So Adobe just released a ton of new info on the CS6 upgrade. Premiere is getting a bunch of great performance enhancements and an updated UI. Not 100% sure how much I love the new UI, but it does seem like it'll be very customizable so it probably isn't a big deal. I also like that they're including AE's fantastic Warp Stabilizer into it. Was gonna be a pretty huge pain to stabilize your footage in AE just to bring it back into Premiere. Also, Adjustment Layers in Premiere! Hot damn! All in all it looks like a pretty cool upgrade.
After Effects is getting a pretty huge upgrade this time around. The most notable one is that they're finally giving us a true 3D ray-tracing render engine, completely built-in, and very GPU driven. We'll finally have a 1st-party way to do 3D text and shapes, along with being able to bend 2D layers in 3D space (something I've been wanting for many years). Now, my instincts tell me that in it's first iteration, the 3D is probably not going to be stellar, and there'll be things I just NEED Cinema4D for, but for simple 3D text and shapes, which comes up a LOT, I'm sure it'll be quite nice to have.
We're also getting a built-in 3D Camera tracker! I'm understandably concerned about the quality of the solver here but if it works well, that's a very valuable upgrade. No word on actual 3D object tracking yet though. Ummm lets see what else.. Variable mask feathering! Fantastic! Reeeeaaally needed when you're doing a lot of intricate rotoscoping. It's something the bigger packages like Nuke and Flame have had for a while and it's helped set them apart. Now we've got it! Yay!
As cool and on-the-surface as these new features are, I think the under-the-hood stuff is probably going to mean the most to me in my everyday workflow though. The new Global Performance Cache looks like it'll really speed up my workflow and just make life easier. They're also working hard on off-loading a lot of the processing to the GPU, which should also make things nice and zippy.
All in all, lots of exciting stuff. Not even getting into the crazy wizardry that Photoshop is giving us now. Here's some handy links if you wanna dive into this stuff more.
General CS6 Production Premium announcement: http://success.adobe.com/en/na/programs ... 8_nab.html
Little videos about all the new AE features: http://www.video2brain.com/en/products-313.htm


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