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Windows 7, Snow Leopard, system requirements, and Premiere Pro

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:39:46 -0800

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.

Information about Premiere Pro 4.2 is live

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:02:50 -0800

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.

Help for frame capture in Premiere Pro

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:50:54 -0800

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

Help for importing files into Premiere Pro

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:31:02 -0800

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.

Export Help for Premiere Pro

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:21:32 -0800

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

Premiere Pro and Production Studio on 64-bit machines

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:40:38 -0800

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.

Point to your training materials from comments in Premiere Pro Help

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:58:42 -0800

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.

Fresh Help for Premiere Pro CS4 posted today

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:15:09 -0800

We posted a new build of Premiere Pro English web Help and the Premiere Pro Help PDF yesterday. [The document is officially named Using Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, but I just can't bring myself to stop calling it simply Help.] The new build contains a number of new topics, and corrections to some legacy topics: all made as the result of feedback from alert users of Premiere Pro everywhere. Thanks for the feedback. Keep it coming!

Animating Photoshop layers in Premiere Pro

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:07:00 -0800

During a workflow study a few weeks ago, I asked a user to import a Photoshop document into Premiere Pro and to animate the layers of the Photoshop document independently of one another, moving a foreground figure over a background image. After successfully importing the Photoshop document as a sequence, the user said, "Now that I've imported it, I need something that tells me how to animate the layers separately from one another." I hope this helps: Moving and scaling Photoshop layers separately.

Importing title templates from Resource Central into Premiere Pro

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:06:00 -0800

Importing title templates from Resource Central is easy, but until today, the instructions for doing so did not appear in Help. They do now: Import a title template from Resource Central.

Selecting a sequence preset in Premiere Pro

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:05:21 -0800

Workflow studies conducted a few weeks ago revealed that it is not immediately obvious how one should select a sequence preset when creating a new sequence in Adobe Premiere Pro. What's more, the information available online about this was not easy to find. To help matters, I've added a new topic to Premiere Pro Help: Selecting a sequence preset, and have slightly revised an existing topic, Create a sequence. Much of this has to do with discerning, up front, the basic parameters of the assets you have to edit: recording format, codec, frame rate, and so on.

Premiere Pro CS3 Help: where to get it

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:02:40 -0800

If you need Help for Premiere Pro CS3 you can get to it by way of the Help pages for Premiere Pro CS4. That's what the yellow tab (or pod) toward the upper-right of the Premiere Pro CS4 Help pages is for. My questions for you are:
Did you know that before reading this post?
Have you found that tab to be useful?
How often have you clicked the link that takes you to Help for Premiere Pro CS3?

Premiere Pro for Final Cut Pro users

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:18:28 -0800

Final Cut Pro users wanting to get a sense of the workflows possible between Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, and the other products in Adobe Production Premium CS4 have some free instruction online. For more information, see the documents posted to Life without walls: Open workflows with Avid and Apple

Importing After Effects compositions into Premiere Pro

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:16:47 -0800

The Help topic explaining this process now has a bit more detail now than it had before: Importing After Effects compositions

Importing assets from tapeless formats in Premiere Pro

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:12:32 -0800

During recent workflow studies, I asked several video editors to import files of various formats into Adobe Premiere Pro. When they came to a set of files shot on a Panasonic P2 camera, and another set shot on a Sony XDCAM EX camera, most of the editors imported these files with the Import command (File > Import). They found this method time-consuming and confusing ("What should I do with all these XML files?" "Will the audio stay with the video?"), and seemed unaware that the Media Browser could have made importing these tapeless assets a breeze. They had never seen, apparently, the very helpful video tutorial, Importing tapeless assets in Media Browser, nor read the sections dealing with the Media Browser in the Help topic, Import assets from file-based sources. If you work with tapeless assets, spare yourself some confusion. Save yourself some time. Consult these resources