Competition has also sharpened what was once the leading video editing software. Apple's Final Cut Pro has pushed Adobe out of the Mac video editing market Adobe still offers a Mac version of its special effects program After Effects , Pinnacle, the video card specialist, has muscled in with a suite of products for video editing, while competing products are also available from Ulead and Sony.
The obstacles to making a film, whatever level it be, just keep falling away. Apple and Microsoft even offer lite video editing software built into their operating systems, the former of which was famously used for the surprise hit documentary Tarnation. Interface design has always been one of Adobe's strong suits, especially if you are used to the company's other software - the look and feel is consistent with Adobe software like Photoshop and the other software titles that come with the Adobe Video Collection 2.
The workspace is easily customised using floating or dockable palettes, and tabs between different windows, and keyboard shortcuts are used extensively to free space. When you start up Premiere Pro 1. When you make your selection the default editing workspace screenshot appears with three main windows: the "project window" screenshot on the left is a kind of holding area where you import your various footage files to.
To the right of this is the monitor window with two screens for viewing and editing your source footage and final composition, and in the lower portion of the screen is the timeline where you can place and edit your clips on video and audio tracks. The other main video window that you work with is the capture window screenshot for importing footage from camera or VCR.
The controls for the capture window mimic a hardware edit bay with VCR style buttons, shuttle jog to scroll through footage and buttons for moving frame by frame, scene by scene the beginning and end of a scene is where you started and paused or stopped the camera when you were filming.
You can also type in the 8-digit time code and Premiere will go direct to that frame on the tape. The underlying technology controlling the camera via your computer is called device control, and it is widely supported by DV cameras when they are connected to your computer by firewire cable.
Capturing is a matter of clicking the record button, watching the video play on your computer until it reaches the point where you want it to end, and hitting the stop button to create a new footage file. That's the most obvious method. Should it mess up in any way, you are able to manually tweak the framing, by finding the automatic keyframes, and changing them to something that works best. Other recent additions which will make many editors happy include the ability to rename shape and clip layers, the introduction of a new Underline style button so your titles can - finally and easily - be underlined, the inclusion of multi-line text fields in Motion Graphics, and the addition of a new drop-down menu option in those templates, making it much cleaner and easier to customise them in your workflow.
You can also speed up footage through time remapping by up to 20, percent, allowing you to work with much longer clips, and the audio gain range has been increased to 15db. Of course, new updates mean support for additional file formats, and there are also new encoding presets when exporting to Adobe Stock. Adobe calls this Productions.
The idea behind this is to break down large workflows into smaller sections which multiple people can work on at the same time, as long as the files are located on a shared local drive. All your assets can be shared between projects within the Production, without having to duplicate any media. Not only is this a huge timesaver, but it also keeps project files sizes down, and much easier to keep track of. Similarly, Photoshop CS, which now supports non-square video pixels, can also edit graphics.
Overall, Premiere Pro is still a very capable professional application, and its longevity means that it has by far the greatest support from third-party plug-ins. It also has the killer tabbed timeline feature for nested sequences. This is a great way to edit, because it allows you to create sections of your video as separate sequences, then stitch them together in a master sequence.
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