Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 [Old Version]

by Adobe

Product Features

• Auto-color adjustment improves image quality with Photoshop-style filters
• Bezier keyframe controls for natural, elegant-looking effects with spline-based tools
• Meet professional production standards with support for importing, editing, and delivering HD content
• Access plug-ins directly from After Effects or within Premiere Pro, for outstanding visual effects
• Simple clipboard tools let you copy & paste between Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.3 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: B00021XIZQ
• Item model number: 25520152
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 30, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,080 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 software revolutionizes nonlinear video editing. Powerful real-time video and audio editing tools give you precise control over virtually every aspect of your production. Built for the exceptional performance of Microsoft Windows XP systems, Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 takes video production to an entirely new level.

Render less, edit more

• Real-time editing experience: view effects, transitions, motion paths, and more with real-time, full-resolution playback on NTSC, PAL, and VGA monitors.
• Multiple, nestable timelines: experiment more freely and easily manage complex projects more efficiently using multiple, nestable timelines.
• Project management tools: quickly remove unused material from your project and consolidate the project's media into one location for easy archiving with the Project Manager.
• Advanced color correction: use color correction tools to adjust hue, saturation, and lightness for highlights, midtones, and shadows; replace a color throughout a clip with a single selection; and more.
• Enhanced audio editing: Produce richer, more vibrant audio using sample-level editing, track-based effects, 5.1 surround sound, and support for VST filters. You’ll get a jump start with a library of included VST plug-ins.

Experience unparalleled Adobe integration

• Adobe After Effects integration: import Adobe Premiere Pro projects into the Adobe After Effects Timeline or copy and paste between the programs, and access After Effects plug-ins within Adobe Premiere Pro.
• Adobe Photoshop integration: Import layered Photoshop files with each layer on a separate track or all on one. Create images in Photoshop to match the specs of your current Adobe Premiere Pro project.
• Adobe Encore DVD integration: Export AVI and MPEG-2 files to Adobe Encore DVD software to author multilanguage DVDs with interactive menus and multiple audio and subtitle tracks. Timeline markers are recognized as chapter points.
• Adobe Audition integration: Import high-quality audio files from Adobe Audition software for use in your video productions. Easily modify these files using the Edit Original feature, which lets you open the original multitrack session right in Adobe Audition.

Enjoy industry-standard compatibility

• Support for HD content: meet the highest production standards with support for importing, editing, and delivering HD content.
• Extensive video and audio format support: import and export in all major industry-leading video and audio formats.
• AAF and EDL support: easily import and export project data with support for Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) and Edit Decision List (EDL) format.
• Still-image and sequence file support: work with AI, AI sequence, PSD, PSD sequence, JPEG, TGA, TGA sequence, TIFF, TIFF sequence, PCX, BMP, and BMP sequence files.
• Support for leading video media: produce video and audio content for the leading delivery media, including broadcast formats, DV, DVD, CD, VCD, SVCD, and the Web.

Product Description

Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 makes nonlinear video editing easier than ever. With its powerful real-time audio and video editing tools, you'll have precise control over every aspect of your video production. It's built for exceptional performance and better video editing -- everything you need for great digital video! Import data easily with support for Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) and Edit Decision List (EDL) format

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

85 of 85 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bulletproof and feature rich, but not a DVD authoring tool, October 11, 2004

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Mike Blaszczak (Mercer Island, WA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I'm an advanced amateur, I guess. I really like taking video and playing around with my camera. Much of my video is taken from the inside of my car when I go racing. I have tons of footage, and I like to spend the winter distilling things down into videos for myself, my friends, and family. Plus, my website, too.

When I got started with this idea, I was trying to use Pinnacle Studio 8. It was a horrible experience: the software crashed every time I felt I was about to make progress. It was slow, and Pinnacle's support was pretty marginal. I simply wasn't having fun.

After asking around, I found that almost anyone whose opinion I respected recommended the Adobe products. They're rather expensive, but I saved up and bought them. And I can't believe I waited so long!

First, I want to clarify that Adobe Premiere is not a full-featured DVD burning tool. You can get pretty far with it, but it's important to know what it does and what it doesn't do.

