Dave Helmly, North American DMO Technical Sales Manager at Adobe, emailed us about the new Adobe CS4 video updates: After Effects 9.02, Premiere Pro 4.1, Media Encoder 4.1

The new CS4 video updates will be available late tonight/Friday morning and contain several new updates and several critical fixes for After Effects.

Some of the new features are:

• Major Speed improvements for Media Encoder (new support for RED)
• New RED R3D workflow & Raw setting panel
• Avid Import & Export (We are currently testing FCP Export)
• DVD/VOB support (edit directly off the DVD !)
• Faster/smooth AVCHD playback
• Faster project loading
• New Frame Export
• And more……

Adobe also showed several things at NAB 2009 that they have cooking in the Adobe Labs and are planning to beta test a few of these new features this summer. The plan is to make these available on the Adobe Labs site.

• AVCIntra
• XDCAM Export
• Finalcut Pro Export