Adobe Sneaks showcases future technology
Wednesday 24 October 2018, 16:32 by Michelle Peeters | 3,938 views | 0 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
Every year at Adobe MAX, and sometimes in between, we are treated to the Adobe Sneaks: a series of presentations about the advanced technology Adobe is developing that could save us a lot of time.
Think, for example, of Project Fastmask, which makes masking any subject in a video as easy as using the magic wand.
1. Brush Bounty
With Brush Bounty, you can animate traditional rain. Normally, you would have to paint every individual raindrop by hand and then animate everything to move across the screen in exactly the way you want.
With Brush Bounty, however, editors can create a brush for a particular animation and essentially paint the rain where they want it.
The amount or density of the effect can increase with additional strokes, but density, frequency, speed, direction and even the volume linked to the effect can be changed afterwards using simple sliders.
Brush Bounty can also introduce simple adjustments to animations based on various external inputs.
By connecting your smartphone, you can tilt it in different directions and Brush Bounty records the input from your phone's accelerometer to change aspects of an animation, such as the direction in which the wind blows through a character's hair.
Even more powerful is the ability to link animation properties to external data points, such as a number of retweets, higher sales figures and more. For example, a company could create an animation in which the size of an element increases every time the share price rises.
Although it would work fine as a standalone application, it is much easier to see Brush Bounty as something that could be incorporated into After Effects.
Or perhaps even into Premiere Pro in a limited form, to make it possible to tweak animations without having to work very precisely. All while tuning it perfectly to perfection.
2. Project Fast Mask
Project Fast Mask takes all the routine jobs off your hands. Some may find it frightening, but it really is incredible technology.
Everyone can now automatically mask any subject, moving or still, in videos with a few mouse clicks, even with simple or complex backgrounds.
With just four clicks around a subject to point Project Fast Mask in the right direction, a perfect mask can be created. You can then add extra graphic elements and other effects to your videos without affecting your subject. Brilliant.
3. Moving Stills
Photographers should be just as excited about this programme as videographers. You probably know the Ken Burns effect: throw a photo onto the screen and start the typical 'zoom in' or 'zoom out' or 'slow pan' in either direction.
Although it was revolutionary at the time, this effect is, to put it mildly, passé today.
But Moving Stills takes it to a whole new level. Adobe Sensei analyses each photo and automatically decides which parts to zoom in on, for 'dolly in' or 'dolly out' movements, or which way to tilt for panning shots.
And all at certain speeds to add believable parallax effects and make your moving images look like real video.
Many of the examples in the demo show large areas of foliage or water that were not moving at all, but you can see where a little more work with Adobe Sensei could add a finer pixel push to those details to create truly believable video from a single still image.
4. Smooth Operator
Smooth Operator is the perfect addition to Adobe's video editing software, which now also includes Premiere Rush CC.
Although Rush was designed to simplify the video editing process for online video makers who still do not want to give up professional-level transitions and motion graphics, technologies such as Smooth Operator are what really help Rush deliver on its promise.
Smooth Operator once again uses Adobe Sensei to analyse the subject in a scene and, when changing the aspect ratio from 16: 9 to 1: 1, square, for Instagram, automatically adds the correct panning.
This lets you intelligently keep your subject or the action in the video inside your frame at all times.
The best part: Smooth Operator handles scenes with multiple subjects brilliantly, as well as actions between those subjects, such as a video of a dog fetching something for its owner.
Above are three of Adobe's impressive video and photo-related Sneaks. Below are another six Sneaks covering subjects such as design, illustration, music and typography.
5. Fantastic Fold
6. Project Waltz
7. Project Kazoo
8. Fontphoria
9. Project Good Bones
10. Project Model Morph
About the author
Michelle Peeters is fotografe en oprichter van DeuxBleus Fotografie. Michelle herkent het bijzondere in het gewone en het gewone in het bijzondere. Ze heeft zich nooit willen specialiseren en is daardoor van alle markten thuis.
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