Want your viewers to feel more immersed? Adobe Creative Cloud is adding support for editing virtual reality video to Premiere Pro CC, as part of the Spring 2016 update.

Video editors can click and drag to change the point of view the editing window is looking from, giving them the ability to check their footage from a variety of perspectives. Exported files will be recognized as VR-compatible when uploaded to sites like YouTube or Facebook. A video showing off the VR editing features, above, gives customers an idea of what this will look all like.

There’s also support for previewing stereoscopic VR footage, which uses the left and right eyes to create a 3D effect. Desktop users can’t see that effect at their desk, but support for old-school blue and red glasses offers an approximation while editing.

Virtual reality video is a relatively young but growing segment of the online video market. Viewers are free to turn their heads in such videos, looking wherever they please, which is immersive but poses a challenge for video editors. Adobe adding support for editing and exporting such footage gives would-be creators more options.

Sites like YouTube and Facebook already offer virtual reality videos, viewable on devices like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. There are also more affordable options. In November The New York Times distributed Google Cardboard headsets, which use a smartphone as a screen, to all subscribers free of charge so they could watch a collection of immersive documentary videos.

The virtual reality editor isn’t the only new feature coming to Premier Pro. Here’s a quick rundown.

The updates are all outlined in a press release, which you can check out if you want to learn more. We couldn’t find a release date for the new features, but this being Creative Cloud all updates will be pushed out automatically to subscribers.

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