It Doesn't Get Better Than Adobe
Written: Sep 03 '02
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Pros: Powerful, FireWire, mp3, plugin support
Cons: cpu intensive at times, harddrive hog, pricey
The Bottom Line: If you have the demand, and your wallet allows it, DO IT.
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| jnoschese's Full Review: Adobe Premiere 6.0 Full Version for PC (25500323) |
I've been using Photoshop for years, and Adobe has always put out quality products with support. You'll always get a manual you'll never be able to finish in your lifetime.
Adobe Premiere 6.0, is probably the best real-time editing video software I've used. I got it because I basically like to make short movies based on slide shows. I have a Sony Digital Camera that takes 15 second mpeg clips, which I can incorporate into my movies, along with my little slide shows with music behind it.
Premiere 6.0, which differs from 5.1 in the audio world, is that you can import mp3's now. What a needed feature. No longer do you have to convert from mp3 to wav.
The in between effects for stills are nice by default, however, there are a ton of plugins that you can download to enhance your premiere experience. Some types of plug-in examples are: "film effect: basically makes your movie like old style films, widescreen effect: takes your movie and makes it anamorphically widescreen, this way if you have a 16:9 TV set, no matter what the previous format, it'll look good on a 16:9 set." There are tons of plugins you can get, some are freeware, some cost $$$.
Rendering the "work area" is something you basically have to do all the time in Premiere. What it does it takes your timeline, and makes it, so you can watch it before you compile your work. Once you line everything up, you render your work. Depending how much work you do, that depends on how much needs to be rendered. I run a Dual PIII 600mhz, and it helps. Rendering, if I keep up with it, takes about a minute or so. It can be very CPU intensive.
Harddrive space is a major factory, once your movie starts getting longer, harddrive space seems to disappear. Once you compile your work, kiss it goodbye as well. My basic movies are 3-5 minutes, and I compile with the DiVX codec, which gives great picture quality, however, I use uncompressed audio, cause I ususally seem to have a problem when its compressed, therefore, the filesizes are big. Uncompressed audio (like the .wav format) is generally 10mb's a minute. So you do math :)
My one problem is transfering it to a medium. Currently, I take my mpeg and convert them into a VCD, which I can play on my DVD player, however, not all DVD players play them. Hence, its difficult to bring to my friends house to show, etc.
You can hook it up via FireWire, and from what I understand, using a MiniDV camera is awesome in premiere.
This is something I want to do, this way I can just place them on VHS ultimately, easily, without degrading quality.
One thing, this program is pretty hard to use at first, but once you get the hang of it, its a breeze. It took me about a full day or so get used to, so make your first project a small one, because I wound up starting from scratch because I wasn't happy with the outcome of my first one.
Recommended:
Yes
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