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Adobe Premiere Pro CS6

History

Compilation: Varun Verlekar

Premiere Pro is the redesigned successor to Adobe Premiere, and was launched in 2003. Premiere Pro refers to versions released in 2003 and later, whereas Premiere refers to the earlier releases. Premiere was one of the first computer-based NLEs (non-linear editing system), with its first release on Mac in 1991. Up until version Premiere Pro 2.0 (CS2), the software packaging featured a galloping horse, in a nod to "Sallie

Eadweard Muybridge's work,

Gardner at a Gallop".

Features
Premiere Pro supports high resolution video editing at up to 10,240 8,192 resolution, at up to 32-bits per channel color, in both RGBand YUV. Audio sample-level editing, VST audio plug-in support, and 5.1 surround sound mixing are available. Premiere Pro's plug-in architecture enables it to import and export formats beyond those supported by QuickTime or DirectShow, supporting a wide variety of video and audio file formats and codecs on both MacOS and Windows. When used with Cineform's Neo line of plug-ins, it supports 3D editing with the ability to view 3D material using 2D monitors, while making individual left and right eye adjustments.

Workflow integration

After Effects Through Adobe Dynamic Link, compositions from Adobe After Effects may be imported and played back directly on the Premiere Pro timeline. The After Effects composition can be modified, and after switching back to Premiere Pro, the clip will update with the changes. Likewise, Premiere Pro projects can be imported into After Effects. Clips can be copied between the two applications while preserving clip attributes. Premiere Pro also supports many After Effects plug-ins. Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop files can be opened directly from Premiere Pro to be edited in Photoshop. Any changes
will immediately be updated when the Photoshop file is saved and focus returns to Premiere Pro. Adobe Story, OnLocation and Prelude The Premiere Pro workflow takes advantage of metadata in the script of a video production. The script is created in or brought into Adobe Story, then passed to Adobe OnLocation to capture footage and attach any relevant metadata from the script to that footage. Finally, in Premiere Pro, speech recognition can match the audio to the dialogue from the script in the metadata. Clips can be searched based on their dialogue in Premiere Pro, and can be sent to Adobe Encore to make searchable web DVDs. Adobe Prelude replaces OnLocation in CS6 and above. Others There are other integration functions, such as Edit in Adobe Audition, Dynamic Link to Encore, and Reveal in Adobe Bridge.

Who uses Adobe Premiere Pro?


Video and film editors and other post-production professionals use Adobe Premiere Pro to assemble compelling stories and other types of video content from live-action video footage, still and animated images, sound, and music. The types of projects they create range from short-form commercials and videos to long-form broadcast programming, sporting and event coverage, and corporate and feature films. Adobe Premiere Pro offers a powerful, comprehensive postproduction toolset and industry-leading file-based workflows that speed every stage of production. Timesaving integration capabilities with other essential Adobe software, including Production Premium components, as well as with other NLEs (Final Cut Pro 7 and Avid editing software), allows you to bring the creative benefits of Adobe tools to every video project. Motion graphics designers and visual effects artists turn to Adobe Premiere Pro for a tightly integrated, timesaving workflow for video ingest and editing. These creative professionals especially appreciate being able to work in real time on footage at HD and film resolutions, thanks to the Mercury Playback Engine and broad format support including high-quality 10-bit mastering and archiving codecs. In addition to being able to open each others project files and easily paste elements between After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects users can easily use the even faster Dynamic Link to send compositions to Adobe Premiere Pro sequences, where changes made in After Effects show up immediately in the Adobe Premiere Pro timeline and vice versa. Photographers shooting video look to Adobe Premiere Pro because it offers a highly intuitive, comprehensive editing toolset with features designed specifically for DSLR video workflows. Native support for DSLR video formats lets photographers drag clips fr om their cameras memory card directly to the timeline and start editing immediately, with no long render times or need to convert files. In addition, Adobe Premiere Pro includes Merged Clips for matching sound and video recorded on separate devices, the powerful Warp Stabilizer effect for stabilizing shaky footage, the Rolling Shutter Repair effect for fixing clips with rolling shutter artifacts, tight Photoshop integration, and the ability to adjust effects and color in real time during playback. The included Adobe Media Encoder lets photographers quickly output finished work to virtually any video or device format. Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 builds upon the significant performance improvements that the company made in previous iterations of its flagship video editing application. In CS6, Adobe has found several ways to take better advantage of those past astounding leaps in performance.

