Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 Upgrade From CS5 For Windows

New / Improved Since CS5:

Flexible, Precise, And Reliable Editing Tools

Now, enjoy the freedom to edit the way you want using widely accepted, customizable NLE shortcuts and powerful, easy-to-use trimming and editing tools providing greater precision and control. Improve productivity via dual-system sound support and better project exchange with Final Cut Pro and Avid software.

Enhanced Mercury Playback Engine

Experience superb performance from the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine on both desktops and laptops (Windows and Mac OS). Natively 64-bit and optimized for use with modern processors, Mercury offers terrific performance with or without graphics acceleration.

Now, you can embrace your creativity without having to worry about the ramifications of extra effects and high-resolution content. Dispense with the costly delays caused by waiting for intermediate renders. Enjoy the ability to combine P2, XDCAM, RED, DSLR, and DV footage on the timeline; play with the appearance and flow at full frame rate; and view in real time on an external HD monitor. With configurations that can support upwards of 9 simultaneous layers and dozens of effects, the Mercury Playback Engine lends greater creativity and efficiency to every production.

Put 2-hr, thousand-clip projects together as easily as you would a sizzling trailer: Work in real time on complicated timelines and long-form projects featuring thousands of clips - regardless of whether your project is SD, HD, 2K, 4K, or beyond! Also, you can open as much as 10x faster on huge projects. Freely mix and match key formats like P2, XDCAM, RED, and DSLR cameras in the timeline, without rendering. Play around with numerous color corrections and effects and view the results in real time, even on complicated timelines. Utilize real-time keying on multiple clips at all resolutions via the new Ultra keyer.

Premiere Pro CS5.5 requires a 64-bit OS and operates hand-in-hand with NVIDIA CUDA technology. The Mercury Playback Engine employs NVIDIA GPU cards to deliver a GPU-accelerated 32-bit color pipeline, and the majority of popular effects have been rewritten to run on it, including color correction, the Ultra keyer, and motion control. These effects all run in real time.

Even if you don't have a Mercury-supported GPU, Premiere Pro still delivers excellent performance in software-only mode, courtesy of its native 64-bit support and CPU optimizations.

Benefit from extensive optimizations for 64-bit systems with 64-bit native applications.

By utilizing your whole system performance more optimally, the Playback Engine speeds up output, minimizing the time taken to deliver content to your clients. Mercury delivers performance improvements on every GPU supported today in CS5.5. If you want to get the most out of your configuration, the following graphics cards offer substantial extra acceleration via the Mercury Playback Engine: GeForce GTX 285 (Windows and Mac OS), GeForce GTX 470 (Windows), GeForce GTX 570 (Windows), GeForce GTX 580 (Windows), NVIDIA Tesla C2075 card (Windows) / Maximus configuration, Quadro FX 3700M (Windows), Quadro FX 3800 (Windows), Quadro FX 3800M (Windows), Quadro FX 4800 (Windows and Mac OS), Quadro FX 5800 (Windows), Quadro 2000 (Windows), Quadro 2000D (Windows), Quadro 2000M (Windows), Quadro 3000M (Windows), Quadro 4000 (Windows and Mac OS), Quadro 4000M (Windows), Quadro 5000 (Windows), Quadro 5000M (Windows), Quadro 5010M (Windows), Quadro 6000 (Windows), Quadro CX (Windows)

Fast, Reliable Multi-Screen Delivery

You can output your work for PCs, smartphones, tablets, and TVs via Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5. Employ easy-to-use presets and contextual menus to set up sequences just one time for numerous formats, and batch encode as you continue editing.

Roundtrip Workflows With Adobe Audition

Enjoy a quick, flexible roundtrip audio workflow via Adobe Audition CS5.5 software. You have the freedom to pass individual audio clips and multi-track mixes or whole video sequences between Premiere Pro CS5.5 and Adobe Audition for editing and sweetening.

Direct Integration With Adobe Story

Speed up your editing workflow via the direct importing of Adobe Story scripts, complete with metadata, into Premiere Pro CS5.5. Cut out hours worth of routine work with Speech Search and other metadata that enable you to quickly locate footage.

Closed-Captioning Support

Play back and show 608 and 708 closed captions that are synchronized to your video sequence and can be viewed in the Program Monitor.

Enhanced Canon XF Native Support

Now, you can preview Canon XF footage in the Media Browser panel and use camera metadata throughout your pre- and post-production workflows. Spanned clips are shown as a single asset in the Media Browser to minimize clutter.

