Adobe Premiere 6.5 Upgrade [Old Version]

by Adobe

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2 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: B00006G9AU
• Item model number: 25500412
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 5, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,719 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #22 in Software > Video & Music > Encoding
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

The latest upgrade to Adobe Premiere adds useful improvements to this well regarded digital-video editing application, including real-time preview and a title designer. Premiere can take video input directly from digital and analog video cameras, store it on your hard drive, edit it, and output to a variety of video formats, including MPEG-1.

Premiere 6.5's editing screen consists of a number of free-floating windows that contain such tools as a video preview and the all-important timeline and storyboard. The basic operation of Premiere is to load in a series of video clips taken from a camera or a CD, or previously stored on your hard drive, and then drag and drop icons for them onto the timeline. You can then add a soundtrack, transitions, effects, and titles. When all is complete, export the finished video in a format suitable for use on a DVD, Video CD, or for the Internet.

Premiere 6.5 introduces several new features, the most useful of which is probably real-time preview. The ability to see the edits you've made to your video before you render the final version is a huge timesaver. While this feature has previously been available using special hardware, this is the first time it's been available from within the software. You need a fairly powerful PC to take full advantage of the real-time preview. You'll also need a computer with two hard drives, one to hold Premiere and the other for your video files.

Being able to add well-designed titles can make the difference between an amateur and a professional production. Adobe's new Title Designer, included in Premiere 6.5, provides many of the tools users of Illustrator and Photoshop will recognize to add text, rules, and shapes as overlays to videos. Adobe has bundled 90 fonts with Premiere 6.5, selected to produce clear and attractive titles.

Adobe produces a series of effects plug-ins that can be used with Premiere (sold separately as After Effects). Five of these effects (channel blur, blend, lightning, ramp, and twirl) are now included standard with Premiere 6.5, adding to the appeal of this very attractive package. --Simon Williams, Amazon.co.uk

Amazon.com Product Description

An essential tool for professional digital video editing, Adobe Premiere 6.5 delivers unmatched hardware support. Work more productively with real-time preview, and take advantage of sophisticated, new Adobe Title Designer, MPEG-2 export, DVD authoring, powerful audio tools, and more, to create extraordinary video productions. Whether you want to edit digital video on your laptop or work with multiple layers of analog footage on a professional, hardware-based, real-time system, Adobe Premiere is a comprehensive desktop video-editing solution.

Premiere 6.5 offers powerful and precise editing tools to create broadcast-quality video productions. Use real-time preview to instantly view effects, transitions, titles, motion, and transparency. Drag and drop clips in the storyboard to quickly lay out projects and rearrange as necessary. Use new Adobe Title Designer to create broadcast-quality title sequences. View all project settings in one convenient location with the settings viewer. Work with hundreds of predefined text and object styles, or create your own custom styles.

Premiere 6.5 supports a wide range of DV devices, including Sony DVCAM gear and the latest camcorders and decks. Use DV device controls for pre-editing tasks before bringing clips into Adobe Premiere. Enjoy native support for Windows XP and Mac OS X, and easily move projects between the Macintosh and Windows platforms. Finally, output your video productions to DVD and other leading video formats.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

43 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice new features but dropped support for old features, September 4, 2002

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Mitch "video editor" (San Leandro, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Premiere 6.5 Upgrade [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I've just started using 6.5 after upgrading from 6.0. The new title designer and the feature to create MPEG2/DVDs work very well. I'm quite pleased with them. The real problem is that Adobe has dropped support for TitleDeko, which I've used quite a bit, and for Real Player and QuickTime. The TitleDeko lack of support means that projects created with 6.0 using TitleDeko won't work with 6.5 unless you re-create the titles...a major hassle for no apparent reason. It would have been nice if the new version supported using title created with the old version. Also, it is no longer possible to create video for the Web using RealPlayer and QuickTime...funny how this didn't make the sales brochure. You're on your own to buy products that support RealPlayer and QuickTime with 6.5, a significant unplanned expense.

I'm just not that impressed with Adobe's lack of communicating that features have been dropped and incompatibilities created.

The software they've included to make DVDs seems to work well, although I found the interface a bit confusing initially.

I had a problem with one video being converted to MPEG2/DVD with a couple of seconds at the end being deleted. I don't know which software caused it, I suspect Premiere, and it doesn't happen all the time.

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Real-time restrictions, August 31, 2002

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Antonio Rios III (email to find out) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Premiere 6.5 Upgrade [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I would have rated this upgrade four stars or more had Adobe made it clear that real time is only available IF a Premiere real time project setting is created. The advertisement conveniently failed to make it clear that real time preview is not available to any type of project except a DV - NTSC/PAL Real-Time project.

If you use real time hardware (in my case a Matrox RT2500), I must make a Matrox project to use my hardware's render free abilities thus disabling Adobe's real time previewing.
If I open a DV - NTSC/PAL Real-Time project setting I can use Adobe's real time previewing at the expense of losing my Matrox's hardware real time ability.
Nor can I edit or even view my video clips captured in the Matrox type DV File within the Premiere real time project setting.
So if you choose to capture your DV files in your hardware's proprietary DV file format, Premiere's real time project can't read it - it has to be captured or converted to plain DV (NTSC or PAL).

Its convenient use the upgrade on a laptop, but remember you have to waste time reconverting the video files to use on your real time hardware.

Don't be confused what Adobe is doing here. They've given Premiere real time preview (hit the return key to see immediate results play at normal speed but you cannot advance/reverse at any other speed manually) meaning you can't drag the time line cursor back or forth to see the results.
Premiere is great news if for those who want "real time" PREVIEW results without hardware but is useless for those with real time hardware.
Adobe threw in few new effects but if you own extra hardware yours probably already does it.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Setting the Record Straight, December 12, 2002

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"multimedium" (Phoenix, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Premiere 6.5 Upgrade [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

mitchler2 says Premiere 6.5 does not support Quicktime or Realvideo...neither of which is true! They are definately included in my legally purchased copy, but excluded from the illegal versions I've seen on the web.

I think it's pretty good, actually, and the MPEG2 support alone is worth the price of the upgrade, in my opinion.

The new titling feature is fantastic, although I wonder why they invented a new type of style instead of using compatable Photoshop styles.

I DO agree with mitchler2 and other reviews concerning real-time preview: it's not truly real-time previews, like you can get with Sonic Foundry's Vegas Video.

Overall, Premiere never has been a high-end tool, although some broadcasters do use it. It's best feature in my opinion is it's interface and it's integration with other Adobe products.