Adobe Premiere Pro

The start-to-finish solution for efficient video production that now includes Adobe OnLocation CS3 and Adobe Encore CS3 Tell your story with maximum impact using Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 software, the start-to-finish solution for efficient video production that now includes Adobe OnLocation CS3 and Adobe Encore CS3.

Save time from on-set capture using Adobe OnLocation through to output, expand your creative options via integration with Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional and Photoshop CS3 software, and deliver your content to DVD, Blu-ray Disc, the web, and mobile devices.

Here are some key features of "Adobe Premiere Pro":
Edit creatively and efficiently
Focus on telling your story with powerful, flexible editing tools. Save time creating dramatic effects and get finer creative control thanks to tight integration with Adobe Photoshop CS3 and After Effects CS3 Professional.

Work fast
Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional integration
Drag and drop or copy and paste clips and timelines between Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 and After Effects CS3 Professional. Open complete Adobe Premiere Pro projects, including nested sequences, in After Effects.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 integration
Import and animate Adobe Photoshop layers. Edit still images from Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 with Photoshop CS3. Automatically create Photoshop files to match the current project's frame size and aspect ratio.

Direct-to-disk recording with included Adobe OnLocation CS3
Save tape and time by eliminating capture from your production process. Record SD and HD video directly to hard disk using Adobe OnLocation CS3 software, included with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. Instantly review each shot without shuttling tape. Adobe OnLocation automatically detects and flags problems to provide the best results.

Adobe After Effects plug-in compatibility
Take advantage of After Effects software plug-ins to expand your effects options. Most After Effects plug-ins are compatible with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3.

Adobe Illustrator integration
Open Adobe Illustrator files in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. When scaling an image in Adobe Premiere Pro, the image is rerasterized, ensuring that image quality remains pristine.

Adobe Soundbooth integration
Send audio files directly to Adobe Soundbooth software for editing, and hear changes immediately in the Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 timeline.

Adobe Encore CS3 integration
Save time in the authoring process by sending media with timeline markers directly to Adobe Encore CS3 for interactive authoring for Blu-ray Disc, DVD, and the web.

Customizable user interface
Adjust the Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 interface to fit any editing style, workflow, and environment. Panels can be configured in many arrangements and across multiple monitors. Use the docked interface to simultaneously adjust all windows.

Multiple project panels with smart file search
Find files faster with search tools that instantly update results as you type. Sort and organize assets into multiple project panels, each with its own graphical or text view setting. Display and handle media files, making project management easier and more efficient.

Project manager
Easily archive media, reclaim drive space, and move between offline and online environments. Consolidate projects by selecting and moving actual media used in a project to a single location for archiving and storage management.

File management with Adobe Bridge
Work more efficiently by using Adobe Bridge CS3 to search for and access your project files, preview and apply settings, run batch processes, and tag assets with XMP metadata.

Customizable keyboard shortcuts
Personalize your experience by creating multiple keyboard maps for different tasks or to support multiple users. Export your own shortcut sets, allowing you to be productive immediately when working with Adobe Premiere Pro on other systems.

Scrolling timeline
Set the timeline to scroll smoothly under a stationary indicator during playback, or adjust it to advance one page as the playback indicator reaches the edge of the window.

Assignable panel shortcuts
Switch between panels using keyboard shortcuts that save time and mouse fatigue.

No audio rendering with nested sequences
Play nested sequences immediately without having to render audio. This can save time when working with multicam sequences.

Realize your vision
Multicam editing
View multiple video tracks from a multiple-camera shoot, easily sync via timecode, and edit by switching between tracks in real time. Rerecord sections of your edit, make fine adjustments using standard timeline editing tools, and easily adjust color correction across multiple shots, even after editing.

Advanced color-correction tools
Use primary and secondary color-correction tools to match shots; change colors; correct exposure errors; and modify highlights, midtones, and shadows across clips, sequences, or entire projects.

Time remapping
Use slow motion to create dramatic effects that focus on the action. With a streamlined, on-clip interface, the time remapping feature makes it easy to speed up, slow down, reverse, and hold frames with precision.

Professional on-set monitoring with Adobe OnLocation CS3
Maximize camera image quality during shoots by using Adobe OnLocation CS3 to quickly calibrate your camera, check levels, and monitor your signal. Use simple tools that function like their hardware equivalents to get results quickly and easily. The virtual reference monitor, waveform monitor, vectorscope, and audio spectrum analyzer help you avoid problems and improve quality when shooting.

Multiple nestable timelines
Edit each section or sequence of your project on its own timeline. Nest each timeline section into a master timeline while maintaining full access to every edit.