Streamlined Collaboration

Enjoy the ability to collaborate with greater ease, thanks to improved integration with Final Cut Pro and Avid Media Composer, as well as with Adobe CS Review, a separate CS Live online service. You can save time by background encoding files for CS Review via the new presets found in Adobe Media Encoder.

Please note: CS Live online services are complimentary until April 12, 2012. Adobe online services, including CS Live Services, are available exclusively to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional terms and Adobe's online privacy policy. Online services not available in all countries or languages, may require user registration and may be subject to change or discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or subscription charges may apply.

Expanded RED Support

You can work natively with RED footage, with support for RED Rocket, Mysterium X and Color Science and Firmware for RED ONE cameras. The Source Settings dialog box offers complete control over RED parameters and enables RMD files to be imported and exported.

Native RED EPIC Camera Support

Premiere Pro CS5.5 permits you to edit up to 5K footage shot from RED EPIC cameras without transcoding or rewrapping. You can access RED parameters directly from the improved Source Settings dialog box. Download the RED EPIC Importer preview release for native support in CS5.5.

Merge Clips

Enjoy the power to easily create subclips matching audio and video from separate sources. The Merge Clips feature provides support for dual-system sound by enabling high-quality audio to be synced with video captured on a separate device, such as a digital SLR or RED camera.

Drag-And-Drop Encoding

You can drag and drop sequences from Adobe Premiere Pro and compositions from After Effects directly into Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5. Encoder then encodes them right away, saving many steps versus the CS5 version.

Enhanced Watch Folder Workflow

Take advantage of the ability to set up Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5 to watch a folder. Automatically encode files sent to the folder in the format you designate. Multiple watch folders are capable of encoding to various formats and to the same destination folder.

Improved User Interface And Workflow

Benefit from a clearer user interface, new presets, and new contextual menus that enhance your Adobe Media Encoder workflow. You can expand Queue items to keep tabs on formats, progress, and encoding settings. Also, monitor job status in the new Watch Folders section.

Automatic Still Image Sequencing

Enjoy the power to automatically encode still photos as a video sequence. When you import a numbered series of still pictures into Media Encoder CS5.5, it recognizes them as stills and gives you the option of encoding them as a single video sequence.

Audible Alerts When Jobs Are Completed

As an added convenience, hear alerts when Adobe Media Encoder completes jobs in the background, enabling you to continue working without needing to monitor the queue. Different sounds indicate whether jobs have finished successfully or with errors.

Adobe Media Encoder CS Review Presets

Take advantage of the ability to save time with new Adobe Media Encoder presets optimized for output to Adobe CS Review, a CS Live online service.

Please note: CS Live online services are complimentary until April 12, 2012. Adobe online services, including CS Live Services, are available exclusively to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional terms and Adobe's online privacy policy. Online services not available in all countries or languages, may require user registration and may be subject to change or discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or subscription charges may apply.

GPU-Accelerated Media Processing

Fix problems caused by mismatched media, media with differing kinds of alpha channels, and more, thanks to GPU-accelerated effects compensating for variations in frame rate, field order, and pixel aspect ratio

Speed Change Effects

Produce high-quality slow motion or fast motion and play clips backwards via GPU-accelerated time remapping, speed change, and backwards effects.

Interpret Footage

Utilize the Interpret Footage command prior to encoding to override automatic interpretation of the frame rate, pixel aspect ratio, field order, alpha channel settings or pulldown removal of the items you import into Adobe Media Encoder.

Field Options

Get rid of unwanted interlacing artifacts via GPU-accelerated effects providing you with control over field order, interlacing, deinterlacing, and flicker removal.

GPU-Accelerated Transitions

You can transition between clips by utilizing Additive Dissolve to add the color information from clip B to clip A, and then subtract clip A's info from clip B. Achieve a film-like transition with Film Dissolve.

Blur Effects

Speedily add blur to big areas of your clips via GPU-accelerated Fast Blur. Produce the illusion of motion with Directional Blur. View your results in real time, courtesy of GPU acceleration.

Pre-Existing Features:

Experience Industry-Leading Performance

Variable Playback Resolution

Enjoy the ability to edit high-resolution projects on lower spec computers, with the power to adjust playback resolution in the Source or Program Monitor. Separate Playback and Pause resolutions afford you greater control over monitoring.

