 My job here as a writer for NotebookReview is to distill complicated information into something that the average consumer can understand. Most things computer-related have some kind of basic analogy anyone can grasp, but video editing is wholly its own entity. The basic workflow is simple and logical to me because I've been doing it for nearly a decade now. How do you quickly convey it to someone who's completely new at it?
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 Craft stories more efficiently. Benefit from unparalleled integration with Adobe® After Effects® and Photoshop® software, edit virtually anything thanks to broad native tapeless and DSLR camera support, and enjoy industry-leading 64-bit performance. Stepping up to the enhanced video editing power of Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5 software is now easier than ever.
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 Significant improvements to key performance areas make CS5 a must-have upgrade for serious video producers. By now, you have heard about some of the important new improvements in the Adobe CS5 Production Premium suite. If you haven't, check out our recent coverage reviewing the highlights. In this review, we are going to focus on the key performance improvements in the core application you use most, Premiere Pro, along with another look at After Effects.
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 After Effects CS5 seems like a less necessary upgrade than Premiere Pro CS5, but that’s probably because After Effects doesn’t have a game-changer like Premiere does with its new Mercury playback engine.
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 Regardless of what tapeless formats you shoot on (P2, XDCAM, AVCHD, DSLR or H.264): what platform you use (PC or Mac, Workstation or Laptop) what NLE you edit with (Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro or Avid Media Composer) the MXO2 Mini is the perfect HD monitoring solution for you. No other hardware is as powerful, flexible, portable or affordable.
With the Matrox MXO2 Mini you can monitor your timeline in full HD resolution on a flat screen HDTV via HDMI or component video. Matrox's
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 When Premiere Pro debuted on the Mac as part of Adobe CS3, it was as though Adobe took the license plate off that old moped in the garage and put it on a hot new motorcycle. With Premiere Pro CS4, Adobe continued to retool the program and retrofitted the Mac version to more closely match the Windows package. The latest version of Adobe’s professional video editing program doesn’t look much different at first glance. But taking it for a spin reveals that most of the work went into the engine.
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 Adobe’s has released Creative Suite 5, which was announced to much fanfare a few weeks ago. Most of the tools -- from Photoshop to After Effects -- are available seperately, and it's available in a selection of bundles from the £1,032 plus VAT Adobe CS5 Design Standard with the key art-creation tools to the £2,309 everything-but-the-kitchen-sink CS5 Master Collection
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 Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the availability of the Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 product family, the highly-anticipated release of the industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. With more than 250 new product features, the Creative Suite 5 product line brings exciting full-version upgrades of flagship creative tools and workflow enhancements to designers and developers — enabling the creation, delivery and optimization of content across med
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 Premiere Pro CS5 looks a lot like CS4, but there's a behemoth lurking under the hood: the Adobe Mercury Engine, making child's play out of previewing, scrubbing and rendering huge video files.
That new tiger in Premiere Pro's tank, the native 64-bit GPU accelerator otherwise known as the Mercury Playback Engine, changes everything for those of us who must wait around for rendering and playback of HD files. What once brought mighty machines to their knees now plays back like DV footage. It'
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 Without the least bit of exaggeration, many people have said that this is the perfect storm of change and with this change there's an opportunity to thrive from it. That's where Adobe's been focusing - how to make our customers succeed in this storm of change.
This will be the first of a two part entry. Here, I will outline the challenges that broadcasters are facing and how Adobe can help address them. In the second part, I'll provide some feedback I've gotten from executives on their bu
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 Stay in the creative flow with Adobe CS5 Production Premium as breakthrough performance, integration, and collaborative flexibility sweep aside obstacles in your workflow. Finish your HD projects as quickly as SD thanks to native 64-bit support in Adobe Premiere® Pro, After Effects®, and Photoshop® Extended and the new Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere Pro.
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 Adobe’s new Mercury technology will be officially announced on April 12th, at the start of NAB 2010. Anyone who has seen a Mercury demonstration knows that it is quite impressive, and may attract a large number of Final Cut Pro users to “jump ship” and switch to CS5 when released. At the crux of the compelling features is not only that Premiere CS5 can natively edit long-GOP H.264 (i.e. raw footage from Canon 5D MKII, Canon 7D, and recent Kodak & Sanyo cameras) with real time transitions, and th
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 Now that the word is out - April 12th is the big day when ALL of CS5 will be announced, I'm seeing a lot of misinformation on Twitter over what's necessary to take advantage of Premiere Pro CS5 and the Mercury Playback Engine:
1. It won't run on laptops. FALSE I'm running it today on my MacBook Pro, and taking full advantage of 64-bit goodness and multicore optimization. Even though there's not a supported GPU in my MacBook, the performance gains over CS4 and CS3 are very significant. In m
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 We all knew it was only a matter of time before Adobe delivered the next update to their suite of applications. The launch date has been announced: we can expect Adobe CS5 on Monday, April 12 at 8 am pacific, 11 am eastern. Astute observers will notice that that date is the first day of the open exhibit floor at NAB 2010. Coincidence? I think not. Adobe is going all out with this launch as they’ve also launched a website where you can keep track of all the buzz and even log in with your Adobe ID
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 Adobe Story is a simple scriptwriting application with plenty of key features that makes it a great tool for video producers. The current version is in beta, meaning that it's available for free on its Labs website (labs.adobe.com). Adobe intends to fold this application into its Production bundle in the future with some clever integrations. As for now, Adobe Story works both as an online web application and an offline application.
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