What's the big deal with Adobe Premier? I have heard a bit about it. Is it exclusively for editing video clips or does it include capture and encoding software. Just wondering if those with experience with it can tell me if its worth buying. Much appreciated

-- derek sider (dereksider@home.com), January 22, 2001

Answers

I've never used it, but I can tell you that it has extensive editing and conversion capabilities. Not sure about capture. It costs a fortune and frankly there are cheaper alternatives, although you'd have to get several different programs to do what Premier can do in one package.

-- Jason Shumate (Jason.Shumate@sita.int), January 22, 2001.

Well, once you work with it, you'll know why it is so. It's the best video editing tool around. It includes its own capture program and does encoding too. Moreover, because of its position in the video editing area, it has a wealth of plugins and filters. I think it is well worth the (hefty) price.

-- Josh (jzari55@hotmail.com), January 23, 2001.

Adobe Premiere standalone is upwards of US$500. The current version going around is 5.1c, but anyone considering purchasing Premiere as yet better wait for ver 6, coming out "soon". Ver 6 addresses the one weak part of previous versions: direct and reliable open-host interface control (OHIC) support. 5.1c can't control, and therefore one can't capture with presently available FireWire cards. The exceptions are when Premiere is bundled with certain capture cards and manufacturers write specific drivers to address OHIC issues. Prosumers, I'm told, rarely buy Premiere alone; the more usual route is when it's bundled with some capture cards. There are many such editing/capture suites with prices and features that range all over the countryside bundling either full or lite versions of Premiere. You might seriously consider this: for example, a complete capture/editing suite that includes analogue and DV in/out, DV and MPEG support, etc like Pinnacle DV500 is about $700, making for good value both h/w and s/w. One of the top-of-the-lines is Matrox RT2000 which costs $1000 (maybe because the AGP graphics card is included). Since Premiere IS considered THE industry standard NLE s/w, many plug- ins by third-parties get created for it. For our VCD purposes, for instance, there is a Panasonic MPEG encoder 2.5 plug-in that makes it very convenient to render the timeline contents into a VCD compliant MPEG file with quality largely dependent only on your source AVIs. The nearest competition is Ulead MediaStudio Pro 6, which costs nearly the same, offered full OHCI compliance since day 1, and can also be bundled with some editing/capture suites, like the ADSTech PyroPro DV that I use. MediaStudio is better in a lot of respects compared with Premiere, except for the MPEG encoding engine (by Ligos) which produces inferior MPEG clips for VCD; this is where I prefer the Adobe/Premiere combo.

-- Mehmet Tekdemir (turk690@yahoo.com), January 23, 2001.

What do you mean "wait for version 6"? It's already out, and can even be downloaded from the internet, and Indeed, it adds superb support for DV and firewire.

-- Josh (jzari55@hotmail.com), January 24, 2001.

Anychance of a helpful url to a download for Adobe Premier 6

-- Devinder Garcha (dgarcha@hotmail.com), March 06, 2001.

I have used the Adobe Premier 6 non-linear editing suite. It has capturing, cutting (although I have had some problems with the brackets), audio, and effects such as ripple and altering the speed of the film. I used a Sony DV camera to record. and I found it to be an easy to use application which has some drawbacks in 3D animation but you can not have everything. An overall brilliant all in one package

-- (charseips@hotmail.com), March 23, 2001.

For VCD, SVCD and DVD authoring its biggest feature is that there is a plugin called avisynth that allows us to frame serve direct from the timeline to the TMPGEnc encoder, no re rendering and playing with files just edit and get a encoded file out the other end. Who needs or wants such programs as LSX etc etc when that will beat them all hands down. Its the NLE advantage!

My SVCD Page for details.

http://www.geocities.com/aussie01au/

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), March 26, 2001.

Subject: Adobe Premier

-- Albino Antino (iofri@virgilio.it), May 24, 2001.

Don'y any of you know how to spell Adobe Premiere? There is an 'e' at the end.

-- (kburnzy@hotmail.com), September 09, 2001.

Premiere rocks, use it a lot... does anyone know how to get it to recognize the pinnacle av/dv capture card? if so I could really use the info... Thanx

-- XONIKZ K A (xx_decker_xx@yahoo.com), November 05, 2002.

Well,i've used the Premiere before for video editing and composing.It's a very useful stuff.Like for me,i used it to composed my 3dsmax avi files into it and then i add some music.Also the transition effects make my output looks so professional.So,it's highly recommended...

-- jos (joshua_ng_gim_hee@yahoo.com), November 18, 2003.

Who's the spelling police?

-- Dan Wellman (davide@gis.net), January 18, 2004.

I have recently upgraded PC to WinXP, therefore unable to use Pinnacle DC30 plus capture card.

Any ideas for compatable analogue capture card please??????

-- graham Rhodes (grahamjrhodes@hotmail.com), January 19, 2004.

I have recently upgraded PC to WinXP, therefore unable to use Pinnacle DC30 plus capture card.

Any ideas for compatable analogue capture card please?????? Jetway 830ch motherboard amd 1.8 cpu

Thanks

-- graham Rhodes (grahamjrhodes@hotmail.com), January 19, 2004.