Premiere Pro CS6: whats new and changed


Premiere Pro CS6 is available, as are other professional video and audio applications in Creative Suite 6 Production Premium, including Adobe Prelude and SpeedGrade. You can order CS6 Production Premium or try it free for 30 days.

Top new features in Premiere Pro CS6

Redesigned, efficient, customizable user interface Dynamic trimming, including trimming with JKL and other keyboard shortcuts Adjustment layers Warp Stabilizer effect Expanded multi-camera editing, with more multicam angles and improved interface Improved performance, extending GPU processing to some systems using OpenCL New and more powerful audio features, including adaptive audio tracks, customizable audio channel mapping for output, and improved Audio Mixer panel New native import of ARRI Alexa, RED Scarlet, RED Epic, and Canon Cinema EOS C300 footage Improved color features, including integration with SpeedGrade and redesigned Three-Way Color Corrector effect Improved workflows with other applications in Adobe Creative Suite, as well as with Final Cut Pro and Avid software Faster Adobe Media Encoder, redesigned to make authoring for multiple outputs and mobile devices easier Enhanced Adobe Encore for creation of DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, and web DVDs

(Nearly) all new and changed features in Premiere Pro CS6

User interface

Button editor, with which you can customize the buttons in various panels Improved icon view in Project panel and Media Browser panel, with ability to scrub/preview media in thumbnails (hover scrubbing) Improved usage indicators in Project panel, including tooltips and indications of which sequence(s) a clip is used in. New default Editing workspace with better use of screen space for video content. Option to remove work area bar and instead use In and Out points for features that previously relied on the work area. Full-screen playback on primary monitor. Dozens of new and changed keyboard shortcuts, with option to continue to use Premiere Pro CS5.5 keyboard shortcuts. Options to show or hide user interface items such as time ruler markings. New settings buttons and menus in monitor panels for easy access to commonly used view options. Gestural control on Mac computers with trackpads, including pinching to zoom and using two-fingered gestures for scrolling.

Full-screen cinema mode that shows only content with no UI chrome.

Importing and sequence setup


Integration with Adobe Prelude for ingest, logging, transcoding, and rough cuts Alert when adding clip to an empty sequence if sequence settings dont match footage characteristics, with option to match sequence settings to clip New native import of ARRI Alexa, RED Scarlet, RED Epic, and Canon Cinema EOS C300 footage New HD color bars and tone, which comply with ARIB STD-B28 Ability to drag items from the Media Browser panel to the Project panel to import them

Editing

Improved markers, including import of markers from Adobe Prelude and display of marker comments in time ruler Dynamic, keyboard-driven trimming in the monitor panels and Timeline panel, without needing to enter the Trim Monitor New keyboard shortcuts for working with edit points, navigating in the timeline, and performing other basic editing tasks New Render In To Out command for rendering preview for span between In and Out points marked in a sequence Ability to copy a clip in the Timeline panel by Alt-dragging (Windows) or Option-dragging (Mac OS)

Effects And Color


Send To SpeedGrade, which exports a sequence for color work in SpeedGrade Warp Stabilizer effect Rolling Shutter Repair effect uninterrupted playback, which continues previews even while you modify effect properties and perform many other operations improved Dynamic Link, including removal of limitation of Dynamic Link to only work within a suite (i.e., Dynamic Link will now work between applications purchased as individual products) redesigned Three-Way Color Corrector effect double-click to apply effect to selected clips

Performance

GPU processing (Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration) extended to use OpenCL on some systems: AMD Radeon HD 6750M and AMD Radeon HD 6770M graphics card with 1GB VRAM in MacBook Pro computers running Mac OSX v10.7 use of GPU acceleration by additional effects and transitions, including Warp Stabilizer effect and Push transition Mercury Transmit, a new interface making it easier for third-party I/O hardware manufacturers to interface with Premiere Pro, allowing for more robust and stable systems

