Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5

Unleash your creativity with higher performance editing tools
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 software delivers breakthrough performance on laptop and desktop computers and boosts productivity with efficient cross-platform editing and native format support. Work easily with dual-system sound support, enjoy enhanced project exchange with Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid software, and batch background encoding for smartphones, tablets, and PCs.

Whats included:

• Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5
• Adobe OnLocation CS5
• Adobe Encore CS5
• Adobe Device Central CS5.5
• Adobe Bridge CS5
• Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 is also available as a component of these Creative Suite 5.5 editions:

• Production Premium
• Master Collection

Integrates with

• Adobe CS Live online services

Top reasons to buy Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5

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.

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.

Flexible, precise, and reliable editing tools—Edit the way you want with widely accepted, customizable non-linear editing (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.

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.

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.

Extensive truly native file-based workflows—Eliminate time-consuming transcoding and rewrapping and maximize quality thanks to native support for P2; XDCAM EX, HD, and HD50; JVC ProHD, AVCHD, and AVCCAM; DPX; and Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras as well as enhanced RED R3D and Canon XF support.

Unparalleled Adobe integration—Effortlessly move assets between Adobe Premiere Pro and other Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium components—Adobe After Effects, Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, Flash Catalyst, and, new in CS5.5, Adobe Audition.

Efficient collaboration—Collaborate openly and effectively with clients and team members using Adobe CS Live online services (available separately), including CS Review, Adobe Story, and Acrobat.com. Batch encoding in the background—Automate the process of creating multiple encoded versions of your content using the batch features in Adobe Media Encoder. Maximize your productivity by continuing to work while files encode in the background.

Adobe OnLocation integration—Record SD and HD video to hard disk and log metadata while shooting using Adobe OnLocation. Transfer content directly to Adobe Premiere Pro, maintaining all metadata and clip information, including in and out points set in Adobe OnLocation.

Industry-leading Blu-ray Disc authoring—Maintain pristine quality by creating high-definition Blu-ray Discs with Encore CS5. Use the same DVD authoring interface, incorporating advanced Blu-ray features like pop-up menus and subtitles, as well as dual-layer burning.

Professional on-set monitoring—Maximize camera image quality during shoots by using Adobe OnLocation to quickly calibrate your camera, check levels, and monitor signals. The virtual waveform monitor and vectorscope help you avoid problems and improve quality.

Get a faster editing workflow with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 software, the native 64-bit, cross-platform video production solution that comes with Adobe OnLocation CS5 and Adobe Encore CS5 software. Building on its robust toolset with the faster-than-ever Mercury Playback Engine, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 extends breakthrough performance to more laptop and desktop computer GPUs. Get real-time feedback for more GPU-accelerated features, including effects (Directional Blur, Fast Blur, Invert) and transitions (Additive Dissolve and the new Film Dissolve), as well as Interpret Footage and Time Remapping options—while you work smoothly at 4K and higher resolutions. Open projects quickly and refine multilayer, effects-rich sequences without rendering. Easy access to customizable keyboard shortcuts enables a robust keyboard-driven workflow, letting you edit the way you want. Powerful editing-tool enhancements give you more precision and control, and new dual-system sound support from the new Merge Clips feature lets you quickly sync video with high-quality audio recorded on separate devices like location recorders, perfect for DSLR or RED workflows.

Now, integration between Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Story, an Adobe CS Live online service, lets you collaboratively write scripts and create metadata-rich, production-ready assets, speeding your editing workflow. Start by importing or developing your script in Adobe Story, and then import it directly into Adobe Premiere Pro, where you can align the script to spoken dialogue in each clip. Scenes in the Adobe Story script—and the metadata associated with them—can be matched to clips in your project. Metadata helps eliminate hours of routine work by enabling you to effortlessly locate all of the takes of a specific shot and quickly search dialogue, scene elements, or character names.

^{Among the many new timesaving features in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 are powerful editing-tool enhancements, dual-system sound support, and the faster-than-ever Adobe Mercury Playback Engine, which extends breakthrough performance to more desktop and laptop computer GPUs.}

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 new features of Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5

Numerous productivity enhancements, including dual-system sound support with merged clips and more intuitive keyboard-driven editing
As video producers at all levels try to accomplish more with fewer resources, high-performance tools that help get the job done faster and more efficiently—with top-notch results—are essential. Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 includes a number of of new features and enhancements that take editing efficiency to a new level.

Merge Clips feature for dual-system sound support
More and more, video productions use dual-system sound in their audio recording workflow, thanks to widespread use of DSLR cameras that shoot HD video, and use of digital cinema cameras such as the RED ONE and Silicon Imaging SI-2K. The new Merge Clips feature in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 provides dual-system sound support that enables you to quickly match audio and video tracks originally recorded on separate devices and media. Dual-system sound workflows give you more control over audio quality by recording sound on a standalone digital audio recorder. But what you gain in audio quality by recording sound on a device other than your camera comes at a price—sound and picture need to be synced in post-production, a process thats typically time-consuming and tedious.

Using the new Merge Clips feature in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, you can quickly combine separate audio and video source files into a single merged clip. The Merge Clips dialog box lets you choose In points and Out points, timecode, or a numbered clip marker as the sync reference. The ability to use In/Out points as sync references is essential when matching audio clips to video clips that were shot on DSLR cameras, which typically do not supply timecode without additional software or special plug-ins. Referencing a numbered clip marker lets you sync clips based on an event that occurs somewhere in the middle of a shot—for example, the popping of a champagne cork. With the Merge Clips command, you can sync up to 16 audio clips to a single video clip.

