Adobe Integrates Frame.IO Into Its Creative Apps

Adobe acquired Frame.IO in the summer of 2021 and all of the creative world was a buzz. It was an acquisition that just made sense in the creative space. Especially the film side. Now, Adobe has announced some fascinating and seamless integration of Frame.IO into its Premiere Pro and After Effects video apps.

Yup. The acquisition allows for simple integration for Creative Cloud subscribers* to work even more efficiently on video collaborations. Creative teams can work on a project managing assets as they’re used to doing with Premiere Pro and After Effects, but now there’s better versioning and review tools built right in. Even if you’re not a collaborative type like me, but want to have a client review a sequence, they can. And get the ability to add notes and mark-ups right onto the file with this new integration. Pretty good stuff. All of this will begin to roll out in PHASES starting April 12th (today).

Adobe also announced better performance for the M1 Apple silicon in its creative suite. In particularly in After Effects boasting an 3X performance boost. WOAH. I like After Effects, but man it can be really slow depending on the composite or effects. M1 users, rejoice.

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Premiere Pro has also gotten a new look with its import, export and upload layout. More on that redesign and proposed efficiency can be found here on the Adobe blog. Sounds good, but I find the Frame.IO news to be the true meat of today’s announcement. I’m looking forward to trying this out with my clients for their video reviews.

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Adobe Announces More Creative Collaboration Between Its Apps

At the time of this post, I can easily say that I’m a happy Adobe Creative cloud customer. I enjoy using the ecosystem because things work well together in my workflow. I’ll jump from Lightroom to Photoshop easily while working on a photo. I’ll jump from Premiere Pro to Audition when working on a video’s audio within a few clicks. It just works for me.

Today Adobe announced more cohesion and document collaboration options between its apps. This time it’s for Photoshop, Illustrator and Fresco. And quite frankly, this is a total “DUH’ moment. Why wouldn’t have this capability between these apps. Each are graphics-based apps that should easily work hand in hand? And yes this is year 2021, but we’re not out of the woods regarding the global pandemic and working in shared office spaces. We’re still on the remote work type of life. Online collaboration is critical these days.

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I’m not an Adobe Illustrator user, nor am I a Fresco user, but I do think these apps are pretty dadgum cool for digital artists. Especially for those wanting to be mobile and use their iPad for creativity. I do enjoy using Photoshop for my photo post-processing and manipulation. Especially the ability to use custom brushes to enhance the look and mood of my images. Speaking of, have you all tried the Winter Brush Pack from the one and only Kyle Webster?

In other news from the Adobe space, Adobe is offering a discount through February 14th on the Creative Cloud suite. Get it here with my affiliate link. Anyway, I thought this would be a good bit of news for creative artists like my man Adam Eargle. Thanks for checking it out.