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88 CINEMONTAGE / Q4 2017 where you want them in space. In addition, you can use Dynamic Linking between Premiere Pro CC and After Effects, which makes it easy to switch between editing and compositing of immersive content. Premiere Pro CC 2018 now allows you to edit VR content using orientation-based audio. This important new feature allows sound to be just as much of an explorable 360-degree representation as picture, and increases the immersive quality of the experience exponentially since sounds will be integrated spatially into your scenes. When you're done with your edit, the sounds can be exported as ambisonic audio for VR- enabled platforms (including YouTube and Facebook). When it comes to effects, immersive content offers its own set of challenges. Therefore, Premiere Pro CC 2018 and After Effects 2018 contain new VR effects such as VR Blur, VR Glow, VR Sharpen, VR De-noise and VR Chromatic Abberation. All the new effects are designed to work with spherical 360-degree imagery and can therefore deliver clean results across stitched content without artifacts or seam lines (which can be problematic with 360 footage). After Effects also offers the following new VR effects: VR Color Gradients, VR Digital Glitch and VR Fractal Noise (see Figure 3). Along with the VR effects come new VR transitions for editing immersive content in Premiere Pro. These include VR Iris Wipes, VR Mobius Zoom and VR Spherical Blur, which spins the viewer fluidly to the next scene. There are also VR Gradient Wipe, VR Random Blocks, VR Light Rays, VR Light Leaks and VR Chroma Leaks — all designed to work in an immersive environment. RESPONSIVE TEMPLATES Last spring, Adobe introduced the ability to create titles and motion graphics in Premiere Pro with Motion Graphics Templates. This allows editors, in conjunction with the Essential Graphics panel, to use pre-designed templates to enhance their work, saving them the considerable effort and expense of building complex motion designs and animations from the ground up. Now the Essential Graphics panel in Premiere Pro CC 2018 includes time- and position-based controls for adding Responsive Design to your motion graphics. This means that you can make your graphics and animations respond intelligently to changes in clip duration, aspect ratio and image size. For example, you can preserve the timing of keyframes for intros and outros (useful when changing the duration of a clip). In addition, spatial relationships can also be maintained if you decide to change the aspect ratio of your project. That's handy when designing for different screens (see Figure 4). Adobe Stock provides a collection of professionally designed motion graphics templates for you to use in your project and, with Premiere Pro CC 2018, you can access these templates directly through Creative Cloud libraries. Another nice new feature is that motion designers who create motion graphics templates for Premiere Pro can now sell them through Adobe Stock. A few more important enhancements to Premiere Pro CC 2018 to look for include new format support such as Sony X-OCN, WAV files greater than 4GB, eight more color labels, automatic gap removal and enhancements to the Lumetri color panel. TECH TIPS CONTINUED ON PAGE 97 Top, Figure 4: Responsive Design makes it easier and more predictable to work with Motion Graphics Templates and designing for multiple screens with Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018. Above, Figure 5: Now you can import JSON data files into After Effects to easily create data-driven graphics and animations.