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Adobe Premiere Pro

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Adobe Premiere Box

Adobe Premiere is one of the longest established editing applications. With Premiere Pro CS5, it becomes one of the few proper 64 bitediting programs, which means it can access as much memory as you want to throw at it, giving you more stability, and can harness the power of today's multiple core processors.  With its "Mercury playback engine" and the right kind of graphic card it can also do more in realtime than most other programs, and in better quality.

Click here to read more about the MERCURY PLAYBACK ENGINE.

Premiere Pro works on both Intel based Macs and PCs, and the Mercury playback engine will work on both with the right graphic card.

Premiere Pro works on both Intel based Macs and PCs, and the Mercury Playback Engine will work on both.

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WHAT'S NEW IN CS5 & 5.5?
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IMPORT & CAPTURE
HD EDITING
EFFECTS AND PLUG-INS
AUDIO EDITING
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Adobe SWITCHER special offer

For a limited time you can buy either Adobe Premiere Pro or the Adobe Production Studio for 50% off their RRP.  To qualify you need to have Grass Valley EDIUS, Avid Media Composer, Apple Final Cut Pro, Sony Vegas or one of a number of Adobe programs.

Click here for more information.

Premiere Pro also has huge number of plug-ins available and hardware from other manufacturers which we can add to the system and will greatly enhance its abilities, and brilliant integration with the other programs of the Adobe Production Studio.   Two programs which are particularly useful are Adobe After Effects for compositing and complicated effects, and Adobe Soundbooth for tweaking the sound.

The basic interface of Premiere Pro has not changed - so if you know how to use previous versions of Premiere Pro you will feel at home with CS5.   To learn more about the Premiere Pro interface click here. To read more about Premiere's range of effects click here.

Premiere has excellent audio editing built-in which includes sub-frame editing and surround sound mixing.  Click here to learn more.

Premiere can load various HD formats either from card based sources (AVCHD, XDCAM, DVCPRO, RED camera) or via FireWire (DV or HDV).  If you need to capture from different sources, such as VHS, or SVHS then you may want an analogue to digital converter.  The latter only handle standard definition, however, to do high definition you will want a device from either Matrox or Black Magic

We have a large range of training DVDs available for Adobe Premiere Pro as well as Encore and the Production Studio.  Some made in house, some from Total Training.  We also offer one to one and group training courses in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Encore.  Click here from more information onDVC training.

What’s good

  • Very comprehensive, lots of features, huge array of effects.
  • Excellent audio editing - edit right down to the sample level, plus a comprehensive mixer, plug in support and 5.1 surround sound support.
  • Third party support - including the Matrox MX02 range which greatly enhances the effects, as well as Black Magic's range of cards that offer cheap i/o.
  • Integrates well with other Adobe applications - if you buy as the Production Studio then you can put After Effects compositions inside Premiere’s timeline. You can export chapter markers to Adobe Encore for DVD authoring and you can send an entire audio edit to Adobe Audition, remix it and then send the results back to Premiere Pro.

Capture & import

On its own the software will capture using the FireWire port built into your computer. This allows you to capture either DV or HDV footage from most cameras. You can add analogue i/o by using an analogue to digital converter or by adding a card from Matrox, or Black Magic. The Black Magic cards really just add extra inputs and outputs where as the the Matrox cards also improve the performance of Premiere adding full quality realtime effects and add a lot more effects, particularly  better colour correction, better Chromakey and 3D effects.

To learn more about the Matrox cards click here.

To learn more about the different hardware available for Premiere Pro click here.

To learn more about importing and capturing footage with Adobe Premiere Pro click here.

Formats supported by Premiere Pro

You can add lots of different formats to the Premiere timeline. With some footage Premiere will “conform” the audio - that is remake it from its original format into a new format that is easier to edit. This only happens with certain files, such a MPEG audio files, or files which don’t match the sound settings of your project.

To learn more about Premiere's HD editing click here.

Editing

Adobe Premiere Pro has an excellent editing interface - pretty intuitive and with lots of useful features built-in. It has really good trimming on the timeline as well as a specialist trim window. Because Premiere has been around so long this side of the program is really well thought out.

You can break your editing into several “sequences” or timelines and can even put one timeline inside another. This is an extremely useful feature for performing complex effects or breaking your edit into small chunks.

Click here to read more about Premiere Pro's interface and edit here.

