Adobe has recently announced Adobe Premiere Version 2 for the Macintosh. Unfortunately, a Try-Out Version of version 2 was not ready in time for pressing on this CD ROM. Instead, we have included the version 1.0 Try-Out. However, the following is copy from our new data sheet so you can read about all the new and exciting features.
Adobe Premiere™ Version 2 for Macintosh®
Adobe Premiere software significantly extends the creative possibilities for digital movie-making, giving video specialists, business professionals and others a variety of options for putting their ideas in motion. This powerful, industry-leading editing program lets you easily combine video footage, audio recordings, animation, still images and graphics to create high-quality digital movies right on your Macintosh; no expensive, multiple-unit production system is required. Adobe Premiere takes full advantage of Apple’s QuickTime™ media-integration technology.
Movie-Making Made Easy
Making a movie with Adobe Premiere software is as simple as gathering your clips and arranging them in the order you want them to play. To begin, record your video footage in QuickTime format, right within Adobe Premiere. Then import other visual and audio files, including those created with Adobe Illustrator™ and Adobe Photoshop™ software.
You can arrange clips linearly, with simple cuts, or layer them with dramatic transitions, such as dissolves, page turns and spins. To create special effects, you can isolate areas of moving or still images and superimpose those images on other clips. You can control their motion across the screen, “flying” them along a path with twisting, zooming, rotation and distortion effects. You can even apply plug-in filters, including ones compatible with Adobe Photoshop software, to generate tints, distortions, replications and more. And when you’re through, you can produce your QuickTime movie for small- or full-screen viewing, or create edit decision lists for export to professional production equipment.
Join the QuickTime Revolution
Adobe Premiere software, combined with Apple’s QuickTime extensions, fulfills the promise of true media integration by delivering the power of digital movies at an affordable price, for a variety of uses:
• Videotape production (digital on-line and off-line)
• Training and education
• Business presentations
• Creative development
• Merchandising
• Home entertainment
• Video databases
• Video production
Adobe Premiere and QuickTime let you store video and audio footage on an ordinary disk drive. You can copy clips repeatedly without distortion. And, most important, you have instant, precise access to any footage, without using expensive, read-only laser discs. When used in combination with authoring software, QuickTime even lets you create interactive presentations or applications on the Macintosh, reducing the need for complex animation processes.
Adobe Premiere software gives you creative control of QuickTime digital movies – and the power to deliver your message with greater impact than ever before.
Key Features
User Interface
• Intuitive user interface that displays video clips in “filmstrip” style
• Multiple windows for rapid access to any editing function
• Animated icons that snap into place to simplify selection of digital effects
• Video windows for quick preview of source material, digital effects and assembled video
• Timeline display with variable zoom-in capabilities; single-frame viewing capability
• Push-button controls for stop, rewind, play, fast forward, record and single-stop
• Graph-style control of video overlay and audio mixing levels
• Display of time references (time code), frame counts, and audio and transparency levels
• Editing in timeline or playback windows
Project Management
• Easy access to source material libraries with thumbnail views and clip descriptions
• Multiple libraries
• Management of input from multiple QuickTime movies and Adobe Illustrator,
Adobe Photoshop, PICT, numbered PICT, PICS (animation), SoundEdit and
AIFF files and Filmstrips
Special Effects
• Standard effects and transitions include band slide, band wipe, barn doors, center merge, center peel, center split, channel map, checkerboard, clock wipe, cross dissolve, cross stretch, cross zoom, cube spin, dither dissolve, direct, doors, funnel, inset, iris diamond, iris points, iris round, iris square, iris star, luminance map, page peel, page turn, paint splatter, peel back, PICT mask, push, radial wipe, random blocks, random wipe, roll away, slide, sliding bands, sliding boxes, spin, spin away, spiral boxes, split, stretch, swing in, swing out, three-D, venetian blinds, wedge wipe, wipe, zigzag blocks and zoom
