Accelerate production with the new Adobe Mercury Playback Engine
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 software is the high-performance video production solution that enables you to work dramatically faster thanks to the 64-bit, GPU-accelerated Mercury Playback Engine. Work natively with the video formats you want, and experience efficient collaborative workflows that accelerate production from scriptwriting to editing, encoding, and final delivery.
New and enhanced features in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5
Industry-leading performance with the all-new Mercury Playback Engine Discover the revolutionary native 64-bit, GPU-accelerated Mercury Playback Engine that provides rock-solid performance and stability, even at 4K resolution and beyond. Open projects rapidly, and create multilayer, effects-rich sequences without rendering.
Expanded native tapeless workflows Work with the latest tapeless formats thanks to new native support for XDCAM HD 50, AVCCAM, DPX, and AVC-Intra, as well as DSLR cameras and enhanced RED. Native support means you never waste valuable production time transcoding or rewrapping and always have access to the original file’s pristine quality.
Script-to-screen workflow through integration with Adobe Story Move from script to screen faster through integration with Adobe Story, one of the new CS Live online services. Efficiently manage your shoot and streamline logging by importing scripts from Adobe Story to create complete shot lists and capture production notes in Adobe OnLocation. Then synchronize the script to footage in Adobe Premiere Pro and quickly produce rough cuts. CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time—visit www.adobe.com/go/cslive for details.
Open workflows with Final Cut Pro and Media Composer Bring the creative benefits of Adobe tools to the whole project, exploring new possibilities with After Effects and other Adobe software. Collaborate more efficiently by importing and exporting Final Cut Pro and Avid projects into Adobe Premiere Pro.
Faster editing with metadata Turn spoken dialogue into searchable text-based metadata faster and more accurately. Edit quickly by marking in and out points in the speech analysis text, synchronize footage with scripts, and quickly locate clips containing human faces.
Dozens of timesaving improvements Boost productivity with workflow features and enhancements suggested by users like you. For example, use automatic scene detection to create separate clips from HDV tapes, import assets from DVDs, use Extend Edit and Find Gaps keyboard shortcuts, and control keyframes with even more precision.
Streamlined encoding with revamped Adobe Media Encoder Deliver content in virtually any format, including DPX, FLV, H.264, MPEG-2, QT, and WM with Adobe Media Encoder, now with a more intuitive user interface. You can batch encode multiple versions of source files and sequences, manage priorities, and control advanced settings for each item individually. With new metadata thinning templates in Adobe Media Encoder, you can ensure that only cleared-for-distribution metadata is included at final output.
Tapeless camera support in Adobe OnLocation CS5 Use the powerful logging options in Adobe OnLocation, even when working with tapeless cameras on set. Adobe Ultrakeyer—Achieve fast, accurate chroma keying, even on challenging DV or HD footage. Optimized for less-than-perfect footage, Ultra preserves shadows and can achieve complex keys on smoke, liquids, and transparent objects with minimal effort. The GPU-accelerated Mercury Playback Engine can dramatically increase rendering speeds when using supported NVIDIA graphics cards, depending on the system configuration and file types.
Native support for DSLR cameras Edit video from the latest DSLR cameras, such as Canon 5D Mark II and 7D; Nikon D90, D300s, and D3000; and others. New native support means you never waste valuable production time transcoding or rewrapping and always have access to the original file’s pristine quality.
Searchable web-DVDs with Adobe Encore CS5.5 Create more engaging web-DVDs that automatically include a search interface, making it easier for viewers to navigate content. Metadata created throughout production makes your web-DVDs searchable and makes it easier for viewers to discover your site.
Other top features in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5
Broad format support Work with virtually any video, image, and audio format without transcoding or rewrapping thanks to native editing support for DV, HDV, RED, DPX, Sony XDCAM, XDCAM HD 50, XDCAM EX and XDCAM HD, Panasonic P2, DVCPROHD, AVCHD, and AVC-Intra, plus Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras. Add uncompressed SD and HD acquisition with hardware cards from third-party vendors.
Efficient tools for creative editing Create high-quality visual and editorial effects directly within the editing timeline. Edit faster with powerful editing tools that give you precise control and real-time feedback. Add color correction and other effects, audio filters, and more.
Open workflows with Final Cut Pro, Avid editing software, and Digidesign Pro Tools Bring the creative benefits of Adobe tools to the whole project, exploring new possibilities with Adobe After Effectsand other Adobe software. Collaborate more efficiently by importing and exporting Final Cut Pro and Avid projects into Adobe Premiere Pro.
Unparalleled integration with other Adobe products Work more efficiently from planning through delivery with the tightly integrated toolset in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. Eliminate intermediate rendering when moving sequences into Encore, and easily hop between your edited sequence and After Effects. Paint, add text, and clone across multiple frames with new video features in Adobe PhotoshopCS5 Extended.
Encoding and delivery for viewing virtually everywhere Reach a broad audience on a wide range of video-enabled devices. Batch encode in the background to a broad selection of web and video formats, and deliver DVDs, Blu-rays Discs, and interactive web-DVDs.
Direct-to-disk recording and on-set monitoring Manage your shoot more efficiently with Adobe OnLocation CS5.5, included with Adobe Premiere Pro. Record directly to disk and maximize camera image quality. Organize shots using metadata imported from Adobe Story* and logged during the shoot. When you import the project into Adobe Premiere Pro, metadata from Adobe OnLocation makes it easy to create a rough cut.
Efficient editing with metadata, from script to capture and deliver Use metadata added to clips during preproduction, on set, and in the edit suite with Speech Search to easily find assets and edit faster. Export metadata to make your content more discoverable and to help unlock new revenue streams.
Comprehensive production toolset Extend your edit suite to preproduction and delivery. Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 comes with Adobe OnLocation CS5 for on-set monitoring, logging, and direct-to-disk capture; Encore CS5 for authoring DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, and web-DVDs; and Adobe Media Encoder for batch encoding video to virtually every format.
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