Today, we posted an update for the U.S. English version of Premiere Pro CS4 web Help. This update will appear in the other Premiere Help languages shortly. This update fixes a number of bugs that appeared in the previous build of Help. For example, it fixes a number of links, both to internal Adobe resources, and to external third-party resources, that had been broken. See: Using Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.
In the month of March, Premiere Pro users searching for either of these terms, "rendering," or "preview," in the community search engine, did not find the key relevant Help topics on the first page of their search results. Let's see if we can make those relevant topics easier to find. There is one key topic that should satisfy both these terms:
The 4.1 update for Premiere Pro CS4, announced at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in April, has been released. Aside from bug fixes and performance improvements, the 4.1 release gives Premiere Pro greater support for projects authored in Avid Media Composer, and files in the MXF-wrapped IMX format. With the 4.1 update, Premiere Pro can import files in the VOB format used in DVD publishing. Also, the 4.1 release gives greater support to the REDCODE plugin, used for importing files from RED cameras into Premiere Pro.
Check for new updates for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. (Choose Help > Updates.)
Let Dave Helmly walk you through the new compatibilities for Premiere Pro and After Effects in his video tutorial New Premiere Pro 4.1 and After Effects 9.02 Update
To give an overview of the compatibilities that this dot release adds to Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Adobe Marketing released Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 4.1.
The following topics in Premiere Pro web Help have been added or revised because of, or coincidental with, changes made to Premiere Pro with the 4.1 update:
Create a sequence for RED camera footage (with RED plugin only)
Regarding the RED plugin, see also the readme file that is downloaded with the plugin, titled "Premiere Pro and After Effects workflow using the Red plugin," and the RED Adobe Workflow Guide.
File formats supported for import
Find assets in the Project panel
Monitor volume level from Timeline, or Program Monitor
About capturing and digitizing
Import files with the Media Browser
Import files with the Import command
Importing assets from tapeless formats
Modifying clip properties with Interpret Footage
Formats exported directly from Adobe Premiere Pro
Place a bar behind text in a title
Optimizing your operating system
Updates have been released also for After Effects and Adobe Media Encoder. Be sure to stop by Todd Kopriva's After Effects Region of Interest for more about the AE update in general, and about the RED plugin specifically.
If you found it difficult to use the Adobe TV interface for finding Adobe's free video Design Center tutorials for Premiere Pro CS4, you were not alone. So Adobe has posted a web page that makes them much easier to find. You might like to bookmark Learn Adobe Premiere CS4 and return to it whenever you have a tutorial need.
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During NAB, Adobe announced an upcoming update, 4.1, to Premiere Pro CS4. Karle Soule gives some of the details in Premiere Pro 4.1! Online Help will be updated with information about the new compatibilities on the day the update is distributed.