• Standard digital image-processing filters include anti-alias, backwards audio and video, bend, black and white, blur, blur more, boost, brightness/contrast, color balance, color offset, color pass, color replace, crystallize, echo, emboss, find edges, gamma correction, Gaussian blur, Gaussian sharpen, ghosting, horizontal flip, invert, mesh warp, mosaic, pinch, pointillize, posterize, posterize time, radial blur, replicate, ripple, roll, sharpen, sharpen edges, sharpen more, shift, spherize, tiles, tint, twirl, vertical flip, wave and zigzag
• Motion control that allows any clip (video or still) to fly along a path, with user-
controlled twisting, zooming, rotation and distortion
• Filmstrip file for importing and exporting movies to and from the Adobe
Photoshop program, where you can create complex digital compositions by
layering digital images and painting frames
• Audio processing filters, including stereo pans,echo and backwards play
• Support for additional effects via “plug-ins”
• Acceptance of plug-in image filters compatible with Adobe Photoshop software
Record/Play
• Capture of movies and audio using any QuickTime compatible board
• Viewing of video footage from hard disk storage
• Variable playback speed in forward and reverse for QuickTime movies
• Instant movement to any point in a clip
• Recording mode that automatically controls any QuickTime-compatible board
and many tape decks with device control
• Automatic or manual entry of SMPTE time code and tape names when
recording, which provides a link to high-end video equipment
Editing
• Easy synchronization of video and audio using time ruler with 24, 25 or 30 frames
per second
• Tool palette that includes magnifying tool and track select tool that enables
shifting of mulitple edits in the timline
• Preview of construction window contents by simply moving the cursor through
the time ruler
• Viewing of movie frames in the preview window while dragging the ends of a
clip in the construction window
• Automatic setting of alignment and direction of transitions when dragging
special effects to the construction window
• Paste Special settings that allow you to paste any clip into spaces on the timeline
by altering clip speed or the start and end points of the original clip or clips that
surround it
Video Assembly and Output
• Multiple track inputs include two video tracks, special effects track, overlay track,
and three stereo audio tracks
• Separate video and audio inserts
• Easy select-and-drag assembly of segments from any input track
• Storyboard-style editing eliminates need for list management
• Output movies at any size or frame rate, up to 30 frames per second
• Length of movie limited only by available disk space
• Movies saved using any installed QuickTime compression modules
• Print to video for viewing movie against black background
• Nondestructive editing of clips
Compositing/Superimposing
• Matte generator provides selectable color background and borders
• Multilayering of video and overlay tracks with “plug-in” support
• Support of multilevel transparencies for Adobe Photoshop and PICT
files using alpha channels
• Professional superimposing (keying), including chroma, luminance, “smart” alpha
channels and more, so you have more control for isolating area in moving or still
images and superimposing them on other clips
Graphics and Titles
• PostScript™ rasterizer for files in Adobe Illustrator™ format
• Title generator that supports animated titles using Adobe’s multiple master
typefaces and that creates titles with smooth edges and the option of transparent
backgrounds
• Background texture generator
Professional Features
• Support for SMPTE style time code and tape references
• Export of edit decision lists (EDLs) via plug-in architecture
• Support for CD quality (16-bit, 44 KHz)*
• Ability to import and export sequences of numbered PICT files
* Available when Apple ships new release of QuickTime (version 1.1) and Sound Manager™ (version 2.1)
Miscellaneous
• Plug-in architecture that allows addition of more import and export functions by
Adobe or third parties
• Support for international video standards and film with a time ruler that works in
24, 25 and 30 frames per second
• Maximum image size of 2K pixels by 2K pixels
• Make Composite command that enables assembly of long movies from short
pieces without further compression loss or data duplication
System Requirements
• Macintosh II family computer
• 4 MB of application RAM
• High-capacity hard drive (80 MB or more recommended)
• Apple® System Software version 6.0.7 or greater, including 7.0
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