AUDIO & VIDEO TECHNOLOGY

New features in Premiere Pro 2019 April Release:  Freeform View : Use the new Freeform view in the Project panel to organize and review your media and storyboard ideas for your projects Rulers : Layout text, graphics, and video clips with precision. Save and share guide setups for greater consistency in your designs using the new Rulers and Guides in the Program Monitor. Auto-ducking : Incorporate ambient sounds in your audio mix and automatically adjust background volume around spoken dialogue or voiceovers. Faster Mask Tracking : Speed up color grading and effects workflows with improved Mask Tracking in Premiere Pro including HD, 4K, and higher resolution formats. Graphics/Text Enhancement : The Essential Graphics panel in Premiere Pro has a number of text and graphics enhancements to make your titling and graphics workflows smoother. New View Menu : A new dedicated View menu in Premiere Pro consolidates Program Monitor commands, such as magnification and playback...

The Hidden Treasures Bauhaus Dessau  is a project Adobe launched in collaboration with  Erik Spiekermann , a typeface designer who has worked with clients including Cisco, Mozilla, and Autodesk. The project materialized after the discovery of unfinished typography sketches and letter fragments from the German school  Bauhaus Dessau , which was closed in 1932 by the National Socialist Party. A team of typography professionals and design students worked with the remaining type specimens and  Illustrator CC  to digitize the font sets. Two of the five, ‘Joschmi’ by Joost Schmidt and ‘Xants’ by Xanti Schawinsky are  available  today, and the remaining three will be available in coming months. Designers of the remaining fonts are Alfred Arndt, Carl Marx, and Reinhold Rossig. Adobe is also launching a series of five  design challenges  in conjunction with the fonts. Community participants will be entered to a win a trip visit the Bauhaus arc...