Version: CS4
Developer: Adobe
Platform: X86/X64
Language: English

I want to view my videos on all my display devices. How can I do this?
It's simple. The Badaboom™ Media Converter formats video and audio files for a variety of devices using a process called transcoding. In the old days of video, there was broadcast television, VCRs, and that was about it; video came in very few flavors. With the proliferation of digital media players came a similar proliferation of video formats, making for widespread incompatibility. Badaboom™ is the solution to this incompatibility: it takes video files from any source and formats them for a wide variety of devices.

Elemental Technologies and NVIDIA change the way transcoding is done!
Elemental Technologies Badaboom Media Converter takes a fundamentally different approach. Instead of performing transcoding on the CPU, it harnesses the massively parallel NVIDIA GPUs in today’s computers to perform the core transcoding operations. By utilizing the GPU, Badaboom™ transcoding not only runs much faster than CPU-based competitors but leaves the CPU available to process other tasks. This allow consumers to painlessly convert video between formats, allowing them to view home video content on their portable devices, or Media Center content on their Apple TV – all in a convenient, intuitive application.

Capture, edit, and deliver video online, on air, on disc, or on device

Adobe 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 appropriate timecode locations on your timeline. We must admit, this innovation caught us by surprise.

The #1 selling consumer video-editing software, Adobe® Premiere® Elements makes it easy to create incredible movies. Now you can use automated options to find your best clips and instantly transform them into polished movies, easily combine elements of different videos, and more. Take advantage of special offers and integrated options from Adobe partners to easily create and share extraordinary photos and videos. Get started quickly with all your video clips at your fingertips and a variety of new automated options for transforming them into polished movies. Enhance your stories with knockout visuals and sound. Combine elements of different videos for entertaining results, and add animated titles, custom disc menus, rich audio, and dazzling visual effects and transitions. Broadcast far and wide by uploading your movies directly to YouTube™ or your personal sharing site; share with family and friends on DVD, mobile phones, and portable media devices; and enjoy movies in high definition, including on Blu-ray Disc.

Get fresh inspiration, just when you need it
Turn your video clips into polished movies with cool ideas, tutorials, movie themes, and special effects that are delivered regularly to your software.

Set up a screening virtually anywhere
Access your movies and clips from any web-enabled computer.

Backup your memories automatically, no scheduling required
Help protect your videos from computer loss and hard drive crashes with automatic online backup and 20GB of storage — that's up to four hours of DVD-quality video.