Video Preview Format And Resolution Settings

You can adjust video preview format and resolution to enable smooth playback when your computer's hardware is incapable of playing back the full sequence frame size in real time.

Work In Real Time

GPU-Accelerated Ultra Keyer

Achieve complex keys on challenging footage with ease via GPU-accelerated Ultra, which usually keys in real time when using NVIDIA graphics cards (depending upon system configuration and file types).

Streamline Production With A Native File-Based Workflow:

Extensive Native File-Based Workflow

Get rid of time-sucking transcoding and rewrapping and optimize quality with a tapeless (file-based) workflow. Enjoy native support for P2; XDCAM EX, HD, and HD50; JVC ProHD, AVCHD, AVCCAM and AVC-Intra; DPX; and Canon (EOS-1D Mark IV, EOS-5D Mark II, EOS 7D) and Nikon (D90, D300S, D3S, D5000) DSLR cameras. Plus, get improved support for RED R3D, Canon XF, and more!

You can import DVCPRO and DVCPRO HD content from Panasonic P2 cameras and cards, viewing metadata and organizing files in the Media Browser before importing / editing. Edit right from the P2 card via camera or card reader.

Export content in Panasonic P2 format to P2 media for a P2 workflow or to a hard disk for archiving.

Enjoy importing and editing of content directly from Sony XDCAM / XDCAM HD 50 and XDCAM EX cameras, without rewrapping or transcoding. You can browse clips via the Media Browser and organize them with camera metadata. Edit directly from SxS card by using the camera or a card reader (XDCAM EX only).

Deliver HD output in the particular format your clients need. In addition to a broad array of other formats, Adobe Premiere Pro now also provides the ability to export XDCAM-HD.

Edit footage captured on JVC ProHD video cameras and stored as MOV or MP4 files. Native support gets rid of time-consuming transcoding or rewrapping processes and preserves the gorgeous original quality of the source footage.

Import and edit AVCHD content from Sony, Panasonic, and Canon cameras--and don't wait around! Native editing gives you the power to begin editing content instantly without transcoding or rewrapping. Employ Media Browser to peruse clips and see metadata, including that from Panasonic AVCCAM cameras.

Natively edit content from Sony HDV cameras that record right to removable media devices. Utilize the Media Browser to locate clips and organize them via metadata, then import content directly--again, without the need for timely transcoding or rewrapping.

Import, play back, and edit AVC-Intra clips natively without transcoding / rewrapping. Premiere Pro offers a true file-based workflow for Panasonic AVC-Intra files that supports both 50 Mbps and 100 Mbps bitrates at all common frame rates. AVC-Intra format support in the Media Browser lets you view clips directly without having to navigate through multiple folders.

Benefit from breakthrough performance and a quicker, color-rich workflow for content created on RED cameras, with real-time editing and faster output, courtesy of native 64-bit Adobe Mercury Playback Engine. You can directly import R3D files into Adobe Premiere Pro without transcoding or rewrapping, and switch with ease among various resolutions for playback to satisfy the performance and image quality demands of every post-production task. Support for RED Build 21 enhancements and FLUT Color Science ensures high quality imagery while you edit and finish content in all popular RED R3D file permutations, including 2K, 3K, 4K, 4.5K, 4K HD, 16x9, and 2x1, with numerous frame rates.

Utilize Adobe Premiere Pro in tandem with a RED Rocket card for quicker, more responsive playback of RED media - while keeping CPU power free to attend to other processes, including the application of effects.

You can import and edit RMD files created by REDCine-X tools, for smoother collaboration when working with color-graded footage.

Adobe is dedicated to working with RED to release enhanced support for RED in CS5.5, and an available plug-in for Premiere Pro and After Effects adds support for RED Mysterium X and Color Science and Firmware for RED ONE cameras. Included is new user interface support for FLUT, shadows and new color spaces.

You can work with DPX frame sequences as footage. Enjoy total control over parameters such as black point, bit depth, and log / linear space to enable non-destructive alterations to be made at any time during production. Import and export files containing timecode data embedded within a DPX frame sequence, permitting even greater control when working with the DPX format.

Refer to the convenient Media Browser panel to view the contents of all mounted volumes on your system. Locating content on tapeless cameras is simple because the Media Browser displays the clips without any extraneous files. Customize your view of metadata associated with content. You can open clips and image files in the Source Monitor directly from the Media Browser panel. Now, the Media Browser is also available in Adobe OnLocation.

