Enhancing the workflow with high-level features
Premiere Pro goes well beyond providing a full-featured toolset for standard digital video editing. It is loaded with extra features that can enhance the video production process and improve the quality of your finished product.You are not likely to incorporate many of these in your first few video projects. But as you ramp up your skills and expectations, you will begin to tap these high productivity features. I will cover the following topics in this book:
- Advanced Audio Editing Premiere Pro provides audio effects and editing unequaled by any other nonlinear editor, and by most audio software. Create and place 5.1 surround-sound audio channels, make sample-level edits, apply multiple audio effects to any audio clip or track, use the included state-of-the-art plug-ins and other VST (Virtual Studio Technology) plug-ins.
- Advanced Color Correction Correct and enhance the look of your footage with two new color correctors.
- Advanced Keyframe Controls Premiere Pro 2.0 gives you the precise control you need to fine-tune your visual and motion effects without requiring you to export to a compositing application.
- Broad Hardware Support Choose from a wide range of capture cards and other hardware to best fit your needs and budget. Premiere Pro 2.0 support extends from low-cost computers for DV (digital video) and HDV (a compressed high definition video format) editing, up to high-performance workstations capturing high definition (HD) video. Further, when it's time to upgrade your hardware to work with HD and film, you don't need to leave the familiar Premiere Pro interfaceunlike with some proprietary systems that provide different interfaces for different formats.
- eReview Speed your client review and approval process by embedding Premiere Pro projects in PDF documents. Your client watches the video with Adobe Reader, enters comments into the PDFs feedback form, and then emails the comments to you.
- GPU-accelerated Video Effects Use the Graphics Processing Units (GPU) on modern graphics cards to create real-time page curls, page rolls, spheres with video mapped on them, and other image distortion effects that typically require expensive hardware or long render times.
- High-definition Video Support Work with every high-definition format including HDV, HDCAM, DVCPRO HD, D5-HD, and 4K film scans. Premiere Pro 2.0 supports these formats at any resolution (720p, 1080i, 1080p) and frame rate (24, 23.98, 30, 60fps, etc).
- Multicam Editing You can easily and quickly edit any production shot with multiple cameras. Premiere Pro displays all the camera tracks in a split-view monitor, and you set the edits by clicking in the appropriate screen or by making single keystrokes.
- Project Manager Manage your media through a single dialog box. View, delete, move, search for, and reorganize clips and bins. Consolidate your projects by moving just the media actually used in a project, and copying that media to a single location. Then reclaim drive space media by deleting unused media.