Audio

New Audio Mixer panel, with features and design from Audition Redesigned Audio Meters panel

New standard audio track type, which can contain either mono or stereo audio Extremely flexible and customizable multichannel audio mapping for output Ability to choose which clip to use timecode from when using merged clips

Exporting and Adobe Media Encoder


New Preset Browser in Adobe Media Encoder for finding and using encoding presets Parallel encoding in Adobe Media Encoder, which encodes multiple outputs simultaneously for greater performance Redesigned Adobe Media Encoder user interface, with panel-based workspaces as in other Adobe professional video applications Dozens of new keyboard shortcuts in Adobe Media Encoder New scaling and cropping options in Adobe Media Encoder, which make it easy to resolve mismatches between output dimensions and source dimensions (e.g., prevent black bars) Export to tape will output the sequence duration between the In and Out points instead of the work area if the work area is hidden.

Ability to author and publish DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, and web DVDs faster with 64-bit Adobe Encore CS6 (included)
Adobe Encore CS6a separate software application included with Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 allows you to create DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, and web DVDs, all from a single project. Encore is now a fully native 64-bit application, enabling you to take advantage of all available RAM in your system, open and save projects faster, and get more responsive performance when handling large files and projects. New support for DTS multichannel audio enables you to import DTS HD files into Encore for use in your Blu-ray Disc projects. Additionally, under-the-hood performance enhancements allow you to import MPEG-2 assets more quickly and reduce the time required to save slideshows. Scrubbing in the timeline is also more responsive, eliminating playhead stutter.
DVD and Blu-ray Disc authoring enhancements

Encore CS6 supports 8-bit color for highlight buttons and now uses the same powerful indexing algorithm used in Photoshop to produce imagesand pop-up menusof better quality and a wider range of colors. Previously, Encore slideshows were limited to 99 photos. In this release, that restriction has been lifted, freeing you to create much larger slideshows. DVD authoring with Encore now supports upper-field-first video for better handling of certain HD-format source files, such as 1080i DVCPRO HD.
Enhanced web DVD authoring

The powerful web DVD authoring features in Adobe Encore CS6 let you create web versions of your Blu-ray Disc projects that fully replicate their functionality, thanks to new support for advanced features that were previously exclusive to Blu-ray Disc projects, including: Multipage menusShow options across multiple menu pages without interrupting playback of audio and video background elements in web DVD projects Pop-up menusDisplay navigation options transparently above the currently playing video clip Button transitionsPlay transitions for web DVDs while navigating from menu buttons to a timeline

Menu loopback Quickly loop the motion menu from a specific point (especially useful when a long interval separates the start and end point)

Technical Specifications
System requirements
Windows

Intel Core2 Duo or AMD Phenom II processor with 64-bit support; Intel Core i7 processor required for Adobe SpeedGrade Microsoft Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 and Windows 8. Refer to the CS6 FAQ for more information about Windows 8 support.*

4GB of RAM (8GB recommended) 10.5GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices) Additional disk space required for disk cache, preview files, and other working files (10GB recommended) 1280x900 display with 16-bit color and 512MB of VRAM; 1680x1050 display required and second professionally calibrated viewing display recommended for SpeedGrade OpenGL 2.0capable system 7200 RPM hard drive (multiple fast disk drives, preferably RAID 0 configured, recommended) Sound card compatible with ASIO protocol or Microsoft WDM//MME DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (DVD+-R burner for burning DVDs; Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media) Java Runtime Environment 1.6 QuickTime 7.6.6 software required for QuickTime and multimedia features Dedicated GPU card required for SpeedGrade (for optimal performance in SpeedGrade and for GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects: NVIDIA Quadro 4000, 5000, or 6000 or other Adobecertified GPU card with at least 1GB of VRAM recommended)

Optional: Tangent CP200 family or Tangent Wave control surface for SpeedGrade Optional: For SDI output, NVIDIA Quadro SDI Output card required for SpeedGrade This software will not operate without activation. Broadband Internet connection and registration are required for software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services.* Phone activation is not available.

