Capture, edit, and deliver video online, on air, on disc, or on deviceAdobe has reentered the
Professional software based editing world with the new
Premiere
Pro 2.0; as a stand-alone
program or as a tightly woven member of the
Adobe Production Studio.
The
programmers and engineers at
Adobe have been busy since the release of
Premiere
Pro 1.5 about two years ago. The full number upgrade is packed with new features--many that bring
Premiere
Pro 2.0 into the realm of other high-end editing
programs and a few that
project it beyond. We don't have room to investigate the many new changes on these pages, but we'll look at some of the major ones.
What's New?One of the first differences experienced
Premiere
Pro users will notice is in the GUI (graphic user interface). The new interface wastes no desktop space and more importantly, eliminates overlapping windows.
Adobe now calls these windows "panels," which are dynamically attached to each other. Making one panel bigger, say your Timeline, makes its neighboring panels, for example the Source panel and the
Program panel, shrink. This, coupled with the ability to pull panels from one frame and group them in another frame gives editors strong control of their workflow.
The most surprising, dare we say revolutionary, new addition to this upgrade is called Clip Notes. If you need to share footage with other editors and/or clients, Clip Notes is astonishing. Imagine effortlessly embedding a video clip into a PDF file for easy emailing. Now imagine the ability of the receiver to type in frame-accurate comments into this optionally password-
protected document and email it back to you, the editor. You now import the Clip Notes document into your sequence and your
program generates markers at the ap
propriate timecode locations on your timeline. We must admit, this innovation caught us by surprise.