Automatic font syncing when you load a project with missing fontsĪnd, while it isn’t new with this version, I really like how easy it is to apply drop shadows to text, using the settings at the bottom of the Essential Graphics panel.We can now group shapes and apply masks.Adding text now comes with its own background.Support for multiple strokes, and strokes now have styles.NOTE: Adobe moved this setting out of Preferences with this release and into the screen you use to create new projects.Īs well, the Essential Graphics panel has several new tweaks: (OpenCL has been deprecated by Apple, and won’t be available in the future.) This provides the fastest performance and will be supported by Apple moving forward. To make the most of your GPU, be sure to set graphics rendering to Metal.
“Better load balancing across multiple GPUs, including eGPUs, provides faster rendering and exporting, especially with professional codecs, like Apple ProRes, RED, and others – on both macOS and Windows.” However, “these load balancing changes do not affect playback, which does not use multiple GPUs.” (Adobe Help) This means that Adobe’s performance is dramatically faster especially using today’s state-of-the-art GPUs. The really big news for me, though, is Adobe’s support for eGPUs and dual GPUs. For now, you don’t need to do anything except be aware that changes are coming. We’ll learn more about what’s coming in the opening keynote at the upcoming WWDC Monday, June 3. Still, if you are running an older system which you’ve personally updated to nVidia, be very, VERY cautious about updating to the next macOS. In my case, I’m writing this newsletter on a 2013 iMac with an nVidia GPU, so this is a supported Apple implementation. Premiere is now aggressively warning about unsupported NVidia GPUs when you launch the software. However, in addition to codecs, there’s also the issue of GPUs. I’ve already talked about the removal of support for QuickTime 7 codecs here. Visit Adobe’s website for the complete list.īig changes are coming with the next major release of the macOS. There are many other features that I’ll cover in upcoming articles. Let me show you some of the smaller ones – the ones you’ll use everyday that didn’t get the big headlines: However, Premiere adds several very exciting features that are REALLY useful, even if they don’t generate headlines. But I don’t use After Effects, so I’m less wowed than others. The one that got the biggest buzz was Content-Aware Fill in After Effects.
Adobe announced a variety of new features in the April update to their media software, released just before the start of the 2019 NAB Show.