Mac OS

Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support Mac OS X v10.6.8 or v10.7. Adobe Creative Suite 5, CS5.5, and CS6 applications support Mac OS X Mountain Lion (v10.8) when installed on Intel based systems.** 4GB of RAM (8GB recommended) 10.5GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices) Additional disk space required for disk cache, preview files, and other working files (10GB recommended) 1280x900 display with 16-bit color and 512MB of VRAM; 1680x1050 display required and second professionally calibrated viewing display recommended for Adobe SpeedGrade OpenGL 2.0capable system 7200 RPM hard drive (multiple fast disk drives, preferably RAID 0 configured, recommended) DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (SuperDrive for burning DVDs; Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media) Java Runtime Environment 1.6 QuickTime 7.6.6 software required for QuickTime and multimedia features Dedicated GPU card recommended (for optimal performance in SpeedGrade and for GPU-accelerated features in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects: NVIDIA Quadro 4000 or other. Optional: Tangent CP200 family or Tangent Wave control surface for SpeedGrade

This software will not operate without activation. Broadband Internet connection and registration are required for software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services.* Phone activation is not available

Support
Upgrade:
From Adobe Premiere Pro CS5
For those still using Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, upgrading to Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 also gives you the chance to catch up on all the great features added in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5. These include tighter tool integration, support for more video formats, and workflow enhancements that accelerate turnaround times, as well as the following:
Dual-system sound support via merged clips. Easily create subclips that

match high-quality audio with video shot on a separate device, such as a DSLR camera. The Merge Clips feature saves time and streamlines dual-system sound workflows.
Roundtrip workflows with Adobe Audition. Get

a fast, flexible roundtrip audio workflow. Pass individual audio clips, multitrack mixes, or complete video sequences between Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition CS6.
Script-based editing and direct integration with Adobe Story.

Speed up your editing workflow by importing scripts with searchable metadata from Adobe Story, an online service*, available separately, into Adobe Premiere Pro. Edit video based on the imported Adobe Story script.
Closed captions display in the timeline (U.S. broadcast standard only).

Play back and display 608 and 708 closed captions, synced to your video sequence and viewable in the Program Monitor.

From Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, CS3, or CS2


For those still using Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, CS3, or CS2, upgrading to Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 also gives you the chance to catch up on all the great features added in later releases, including:
Industry-leading performance with the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine. Get

amazing performance with the Mercury Playback Engine on workstations and laptops. Natively 64 bit, CPU optimized, and GPU accelerated, this engine delivers real-time effects, faster rendering, and superb multilayer handling.
Batch encoding in the background. Work more

efficiently when transcoding. Adobe Media Encoder transcodes files in the background, freeing your system for other tasks.

GPU-accelerated effects. Speed

up your creative workflow by seeing the results of many effects without having to render them first, thanks to GPU acceleration and the enhanced 64-bit Adobe Mercury Playback Engine. Broad native format support. Maximize quality and eliminate time -consuming transcoding and rewrapping when importing your footage. Import and export all major video, audio, and graphic file formats, and combine them in the Adobe Premiere Pro timeline.
Adobe Dynamic Link. Use Adobe

Dynamic Link to open sequences in Encore or After Effects without rendering first. Changes made in Adobe Premiere Pro are automatically reflected in the other program.
Roundtrip workflows with Adobe Audition. Get

a fast, flexible roundtrip audio workflow. Pass individual audio clips, multitrack mixes, or complete video sequences between Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition CS6.
High-quality Blu-ray Disc authoring. Output

your HD projects on Blu-ray Disc, DVD, and web versions of your disc projects with 64-bit Adobe Encore CS6 (included with Adobe Premiere Pro).
Dual-system sound support via merged clips. Easily create subclips that

match high-quality

audio with video shot on a separate device, such as a DSLR

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Priced at: Rs.1,28,934.00 ($799 USD) Release date: May 7, 2012 Pros

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Bibliography
1. http://www.adobe.com/in/products/premiere 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Premiere_Pro 3. http://www.adobe.com/in/volume-licensing

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