Adobe Premiere 6.0 Mac

by Adobe

Product Features

• Prof. digital video editing
• Robust DV support
• Familiar Adobe interface

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000056NSS
• Item model number: 15500343
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 26, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,242 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #11 in Software > Video & Music > Encoding

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

A powerful tool for professional, digital video editing, Adobe Premiere 6.0 for Macintosh comfortably closes the DV-to-Web gap. With new support for DV and cross-platform support for all of the leading Web video formats, Premiere aggressively integrates a variety of features and functions.

If you've worked with other Adobe applications, Premiere will look familiar, with the command menus at the top of the screen, windows to perform your assembling and editing, the toolbox, and the floating palettes. The Premiere toolbox contains tools for selecting, editing, and viewing your clips. The floating palettes contain additional features that help you monitor, modify, and enhance your work. You can hide and rearrange the palettes to organize your workspace, as needed. All of the clips that you import into your project--video, still image, sequence, and audio--are listed in the Project window. Every project has only one Project window; if you close this window, you close the project. The Project window is customizable, so that you can sort and view your clips by using the options that are more appropriate for your editing style.

Use the Monitor window to view individual clips, set In and Out points, set markers, add and remove clips from the Timeline, trim clips, and preview the Timeline. When you use the Single-Track Editing workspace, the Monitor window, by default, includes the Source view and the Program view. When you use the A/B Editing workspace, the Monitor window, by default, displays only the Program view and uses individual Clip windows, instead of the Source view. The Source view displays a single clip as it appears on your hard disk. Use the Source view to prepare a clip for inclusion in the Timeline. The Program view displays the current state of the Timeline--when you preview the Timeline, it plays in the Program view.

From Winmag®

The new Premiere 6 splash screen says it all. You see the familiar running horses that have accompanied the opening screen for years. But more importantly you see a FireWire cable and the beginning of a Web page address. Premiere 6 is ready for digital video, the screen tells you, and it's Web friendly.

I installed and tested a beta version of Premiere 6 on a laptop, aFujitsu Pentium-333 with 64MB of memory, and on my desktop PC, aMicron PII-450 with 128MB of memory. The program installed easily and ran quite well on both machines. System requirements demand a fast machine, but not unreasonably so. You'll slug along with anything less than a P-300 and 32MB of RAM (minimum) and 128MB of memory is recommended.

The first thing I noticed is that video capture is much improved. Premiere 6 now supports OHCI (Open Host Controller Interface), the Windows standard for working with digital video. What does this mean? If you have an OHCI compatible FireWire port, you won't need a video capture card. On my inexpensive laptop, I added a $60 FireWire PC Card, and I was ready to edit. With my digital camcorder connected to the notebook, I had a mobile video editor that was fast and easy to use.

Previous users will be familiar with the Storyboard window, where you organize audio and video clips for playback. One of the simplest and best new changes is the way Premiere handles transitions. You used to insert video clips, one before the other, on separate levels. Then you'd place the transition between them, and mess with them until everything clicked. Now you just place the transition between the clips and it handles the transition automatically (you can change it,if necessary). Less expensive and more novice friendly programs handle transitions this way, and Adobe was smart to move to a simpler system.

New export movie commands let you output to a movie file (for playback on your system or the Web) or output to videotape. These settings have retained the look and feel of the last several versions--yet there are important improvements. Most notably, Premiere is now more Web-savvy.

You can now export your movie directly to Windows Media or RealMedia. The software is integrated with Terran's Cleaner software too,for producing high-quality video output in QuickTime, Real, Windows Media, and other Web-friendly formats.

A welcome new feature is an audio mixer that features VU meters that let you check the audio levels on your video clips. You can adjust the volume on clips using software controls that look like knobs on a mixer. All in all, Premiere now has a rock-solid set of audio controls.

Complaints are few. The program lacks a simple set of often-used transitions, like fade to black. It's not hard to create, but it's not yet simple enough. And the main interface could use a face-lift. It still doesn't look as polished as its competitors, such as EditDV or Final Cut Pro, or even its sibling Photoshop (although it's beginning to resemble the latter). Premiere now uses an HTML help file, which I typically consider slower and less well indexed than the traditional Windows Help menu.

It will take a few months to see how Premiere 6 fares with tough jobs. But if first impressions are correct, Premiere 6 is a very impressive and stable release. If you weren't a convert before, Premiere's strong new audio tools, digital-video smarts, and Web features may impress you. And if you used Premiere 5, this update is well worth th e upgrade and it goes to the Win List.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hmm..., June 2, 2002

By 

L. Roisman "ABE" (PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Premiere 6.0 Mac (CD-ROM)

Well, the features of this product are amazing, and it's definitely a great solution to video editing. But this is only true once you learn how to use it! At first you have no idea what's what, and it's the typical Adobe product with windows all over the place. Sure, it's a great product, but it's only for those who have lots of time to sit down and learn how to use it.