parecki at Yolobox, who was travelling with an interesting monopod tripod
tripod. When I asked him where he had got it, he pointed to the neighbouring stand.
Like Ulanzi, YC Onion has a broad portfolio of camera gear in its programme
Programme. From various tripods with practical quick-release fasteners to
LED lamps, camera heads and mounts as well as some interesting camera slider models. A trademark of this company is that they name almost all their products after food.
Update to the MAX
As always, numerous innovative, experimental technologies were
experimental technologies were presented by Adobe researchers and engineers. Surprisingly, the focus was on artificial intelligence.
Photoshop und Express Beta – Refill my Picture?
As soon as the Adobe Firefly beta is officially available to every Adobe Cloud subscriber, the features are also being introduced in the Photoshop beta and then immediately in the Adobe Express beta.
Firefly –AI for the Creative Cloud?
Everyone is talking about AI, and even in the general interest One of the points of criticism is copyright, as most programmes simply use the internet to learn how to generate images and text. Adobe has now also released an AI image generator with the beta version of Firefly, but it has a slightly different approach. I was one of the first beta testers to see how well it works.
Creation Effects at DP reader price: As announced in the article, Noel has sent us a code for a 25% discount on the templates presented in the test!
Binwees – a non-linear text editor
As an editor, I know the problems with copywriting from my editors, and even when I produce magazines or videocasts myself, I have often wished for a software tool for copywriting that goes beyond the copy-and-paste functions. Oliver Driemel and his editor colleague Helan Nasso, together with a programmer friend, have developed such software that enables non-linear texting like in editing software. The name is also due to their Kurdish origins. It comes from the Kurdish word "binivîse", which means "write".
Video Copilot live on Tour – Talking with Andrew Kramer
„Hey what’s up, Andrew Kramer here with another very exiting tutorial“ – you have heard this, if you are somewhere in the sphere of VFX, especially within the Adobe and After Effects ecosystem. This intro has been around for 15 years – and it took 15 years for Andrew Kramer to finally make it to London, Paris, Barcelona and Berlin. And we took the chance to meet him on the last and biggest event at the Estrel Congress Center in Berlin – which was sold out, just like the rest of the tour.