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user base with lower budgets. In fact, the Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 6K will get you into the game for under $2,000. The benefits of raw files, as serious still photographers have known for years, is that it's a dump of "raw" data straight from the camera's sensors, which hold far more information than any image format. This means that you can pull more detail out of shadows and highlights for a significantly expanded dynamic range, color temperature decisions that can be made after the fact, and totally lossless image adjustments; the original pixels are never changed. This is truly wonderful for color grading in digital cinema. And, perhaps more importantly, there is more room to fix less-than-perfect lighting in post without making the video look fixed. Premiere added another feature that will be welcomed by editors who like piling on effects. The Effects panel now has a filter so clutter- down the display to show only parameters that were changed and those with key frames that have been set. Another nice addition is the ability to add Bezier corners to generated shapes. That's one less reason to f ire -up Photoshop or Illustrator. And for all of the Creative Cloud applications that use sound, Adobe Libraries now supports audio files. Sound Judgment The Audition team brought another feature to all the audio -bearing Creative Cloud programs that we welcomed—the kind where the common reaction will probably be finally! The programs will automatically follow any changes in the audio devices made on your Mac. So, for example, if you've been working with external speakers and decide to plug in headphones, the programs are now down with that and will automatically make the switch without intervention. The same feature helps those programs understand what headsets are all about. Of ten, the one -bit mono microphone will cause the programs to think you've moved all your audio to one -bit mono. In some instances we've experienced, Premiere even convinced the macOS into thinking the same thing and the results were not pleasant. These are now controllable in the new System Default Audio set tings panel. One way you can while away some of those work-at-home hours is to learn a bit of calligraphy. Tapered Shapes, the showcased new feature of Adobe After Effects can dynamically change the end-to - end thickness of a line over time, making them look more hand drawn as