You can import and edit all common QuickTime formats, including Apple ProRes and .mov files captured by Canon 5D / 7D cameras, natively with total access to clip metadata. There's no transcoding, rewrapping, or logging and transferring required!

Utilize the powerful logging possibilities within Adobe OnLocation CS5 while working with tapeless cameras--even when recording: Just tell OnLocation which shot is presently recording and then enter notes, comments, and additional metadata. When the clips get copied from the tapeless camera, OnLocation automatically merges the information.

Benefit from timecode data in XDCAM422 footage, now maintained throughout your workflow.

Take Advantage Of Broad Format Support

10-Bit Display Support

Premiere Pro lets you output and view full 10-bit color without requiring separate video playback hardware, because of support for the 10-bit DisplayPort on certain NVIDIA Quadro cards (Windows only).

Mixed-Format Timeline Support

Enjoy the ability to combine content from all supported formats in the Premiere Pro timeline--with no restrictions! High-quality scaling and versatile footage interpretation rules simplify the process of producing superb output from mixed-format footage.

Support For All Major Media Types

You can import and export major video, audio and graphic file formats, such as FLV, F4V, MPEG-2, QuickTime, Windows Media, AVI, BWF, AIFF, JPEG, PNG, PSD, TIFF and more!

DPX File Support

Utilize native DPX file import and export to produce a 10-bit uncompressed DI workflow. Timecode is retained throughout the importing, editing, and exporting processes.

Enjoy The Convenience Of Adobe Integration

Unparalleled Adobe Integration

Enjoy the power to effortlessly move assets between Premiere Pro and other Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium applications, including After Effects, Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, Flash Catalyst, and, new in CS5.5, Audition.

Adobe OnLocation Integration

You have the ability to record SD and HD video to hard disk and log metadata while shooting, courtesy of Adobe OnLocation. Transfer content right to Premiere Pro, preserving all metadata and clip information, including in and out points set in OnLocation.

Dynamic Link

Utilize Adobe Dynamic Link to open sequences "live" in Adobe Encore software--without first having to render. Any alterations made in Premiere Pro will automatically be reflected in Encore. Native 64-bit support enhances Dynamic Link performance.

Adobe After Effects Integration

Drag and drop or, alternatively, copy and paste clips and timelines from Adobe Premiere Pro to After Effects and vice-versa. You can open complete Adobe Premiere Pro projects, including nested sequences, within After Effects.

Extensive Adobe Photoshop Integration

Import Photoshop files containing video, without first having to render. Manage how these files look by selecting which layers to import and how to import them. You can apply keyframeable Photoshop blend modes to clips on the timeline.

Achieve Creative Excellence

Real-Time Stereoscopic 3D Editing

Edit 3D content in real time with 64-bit performance and integration with CineForm Neo 3D, which delivers a workflow with smoothness to rival Final Cut Pro's.

Multi-Cam Editing

See multiple-camera shoot tracks, synchronize with ease using timecode, and edit via real-time switching between tracks. You can re-record sections of your edit, make fine editing adjustments, and adjust color across multiple shots, even post-editing.

Time Remapping

Employ high-quality slow motion to produce dramatic effects focusing on the action. Thanks to a streamlined, on-clip interface, the time remapping feature simplifies the process of speeding up, slowing down, reversing and holding frames with precision.

Auto-Color Adjustment

Instantly enhance your video image quality using effects like the ones found in Adobe Photoshop, including Auto Color, Auto Contrast, and Shadows / Highlights.

Lighting Effects

You can add a spot, directional or omni light to your video footage. Produce multiple lights to see different looks applied to various parts of a scene.

Animated Track-Matte Workflow

Easily create traveling mattes via the application of effects and animation to individual track-matte clips.

Clip And Timeline Effects

Enjoy the power to apply impactful, built-in visual and motion effects to clips. Produce customized effects presets. Expand your options via an extensive array of plug-ins compatible with After Effects. Also, get GPU-accelerated real-time feedback for numerous effects

Audio Keyframing

You can create smooth audio crossfades and other changes via a small number of keyframes. By producing fewer audio keyframes over a given time interval, Premiere Pro makes the editing process easier for you.

Collaborate Through Third-Party Workflow Integration

Native Editing Of QuickTime Formats

Natively import and edit all common QuickTime formats, including Apple ProRes and MOV files captured by Canon 5D and 7D cameras, with total access to clip metadata. There's no transcoding, rewrapping, logging, or transferring required.

