Adobe now bundles its Encore DVD authoring software
and the OnLocation application for setting up video shoots (determining
lighting, sound levels, and so on). Encore adds support for Flash
output and for Blu-ray Disc creation but shuns HD DVD, even though Adobe
is a member of both disc formats' supporting associations.
Dynamic Link, a big feature added to last year's Production Studio
suite, allows you to send projects from Premiere Pro to Adobe After
Effects, or vice versa, without rendering them first a huge time saver.
Premiere Pro has a new "Export to Encore" feature, but you must still
render your timeline before you can work on it in Encore, so it doesn't
seem that useful to me.
Adobe Premiere Pro
CS3 has a few small features that I did find useful. A new Time
Remapping function lets you implement slow motion (or fast motion)
directly in the application's timeline simply by dragging a line on the
clip. Though it makes the task easier, you have to right click and
navigate a popup menu to tell Premiere what you want the line to do (the
line also serves as an adjustment tool for other effects). It would be
even better if you could play your clip and adjust the playback speed in
real time. As it stands, you must make the adjustment and then play the
clip (and on slower machines, you'll need to prerender before you can
play the clip), and if it isn't what you want, you have to perform the
process all over again. The function doesn't work on audio that's linked
to the clip, either.
You can now
create and open multiple asset bins (windows) of video, audio, and
still-image source files. Open a bin in a new window, and you can drag
and drop files into the order you want and then select which files to insert into
a new video sequence, with default transitions automatically inserted.
Plus, you can now substitute clips in a timeline without having to
reimplement existing transitions and effects.
Adobe Premiere Pro remains the gold standard of video editors, and I appreciate that Adobe bundles
two applications with it instead of making you buy its expensive suite
(rechristened Production Premium CS3) to get them. But other elements of
this year's suite such as Soundbooth, an audio editing application
that's designed for non prosare more compelling than Premiere Pro is on
its own.
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