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09/23/2006
Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0
Adobe Premiere. You either love it or you hate it. You either know it well, or never touched it. It is the seemingly ever-present video editing application. It has survived many bumps along the road, and has now become the great editor it is today.
Lately I have been using Premiere Pro 2.0 to edit and stream videos for teachers to use in their classrooms. In the past I have used the Matrox RT.X100 with Premiere 6.5 and Premiere Pro 1.0, but now I am using Premiere Pro 2.0 without any hardware acceleration. At first I thought this would be a bad experience, but overall I have been surprised. I have been doing relatively simple projects in SD, so the only thing that I have really missed is the accelerated encoding.
The new interface introduced with Premiere Pro 2.0 is great. No more losing pallets that some how end up where you do not want them. It also looks more “professional” with the darker color scheme. Those of you that have not used version 2.0, there is only a very shallow learning curve. Everything looks very similar, making it an easy transition.
Although the biggest difference between versions 1.5 and 2.0 is the new layout, there are a few awesome new features. One of the most exciting features in 2.0 is multicam editing. Are you serious? Where did Adobe get the idea to put multicam editing in their software? It’s only the most requested feature EVER… So, yeah, multicam. Although this is the first version to have multicam editing, it works like a dream. Those of you who have used third party multicam editors understand the frustration of not having multicam built into Premiere. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not. The video synced up… most of the time. Audio. What audio? Now, all those frustrations are gone.
Another very handy feature is DVD authoring right in Premiere Pro 2.0. Those of you who have used (or tried to use) Encore DVD may know how handy this is when you need to get a DVD to a customer NOW. Although Encore DVD is a powerful tool, it can be very confusing. When Encore pretty much requires you to use Photoshop to make a good menu, the DVD authoring feature of Premiere Pro 2.0 makes this process quick and easy.
There are many other great new features including native HDV editing, native SD and HD support, enhanced color-correction tools, GPU-accelerated rendering, and more. If any of these features make your heart race, you may want to get yourself a copy, or at least download the trial version. You will not be sorry, no matter how much you may hate the thought of using Adobe Premiere.
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