Effects

One area where Premiere excels is the range of effects - not just with the range of built-in effects, which is large, but also with the range of plug-ins available. We cannot list everything available so here is a sample:

  • Colour adjustments - there are a whole host of filters for adjusting video levels and colour balance. Particularly useful are the levels filter which gives a histogram display not unlike Photoshop, the auto colour, auto contrast and auto level, which do as their names suggest with sliders to adjust their sensitivity, and shadow/highlight which allows you to bring out details in underexposed areas without distorting correctly exposed regions. With Premiere 2 several new colour correction filters have been added with decent colour wheels which also give you secondary colour correction - where you choose to adjust only a range of colours in the image instead of all the colour.
  • Blur and sharpness effects.
  • Distortion effects - lens distortion, corner pinning, spherize and more.
  • GPU based page curls, refraction and ripple effects. These 3D effects use the power of your graphic card for most of the hard work and work in proper 3D - so you can ripple the image and as you turn it in 3D you see your flat plane has now become a 3 dimensional object.
  • Keying filters - blue screen, chromakey, image matte, track matte, together with up to a 16 point keyframable garbage matte - so you can limit the area being superimposed and even make the area move across screen.
  • Noise - filters for adding or removing noise.
  • Lens flares, animatable gradients, cell or checkerboard patterns.
  • Brush strokes - simulate a “painting style” on your image, write on - draw a path which gets revealed on screen over time, “texturize” a layer, leave colour - leave one colour on screen whilst making the rest black and white.
  • Echo and posterize time.

All are controlled via the “effects control window”. With this window all the parameters to change the effects are instantly available - you don’t have to open new dialogue boxes. As this is based on the After Effects version it means that even if you adjust lots of different parameters, if you transfer your Premiere sequence into After Effects for more comprehensive tweaking, all the adjustments made in Premiere are carried over as well.

To learn more about Premiere Pro's range of effects click here.

Audio

Premiere has better audio editing than most programs.  It can edit down to the sample level, has a comprehensive mixer and can even make a proper surround sound mix. You can also send your timeline off to Adobe Audition for more advanced audio editing

 Click here to learn more about Premiere's audio capabilities.

DVD & Blu-ray writing

One of Premiere's greatest strengths is its DVD * Blu-ray writing.  Premiere Pro always ships with Adobe Encore for DVD and Blu-ray writing.  This is one of the best DVD & Blu-ray programs available in our opinion, and one of the few that does Blu-ray discs with pop-up menus.  You can add chapters in Premiere and they appear in Encore, send a timeline to Encore from premiere using the dynamic link - which means if you update the timeline in Premiere it is automatically updated in Encore and you can customise your Encore menus easily using Adobe Photoshop.

Click here to read more about Adobe Encore.

Integration with other applications

One of Premiere's greatest strengths is that it talks to other Adobe programs through the dynamic link.  You can just copy and paste a range of clips from Premiere to After Effects, then put the After Effects composition back on the timeline without rendering it.  You can put chapter markers on the timeline in Premiere and they will then appear in Encore.  You can export sounds straight off the timeline to Audition, and as soon as you have saved the file in Soundbooth it gets updated in Premiere.  All this is possible if you buy the Adobe Production Studio, which includes Premiere, After Effects, Encore, Audition, Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, On-location and Flash Pro

To learn more about the Production Studio click here.


Premiere Pro vs the rest

Is Premiere Pro the best program available?  The truth is that all the major programs have some good points and some bad points and none are the definitive program. The most common question we get is how it compares to Grass Valley EDIUS.

Click here for a comparison of Adobe Premiere and Grass Valley EDIUS.

Important information about upgrades

At the moment you can upgrade to a new version of Premiere Pro CS5.5 from practically ANY version of Premiere.  With nearly any other Adobe program you can upgrade from the last 3 versions of the program - so if you want Production Premium CS5.5, you can upgrade from CS2, CS3 & CS4.

With CS6 Adobe are changing their policy so that you can only upgrade from the last version (which will mean either CS5 or CS5.5).  We have been told this will apply to ALL products include Premiere Pro.  If you are thinking of upgrading and you have CS4 or earlier you need to act before CS6 is announced.  We anticipate the announcement at NAB (which is in April 2012), although Adobe have not confirmed anything regarding CS6 at this point.

There is currently a special offer with 20% off the price of All Adobe upgrades until the end of December 2011 - so now is the best time to upgrade from CS4 or earlier to CS5.5  Please contact us for more information.