Professional internal scopes
Monitor luma and chroma levels on every line with the built-in waveform monitor and vectorscope. Display Waveform IRE information in standard, YCbCr Parade, RGB Parade, or combined modes.

Integrated titling
Create sophisticated text and graphics titles from scratch, from professionally designed templates, or from user-defined styles.

10-bit and 16-bit color resolution support
Maintain source integrity with support for 10-bit video and 16-bit PSD files.

32-bit internal color processing
Maintain maximum image quality with subtle and dramatic changes to color, contrast, and exposure, free of the banding and artifacts caused by lower bit-depth processing.

Advanced audio editing
Create 5.1 surround-sound audio mixes, edit audio with individual sample precision, and apply clip- and track-based effects, using the included VST plug-ins or your own.

Surround sound editing
Create and manipulate 5.1 multichannel audio to produce true surround sound and other richly layered audio experiences.

Video clip and timeline effects
Apply powerful visual and motion effects to your clips with high-quality built-in effects. An almost unlimited choice of additional effects is available thanks to the wide range of After Effects compatible plug-ins for video and VST plug-ins for audio.

Advanced subclip creation and editing
Break master clips into smaller subclips for more flexible editing, especially when working with large sections of content. Treat subclips like any other video clip by trimming, applying effects, renaming, and more.

Audio clip and track effects
Apply multiple audio effects to any audio clip or track and work with third-party VST-format audio plug-ins. Enjoy audio effects and editing unequaled by any other nonlinear editor and by most audio software.

Audio mixer
Control the volume and pan/balance settings of your audio tracks with a software version of an audio mixer. Use advanced features like channel inserts, auxiliary sends and returns, automation, and more.

Hundreds of video and audio filters and effects
Explore hundreds of high-quality production and design filters and effects to restore and enhance your video, graphics, and audio.

Timewarp
Use the same Timewarp effect found in After Effects to create high-quality slow motion through pixel-motion analysis. The Timewarp filter gives precise keyframe control over every parameter, producing the highest quality results on the most difficult source content.

Clip replacing
Easily swap out clips in the timeline without having to re-create settings. Replace any clip in the timeline with a new clip that preserves the original clip's attributes. All effects and keyframes are retained, and, if necessary, the new clip is trimmed to fit the duration of the original one.

Ripple, rolling, slip-and-slide edits
Make complex edits in one step using the advanced editing tools professionals depend on. Trim and adjust footage with single actions that would otherwise require multiple steps.

Auto-color adjustment
Instantly improve your video image quality with filters like those in Photoshop, including Auto Color, Auto Contrast, and Shadows/Highlights.

Effects favorites
Create your own effects presets. Save simple and complex effects parameters as a custom preset that you can quickly apply to any clip in any project.

Lighting Effects filter
Add a spot, directional, or omni light to your video footage. Create multiple lights to see different looks on different parts of a scene.

Audio sample-level editing
Adjust audio clips with a precision of up to 1/96,000 of a second. Set precise L- and J-cuts. Eliminate small pops, crackles, and other unwanted audio elements.

Audio keyframing
Create smooth audio crossfades and other audio changes with a minimal number of keyframes. Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 creates fewer audio keyframes over a given time interval, simplifying editing and preserving system resources.

Animated track-matte workflow
Easily create traveling mattes by applying effects and animation to individual track-matte clips.

Precise keyframe controls with Bezier handles
Control any audio and video effect parameter using comprehensive keyframe controls that mirror those found in After Effects. Get precise control using Bezier handles to finesse the shape of parameter curves.


Achieve excellent results
Work with virtually any format with uncompromised imagery from start to finish. Maximize footage quality and save time by recording directly to hard disk using the included copy of Adobe OnLocation CS3.

Support for multiple formats
Comprehensive video-format compatibility
Work with the formats you want. Edit all standard- or high-definition formats, from DV and HDV to HD and beyond (some formats may require additional hardware).

Native HDV editing
Capture and edit HDV content in real time and in its original format with no conversion or quality loss. Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 supports HDV cameras and VTRs from Sony, JVC, and Canon.

Support for all media types
Import and export major video, audio, and graphic file formats, including QuickTime, Windows Media, AVI, BWF, AIFF, JPEG, PNG, PSD, TIFF, and more.

Still-image file support
Import still-image files in any major format including PSD, BMP, GIF, EPS, JPEG, PCX, PICT, PNG, and TIFF. Export in BMP, GIF, TARGA, and TIFF formats.

Real-time editing
Play through most common transitions and effects without waiting to render. For even more real-time performance, add hardware from a variety of third parties.

Integration with high-end workflows
Feet + Frames timecode
Display timecode for 16mm and 35mm film in standard Feet + Frames nomenclature.

