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Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 What’s New

What’s included:

• Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5

• Adobe OnLocation CS5

• Adobe Encore CS5

• Adobe Device Central CS5.5

• Adobe Bridge CS5

• Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 is also

available as a component of Adobe

Creative Suite® 5.5 Production

Premium and Adobe Creative Suite

5.5 Master Collection.

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5

Production Premium combines the

full new versions of:

• Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5

• Adobe Aer Eects® CS5.5

• Adobe Photoshop® CS5 Extended

• Adobe Audition® CS5.5

• Adobe Flash® Catalyst CS5.5

• Adobe Flash® CS5.5 Professional

• Adobe Illustrator® CS5

• Adobe OnLocation™ CS5

• Adobe Encore® CS5

Additional components:

• Adobe Dynamic Link

• Adobe Bridge CS5

• Adobe Device Central CS5.5

Integrates with Adobe CS Live online

services*

†

Get a faster editing workflow with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 software, the native 64-bit,

cross-platform video production solution that comes with Adobe OnLocation™ CS5 and

Adobe Encore® CS5 software.

Building on its robust toolset with the faster-than-ever Mercury Playback Engine,

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 extends breakthrough performance to more laptop and desktop

computer GPUs. Get real-time feedback for more GPU-accelerated features, including effects

(Directional Blur, Fast Blur, Invert) and transitions (Additive Dissolve and the new Film Dissolve),

as well as Interpret Footage and Time Remapping options—while you work smoothly at 4K and

higher resolutions. Open projects quickly and refine multilayer, effects-rich sequences without

rendering. Easy access to customizable keyboard shortcuts enables a robust keyboard-driven

workflow, letting you edit the way you want. Powerful editing-tool enhancements give you

more precision and control, and new dual-system sound support from the new Merge Clips

feature lets you quickly sync video with high-quality audio recorded on separate devices like

location recorders, perfect for DSLR or RED workflows.

Now, integration between Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Story, an Adobe CS Live online service*

†

, lets

you collaboratively write scripts and create metadata-rich, production-ready assets, speeding your

editing workflow. Start by importing or developing your script in Adobe Story, and then import it directly

into Adobe Premiere Pro, where you can align the script to spoken dialogue in each clip. Scenes in the

Adobe Story scriptand the metadata associated with themcan be matched to clips in your project.

Metadata helps eliminate hours of routine work by enabling you to effortlessly locate all of the takes of a

specific shot and quickly search dialogue, scene elements, or character names.

Adobe

Premiere

Pro CS5.5

Unleash creativity with high-performance editing tools

Contents

Who uses Adobe Premiere Pro? 3

Top new features of Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 3

Numerous productivity enhancements, including dual-system sound support with merged clips and

more intuitive keyboard-driven editing 3

More performance gains with the Mercury Playback Engine 5

Multiscreen delivery presets with Adobe Media Encoder 5

Fast, flexible roundtrip audio post-production workflows with Adobe Audition (available separately) 7

Streamlined workflow thanks to direct integration with Adobe Story*

† 7

Closed-captioning support 8

Expanded native support for RED digital cinema workflows 8

Enhanced native support for Canon XF video 9

Timesaving collaboration and improved open workflows 9

Still using Adobe Premiere Pro CS4/CS3? 10

About Adobe Systems Incorporated 11

System Requirements 12

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 and Encore CS5 12

Adobe OnLocation CS5 12

Among the many new timesaving features in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 are powerful editing-tool enhancements, dual-system sound

support, and the faster-than-ever Adobe Mercury Playback Engine, which extends breakthrough performance to more desktop and

laptop computer GPUs.

Summary of content (12 pages)

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Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 What’s New d Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS5.5 Unleash creativity with high-performance editing tools Get a faster editing workflow with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 software, the native 64-bit, cross-platform video production solution that comes with Adobe OnLocation™ CS5 and Adobe Encore® CS5 software. What’s included: • Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 • Adobe OnLocation CS5 • Adobe Encore CS5 • Adobe Device Central CS5.5 • Adobe Bridge CS5 • Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5 Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.
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Top features • Numerous productivity enhancements, including dualsystem sound support with merged clips and more intuitive keyboarddriven editing (Page 3) • More performance gains with the Mercury Playback Engine (Page 5) • Multiscreen delivery presets with Adobe Media Encoder (Page 5) • Fast, efficient audio post-production workflows with Adobe Audition CS5.
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Who uses Adobe Premiere Pro? 64-bit operating system required Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 runs only on 64-bit operating systems, such as Mac OS X 10.5 or later, Microsoft® Windows Vista® 64-bit Edition, or Windows 7 64-bit Edition. Adobe Media Encoder supports both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Windows, and like both Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, is 64-bit only on Mac OS X. For more information about optimizing performance, see the complete system requirements on the last page of this document.
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A merged clip’s video track and source audio channels can be mapped to targeted tracks in the timeline, which makes assembling sequences easier, faster, and more efficient. Multiple track targeting helps support keyboard-driven Insert/Overwrite (previously called Overlay) editing, which is faster than dragging and dropping clips into the timeline. To streamline project management, the original master component clips can be deleted from the project, leaving only the merged clips.
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More performance gains with the Mercury Playback Engine Supported Nvidia Graphics Cards The list of graphics cards that are compatible with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 is updated on a regular basis. For an up-to-date list of supported cards, please see www.adobe.com/ go/64bitsupport. For system requirements and compatibility, please see www.nvidia.com. The 64-bit Mercury Playback Engine brought extraordinary performance and stability to Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. In Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.
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application included with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, make outputting your work for delivery everywhere a simple and intuitive process. Because there is no single, universal set of encoding parameters that can accommodate every business and customer need, Adobe Media Encoder adds to its already extensive list of output presets to further streamline your encoding workflow. The existing presets covered delivery to devices that ranged from iPhones to digital cinema resolutions.
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In addition, the ability to drag and drop sequences directly from Adobe Premiere Pro into the Adode Media Encoder queue gives your encoding workflow added flexibility. And because Adobe Media Encoder is optimized to take full advantage of modern multicore CPUs, it efficiently encodes your content in the background, enabling you to continue creative work in the foreground, further boosting your productivity.
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You can also import Adobe Story* † ASTX files and attach them to multiple selected clips in the Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 Project panel. When attached to clips, scenes from the script are matched to the appropriate video clips by a predefined scene number that’s stored in both the script and the clip’s XMP metadata. This helps eliminate hours of routine work by enabling you to effortlessly locate all of the takes of a specific shot or search dialogue, scene elements, or character names.
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These features make Adobe Premiere Pro an even better choice for on-set and dailies workflows when working with RED content, offering deep control over crucial color settings in the context of an efficient native workflow, and enable close integration with REDCINE-X software via RMD interchange.
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included with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5), transcoding takes places in the background so you can continue editing without delay. You can also encode just the Adobe Premiere Pro sequence work area, which can be easily defined using new Set In Point and Set Out Point buttons.
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Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 also includes these additional features that have been added in free updates to Adobe Premiere Pro CS5: · · · · · · · · Red Rocket support Support for Mysterium X and the latest Color Science RED RMD support for editing color-graded footage from REDCine-X tools Native Sony XDCAM support Native JVC QuickTime support Enhanced native DPX format support Improved color grading Broadcast WAV support For more detailed information, see Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 What’s New.
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System Requirements Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 and Encore CS5 Mac OS Windows • Multicore Intel® processor with 64-bit support • Intel® Core™2 Duo or AMD Phenom® II processor; 64-bit support required • Mac OS X v10.5.8 or v10.6.3; Mac OS X v10.6.