Final Cut Pro Project Import And Export

You have the ability to roundtrip projects between Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro--with no conversion or re-rendering required. Preserve frequently-used effects and transitions. Apply the creative perks of Adobe tools to any post-production workflow!

Get Better Output Faster With Adobe Media Encoder

Fast, Reliable Multiscreen Delivery

You can output work for PCs, smartphones, tablets and TVs via Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5. Utilize easy-to-use presets and contextual menus to set up sequences just one time for numerous formats, and batch encode as you continue editing.

Easy Presets For Popular Devices And Formats

Enjoy the ability to save time and encode content with greater ease through the use of Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5 presets, which ensure that your video looks great on popular output formats and devices, such as mobile phones, tablets and HDTVs.

Match Sequence Settings

Make your encoding settings match up with the initial Premiere Pro source sequence or After Effects composition. Save time with Match Sequence Settings by eliminating the need to recheck all encoding options even when you're not altering them.

Bitrate Based On Source Frame Size

To ensure your video looks great on any-size screen, automatically set the encoding bitrate level based on source--rather than destination--frame dimensions in Adobe Media Encoder for selected Adobe Flash and Blu-ray Disc output formats.

Crop And Trim Control

It's simple to crop frame size and trim in and out points of a clip or sequence in Adobe Media Encoder.

XMP Cue Points From Metadata

In Adobe Media Encoder, you can add XMP cue points read from metadata in FLV or F4V source files, as well as manually before encoding.

Settings Summary

Acquire increased visual feedback via the Settings Summary dialog box within Adobe Media Encoder. Display information for output and source content, and utilize tool tips to see the output settings for items being encoded.

Benefit From An End-To-End Metadata Workflow

Speech Analysis

Change spoken words into timecode-accurate transcripts. Employ RapidFind to jump to a particular area by searching for keywords within the dialogue, or cut video based on the transcript. Reference scripts like those in Adobe Story help improve accuracy.

Synchronized Footage

Utilize Speech Analysis to sync scripts to footage, then edit based on the dialogue transcript. You can download Speech Analysis Models that enable you to turn spoken words into text in many languages.

Face Detection

Quickly locate interview sound bites without playing through every clip in your project. You can run the Content Analysis process on clips in your project, then utilize the search tool to find clips containing human faces.

Metadata Views In The Project Panel

Enjoy instant access to metadata that is crucial to your production. Also, customize and save the way XMP metadata is shown in the Project panel; take control of individual fields and the ability to import customized metadata schemas.

Metadata Panel

See and edit metadata for chosen items via the Metadata panel. Manage the way individual fields are shown, customize schemas, apply changes to selected files, and save configurations for later use. Find metadata quickly using RapidFind.

Be More Productive Thanks To An Efficient Metadata-Driven Workflow Enabled By Adobe OnLocation

File Browsing From Disk

Locate the files you need quickly by opening any supported media files right in Adobe OnLocation's Monitor window. You can play and scrub files and add in and out points via the fast, easy-to-use Adobe OnLocation interface.

Easy Access To Take And Shot Recording

Alternate between Take and Shot recording modes via a dedicated control in the Shot List offering instant visual confirmation of the current mode.

Custom Metadata Schemas

Support consistent logging by multiple users across productions via the importing of pre-created metadata schema files containing specific field values.

Powerful Shot List Management

You can save time with powerful options for breaking scenes into multiple clips and camera angles. If you like, import Adobe Story scripts to produce comprehensive Shot Lists in Adobe OnLocation that preserve metadata, including dialogue, characters, and more.

Tapeless Recording And Logging

Employ Adobe OnLocation's powerful logging options with tapeless cameras: Inform OnLocation which shot is recording and log comments. Then, when the tapeless clips get imported, the information will automatically be merged.

Easy Comment Marker Placement

Ensure the accuracy of comment markers you create during the recording process by dragging and dropping them or entering precise timecode values. This simplifies the task of reviewing particular parts of the recording while still on-location.

Timesaving XMP Metadata

Accelerate your post-production workflow using metadata acquired during pre-production and production.

Speed Up Video Capture And Editing With Adobe OnLocation

Professional On-Set Monitoring

Get the best possible camera image quality during your shoot by utilizing Adobe OnLocation to rapidly calibrate your camera, check levels, and keep an eye on signals. The virtual waveform monitor and vectorscope help you sidestep problems and enhance quality.

