Sounds like a good time to upgrade to 32GB instead of complaining that you can't run three large programs concurrently without swapping on a system with 16GB.

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Adobe today launched a milestone release of its flagship Adobe Creative Cloud tools and services. The 2015 release of Creative Cloud includes major updates to Adobe’s industry-defining desktop tools, including Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, Premiere Pro CC and InDesign CC; as well as new connected mobile apps for iOS and Android. The company also shipped Adobe Stock, the industry’s first stock content service to be integrated directly into the creative process and the tools creatives use every day. In addition, Adobe announced an expanded Creative Cloud enterprise offering that includes enterprise-grade administration, security, collaboration and publishing services for design-driven brands, businesses and large organizations.

“The 2015 release of Creative Cloud is packed with innovation. Adobe Stock, our brand new stock service, makes 40 million photos, vector graphics and illustrations accessible directly within your favorite CC desktop apps. Our CreativeSync technology deepens the connections between desktop apps and mobile apps on iOS and Android; and major updates to Creative Cloud’s infrastructure and administrative capabilities make this an essential upgrade for enterprise customers,” said David Wadhwani, senior vice president, Digital Media, Adobe. “Creative Cloud 2015 is our most powerful and comprehensive release to date.”

At the heart of Creative Cloud is Adobe CreativeSync, a signature technology that intelligently syncs creative assets: files, photos, fonts, vector graphics, brushes, colors, settings, metadata and more. With CreativeSync, assets are instantly available, in the right format, wherever designers need them – across desktop, web and mobile apps. Available exclusively in Creative Cloud, CreativeSync means work can be kicked off in any connected Creative Cloud mobile app or CC desktop tool; picked up again later in another; and finished in the designer’s favorite CC desktop software.

Desktop Tools Take Giant Leap Forward

With the 2015 release of Creative Cloud, Adobe magic and Mercury performance provide speed and technology breakthroughs across 15 CC desktop applications, including:

• Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Photoshop CC introduces Artboards, the best way to design cross-device user experiences in a single Photoshop document and quickly preview them on a device; and a preview release of Photoshop Design Space, a sleek new work environment focused on the needs of mobile app and web site designers.
• Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC both gain the new Dehaze feature, which appeared first as a MAX sneak in October 2014. Dehaze, eliminates fog and haze from photos, including underwater shots, for startlingly clear images. Haze can also be added to a photo for artistic effect.
• Premiere Pro CC furthers its lead in the market with the addition of the Lumetri Color panel for powerful color corrections using intuitive sliders and other simple controls; and Morph Cut, which makes it easier to deliver polished interview content by smoothing out jump cuts in talking-head shots to create a cohesive, polished sequence.
• After Effects CC now has Uninterrupted Preview to allow artists to adjust a composition’s properties and even resize panels without impacting playback. Also, the groundbreaking Adobe Character Animator brings 2D figures to life using a webcam to track facial movements, record dialog and apply movements in real time onto a pre-configured character.
• Illustrator CC is now 10 times faster and 10 times more precise than CS6. Powered by dramatic boosts to its Mercury Performance Engine, users can now pan and zoom smoothly without delays. With the new Chart tool (preview), designers can also create beautiful custom charts and share them with others via CC Libraries.
• InDesign CC gets its own Mercury performance surge with zooming, scrolling, and paging through complex documents now twice as fast. InDesign now also allows users to publish and distribute documents with a single click.
• Dreamweaver CC has new responsive web design capabilities that let designers quickly lay out and build production-ready sites that adapt to any screen size.
• Adobe Muse now includes instant access to premium fonts from Typekit.
• And much, much more. Additional updates to these and other CC desktop applications make this one of the biggest releases in years.

Pricing and Availability

Today’s updates to CC desktop and mobile apps are immediately available for download by Creative Cloud members as part of their membership at no additional cost. Membership plans are available for individuals, students, teams, educational institutions, government agencies and enterprises. When adding Adobe Stock to any paid yearly Creative Cloud membership plan, creatives can save up to 40 percent over purchasing stock content separately. For pricing details, visit: http://creative.adobe.com/plans .

At the Creative Pro Users Group, Al Mooney (an Adobe rep), hinted that it should be out by this month.

From past behavior it'll probably be sometime by the end of the month ... or so. I've mostly been working with the new color workspace, and would like to get some time to work with the revamped audio handling section also. We'll see with everything else I've got going if I can get to it before it's all released. ;-)

Neil

For basic use, the Color Workspace is fast & nimble. And very capable, with two spots to apply LUT's/Looks, one in the "Basic Corrections" tab where you'd apply a technical/corrective LUT, and one in the "Creative" tab where you'd choose a style LUT/Look. You can also create either a LUT (in .cube format) or a Look ( .look) to save to disk and apply on other clips/projects.

Anything you do to a clip in PrPro's Color Workspace now carries over as a single non-editable base Primary layer if you Direct Link the project over to SpeedGrade. You can turn it "off" or "on", but can't change that layer within Sg. You can of course do anything else that is allowed in a Di-Link process such as the wonderful 12-way color wheels, secondaries, masking & such.

Currently, if I'm going to do fairly basic stuff I work totally in Premiere Pro using the Color Worskpace. If I'm going to do much of a grade, I most often just head over to Sg ... I find it fascinating that when I first started grading video footage a couple years ago I went far more to the color-temp/tint sort of start that I'd been used to in stills shooting. While that works for some clips easily enough, I've found that I do love the individual channel controls per color available in a full grading program like SpeedGrade. Adjusting red, green, or blue exposure & contrast separately can oft give a great start to neutralizing a clip.

Still, the controls in PrPro's Color Workspace will be quite useful for a LOT of people. Especially if you're coming from stills work, this will be so easy to work. And it can also give an editor a quick idea of what a clip will look like if you want to just do some work in PrPro before sending it over to your colorist working in SpeedGrade.

Another thing I'd like to see is smart rending of more files such as AVCHD and other H.264 files. Yes, I'll be sure to give them that request.

I was at the Boston Creative Pro Users group yesterday and asked about H.265 exporting and was told we either need to convert our finished project to a loss less codec and use another software to do it or we'd need to purchase a plug in. Also told that since H.265 takes up a lot of power, it's unnecessary at this time. Almost implying that Premiere Pro CC 2015 wont have it initially.

I told them that it would help keep file sizes lower for people who wants to upload it to YouTube and was told that YouTube doesn't support it. I was probably mis-understood. I didn't mean YouTube streaming H.265. I meant uploading H.265 files. YouTube will convert the files anyway. I'd be surprised if people wouldn't be able to upload H.265 files to YouTube.

I might be posting a look at the new color workspace late next week. It will depend on whether I can get a ton of other stuff done as fast as I hope ... but would love to get something up on it.

Neil

If past performance is a pattern I would expect sometime mid June - ish. Give or take a couple weeks. Have you been looking at sample vids of it around the net? And do you have particular questions?

@JohnTollwannabe it is just a tool; if you give me a shotgun and I shot my cousin, the problem it's not the shotgun... the problem is my cousin :P  All and all I have to agree with you ... in pursuit of chroma palettes

 
Also found this tuto helpful... but for me it is impussyble to memorise ALL the shortcuts from edit to edit (so downloaded the video)

the tone hacker idea within speedGrave; can make and export look/LUT if desired

My understanding is they're working on building it in ... but implementing all they've announced for the next release seems to be their top priority. I'd love it to be in the next release, but it might not make it into the Adobe DVA's until a dot-update later on.

Neil

Currently not supported. I expect that as the standards for H.265 get completely really truly finalized that it will come into the Adobe DVA's. I'll see if I can get any info on this ...

Neil