by Adobe
Platform: Windows Vista / 7
Date first available at Amazon.com: April 11, 2011
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Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5
Unleash your creativity with higher performance editing tools
Edit faster with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 software, which offers cross-platform, native file-based workflows as well as GPU-accelerated filters and effects with the enhanced Adobe Mercury Playback Engine--now on laptop and desktop computers. Work easily with dual-system sound support; enjoy enhanced project exchange with Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid software; and efficiently export with reliable batch background encoding for delivery to smartphones, tablets, and PCs.
With Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, you can:
Improve your editing workflow. Get more performance gains, thanks to the faster-than-ever native 64-bit Adobe Mercury Playback Engine, which now supports more laptop and desktop computer GPUs. With industry-leading native file-based format support, you can begin editing virtually any video, image, or audio format as soon as you import it. True native format support lets you enjoy immediate, transcode-free import and render-free playback. And because you never have to transcode or rewrap your footage, you always work with the highest quality source material. Work smoothly with complex sequences at HD and film resolutions using an improved, highly efficient keyboard-driven workflow, and boost productivity with new dual-system sound support with merged clips and other timesaving features suggested by users. With intuitive editing tools and innovative metadata features such as newly enhanced Speech Analysis, you can edit even more efficiently.
Collaborate more effectively. Bring the creative benefits of Adobe tools to your project and work in an open, extensible post-production environment. Improved roundtrip editing capabilities with Apple Final Cut Pro extend the easy project and content exchange with other Adobe software and Avid editing software, making it easier to collaborate on projects in multitool post-production pipelines. Develop scripts collaboratively using Adobe Story, and now import them straight into Adobe Premiere Pro, without having to first send them to OnLocation. Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 introduced integration with CS Review, another CS Live online service, making it easier for clients and teammates to review and make frame-accurate comments on works in progress. Combine this helpful service with roundtrip workflows to bring in Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid NLE sequences to simplify the process of gathering client and team feedback on works in progress.
Deliver your finished media practically anywhere. Produce video optimized for distribution to practically any video or device format. Save time by using the redesigned interface, new presets, intuitive context menus, and dramatically improved watch folder support in Adobe Media Encoder to batch encode your project to multiple delivery formats, quickly, simply, and in the background.
Top reasons to upgrade to Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5
(New) Flexible, precise, and reliable editing tools--Edit the way you want with widely accepted, customizable NLE shortcuts and powerful, intuitive trimming and editing tools that give you more precision and control. Boost productivity with dual-system sound support and enhanced project exchange with Final Cut Pro and Avid software.
(Enhanced) Adobe Mercury Playback Engine--Edit in the field, get faster playback of mixed-format timelines, and take advantage of new GPU-accelerated filters and effects with the enhanced 64-bit Adobe Mercury Playback Engine, now on laptop and desktop computers.
(New) Fast, reliable encoding for multiscreen delivery--Output your work for PCs, smartphones, tablets, and television with Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5. Use intuitive presets and contextual menus to set up sequences once for multiple formats, and batch encode while you continue editing.
(New) Roundtrip workflows with Adobe Audition--Get a fast, flexible roundtrip audio workflow with Adobe Audition. Pass individual audio clips and multitrack mixes, or even renderings of complete video sequences, between Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 and Adobe Audition CS5.5 for editing and sweetening.
(New) Direct integration with Adobe Story--Speed up your editing workflow by directly importing Adobe Story scripts, complete with metadata, into Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5. Eliminate hours of routine work using Speech Search and other metadata to quickly find footage and edit based on spoken dialogue.
(New) Closed-captioning support--Play back and display 608 and 708 closed captions synced to your video sequence and viewable in the Program monitor or with supported external hardware.
(New) Enhanced Canon XF native support--Preview Canon XF footage in the Media Browser panel and utilize camera metadata throughout your preproduction and post-production workflows. Spanned clips are displayed as a single asset in the Media Browser, reducing clutter.
(New) Streamlined collaboration--Collaborate more easily thanks to enhanced integration with Final Cut Pro and Avid Media Composer, as well as with Adobe CS Review, a separate CS Live online service. Save time by background encoding files for CS Review using new presets in Adobe Media Encoder.
Customer profiles
Video editors--Video editors who assemble compelling stories and other types of video content from live-action video footage, still images, and sound and music. Projects range from short form (commercials and short films) to broadcast programming, event coverage, and feature films.
Motion graphics designers and visual effects (VFX) artists--Motion graphics designers include animators and designers who create commercials, broadcast graphics, film titles, and other content that uses motion and sound to communicate ideas and capture emotions. VFX artists include animators and compositors who composite 2D and 3D elements, live footage, and synthetic elements (such as explosions or particles for snow) into photo-realistic shots used to enhance the visual impact of films, TV shows, and commercials.
Still using Adobe Premiere Pro CS4/CS3?
For those still using Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 or CS3, upgrading to Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 also gives you the chance to catch up on all the great features added in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. These include tighter tool integration, support for more video formats, and workflow enhancements that accelerate turnaround times, as well as the following:
- Industry-leading performance with the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine. Edit in the field, get faster playback of mixed-format timelines, and take advantage of the new GPU-accelerated, 64-bit Adobe Mercury Playback Engine, now on workstations and laptops.
- Native 64-bit operating system support. Take full advantage of all available system RAM--up to 192GB on modern workstations--so you can run multiple software applications at the same time, opening the door to powerful timesaving, multitasking workflows.
- Extensive native file-based format support. Edit material in virtually any format and from nearly any device, thanks to broad native format support that lets you enjoy instant, transport-free import and render-free playback.
- Unparalleled Adobe integration. Effortlessly move assets between Adobe Premiere Pro and other Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium components--Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop Extended, Adobe Illustrator, Flash Catalyst, and Adobe Audition.
- Efficient collaboration. Collaborate openly and effectively with clients and team members with Adobe CS Live online services (available separately), including CS Review, Adobe Story, and Acrobat.com.
- Timesaving XMP metadata. Speed up your post-production workflow with metadata acquired during preproduction and production.
- Industry-leading Blu-ray Disc authoring. Master your HD projects to Blu-ray Disc with Encore CS5 (included with Adobe Premiere Pro).
- GPU-accelerated Ultra keyer. Easily achieve complex keys on challenging footage with the GPU-accelerated Ultra, which typically keys in real time (using NVIDIA graphics cards, depending on system configuration and file types).
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 also includes these additional features that have been added in free updates to Adobe Premiere Pro CS5:
- Red Rocket support
- Support for Mysterium X and the latest Color Science
- RED RMD support for editing color-graded footage from REDCine-X tools
- Native Sony XDCAM support
- Native JVC QuickTime support
- Enhanced native DPX format support
- Improved color grading
- Broadcast WAV support
Edit video faster than ever with the robust toolset in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 software. Experience the benefits of true native format support and breakthrough performance with the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine, now offering 64-bit support and GPU acceleration on workstations and laptops. Efficiently export to a wide range of devices, work easily with dual-system sound, enjoy enhanced project exchange with Final Cut Pro and Avid software, as well as other Adobe software and gain a highly efficient editing workflow that dramatically boosts your productivity.