Imported File Scan And Analysis

You can analyze imported files with the same alert system utilized in live disk recording. Adobe OnLocation speedily scans imported media for issues with audio pops, clipping and video overbrights.

TurboComments

During the recording process, you have the ability to add commonly used words, such as cast names, with one key press, enabling you to log live action with greater accuracy and efficiency. Adobe OnLocation allows you to store as many as 9 comments with shortcuts for timecode-accurate recall.

Comment Marker List

See and edit comment markers for every clip in your project via a sortable list view, simplifying the task of locating particular logged issues and viewing them in the Adobe OnLocation Monitor window.

File-Based Camera Support

Use tapeless cameras employing all of Adobe OnLocation's capabilities for on-set logging and clip analysis. You can import Sony XDCAM, XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX, Panasonic P2, AVCHD, AVC-Intra, and HDV media--without having to transcode or rewrap.

Timecode-Accurate Playhead Placement

Enjoy the convenient ability to position the playhead precisely where you need it via timecode controls enabling scrubbing of timecode or direct entry of particular values.

Audible Playback While Scrubbing

Locate the section you need in less time by listening to audio during scrubbing and frame advance.

Recording And Logging Without Wires

You can add comments and metadata to clips being recorded on a tapeless camera not connected to Adobe OnLocation. Designate which shot is recording and log comments. Data will automatically be merged with the corresponding clips at time of import.

Sub-Project Export

Export takes tagged "wanted" within Adobe OnLocation's Shot List. You have the ability to access the sub-project's folder from the Media Browser panel in Premiere Pro. When added to a sequence, clips having in and out points form a rough cut.

Convenient Missing Media Relinking

Experience the convenience of reconnecting broken file references in your OnLocation project with greater speed and ease.

Shot List Publishing

Keep all involved personnel updated during production by publishing your OnLocation Shot List as a CSV file viewable on a broad array of software and devices, such as the iPod touch and iPhone.

Direct-To-Disk Recording

Totally bypass tape during shooting via Adobe OnLocation. Simply connect your camera to your laptop and begin recording right to hard disk. You can review your footage immediately and quickly import it into Premiere Pro for editing.

Realize Your Vision With Powerful Encore Authoring Tools

Integrated Search For Web DVD Titles

Give your viewers an even more engaging experience with the option of searching by keyword within a web DVD. Encore authoring tools employ metadata from speech analysis, subtitles, and menu and button names to make web DVD titles automatically searchable.

Single Project, Multiformat Delivery

You can efficiently burn DVDs, Blu-ray discs and web DVDs from one Encore project file. Thanks to support for pop-up menus and subtitles, viewers of web DVD titles have access to all the perks of the Blu-ray experience delivered online.

Dynamic Link Integration

You can send your Premiere Pro projects right to Encore without first having to render. Changes in the timeline will be reflected immediately in Encore, courtesy of Adobe Dynamic Link.

Flowchart

A visual flowchart of all points and links helps you define and navigate your DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and web DVD projects. Streamline your authoring workflow with independent variable zoom functionality.

Third-Party Encoding Integration

Select the proper encoder for the task without affecting your workflow efficiency. You can also integrate your third-party encoders using the Encore authoring workflow, enabling you to benefit from advancements in GPU-accelerated encoding.

Cross-Platform Projects

Enjoy the ability to share Encore projects without having to worry about platform compatibility. Projects are freely moveable between Windows and Mac platforms without conversion.

Multi-Page Menus

Provide a smoother experience for your viewers when they're selecting from options across multiple menus. Browse multi-page Blu-ray Disc project menus displaying options across numerous menu pages, without interrupting background element playback.

24p Support

Preserve the 24p appearance all the way to output via native 24p project support. Encore supports 24p frame rates for Blu-ray, DVD, and web DVD titles, with accurate display of 24p timecode in the timeline.

4K Mastering

Export 4K productions to HD Blu-ray Disc with a workflow that preserves the original 4K content all the way to output. Utilize Dynamic Link to open Premiere Pro 4K sequences in Encore without first having to render.

DDP Master Support

Replicate discs from Encore with direct DDP master support for DVDs. The output file can then be sent via FTP right to the mastering facility.

