Product Description

Make every frame count with Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 software, the essential tool for professional video editing. Capture and edit virtually any format, from DV to uncompressed HD, and output to tape, DVD, and the web. Unparalleled integration with other Adobe applications removes production bottlenecks, freeing time so you can focus on the highest production values to tell your story. Work with any format. Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 supports all standard and high-definition formats, including DV, Digital Betacam, HDV, HDCAM, DVCPRO HD, and D5 HD (some formats may require additional hardware). Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 sets new standards for efficient digital filmmaking.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5682 in Software
• Brand: Adobe
• Model: 25520395
• Released on: 2006-01-20
• Platform: Windows XP
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 5.00 pounds

Features

• Edit multiple-camera shoots quickly and easily. View multiple video tracks from a multicam shoot, and edit by switching between tracks in real time.
• Create high-quality, menu-driven DVDs directly from the Adobe Premiere Pro timeline.
• Capture and edit HDV content in its original format with no conversion or quality loss.
• Maintain maximum image quality with subtle and dramatic changes to color, contrast, and exposure, free of the banding and artifacts caused by lower bit-depth processing.

Amazon.com Product Description
Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 software sets new standards for digital filmmaking so you can make every frame count. Providing the tightest integration with Adobe After Effects and Adobe Photoshop, and native support for HDV, SD, and HD, Adobe Premiere Pro effortlessly fits into high-end effects and editing work flows. Its rich set of advanced editing and effects tools ensures that you can produce whatever you imagine, and new time- and space-saving features help make you more productive. If you work in post services, in-house post production, videography, or multimedia services, Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 delivers a rich feature set that enables you to tell your stories with the highest possible production values.

Edit multiple-camera shoots quickly and easily with Premiere Pro 2.0. View multiple video tracks from a multicam shoot, and edit by switching between tracks in real time.

Expedite reviews with Adobe Clip Notes. Embed video into a PDF file, e-mail the file to your client to review with timecode-specific comments, and then view comments mapped to the timeline.

Create high-quality, menu-driven DVDs directly from the Adobe Premiere Pro timeline. Make full-resolution, interactive DVDs for digital dailies, test discs, or final delivery.

Browse, organize, and preview content files, and then drag and drop what you need from Adobe Bridge. Search by or edit XMP metadata such as keywords, language, and format.

Take a tour of Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0.

NOTE: This is an upgrade license for Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0. See System Requirements for upgrade requirements.

Edit Everything with Confidence
With Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0, you're ready for editing, no matter how demanding the project. HD, SD, HDV, and DV -- every major standard and high-definition video format (including DV, Digital Betacam, HDV, HDCAM, and D5) is within your reach, with no compromise on quality, features, or performance. That means you're free to work with whatever media best meets your requirements in terms of budget, creative expectations, and intended delivery medium.

Putting HD resolution within reach of even the most modest budget, HDV has rapidly become a popular acquisition format. With Premiere Pro 2.0, you now have a full-featured editing environment for HDV with support for logging, batch capture, trimming, and editing in native HDV format so there is no conversion or quality loss. Plus, Premiere Pro 2.0 supports the most popular HDV-format cameras and VTRs, including the most popular Sony and JVC models. Premiere Pro 2.0 also streamlines the process of encoding video and audio for your Macromedia Flash projects with new Flash Video (FLV) export. This allows you to create compact, vector-based SWF animations that include sophisticated text animations and shape morphing.

Using native support for the AJA Xena HS card for real-time HD encoding, Premiere Pro 2.0 captures from and lays off to any HD-SDI VTR or device. With six channels of AES and embedded audio I/O, plus full-resolution SD and HD playback, Premiere Pro 2.0 and AJA Xena HS combine to provide a complete, full-featured capture and delivery solution for all HD and SD formats. Whether capturing from or laying back to Digi-Beta or D5, Premiere Pro 2.0 and the AJA Xena HS card are the perfect combination to accommodate diverse post-production work flows.

Expanding Your Creativity
Premiere Pro 2.0 delivers a comprehensive and powerful set of professional editing tools, including new support for multi-cam editing, enhanced color support, and GPU-accelerated rendering. This leading application also opens a whole new level of professional production by supporting the editing of multiple-camera shoots. The new quad-view monitor provides simultaneous display of up to four synchronized source tracks, plus a real-time preview of the switched output. Drop into Record mode and you'll be able to switch between source tracks in real time to create a sequence containing the edited footage from each of the cameras. Making adjustments is easy. Simply record the desired changes, and Premiere Pro 2.0 updates your edited sequence automatically. The clips can then be edited as usual with any effects, titles, and other tools available in Premiere Pro 2.0.

Premiere Pro 2.0 introduces numerous enhancements to ensure that color in your video productions is as true to life as possible. For starters, Premiere Pro 2.0 provides new color correction tools that are optimized for different tasks, such as luma correction and limiting. For fine adjustments, the three-way color corrector provides precise control over shadows, midtones, and highlights. Use primary and secondary color correction tools to match shots, change colors, correct exposure errors, and modify highlights, midtones, and shadows across clips, sequences, or entire projects. Whether working with 8-bit, 10-bit, or 16-bit source material, the powerful new color correction tools process your changes at 32-bit resolution for maximum color fidelity.

Workflow Integration and Support
Premiere Pro 2.0 offers excellent integration with your high-end work flows. Film and video may be in different formats, but they needn't exist in different dimensions. Built-in conversion capabilities help bridge the two worlds by providing optional Feet + Frames timecode display (in addition to video SMPTE) for captured footage. If you originate on or deliver to 16mm or 35mm film, Premiere Pro 2.0 lets you choose whichever time reference system makes editing and conforming easiest for you.

