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When I went through my basic film editing course I was told that there were several packages to get but the one I should really get was Premiere. Now that I have worked with it I know why and have to agree. If there is something that has to be done on film editing and you can't do it in Premiere I don't know what it is.Of course the package is so big and so complete that I have just been able to scratch the surface of it so there might be something I missed. To say there is a learning curve would be an understatement even if you have used programs like movie maker as I have. There is so much in Premiere that you will take a while to even scratch the surface. To Adobe's credit they have included to excellent DVD's on learning the package and a real manual which is something rare these days. The installation was a snap on a single DVD. The latest version is heavy integration with the other related Abode packages like Audition and Encore which comprise the Adobe Production studio. They have reworked everyone so that the interface is pretty common which helps a lot. I could go on talking about features like HD support, 19 bit video, 32 bit color processing and direct authoring to DVD's but it will take a while, suffice to say that you will be learning things about One other nice feature I would like to point out is the ability to create clip note which are pdf's with embedded video. If you need to send your video to someone to critique this is an invaluable feature. It also has the abilty to work with up to 4 camera feeds at once. If you are a novice it is going to take you a while to learn Premiere but it is well worth it and if you are a seasoned pro you will find enough here to keep you happy for a while. One problem I did have was in importing video from my cameras. I could not get it to capture from my sony mini DV and it would not even see my 8mm which I was using Dazzler. I suspect that this might be through some fault of my own but due to time constraints I ended up using Movie Maker to capture the video to disk. MM not only was easier to work with the capture but it saw my 8mm with no problem at all. Once I had the video on the disk Premiere had no problem at all working with it. Be sure you have lots of disk space and if you can afford an external disk I was suggest you get one. One hour of video captured to disk took up 13gb. A final word from the newly wise, working with video is time intensive. The capture and writing to tape is in real time also my first 4 minute movie took me over 4 hours to edit and compile and I am not quite satifed with it yet. Having used several other packages however there is no way I would use anything other than Premiere. |