Deliver Engaging Experiences Practically Anywhere

Batch Encoding In The Background

Automate the creation of multiple encoded versions of your content via Adobe Media Encoder's batch features. Increase productivity with the ability to keep working as files encode in the background.

Metadata-Rich Assets For Online Delivery

You can incorporate metadata to enable users to more easily locate your content online, and to deliver a more engaging viewing experience. Metadata sticks with the assets you create in Creative Suite Production Premium components.

FLV / F4V Cue Points With Name / Value Pairs

Use markers in the timeline to create FLV / F4V cue points with name / value pairs. With Adobe Media Encoder, you can create, check and adjust cue point information, and then utilize it for further interactive design in Adobe Flash Professional.

Edit Faster With A Robust Editing Toolset

Multiple Project Panels

Show assets in multiple Project panels, each one having its own graphical or text view setting. With control over metadata views within the Project panels, you can quickly and efficiently organize and view your assets.

Individualized Keyboard Shortcuts

Personalize your Premiere Pro by creating multiple keyboard maps for various tasks or for supporting multiple users. By exporting your own shortcut sets, you can immediately fall into a productive workflow on other systems.

Project Manager

Archive media, reclaim drive space, and switch between offline and online environments with ease. You can consolidate projects by selecting and moving actual media used to one location for archiving and storage management.

Export Frame Button

Rapidly export a still video frame from the Program or Source Monitor using the Export Frame button, without having to start an export via Adobe Media Encoder.

Customizable User Interface

You have the power to adjust the Premiere Pro interface to suit virtually any editing workflow or environment. You can arrange the docked interface for multiple monitors, resize all windows simultaneously, and save configurations as preset workspaces.

In-Line Search For Assets

Locate assets within the Project panel quickly with a search field that updates while you type. You can search on individual metadata fields or across them all to show groups of similar items.

Scrolling Timeline

Set the timeline for smooth scrolling under a stationary indicator during playback, or adjust it to progress a single page as the playback indicator reaches the edge of the window.

Nestable Timelines

Manage large projects with greater ease than before by editing each section in its own timeline. "Nest" (place) every timeline within a master timeline while preserving total access to all edits.

Multi-Track Targeting And Sync Lock Controls

Control clip placement with ease, saving time and maintaining the placement of other clips in the timeline with powerful track targeting options. Select which tracks stay in sync after ripple and insert edits with sync lock controls.

Clip Replacement

You can easily replace any clip in the timeline with a new one that maintains the attributes of the original. Every effect and keyframe is retained, and, if necessary, the new clip is trimmed to fit the duration of the initial one.

32-Bit Internal Color Processing

Maintain the best possible image quality with both subtle and dramatic changes to color, contrast, and exposure, free from banding and artifacts due to lower bit-depth processing.

Professional Internal Scopes

You can monitor luma and chroma levels on each line via the integrated waveform monitor and vectorscope. Show Waveform IRE information in standard, YCbCr Parade, RGB Parade, or combined modes.

Target Output Resolution

Set your project to any resolution you like and work with it throughout production - ideal for creating video banner ads, small screen content, and more!

Increase Productivity With Timesaving Editing Features

Automatic Scene Detection For HDV Tapes

Utilize automatic scene detection to create separate clips from HDV tapes.

Find Gaps Command

Clean up sequences fast using commands for locating and deleting gaps between clips on the timeline.

Field Display Settings

You can set Source and Program Monitors to display the first, second, or both fields for interlaced footage.

Keyframe And Vertical Clip Snapping

Accurately place effects keyframes. While you move them, keyframes snap to sequence markers, the playhead, clip edges, and other video or audio keyframes. Utilize vertical snapping to keep clips in sync when moving them between tracks.

Timesaving Options With Multiple Clips

Easily apply a single transition to multiple clips via cut and paste, while preserving destination attributes such as duration. You can adjust speed, duration, and audio gain, or apply effects to numerous clips simultaneously.

Faster Clip Pasting And Subclip Creation

Enjoy saving time when you paste clips into the timeline. The playhead jumps to the end of a pasted clip so that subsequent pasted clips get placed directly after it. Generate subclips by dragging content from the timeline to the Project panel.

Previous Zoom-Level Shortcut

Utilize smart zoom in the timeline to alternate between detailed and global views of your content with a single key press. Press to zoom the timeline to display the total contents of your sequence. Press again to return to the previous zoom level.

Remove All Effects Command

Speedily clear all effects from single or multiple selected clips with one command.