With an open architecture, Premiere Pro 2.0 easily provides support for new formats and hardware as they become available. Choose from a wide range of capture cards and other hardware today to build the HD, SD, and DV editing system that meets your needs and budget.

If you're familiar with other Adobe products, working with Premiere Pro 2.0 will be a breeze. The software features panels that dock and group work with a redesigned user interface that's fully customizable. Tools, palettes, and menus are familiar and consistent with those in other Adobe video applications, and keyboard shortcuts remain fully customizable. Arrange everything you need using workspace panels that dock and group within the main application window, saving valuable screen space and eliminating the need to constantly reposition and resize multiple windows and palettes one by one.

The audio capabilities in Premiere Pro 2.0 -- unequaled by any other video editor -- now allow you to apply multiple effects to audio clips or tracks. Adobe Premiere Pro even includes a set of VST-format plug-ins that will get you started on audio enhancement right out of the box.

Deliver with Ultimate Confidence
Now that it's done, where can you play it? With Premiere Pro 2.0, the answer is "everywhere." Whether your delivery target is the Web, DVD, tape, film, or digital cinema, Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 helps you leverage your editing investment across more playback platforms. Plus, workflow innovations, such as automated review and approval, facilitate and streamline everyday tasks to keep your projects on the fast track without keeping you from your core mission. Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 also makes it easy to send both media and metadata to other video, film, and audio applications, making it more efficient to take a single project in multiple directions.

And finally, getting fast, to-the-point feedback from clients is a crucial part of any successful production. Adobe Clip Notes streamlines the process with an elegant solution based on two easy, accessible technologies: email and the Adobe PDF file format. A sequence can be exported as a PDF file with embedded or streamed video in either Windows Media or QuickTime. The file is then sent to the reviewer, who plays it back with Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader software. Whenever the reviewer pauses the video, the current timecode is automatically entered into the comment box. Remarks can be entered at the exact point at which the video is paused. When the file containing these remarks is sent back and imported into the sequence, the comments appear as clip markers at the appropriate timecode locations in the timeline. Adobe Clip Notes facilitates collaboration, expedites the review and approval process, and takes the pain out of keeping everyone in the loop.

Customer Reviews

Premiere Pro 2.0
Whilst Adobe are touting a range of upgrades in 2.0 the only one I needed was the mulicam facility. Now editing any shot with multiple cameras (up to 4) recording simiultaneously is fantastic. If you previously used a Panasonic MX12 or AVE5 (or similar) then this is a total joy. Selecting the live camera is as easy as pressing 1 to 4 and after you've made your camera selections you can easily go back and move the edit points etc.
Options include ability for audio to follow cameras or stay with master camera (track1). For wedding shoots or live music etc this package is a gold star winner and will save hours off your workflow.

Worth every cent of the upgrade price even though I already had Pro1.5.

My only complaint is that you still can't add the datecode stored on DV tape onto the end (or start) of a name you select at capture. This is available in other packages and is an annoying omission. It would be very useful where you are filming documentaries or other events (maybe just your kids lives) over a period of time and want to have them named by date recorded (not date captured).

If you want to see all the other new features here they are:
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/newfeatures.html
I'm guessing Adobe also see multicam as the main one as it's top of the list.

If I haven't convinced you to buy yet then you can always try the free trial on Adobe's site.

Excellent product made better.
What a jump from Version 6 to Pro 2. I tried 1.5 but didn't upgrade, but this version is a new world. When I upgraded to Pro 2, an automatic upgrade to CS3 was included. I still use Pro 2 more than CS3. Such power in Pro 2. Still trying to get the multi camera option to work. I can sync the tracks but the monitor won't show the 4 tracks for shipping. My NLE box is a Core 2 Duo, 2 GB Ram with 512mb NVida PCI-E. Maybe I am better off mixing video live and forget about the hassles of digtizing tapes?

Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0
I've used Premiere, of and on, since 4.x. Premiere Pro is an excellent product. The new version also supports native HDV editing, although I have not tested that yet.

Unfortunately, my PC hardware platform is not so good and I encounter video noise on imported video, some of the time. I have researched this extensively and am certain this is not due to Premiere Pro but the hardware of my computer. The same camera, 1394 cable and video scenes load fine into Final Cut on a Mac.

When I do capture video into Premiere Pro successfully (again - the problem is is due to a hardware problem, not Premiere Pro), I found editing to be very fluid and quick. There are enough similarities between Premiere and Final Cut that I found it very easy to move back and forth between the two platforms. I also liked the ability output compressed video directly from Premiere into Windows Media and Real Media, since most of my video delivery is to the web. The only downside was the built-in quicktime output was not as good a quality as using QuickTime Pro (Windows version) to do the conversion instead.

The DVD authoring tools were also easy to use. Not as good, as say, iDVD, but still very easy to put to use.

With Final Cut you cannot output to Real Media (Real's encoding solution only runs on PC hardware). Recently, Flip4Mac now offers a full Windows Media encoding solution that integrates with Final Cut and QuickTime so you can produce high quality Windows Media directly on the Mac. Premiere Pro also includes, on the CD (need to install separately) a plug in that performs gorgeous image stabilization. Shoot a video while walking, then run the provided image stabilizer over the video and you've got wonderfully smooth moving shots. Very simple to use too. You can also purchase 3rd party solutions for Final Cut too, but I've yet to find one quite as nice as the one provided with the Premiere CD.

Audio editing is the only item that is a bit different than Final Cut. In FCP, you edit your audio track in a separate, enlarged waveform editor. In Premiere, you edit the audio track right in the timeline. There are pluses and minuses to both methods. In Premiere, the timeline view can be a bit small, making it a bit tougher to make very small adjustments, such as removing a pop or click over a frame or two.

Assuming you've got good PC hardware free of h/w glitches, I have no problem recommending Premiere Pro 2.0.