Premiere 6.0
The essential tool for professional digital video editing
Adobe® Premiere® 6.0, a stunningly simple and powerful professional video editing tool, comfortably closes the DV to Web gap while extending the award-winning software's position as the most accessible application on the market today. With new support for DV on the Windows platform and cross-platform support for all of the leading Web video formats, Premiere aggressively integrates a variety of features and functions into its long-held marketplace position as simply the best video editing tool around.
DV Functionality
Premiere 6.0 provides direct support for IEEE 1394 (FireWire/i.Link) on both Windows and Mac OS. Using only the DV port on your hard drive, an IEEE 1394 connection, and your DV camcorder, you get perfect digital video in Premiere every time. Adobe Premiere offers built-in support for all types of DV devices, ranging from consumer to professional. By simply connecting a DV device to the IEEE 1394 port on a Windows or Macintosh computer, you can capture DV clips and begin editing right away. On a computer with an IEEE 1394 port, there’s no need to install additional hardware such as a video capture card. Just select the appropriate DV device manufacturer and model in the Device Control dialog box, and Adobe Premiere assigns the video input settings appropriate to that device, making the video capture process more precise.
DV Capture
Premiere’s Movie Capture window now includes a Settings tab and a Logging tab. Using the Settings tab, you can view and edit video capture settings, change the capture location, and set device control preferences. Using the Logging tab, you can quickly log video clips, set In and Out points, name clips and reels, effortlessly batch-capture multiple logged video clips, and add comments about each clip.
Web export plug-ins for one-step Web output
Premiere 6.0 includes three plug-ins (automatically installed) for exporting an individual clip, a segment of the Timeline, or the entire program to a Web-optimized file format. When you have finished editing your video program, select one of the following Web export options: Save for Web, Advanced RealMedia Export, or Windows Media Export (Windows only). Choosing one of these options opens the respective plug-in dialog box, in which you can specify your exported file format information.
- The Save for Web menu command exports the Timeline directly into a special version of Terran Interactive’s Media Cleaner software, customized especially for Premiere.
- With Advanced Windows Media Export, you can take advantage of a wide range of formatting options for the most precise output control in the Windows Media format.
- Advanced RealMedia Export provides precise output control, thereby offering greater flexibility. RealMedia files (containing both RealVideo and RealAudio) can be streamed from the Web or downloaded to a hard disk and played using the RealPlayer application.
Web Makers
Included in this release is the ability to embed Web markers in your video files; these markers could include links to HTML pages or to chapters in a QuickTime movie or DVD. Using these markers, you can develop streaming videos that automatically launch Web pages at precise points during playback. You can specify a frame target to designate where the Web content will appear.
For example, a Web designer could create a streaming video for use on a nature Web site. At the moment that a bald eagle is seen in the video, a Web page containing information about that bird could automatically appear on the right side of the Web page
Audio Mixer
Now you can process audio within Premiere using a professional-level mixing tool: the Audio Mixer. This tool resembles a traditional multichannel mixer, featuring gain, fade, and pan adjustment for up to 99 audio tracks. The Audio Mixer works in conjunction with the Monitor window, so you can make adjustments as you play the audio and watch the synchronized video in the Monitor window.
Storyboard Window
Premiere offers a number of new and enhanced features to help increase your productivity. With the new Storyboard window and its Automate to Timeline command, you can quickly visualize and implement the layout of clips in your project. The Automate to Timeline command provides a quick and easy way to transfer all the clips in a Project window bin or Storyboard to the Timeline.
Enhanced Monitor and Timeline windows
The enhanced Monitor window provides more efficient editing control with 3-point, 4-point, and split-edit capabilities when using the Source and Program views. The streamlined Timeline window offers precise editing capabilities for piecing together video projects. In this window you can directly adjust opacity, add transitions or effects, and modify keyframes.
The Trim mode offers more controls while displaying a zoomed-in view of a particular edit in the Timeline. It now provides more visual feedback to help you trim clips with greater precision.
Improved Project Management
Now you can manage all of a project’s media using the flexible Project window. Create multiple bins for organizing clips in a split-view project window; set the poster frame for a video clip; even preview the clip in a project thumbnail preview window.
The new Project Settings dialog box offers presets for common video formats. The new Settings Viewer displays your project’s capture, project, clip, and export settings in one screen so that you can easily compare for discrepancies and make necessary changes.
Enhanced effect support
Premiere 6.0 has changed the way you add video and audio effects. The new palettes provide easy access to all effects, and better organization. The Effect Controls palette, similar to the one in Adobe After Effects, offers convenient control over all aspects of a clip’s effects parameters with real-time feedback in the Monitor window. For example, after dragging the Crystallize video effect from the Video palette to a clip in the Timeline window, you can use the slider controls in the Effect Controls palette to precisely adjust the cell size setting for the effect in real time.
Customisable workspace
Choose the workspace that best suits your needs during different stages of a project. A workspace is the arrangement of windows, window features, and palettes on screen. Four preset workspaces are included—A/B Editing, Single-Track Editing, Effects, and Audio. When you first start Premiere, you can choose between A/B Editing and Single-Track Editing; then, during the editing process, you can use other workspaces as needed. For example, if you are working primarily with effects, select the Effects workspace to automatically reposition the windows, window features, and palettes on your screen so that the new Effect Controls palette and the Video and Audio effect palettes are within easy reach. You can customize the four preset workspaces at any time or create your own workspace and save it for later use.
Integration with Adobe applications
Premiere has completely integrated the Adobe interface familiar to those who have worked in other Adobe applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe After Effects. For Web development, Premiere has integrated tightly with Adobe GoLive and Adobe LiveMotion. Premiere now provides the Edit Original command. Conveniently edit placed images and other content—such as Adobe Photoshop images—in their native software applications. Once the changes are made, Adobe Premiere updates both the placed content and the native application file.
Adobe Premiere 6.0 software ships with more than 25 supported filters from Adobe After Effects, including Channel Mixer, Directional Blur, Color Balance, Basic 3D, Drop Shadow, Broadcast Colors, Transform, and Reduce Interlace Flicker. Using Transform, for instance, you can apply two-dimensional geometric transformations to a clip for interesting motion effects. You can add keyframes to any of the following parameters over time: anchor point, position, height, width, skew, rotation, and opacity.