Adobe Production Premium

Adobe Production Premium "Switcher" upgrade (Windows)


ONLY FIVE LEFT IN STOCK

Get the whole Adobe Production Premium at nearly 50% off the RRP when switching from Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, Sony Vegas and Grass Valley EDIUS.

From now until 31st October you can buy Adobe Production Studio at practically half price if you have one of the above editing programs.  To qualify just order quoting the editing program you posses when doing so.

This amazing deal will get you full versions of: Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Encore, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop Extended, Adobe Audition and Adobe Flash Pro! 



£752.00 +VAT , £902.40 inc. VAT inc. VAT at 20%


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20% off - Adobe Premiere Pro upgrade from version CS4 or earlier to CS5.5

20% off - Adobe Premiere Pro upgrade from version CS4 or earlier to CS5.5


From now until the 15th March 2012 you can order a Premeire upgrade at 20% off the nromal retail price!

NB: when CS6 is launched you will not be able to upgrade from CS4 or any version or Premiere to the new version. Only CS5 and CS5.5 will be eligable for upgrades to CS6. Upgrade your old Premiere Pro now and save when CS6 arrives.



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Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5


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£669.00 +VAT , £802.80 inc. VAT inc. VAT at 20%

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Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 upgrade from earlier version

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 upgrade from earlier version


We have one of these upgrades left in stock.  You cannot buy Premiere Pro CS5 any more, you can only buy Premiere Pro CS5.5.  CS5.5 is better in every way than CS5 so why would you buy a copy of CS5?  If own a Matrox RT.X2 or Axio you can get drivers to work with CS5 but there will not be drivers for CS5.5.  If you own one of these cards then and you buy this upgrade you can take advantage of Premiere Pro CS5's 64 bit architect without having to buy a new capture card.

This upgrade does not qualify for a free update to CS5.5.



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Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 Upgrade

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 Upgrade


Upgrade Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 from any Previous version of Adobe Premiere Pro (except LE) or Encore 2.0- includes Encore CS5 and OnLocation. Windows Vista 64 and Windows 7 64 bit. or Mac OSX ONLY

If you buy this upgrade now you also qualify for a free upgrade to CS5.5. As CS5.5 does not yet work with devices like the Matrox MX02 (Matrox have said expect drivers in June 2011) you cannot use 5.5 yet if you want to use a Matrox device. Also you cannot buy CS5.5 and install CS5 instead. So for anyone needing a system now buy one of these upgrades and then update to 5.5 for free when everything works.



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Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5


Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 - includes Encore CS5.1 and /B>OnLocation. Windows Vista 64 and Windows 7 64 bit. or Mac OSX ONLY

Now In stock!



£669.00 +VAT , £802.80 inc. VAT inc. VAT at 20%

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Premiere Pro CS5 upgrade from Premiere Elements

Premiere Pro CS5 upgrade from Premiere Elements




£609.00 +VAT , £730.80 inc. VAT inc. VAT at 20%

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Adobe SWITCHER SPECIAL OFFER

Adobe are offering both the Adobe Production Premium and Adobe Premiere Pro at 50% off their RRP until the end of October 2011 for owners of Grass Valley EDIUS, Sony Vegas, Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid Media Composer as well as owners of some Adobe products.

Although the offer has now ended we have 1 copy of Premiere for Windows and 4 copies of the Production Premium for Windows left which you can order at this special price.

Premiere Pro's Interface
The Mercury Playback Engine

One of CS5s new features is the ability to handle lots of effects in real time with the right kind of graphic card installed using the MERCURY PLAYBACK ENGINE.

What's new in Premiere Pro?
Importing and capture
HD editing in Premiere Pro
Premiere Pro FX
Audio editing in Premiere Pro
Exporting from Premiere Pro
Training DVDs for Adobe Premiere

We sell quite a few training DVDs for Adobe Premiere and the rest of the Production Studio - made not only by us but also by Total Training. Full details are in this section.

Extra Hardware to improve Premiere Pro
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Production Premium
Adobe Audition & Soundbooth

Adobe's sound editing program for the "web video user". Similar tools to those found in the more advanced Audtion but with a simpler interface. Also includes music creation by computer with lots of pre-made scores available.

Adobe Master Collection

All Adobe's major packages in one set.

Adobe Premiere Elements

The cut-down version of Adobe Premiere is never-the-less pretty powerful. It now supports HDV and AVCHD editing and has multiple tracks, as well as helpful screens to get you working.

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