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New compatibilities added to Premiere Pro with 4.1 update

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

Audio Mixer overview

Monitor volume level from Timeline, or Program Monitor

About capturing and digitizing

About transferring files

Import files with the Media Browser

Import files with the Import command

Importing assets from tapeless formats

Modifying clip properties with Interpret Footage

Interpret footage

Edit a text transcript

Set display quality

Formats exported directly from Adobe Premiere Pro

Place a bar behind text in a title

Media preferences

24p workflow

DVD or Blu-ray Disc workflow

Pro Tools workflow

SWF workflow

Cross-application workflows

Metadata workflow

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.