You can use Premiere to capture video from your camcorder, or your favorite frame-grabber hardware. The product includes a really neat batch-capture feature which lets you specify a bunch of different time ranges on your tape. You start batch capture and walk away: if Premiere can control your camera (and it probably can, if it has a FireWire port) it will suck down the ranges you ask for and take care of cuing.

You can also use Premiere to edit whatever video you have lying around; from the web, and so on.

The product will help let you introduce video and audio effects and transitions between your clips. You can do non-linear editing, which means that you can drag-and-drop clips wherever you'd like them to be.

There are plenty of technical features, including advanced color correction and balance features. Cleaning up marginal tape is pretty easy! You can also resize and move video. I'm really excited about using the product to produce split-screen views from the race car: a faster lap on the left, and a slower lap on the right, so I can learn where I'm making mistakes. I got this working in just a few minutes!

There are a few dozen interesting transitions, from modest cross-fades to more advanced wipes and dissolves. You can apply audio transitions, as well. Doing edits where the sound transitions before or after the video is trivial -- something that's a bit of a challenge in other products.

You can edit titles and insert them as video. It's easy to move PhotoShop files (including their layers!) into the video stream. And you can filter, edit, and adjust the audio tracks on your videos as you produce them, too.

Premiere will burn to DVD when you're done, or you can export to a myriad of formats appropriate for burning digital media to disk (to share with others) or publishing on the web.

You can have as many audio tracks as you like, and both 16:9 formats and 5.1 sound are supported.
Premiere makes asset management pretty easy, at least over the few hundred files that I have floating around.

Premiere doesn't do a few things that Studio 8 did do: most notably, it doesn't have any features for making DVD menus, play rules, or burning a a "real" DVD. Premiere alone can dump your video stream to A DVD so you can take it to your home theater, but you won't have menus, angles, multiple audio features, and so on. You'll need to buy additional products for these other features.

I was a bit intimidated by the product at first. Initially, I thought it didn't do much work for me. But it took a while to learn the nomenclature -- all proper terms used by professional video folks, instead of the "slang" that simpler products use. But now that I understand what to call my different edits or controls, I'm much more at home and more comfortable with the product.

If you're having stability or functionality problems with lesser products, I know that Premiere will solve your problems ... once you get over the higher price. I wish there was a dumbed-down product for the advanced hobbyist, like me. But I'm having so much fun with video now that I don't feel bad about shelling out the extra money. And I'm certainly happy that I didn't upgrade the other products that I own; I probably would've been disappointed, and certainly just put off the satisfaction I realized when I finally became productive with Premiere.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Adobe Premiere Pro rocks, don't buy this though, January 25, 2005

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Charles Bittner "Disabled comedian & gamer!" (New England USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

If you wanna learn digital video editing, Adobe Premiere Pro is superpowerful has great effects integrates amazingly with Photoshop and after affects and encore DVD.

DON"T BUY THIS though!
if you're going to buy this spend the extra $300 on the video collection. It is well worth it with that, you get Adobe aftereffects adobe encore DVD Adobe audition and premiere Pro. For $300 extra. That is well worth it!

Check out this web site for some free video tutorials
http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutorial/index.htm.

They really help you get started with premiere Pro.

Have some fun and get it done

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid Cutting, November 8, 2004

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OverTheMoon ([e-mail]) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Adobe Premiere is far from the most advanced non-linear video editing package you can get however let me make this one comment.

- Editing is all about cutting and not fancy effects. The strength of the project is what is in front of and behind the camera not fancy effects.

I would never recommend using any of the effects on any of the non-linear video editing packages anyway. Get dedicated effects packages if you really want to do your special effects well.

In short Adobe Premiere is the BEST cutting software and the EASIEST to use. The learning curve is slightly steep but you will be cutting your footage within a day or two with this one.

An editor cuts and arranges media. Adobe Premiere does that perfectly. I recommend this like no other for the price but if you are looking for pro packages then go elsewhere and be prepared to pay five figures with extra hardware. If you want special FX this has some but no pro uses these effects tool. Premiere is a first class cutting tool. Go to Discreet products for FX.