Abobe Premiere Pro 2
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Using the AJA Xena HS real-time encoding card, Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 captures from and lays off to any HD-SDI VTR or device. With six channels of AES and embedded audio I/O, plus full-resolution SD and HD playback, Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 and AJA Xena HS combine to provide a complete, full-featured capture and delivery solution for all HD and SD formats. Whether capturing from or laying back to Digi-Beta or D5, Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 and the AJA Xena HS are the perfect combination to accommodate diverse post-production workflows.
Putting HD resolution within reach of even the most modest budget, HDV has rapidly become a popular acquisition format. With Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 you now have a full-featured editing environment for HDV with support for logging, batch capture, trimming, and editing in native HDV format so there is no conversion or quality loss. Plus, Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 supports the most popular HDV-format cameras and VTRs, including the most popular Sony and JVC models.
Save disk space and boost rendering speed with full-featured editing of low-bandwidth fi les. With proxy editing, progress on your high-resolution projects can continue even when you are working away from high-end, video-optimized machines. Low-bandwidth proxy files allow HD and SD projects to be edited on laptops and other general-purpose machines, giving full real-time features and performance without overwhelming the hard drive or the CPU. A proxy file may be used whether the master clip is online or offl ine, allowing for a choice in scaling the workfl ow and system performance while you edit. When the master clip is offl ine, you can later re-link the master to the proxy or recaptured at full resolution.
Film and video may be different formats, but they needn’t exist in different dimensions. Built-in conversion capabilities help bridge the two worlds by providing optional Feet + Frames timecode display (in addition to video SMPTE) for captured footage. If you originate on or deliver to 16mm or 35mm film, Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 lets you choose whichever time reference system makes editing and conforming easiest.
Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 handles images with dimensions up to 4096 x 4096 pixels. That means you can import, edit, and output image sequences at the 2K and 4K resolutions often used for online feature-film work.
Need to confirm that your widescreen footage still looks right when played back on a standard 4×3 monitor? With new real-time letterboxing in Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0, you can see immediately how 16×9 material will play back on a 4×3 monitor, or you can layoff to a 4×3 tape or DVD for viewing in a variety of situations.
Digital editing of film-originated material shouldn’t require making do with awkward compromises. That’s why Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 is fully film-aware in both its interface and features, offering the ability to edit 4K scanned files, effortlessly work between Adobe After Effects and Adobe Photoshop, efficiently consolidate and manage projects, save disk space with HD proxy editing, maintain high-quality throughout the process with 32-bit internal color processing, and finish by delivering an HD master for film out.
Accurately control professional analog and digital video devices with Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0. Device control support has been expanded to include native control of video decks and other hardware using industry-standard RS-422 and RS-232 serial protocols. Using Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 you can now batch capture, recapture, and insert edit by simply connecting these professional VTRs to a computer’s COM port with a standard 9-pin serial cable.
With an open architecture, Adobe Premiere Pro is able to easily provide support for new formats and hardware as they become available. Choose from a wide range of capture cards and other hardware today to build the HD, SD, and DV editing system that meets your needs and budget. And work with confidence knowing that broad support for external hardware vendors means your choices when confi guring an editing system based on Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 will continue to expand.
Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 offers the tightest possible workflow integration with Adobe Photoshop, maximizing the effi ciency with which still images can be incorporated into video production. Now you can instantly edit Adobe Premiere Pro stills in Photoshop, and automatically match the frame size and aspect ratio of an Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 project – even in HD – when creating new files.
In the past, when incorporating visual effects into a video edit, updating content to address client feedback and other changes was tedious. Changes made in After Effects would have to be carefully managed in your editing timeline and then re-rendered and re-imported, resulting in an ineffi cient and timeconsuming workfl ow. Adobe Production Studio offers a compelling alternative: the ability to create live links between projects in After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. Dynamic Link eliminates the need to render an After Effects composition before importing it into your Adobe Premiere Pro timeline. All of the After Effects layers remain accessible, and changes made in After Effects can be previewed instantly, without the need to render a movie first. This allows you to make changes quickly and to render only when you finalize your results.
After Effects projects can now be exported as Adobe Premiere Pro projects, maintaining folders as bins, individual edits, markers, keyframed effects, nested sequences, transitions, and more. Effects can be applied in one application and rendered in another; for example, you can make adjustments in Adobe Premiere Pro using the 3-Way Color Corrector and render that effect at higher color depth in After Effects. You can also initiate the process of capturing footage in Adobe Premiere Pro within After Effects (Production Studio only).
For more fl exibility when editing audio in your production, you can now select any audio clip-regardless of its source -and send it to Adobe Audition 2.0 for editing using the Edit in Adobe Audition command.
Adobe Bridge brings the files in your project into one central command center, making it faster and easier to access and manage video and audio files, native Photoshop and Illustrator files, and Adobe After Effects projects. Efficiently organize, browse, preview, and locate your content fi les. Drag-and-drop the fi les you want directly from Adobe Bridge into your current project. Within Adobe Bridge, you can also run batch processes and handle a wide range of common tasks such as creating new folders, renaming, moving, or deleting files.
Work with a redesigned user interface that’s fully customizable. Tools, palettes, and menus are familiar and consistent with those in other Adobe video tools, and keyboard shortcuts remain fully customizable. Plus, you can now confi gure your workspace with tabbed panels that automatically resize and reconfigure themselves, saving valuable screen space and minimizing wasted time. Grouping allows you to collect panels together and manage them as a single, tabbed set; docking lets you lock such sets together in any order you like, leaving no wasted screen real estate. You can also create fl oating windows – containing multiple grouped or docked panels – that hover over your main window. This can be particularly useful when working with multiple monitors.
Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 introduces numerous enhancements that ensure the color in your video productions is as true to life as possible.
Use primary and secondary color correction tools to match shots, change colors, correct exposure errors, and modify highlights, midtones, and shadows across clips, sequences, or entire projects. Whether working with 8-bit, 10-bit or 16-bit source material, the powerful new color correction tools process your changes at 32-bit resolution for maximum color fi delity.
With 32-bit internal color processing, maximum image quality is maintained throughout your project. Changes to color, contrast, and exposure-from subtle to dramatic-are precise and smooth, without the visible banding and histogram spikes introduced by lower bit-depth processing.
Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 lets you tap into the power of the Graphics Processing Unit in today’s powerful graphics cards. GPU-enabled systems will also be able to take advantage of accelerated previewing and rendering of motion, opacity, color, and image-distortion effects. If your system supports GPU, you’ll have access to five additional transitions that use GPU’s 3D processing capabilities: Center-Peel, Page Curl, Page Roll, Sphere, and Card Flip.
Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 allows video clips to be split into smaller individual subclips that reference only the designated portion of a master clip. Subclips help keep your project size manageable and your system performance responsive, and they make editing more fl exible because you can work with them just as you would any master clip, including trimming, applying effects, and renaming.
The audio capabilities in Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 – unequaled by any other video editor – now allowthe application of multiple effects to audio clips or tracks. Adobe Premiere Pro even includes a set of VST-format plug-ins that will get you started on audio enhancement right out of the box.
The Adobe Premiere Pro environment offers a rich array of tools that can restore, and improve video, graphics, and audio. Hundreds of high-quality production and design filters and effects are included, many of which are either new or enhanced for Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0.
The new Lighting Effects fi lter in Adobe Premiere Pro applies spot, directional, or omni lights right where they’re needed, creating special lighting effects or correcting and enhancing footage with less than-perfect lighting. Multiple layers of lighting effects may be used to vary lighting within a scene, introducing different looks in different locations.
The addition of editable keyframe graphs in the Effects Control panel gives Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 users the ability to fine-tune effects with precision. The graphs display value and velocity information and allow fi ne adjustments to effects parameters by simply dragging handles placed at keyframes.
Adobe Premiere Pro now offers a choice of how the timeline is displayed relative to your clips during previews. Set the timeline to Smooth Scroll mode to see it move past a stationary indicator refl ecting the current playback location. Or choose Page Scroll mode to see the timeline advance by one screen each time the playback indicator reaches the edge of the window. Either way, no matter how detailed a timeline view you choose, the timeline window always indicates the current location in the sequence.
Track-matte clips in Adobe Premiere Pro now support the use of effects and animation, allowing easy creation of traveling mattes. Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 automatically disables only the portion of a track that is used in a track-matte, allowing the track’s other clips to be processed normally.
The Titler in Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 is more tightly integrated than ever before delivering fl exible text, drawing, and editing tools that allow design of sophisticated text and graphical titles either from scratch or from professional templates. Titles can now be saved directly into your project file, and as always, can be saved as user-defi nable styles for reuse in the same or other projects. You’ll save time by being able to see your designs in context and refine your ideas without ever leaving Adobe Premiere Pro.
Getting fast, to-the-point feedback from clients is a crucial part of successful production, but it can also be a time-consuming chore. Adobe Clip Notes streamlines the process with an elegant solution based on two easy, accessible technologies: email and the Adobe PDF fi le format. A sequence can be exported as a PDF file with embedded or streamed video in either Windows Media or QuickTime. The file is then sent to the client, who plays it back with Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader software. Whenever they pause the video, the current timecode is automatically entered into the comment box, enabling the reviewer to enter remarks at the exact time in which the video is paused. When the file containing these remarks is sent back and imported into the sequence, the comments appear as clip markers at the appropriate timecode locations in the timeline. Straightforward and efficient, Adobe Clip Notes facilitates collaboration, expedites the review and approval process, and takes the pain out of keeping everyone in the loop.
New built-in DVD output capabilities make it easy and efficient to take advantage of DVD’s quality and convenience not only for fi nal delivery, but also for quick client reviews, test discs, and even digital dailies. Without leaving the application, you can burn menu-based or autoplay full-resolution DVDs directly from a sequence in the timeline, with markers recognized as chapter points. Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 includes top-quality video encoding and flexible menu-design tools to help ensure that your DVDdelivered material looks its best.
The ability to create numbered image sequences with any frame size up to 4096 x 4096 pixels makes Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 the ideal tool for editing and preparing sequences for output to 35mm and other fi lm formats. Output for film recording or file sharing is supported in all major image and sequence fi le formats, including AI, BMP, PSD, TGA, and TIFF.
Lay off full-resolution uncompressed HD to HD-SDI VTRs and other devices using the Xena HS realtime encoding card from AJA Video. Native support allows you to capture and playback uncompressed 8-bit and 10-bit 4:2:2 SD (720×486) and HD (1920×1080) video at the frame rates 23.98, 50i, 60i.
Exchange project metadata with major video, film, and audio applications via industry-standard Advanced Authoring Format (AAF), AAF with Edit Protocol, and Edit Decision List (EDL) files.
Licensed owners of previous versions of Adobe Premiere Pro or Adobe Premiere can upgrade to Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 for an estimated street price of $199 (U.S.). Licensed owners of Adobe Premiere or Adobe Premiere Pro can upgrade to Adobe Production Studio Premium for an estimated street price of $1,249 (U.S.) or to Adobe Production Studio Standard for an estimated street price of $749 (U.S.).
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