Premiere 6.5 logo is galloping horses charging out of your camcorder showing you the speed and versatility of Adobe Premiere for the Mac.
Features
Premiere 6.5's editing screen consists of a number of free-floating windows. Premiere tools are video preview, timeline and storyboard. The floating palettes has additional features that help you monitor, modify, and enhance your work. You can hide and rearrange the palettes to organize your workspace. Premiere has a new feature allowing for the insertion of hyperlinks to your video.
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The command menus at the top of the screen, windows to perform your assembling and editing, the toolbox, and the floating palettes. The Premiere toolbox contains tools for selecting, editing, and viewing your clips.
Useful Improvements
Adobe Premiere 6.5 adds useful improvements to its digital-video editing application. This includes real-time preview and a title designer. Premiere can take video input directly from digital and analog video cameras and store it on your hard drive. You can edit it, and output to a variety of video formats, including MPEG-1.
Project Window
Listed in the Project window are all the clips that you import into your project from video, still image, sequence, and audio. Every project has only one Project window; if you close this window, you close the project. The Project window is customizable, so that you can sort and view your clips.
Wide variety of capture options:The capture interface allows you to control the camera directly. When you find points you want to capture, you simply punch-in and punch-out on the video to select.
Premiere allows you to use the television as a monitor. You can see your work on a bigger screen and allows the hardware codec in your camera to do the display work. Connect your camera through your FireWire/IEEE 1394/iLink port to my iMac and then connect the analog A/V connectors to a television set.
Audio Mixer. This feature allows you to adjust sound levels as the audio and video tracks are playing. DV support is native in Adobe Premiere 6.5, providing built-in support for all types of DV devices.New tools, such as the professional-level Audio Mixer and the innovative Automate to Timeline feature, encourage creativity and experimentation.
Closes the DV to Web gap
Web export plug-ins for one-step Web output. The save for web method lets you output multiple files optimized for streaming or progressive download in popular formats including QuickTime, RealMedia, Windows Media, MPEG and others by exporting the timeline directly into a special version of Terran Interactive Media Cleaner software.
Final Notes
A simple and powerful video editing tool, Adobe Premiere a great choice for any skill level. It is easy enough to use for anyone wanting to put a nice touch on their home-produced movies. Adobe Premiere 6.5 does everything a professional grade program like Final Cut can do for less money. The depth of features makes it a great tool for the video editor who needs to make a professional quality production.
Contact and Other Information
Manufacturer: Adobe Systems, Inc.
Description: Video Editing
Address: Adobe Systems, Inc.
345 Park Avenue
San Jose, CA 95110-2704 U.S.A.
Price: US$549.00
Telephone: 408.536.6000
Fax: 408.537.6000
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Macintosh
PowerPC processor
Mac OS X (10.2 or greater) software version
32 MB of available RAM (128 recommended)
50 MB of available hard-disk space required for installation
Apple QuickTime 4.1.2
Large-capacity hard disk or disk array
Mac OS X support
Additional requirements for DV:
PowerPC processor (300 MHz)
Apple FireWire 2.4
QuickTime-compatible FireWire (IEEE 1394) interface
Large-capacity hard disk or disk array (capable of sustaining 5 MB/sec)
Large-capacity hard disk or disk array (capable of sustaining 5 MB/sec)
DV devices compatibility matrix
Additional requirements for third-party capture cards:
Adobe Premiere certified capture card
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