Adobe has developed a cloud-based collaboration solution for shooting content on virtual sets. Thanks to a new integration between Adobe Camera to Cloud (via Frame.io) and Mo-Sys, video pros can now see their visual effects scenes in Frame.io as they’re being shot on-set. By partnering with Mo-Sys, Adobe hopes to make instant collaboration and the speed of virtual production accessible to more filmmakers, not just big-budget productions.

In addition, Adobe has new integrations that extend Camera to Cloud to even more cameras, along with new versions of Premiere Pro and After Effects that make it faster and easier for video professionals to collaborate.

“With Premiere Pro, Frame.io and Camera to Cloud, we’re connecting the entire video creation process from camera capture to final delivery, allowing customers to collaborate in new ways, from anywhere,” says Scott Belsky, chief product officer/EVP of Creative Cloud.

With Camera to Cloud, footage is accessible instantly, no matter where it’s filmed, allowing editors to start cutting shows and movies while they are still being shot.

“Camera to Cloud has changed the way we think about dailies and editorial. The immediate review capability and seamless integration into Premiere Pro have improved our process and allowed us to work even faster,” says Alex Regalado, head of post at Duplass Brothers Productions. “For the first time, it feels like indie filmmaking is comparable to big-budget productions, and we can’t imagine a production without it.”

The complexity of virtual production adds time and expense to the process of producing content. Mo-Sys’ NearTime cloud rendering in Unreal Engine brings all the benefits of on-set visualization and high-quality visual effects shots without the expensive limitations of achieving real-time playback. Mo-Sys combines camera footage with virtual content, generating a high-fidelity 4K composite and transferring it into a neatly organized Frame.io project, which results in near-instant access to visual effects content for editorial and review from anywhere in the world.

Built on Frame.io, Camera to Cloud allows pros to securely transfer and store hundreds of thousands of assets in the cloud, whether for films, TV shows, commercials, corporate videos, live events or social media content. Teams can now start working together sooner, giving them more time to be creative. New integrations with the Atomos Zato Connect device, Teradek Serv Micro transmitter and Teradek Prism Flex encoder/decoder extend the use of Camera to Cloud to more cameras and production devices than before.

Besides forming new integrations that enable cloud collaboration in virtual production, Adobe has added new features and workflow refinements to Premiere Pro and After Effects that help them to create their content on increasingly tighter timelines.

Premiere Pro:

• Better titling tools give quick access to editing elements and layers, new fill options for adding textures and graphics inside of text, and new export options for sharing text with the rest of the creative team.
• Improved audio ducking changes the position of automatically generated fades under dialogue, making it easier to bring out dialogue over music.
• GPU-accelerated Unsharp Mask and Posterize time filters save time by offloading work from the CPU to the graphics card.

After Effects:

• New keyframe color labels let users quickly find important parts of an animation based on their color.
• Track matte layers (public beta) let users choose any layer as a track matte to simplify compositing.
• Quick exports with native H.264 encoding (public beta) use hardware acceleration to render H.264 files directly from within After Effects.