Looking for information about the compatibility of Premiere Pro with Windows 7 or Snow Leopard? Wondering what system hardware you need to run Premiere Pro CS4? This is where to find the info.
Today, Adobe released updates for Premiere Pro CS4 and Adobe Media Encoder CS4. These are Adobe Premiere Pro 4.2 and Adobe Media Encoder 4.2. Among the improvements in the 4.2 release, Premiere Pro gains support for the AVC-Intra format. For a full list of improvements read the data sheet attached: premiere_pro_4_2_update.pdf. Also see Dave Helmly's list of improvements and known issues: Premiere Pro 4.2 & AVC-Intra. For instructions on installing the updates and making use of the new compatibilities, see Dave's video episode Premiere Pro's 4.2 Update and Native P2 AVC-Intra Editing. Also, Premiere Pro online Help, in all supported languages, has been updated to document the new compatibilities.
A recent search terms report shows that a number of users searched for "capture frame," or "frame capture," when they wanted to find the topic about grabbing a still from video. Reasonably, these users thought of frame capturing as a kind of capture or import. However, the Help topic for it lives at the other end of the Help system, not under "capturing," but under "exporting." In any case this is the topic for which those users searched:
Export a still image
A recent search terms report reveals that when certain users searched the community help search engine for "import," they would have liked to have the following topics appear in their first page of search results:
Capturing and digitizing
Capturing DV or HDV video
About importing files
File formats supported for import
Importing still images
We're working on getting them there.
A recent search terms report shows that people searching with the Premiere Pro community help search engine for the term "export" were not quickly finding the following Help topics in their first page of search results. Some new keywording and getting-out of the word could now improve those results. Here are some key Help topics introducing how to export from Premiere Pro:
Basics of Exporting
Types of exporting
Adobe Media Encoder
Formats exported directly from Adobe Premiere Pro
Export a still image
You can see enormous performance gains in CS4 Production Premium, Premiere Pro CS4 and After Effects CS4 by running them on 64-bit operating systems with 16 GB of RAM. Adobe Marketing has posted some of the details in a white paper, ADOBE® Creative Suite® 4 Production Premium: Accelerate your HD workflows with 64-bit optimization.
One of the benefits of posting comments on Adobe Premiere Pro web Help content is that you can link from the comment to other web resources. That means you could post a comment on a topic in Premiere Pro Help with a link to a related tutorial you created. Premiere Pro users get quicker access to helpful training, and your site gets some additional traffic, driven from adobe.com.
For example, see Todd Kopriva's comment at the bottom of this page: High-definition (HD) video. The comment takes the reader from a Help page about HD video straight to an informative article about HD video on the videoguys site.
Sound interesting?
The only guideline is that the tutorials must be relevant, and must be located on pages requiring no password or payment to access. However, the free, password-less page can contain links to materials that do require users to subscribe or pay for access. Go ahead and use Help comments to promote your materials.
Let me know if you need help getting started with this.