Extend Edit Shortcut

You can extend the duration of a clip on a target track to the present position on the timeline via an assignable keyboard shortcut.

Manage Projects, Sequences, And Clips Efficiently

RapidFind Search

Type what you're seeking into the RapidFind search box and view updated results while you key in the words. RapidFind is available in the Effects, Project, and Metadata panels and greatly simplifies the task of locating matching content.

Footage Replacement

You can update assets in your project fast as newer versions become available by replacing files in the Project panel. When you replace assets, all clip instances referencing that media are automatically updated.

Per-Sequence Settings

Freely mix content by assigning various settings to individual sequences. By nesting those sequences into one master sequence, you can manage assets with greater ease and quickly generate multiple versions of your project.

Immediate Project Window Playback

Maintain focus on the timeline and get instant playback from a clip you dragged from the Project window.

Media Locations Saved In Project

Manage projects with improved efficiency. File location preferences are saved on a per-project basis, making it a simple task to set up partitions for specific projects.

Individual Sequence Import

Combine content from multiple projects with greater simplicity by selecting any combination of sequences to import.

Individual Sequence Trimming

You can avoid trimming redundant content in the Project Manager, thanks to the ability to choose any combination of sequences for trimming.

Task-Based Project Panel Configurations

Create workspace configurations via Project panel column configurations that are optimized specifically for the current task.

A/V Offline Master Clip Linking

Link an A/V offline master clip to media having only video or audio present.

Trimmed Clip Archiving

Archive projects with greater efficiency. Utilize the Project Manager to include offline clips in trimmed projects with lesser storage requirements.

Gain Precise Audio Control

Vertical Waveform Zoom In The Source Monitor

See audio waveforms in greater detail in the Source Monitor. You can zoom both channels independently or together.

Broadcast WAV Support

Pass source timecode through to audio applications, courtesy of Broadcast WAV support, for simpler linking to externally recorded media and more streamlined workflows with digital audio workstations, including Pro Tools and Pyramix.

Audio Channel Mapping For Offline Clips

You can set and adjust audio channel mapping for offline clips at any time. Alter batch capture behavior with ease by routing source audio channels to different audio track configurations, before or after importing them into a project.

Audio- Or Video-Only Clip Recapture

Alter recapture settings for offline clips without recapturing them first.

Audio Level Monitoring

View audio levels from FireWire devices during capture via the audio level meters panel.

Direct Waveform Scrubbing

Navigate with accuracy within the Source Monitor when working with audio-only clips. Utilize the playhead to scrub the waveform directly.

Video Or Audio Display Default Setting

You can customize display settings by turning video or audio keyframe, opacity, and clip volume display on or off by default.

Track Normalize

Save time by employing volume settings to normalize all clips in a sequence track.

Merge Clips

Easily generate subclips matching audio and video from separate sources. Supports dual-system sound by enabling high-quality audio to be synchronized with video captured on a separate device, like a DSLR or RED camera.

Sample-Level Audio Editing

You have the ability to adjust audio clips with sample precision up to 1/96,000 of a second! Set exact L- and J-cuts. Get rid of small pops, crackles, and other undesirable audio elements.

Extend Options With Integrated Online Services

Direct Integration With Adobe Story

Accelerate your editing workflow by importing scripts with metadata from Adobe Story, an Adobe CS Live online service, into Premiere Pro CS5.5. Get rid of hours of routine work via Speech Search and other metadata to rapidly locate footage.

Please note: CS Live online services are complimentary until April 12, 2012. Adobe online services, including Adobe CS Live Services, are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional terms and Adobe's online privacy policy. Online services are not available in all countries or languages, may require user registration and may be subject to change or discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or subscription charges may apply.

Powerful Shot List Management

Save time with powerful options for breaking out scenes into multiple clips and camera angles. Import Adobe Story scripts to generate complete shot lists in Adobe OnLocation that preserve metadata, including dialogue, characters, and more.

Client Reviews Made Simple

You can collaborate with greater efficiency on works in progress via Adobe CS Review, a CS Live online service enabling you to share video sequences for review without burning discs or sending big files back and forth.< br>
Please note: CS Live online services are complimentary until April 12, 2012. Adobe online services, including Adobe CS Live Services, are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional terms and Adobe's online privacy policy. Online services are not available in all countries or languages, may require user registration and may be subject to change or discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or subscription charges may apply