Betas: Adobe Photoshop Generative Fill, Blackmagic Updates

Audio Design Desk is a tool for creating soundtracks and sound designs for your videos. I’ve used it for a project in the past week and I just love using it. At NAB, I saw the demo for 2.0 and it looks fantastic.

From the Press Release:

Audio Design Desk 2.0 introduces a sleek new user interface with improvements to main feature navigation and discoverability. Boasting seamless integrations with, Adobe® Premiere® Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and Apple Final Cut Pro®, Audio Design Desk is in a class of its own as the only DAW that works within these industry-standard NLEs. These integrations allow video editors to sync their timelines with Audio Design Desk to produce, refine, mix, and deliver all the sound for their videos without ever leaving their editing timelines.

Other exciting new features in Audio Design Desk 2.0 include Auto-Mix, which uses ADD’s content-aware timeline to adjust the volume levels of each element, resulting in an instantly mixed and balanced first draft, and Stem Isolation, which allows editors to remove unwanted background noise from production audio or to break down full mixes of songs into individual stems such as vocals, drums, and guitar. By automating the mixing process and offering the ability to clean up and remix production audio and music, ADD clients can rest easy knowing they have complete control over their audio.

ADD Press release

Audio Design Desk 2.0 is available for macOS only. It’s a standalone app and it also has integrations with Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and Final Cut Pro. The beta requires an existing license.

ADD also introduces the MAKR.AI community and a marketplace to sell and share sounds.

Note: I just downloaded the beta and it’s not yet the 2.0 version, but you can register at the link below and they’ll let you know when it’s ready.

I’ll be honest, I’m not sure what they have in beta, but they have a Discord server that users can join. On Twitter, Battle Axe has mentioned betas several times when users are running into issues.

Blackmagic Design released new betas for Resolve, Resolve Studio, Fusion, and Fusion Studio this week.

See What You Need to Know About the Most Recent DaVinci Resolve 18.5 Beta 3, No Film School, May 22, 203

DaVinci Resolve Studio 18.5 Public Beta 3

Release Date: 21 May 2023

his software adds additional improvements to the DaVinci public beta such as improvements to text-based editing including automatic language detection and expanded language transcription for 14 additional languages plus auto subtitling. It also adds support for editing and deletion of generated text, silent segment detection and display, and the ability to remove these segments from the transcribed text. Words and paragraphs can also now be highlighted and deleted. This update to beta 2 includes bug fixes such as scripting API improvements plus general performance and stability improvements. This version requires a DaVinci Resolve Studio license dongle or software activation code. Please continue to submit beta feedback on the Blackmagic Design forum.

Fusion Studio 18.5 Public Beta 3

Release Date: 21 May 2023

This software adds additional improvements to the Fusion public beta including updates to multi-merge features such as an option to automatically name layers based on the input tool, the ability to multi-select and delete layers from the multi-merge inspector, and easier management of large layer counts. This update also adds improved support for USD memory management, support for Blackmagic film color spaces and Blackmagic RAW SDK 3.1, as well as general performance and stability improvements. Please continue to submit beta feedback on the Blackmagic Design forum.

BSKL Diffusae is an After Effects plugin that puts AI in the pipeline.

Update: 24 May 2023

The Mac beta is getting close. Stay tuned!

2 May 2023: The Windows version was released this week but they are still testing features, and the Mac beta will be available soon. If you’re on Windows and want to try Diffusae, there is a free demo available on the Diffusae product page.

Join the discord channel for information and early access.
Platform: Windows (Mac coming soon)

If you’re a finalFluid user, the public beta is available to you.

Introducing for the first time in 3ds Max: Movie Quality – Realtime Fire and Smoke workflow.

• NVIDIA-GPU Accelerated Sparse Grid Solver
• REALTIME Workflow inside of 3ds Max
• Movie Quality Fire&Smoke VFX

“We are also happy to extend our Free Public Beta version offer of finalFluid to support 3ds Max 2024 as well. The Public Beta version is a great way to experience the features and functions of the software, and it can even be used to create personal or commercial work.” The main beta page has not been updated yet with the 3ds Max 2024 details but click the button below for news about that.

The Mac version of Cinematte is now in the Public Beta phase. You can request access by contacting Cinematte.

Kollaborate 3.7 Beta 1 includes a major architectural overhaul, plus PHP 8.1 and MariaDB support, and more.

Current Version: Kollaborate Server 3.7 B1
Release date: 24 April 2023

GifGun is a tool to create animated GIFs in After Effects. Fill out a survey to apply for the GifGun beta.

Description: Reactions is a toolkit for physically-based animation built for Visual Effects and Motion Graphics artists and technical directors. It is the evolution of TurbulenceFD that advances versatility, performance, and workflows. Reactions includes tools for volumes (like fire, smoke, or clouds), particles, and procedural SDFs. But it allows for substantial extensibility of its framework that also handles polygon meshes and curves. Both built-in and user-created extensions use GPU and CPU hardware. In addition, Reactions includes ready-made, dynamic assets. It allows artists to create their own to re-use and compartmentalize their work.

Host: Standalone app, Cinema 4D R20-R25
Latest release: 8 Feb 2023
Version: 0.2.8 -1025

New purchases of Turbulence FD licenses include a free upgrade to Reactions.

If you have Vegas 20 Pro, you can access these new beta features.

AI Smart Mask NEW

With AI Smart Mask, use the power of AI to quickly analyze a video frame and identify maskable objects. Then automatically create a Bézier mask to match the detected object.

Audio Production with VST3

Perfect your audio with the latest VST3 plug-ins for reverbs, delays, EQs, and more. BETA

Open Beta of AMD support on Windows coming to RS 3.5.15

Shortly after we started the closed Alpha in the fall of 2022, a number of driver regressions resulted in instabilities, visual artifacts and performance issues. Since then, we’ve been working closely with AMD to get these resolved.

We’re pleased to announce that starting with upcoming version 3.5.15 of Redshift, AMD support on Windows will be included as an Open Beta. This means that AMD support will be included in the “standard” release builds. As an Open Beta we cannot promise that AMD support will be problem free, but I can say that things have improved dramatically since the closed Alpha.
We will follow up next week on this thread with a specific list of supported GPUs, as well as a list of known issues.

Nicolas Burtnyk, Maxon, on the Redshift forum

Requirements: a Redshift license
Post Date: 21 April 2023

This beta is generally updated weekly.

Current beta version: Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22319)
Release date: 9 May 2023
Beta type: Ongoing beta for license holders

Nobe Omniscope NEW

New this week! The details are on the forum but you’ll need to get to the last pages of the forum for details

False Color

From the beta page:
“False Color 4 is now in open beta! As the top false color tool on the market, we’ve added some amazing new features to this version, including HDR support, configurable SDR white level, and mastering level. Plus, you’ll find even more scale types to choose from. And, of course, we’ve kept all of your favorite presets based on industry-standard solutions.”

From the beta page:
“Unity is building an open and unique AI ecosystem that will put AI-powered game-development tools in the hands of millions of creators. Soon they’ll be able to more quickly create and deliver amazing real-time 3D content and experiences for billions of users around the world.”