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Adobe Premiere Pro tutorial offers an accelerated, yet comprehensive way to master this powerful video editing application from the comfort of your own desktop. This tutorial first covers the basics, before the lessons move on to cover areas of more complexity. Users have the option of either watching the tutorials in their entirety ( ideal for beginners ) , or just selecting which subjects are of interest. What ever your prior experience of Adobe Premiere these visual tutorials will increase your knowledge and provide you with a countless array of professional tips and techniques to make your work shine.

Adobe Premiere Pro is a real-time, timeline based video software. It is part of Adobe Creative Suite, a suite of graphic design, video editing, web development and applications made by Adobe Systems, but it can also be purchased separately. Even when purchased separately, it comes with Adobe Encore and Adobe OnLocation. Premiere Pro supports many video cards and plug-ins for accelerated processing, other file format support, and video / audio effects. Premiere Pro CS4 will be the first 64-bit version officially.

Premiere Pro is the new successor to Adobe Premiere, and was launched in 2003. Premiere Pro refers to versions released in 2003 and later, whereas Premiere refers to previous versions. Although the first two versions of Premiere Pro only supported Windows, Premiere Pro CS3 is available for Windows and Mac OS (only Intel Macs are supported), making it one of the few NLEs cross-platform available.

Premiere Pro is used by broadcasters such as BBC and The Tonight Show. It has been used in feature films such as Dust to Glory, Captain Abu Raed, and Superman Returns (for the video capture process), and other places such as Madonna Confessions Tour.

Adobe Premiere Features

Premiere Pro supports editing high-quality video up to 4K x 4K resolution, up to 32 bits per color channel, in both RGB and YUV. Audio sample editing, VST audio plug-in support and 5.1 surround sound mixing are available for high audio fidelity. Premiere Pro plug-in architecture allows it to import and export beyond the formats of QuickTime or DirectShow, supporting a wide array of video and audio file formats and codecs on both MacOS and Windows .

Version 1.5 for improved support high-definition video content, and added new project management tools and new filters. It also included support for 24p images (such as pictures Panasonic DVX-100). Version 1.5.1 added support for HDV. Version 2.0 refines 24p and HDV editing, and is the first major NLE to natively support the Canon 24F on the format cameras like the Canon XL H1, with an additional update. Since version 2.0, Premiere Pro requires a processor that supports SSE2, which is unavailable in some older processors.

Premiere Pro CS3 added support for the production of Blu-ray Disc, MPEG-4/H.264 and Flash-based web sites, and time remapping, easy to use variable frame rate implementation. From Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe Encore is included for creating menus and interactivity of DVD, Blu-ray, and Flash projects for the Web. Adobe OnLocation (now multi-platform CS4) is also included for direct-to-disk recording and monitoring. Updates to Premiere Pro CS3 have added native support for new image file formats. 3.1 added native Panasonic P2 MXF import, editing and export of DVCPRO, DVCPRO50 and DVCPRO HD. 3.2 added native XDCAM HD and EX import and editing.

Adobe Premiere video tutorials

All tutorials are free for instant load automatically on your computer. All tutorials are video recordings of actual screens, not hard to follow screen prints or text instructions. Follow the videos step by step on your own system.

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Adobe Premiere Integration

Premiere Pro is integrated heavily with Adobe After Effects, the industry standard for motion graphics and compositing. After Effects compositions can be imported into Premiere Pro and read directly on the timeline. The After Effects composition may be changed, and after returning to Premiere Pro, the clip will immediately update with the changes. Likewise, Premiere Pro projects can be imported into After Effects. Clips can be copied between the two applications, while preserving the attributes clip. After Effects Premiere Pro supports many plug-ins.

Premiere Pro also integrates well with Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop can open files directly from Premiere Pro to edit in Photoshop. Any changes will be immediately updated when the Photoshop file is saved and the focus back to Premiere Pro.

Advantages over Premiere Elements

Entry-level version, Adobe Premiere Elements, is available for the consumer market on Windows. Some of the advantages of Premiere Pro Premiere Elements on multiple sequence support, bit depth rendering, multicamera editing, time remapping, the fields, the tools of color correction, audio mixer interface, and bezier keyframing . Premiere Pro also includes Encore for more elaborate DVD menu authoring and Blu-ray Disc authoring, and OnLocation for direct-to-disk recording.

Premiere Pro faces competition in the market for Sony Vegas, products from Avid and Apple Final Cut Pro.