Adobe released a major update to Adobe Creative Cloud, the company's flagship offering for creatives. The update includes the next generation of 15 Adobe desktop applications - including Adobe Photoshop CC, InDesign CC, Illustrator CC, Dreamweaver CC, Premiere Pro CC and more. Adobe Creative Cloud includes more than 30 tools and services that enable professional-grade content creation and delivery across print, web, mobile apps, video and photography. Creative files can be stored and shared, via Creative Cloud, on Mac OS, Windows, iOS and Android; and Behance, the online creative community, is now integrated with Creative Cloud, so customers can showcase work, get feedback on projects and gain global exposure. This major update to Creative Cloud is available now. Current members receive all of this innovation as part of their existing membership, at no extra cost. Special promotional pricing is available to existing customers who own CS3 or later. [source]

Red Giant Software's audio and video syncing application PluralEyes 3 has finally been released for Windows. The application is now compatible with several host applications running on Windows, including Premiere Pro CS5/CS5.5/CS6, Avid Media Composer 5.5/6.0/6.5, and Sony Vegas Pro 10/11/12. PluralEyes 3 is sold at an MSRP of $199 US, upgrades are $79 US, and academic pricing $79 US. [source]

Adobe has introduced an all-new version of Premiere Pro. The Premiere Pro CC, an Adobe Creative Cloud exclusive, features a redesigned timeline, intuitive track targeting, and dozens of new shortcuts; the new Link & Locate functionality that helps users track down their clips quickly; a Lumetri Deep Color Engine including the new Looks Browser, enabling to add looks from Adobe SpeedGrade as easily as adding a dissolve; Audio Clip Mixer for precise audio control; brand-new capabilities for importing and manipulating closed captions; multiple GPU export support; support for a wider range of GPUs in the Mercury Playback Engine; and more. Coming mid-June. [source]

At Adobe MAX, Adobe unveiled a significant update to Adobe Creative Cloud, the company's flagship offering for creatives. Available in June and packed with new features, Creative Cloud reimagines the creative process through a set of "CC" desktop applications and sophisticated cross-device collaboration and publishing capabilities. Creative files can be stored, synced and shared, via Creative Cloud, on Mac OS, Windows, iOS and Android; and Behance, the world's leading online creative community. By signing up for Creative Cloud today, creatives will be set up to download and use these latest cloud-enabled innovations from Adobe, when they are available next month. This update to Creative Cloud includes the next generation of Adobe desktop applications - including Adobe Photoshop CC, InDesign CC, Illustrator CC, Dreamweaver CC and Premiere Pro CC. Adobe's desktop tools, previously known as Creative Suite (CS), are now branded CC to reflect that they are an integral part of Creative Cloud and have been reinvented to support a more intuitive, connected way of creating. [source]

Boris FX unveiled a new VFX Browser for its flagship Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) plug-in collection. Available as a free download, the new BCC Effects Library Browser plug-in allows editors and motion graphics artists to instantly preview thousands of BCC presets via animations that integrate timeline video. The free plug-in can be used on any system with a BCC-compatible host application - even if BCC is not installed. The Boris Continuum Complete Effects Library Browser plug-in will be available as a free download during Q2 2013. [source]

RE:Vision Effects' intuitive color and texture matching tool RE:Match has been released in version 1.2 for both Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro applications. The update adds a new Luminance-only mode to RE:Match Color, fixes a problem in both plug-ins where bad frames could result in the cache while scrubbing etc. [source]

Fnord software released an updated version of its ProEXR and OpenEXR plug-ins for Adobe's Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere Pro applications. The free OpenEXR is an open source EXR plug-in for After Effects, while the ProEXR edition enables to access all the capabilities of the OpenEXR format from within Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere Pro. Version 1.8 adds faster loading of EXR files with many channels, and a "year's worth of minor bug fixes, optimizations, and other improvements to all the plug-ins in ProEXR." [source]

Boris FX announced Boris Continuum Complete version 8.2. The new v8.2 release features up to 100% improvement in render time for OpenGL-accelerated filters. In addition, nearly all BCC AVX for Avid filters can now be rendered in real-time. BCC v8.2 FxPlug for Apple Final Cut Pro and Motion is available now as a free download for v8.x users. BCC v8.2 AE for Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro, v8.2 AVX for Avid, and v8.2 for Sony Vegas Pro will be available as free downloads during Q2 2013. [source]

Matrox Video announced Matrox Mojito 4K, a quad 3G-SDI, 4K video monitoring card for use with the upcoming release of Adobe professional video editing tools on Windows platforms. It will enable real-time monitoring and output of video footage at resolutions up to 4096 x 2160 and at frame rates up to 60 fps. Matrox Mojito 4K will be available in May 2013, priced at $1995 US (1795 EUR, 1495 GBP) ex VAT. [source]

At the annual NAB Show, Adobe will showcase new audio and video software software lineup. Highlights of the show include the first public demonstrations of the next generation of Adobe's flagship video tools including Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, SpeedGrade, Adobe Audition, Adobe Prelude, Adobe Media Encoder and Adobe Story before their official release. Adobe is also announcing Adobe Anywhere for video - a modern, collaborative workflow platform. The next version of Premiere Pro will feature increased customization capabilities, significant new shortcuts for faster, keyboard-driven editing, Link & Locate functionality to quickly relink media, and an expanded set of supported media formats. It also has more powerful color workflows with the addition of the Lumetri Deep Color Engine. The newly redesigned SpeedGrade sports an improved user interface, and the new one-click Shot Matcher feature that matches clips from different cameras. A new version of After Effects brings the new Live 3D Pipeline with Maxon CINEMA 4D integration, as well as the Refine Edge tool for faster, superior rotoscoping results, and the Warp Stabilizer VFX feature designed to stabilize a specific portion of a shot. New creative tools in Audition include Sound Remover and Preview Editor to help improve overall sound quality. Logging and ingest tool Prelude has matured with new ability to scrub thumbnails in the project panel to quickly see imported footage - a top customer-requested feature. Adobe Prelude now also adds metadata during ingest. More information about Adobe's next generation of creative tools will be unveiled at Adobe MAX, The Creativity Conference, May 4-8 in Los Angeles, CA. [source]