4K film production
Import, edit, and output image sequences with dimensions up to 4,096x4,096 pixels.

16:9 preview to 4:3
Preview widescreen footage on a 4:3 monitor or lay off to a 4:3 tape or DVD with real-time letterboxing. Help ensure that your 16:9 material looks right during playback.

Digital intermediate workflow
Capture and edit HD or up to 4K scanned files, consolidate and manage projects, and work efficiently with After Effects CS3 Professional and Photoshop CS3 software.

Target output resolution
Set your project to any resolution and work with it throughout production great for creating video banner ads, content for small screens, and more.

Broad hardware support Comprehensive VTR support
Control video decks through RS-422 and RS-232 serial protocols or FireWire for precise batch capturing, recapturing, and insert editing.

ASIO compatibility
Record and play back audio through any multichannel audio card or hardware that supports the industry-standard ASIO protocol (Windows only).

Video hardware support
Choose from a wide range of capture cards and other hardware to build the HD, SD, or DV editing system that meets your needs and budget.

Deliver everywhere
Accelerate reviews and reach the widest possible audience by delivering your work to film, tape, the web, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and mobile devices.

Share your work
Accelerated client review and approval with Adobe Clip Notes
Expedite review cycles and avoid miscommunication with Adobe Clip Notes. Embed video into a PDF file, e-mail the file to your client to review and add timecode-specific comments, and then view comments mapped to the Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 timeline.

AAF and EDL import/export
Exchange project metadata with major video, film, and audio applications via industry-standard Advanced Authoring Format (AAF), AAF with Edit Protocol, and Edit Decision List (EDL) files. (AAF import/export for Windows only)

Choose your final output
Blu-ray Disc authoring
Maintain the pristine quality of your HD video all the way to distribution. Create high-definition Blu-ray Discs with Adobe Encore CS3, working with the same interface and features used to create standard-definition DVDs.

Adobe Encore CS3 publishing to the web
With one click, easily create SWF versions of your DVD and Blu-ray Disc projects for the web. Use Adobe Encore CS3, included with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, to create content compatible with Adobe Flash Player, complete with DVD interactivity and menus, without opening another application.

Deliver for interactive video creation
Easily incorporate video into Flash CS3 Professional projects as you create immersive experiences for the web. Timeline markers are embedded as cue points when exporting FLV files from Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, streamlining the process of creating interactive and navigational triggers.

Interactive authoring to multiple formats
Reach more audiences quickly. Use Adobe Encore CS3 to author interactive titles, and then publish them to multiple delivery formats Blu-ray Disc, DVD, and SWF for playback through Adobe Flash Player with a single click.

Output for mobile devices
Make your video viewable on the latest delivery platforms. Encode video for delivery to cell phones and other mobile devices, and simulate playback on those devices to check video quality. Download profile updates to simulate the latest devices.

Web video delivery
Make your project web ready. In addition to FLV format, choose from comprehensive compression tools for Internet-friendly file formats including Real, Windows Media, and QuickTime.

Digital cinema export
Create a stunning theatrical experience. Export your digital cinema project as a Windows Media 9 Series file with 720p or 1,080p resolution and 5.1 surround sound.

Sequence editing for film out
Support for any frame size up to 4,096x4,096 pixels, and for every major image and sequence file format (including AI, PSD, TGA, TIFF, and BMP), makes Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 the ideal tool for editing and preparing sequences for output to 35mm and other film formats.


Requirements:
Intel Pentium 4 (2GHz processor for DV; 3.4GHz processor for HDV), Intel Centrino, Intel Xeon (dual 2.8GHz processors for HD), or Intel Core Duo (or compatible) processor; SSE2-enabled processor required for AMD systems
Microsoft Windows XP Professional or Home Edition with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise (certified for 32-bit editions)
1GB of RAM for DV; 2GB of RAM for HDV and HD
10GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)
Dedicated 7,200 RPM hard drive for DV and HDV editing; striped disk array storage (RAID 0) for HD; SCSI disk subsystem preferred
1,280x1,024 monitor resolution with 32-bit video card; Adobe recommended graphics card for GPU-accelerated playback
Microsoft DirectX or ASIO compatible sound card
For SD/HD workflows, an Adobe certified card for capture and export to tape
DVD-ROM drive
Blu-ray burner required for Blu-ray Disc creation
DVD+-R burner required for DVD creation
OHCI compatible IEEE 1394 port for DV and HDV capture, export to tape, and transmit to DV device
QuickTime 7 software required to use QuickTime features
Internet or phone connection required for product activation
Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos and other services
1,280x1,024 monitor resolution with 32-bit video card; Adobe recommended graphics card for GPU-accelerated playback (see the full compatible hardware listing)