^{The new Merge Clips dialog box in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 lets you quickly choose different sync references, so that audio and video recorded on different devices can be easily aligned for synchronized playback.}

Numerous improvements that boost editing efficiency
Take advantage of user-requested enhancements and enjoy more efficient workflows. For example, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 gives you more options for:

Customizing and accessing keyboard shortcuts

• Use widely accepted NLE shortcuts that you can customize to suit your needs.
• Assign keyboard shortcuts faster using the redesigned Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box.
• Get easier access to updated keyboard layout presets for Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro-style shortcuts.
• Find clip, sequence, and In/Out markers faster using keyboard shortcuts that are now displayed in the Keyboard Shortcuts menu.

Performing Insert/Overwrite edits, extracting frames from a sequence, andadding keyframes

• Perform Insert/Overwrite (formerly Overlay) edits more easily, thanks to a new drag-and-drop graphic overlay button in the Program Monitor.
• Extract frames from a sequence in the timeline and automatically position the current time indicator (CTI) to the point of extraction using the improved Extract command. Previously, the CTI stayed in place, unaffected by the ripple edit, which often left the playhead in a new and unexpected place in the sequence.
• Save time with the ability to add keyframes directly in the timeline using the Selection or Pen tool in the Effect Controls panel without having to first enable keyframing.

^{Perform Overwrite or Insert edits more easily, thanks to a new graphic overlay button that appears when you drag clips from the Project panel into the Program Monitor.}

Decoupling media

• Save time when creating overlapping edits with the Unlink command, which now decouples the audio portion of a clip while automatically deselecting the video portion. In addition, the Unlink command now works on multiple selected clips in a sequence.

More performance gains with the Mercury Playback Engine
The 64-bit Mercury Playback Engine brought extraordinary performance and stability to Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. In Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, the Mercury Playback Engine takes performance to the next level, so that you get even faster playback of mixed-format timelines and more GPU-accelerated effects and transitions. And the Mercury Playback Engine in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 supports additional Nvidia graphics cards for laptop and desktop computers, so you can enjoy high-performance, real-time editing in the editing suite and on location.

New GPU-accelerated features, effects, and transitions in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 include:

• Speed-change features. GPU-accelerated Time Remapping, Speed Change, and Backwards functions enable you to create high-quality slow- or fast-motion footage and play clips backwards, all in real time without first having to render them.
• Footage interpretation options. Easily modify the properties of clips using GPU-accelerated effects that give you control over frame rate, aspect ratio, field order, alpha channels, and pulldown removal.
• Field-order processing. Eliminate unwanted interlacing artifacts with GPU-accelerated operations that give you control over field order, interlacing, deinterlacing, and flicker removal.
• Transitions, including the new Film Dissolve. Move between clips using GPU-accelerated Additive Dissolve to add the color information from clip B to clip A, and then subtract the color information of clip A from clip B. The new Film Dissolve transition lets you achieve a different look when moving between clips by using linear color blending to prevent certain edge and halo artifacts, such as fringing, which appears when high-contrast saturated colors are blended together.
• Blur effects. Use GPU-accelerated Fast Blur to quickly add blur to large areas of your clips, create the illusion of motion using Directional Blur, and—thanks to GPU acceleration—see the results in real time.

^{Transitioning between two clips using Additive Dissolve (A and B) and the new Film Dissolve (C and D). Notice the difference in color saturation and in the edges around the actors hair (A and C) as well as the appearance of his left shoulder.}

Multiscreen delivery presets with Adobe Media Encoder
Reaching audiences wherever they are and on whatever device they use to watch video content is an essential requirement of modern video production. New presets, intuitive context menus, and dramatically enhanced watch folder support in Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5, a separate 64-bit application included with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, make outputting your work for delivery everywhere a simple and intuitive process.

Because there is no single, universal set of encoding parameters that can accommodate every business and customer need, Adobe Media Encoder adds to its already extensive list of output presets to further streamline your encoding workflow. The existing presets covered delivery to devices that ranged from iPhones to digital cinema resolutions. The new presets encompass a range of screen sizes from smartphones to tablets and desktop PCs to televisions, and are optimized for device-specific encoding profiles and bitrates, including:

Tablet and Mobile devices (frame size: 512x288)

• Phone + Tablet 3G (350kbps)
• Phone + Tablet Low (500kbps)
• Phone + Tablet Wifi (700kbps)

Desktop and Television (SD) (frame size: 768x432)

• PC + TV, SD, Med, 16x9 (1200kbps)
• PC + TV, SD, High, 16x9 (1800kbps)

Desktop and Television (HD) (frame size: 1280x720)

• PC + TV, HD, Low, 16x9 (2500kpbs)
• PC + TV, HD, High, 16x9 (3500kbps)

One Source, Multiple Outputs using Watch Folders
Watch folders allow Adobe Media Encoder to monitor a selected set of locations on your computer for newly added material. Watch folders existed in Adobe Media Encoder CS5, but in CS5.5 this important features workflow has been improved and its status elevated in the redesigned user interface. Once a new asset is detected, Adobe Media Encoder automatically adds the item into the encoding queue and processes it based on the settings you selected when you created the watch folder. This valuable timesaving feature makes it easier for you to convert assets for viewing on multiple devices at different screen resolutions and bitrates.

^{To make it easier to output your work to virtually any video and device format, the new Adobe Media Encoder user interface provides a dashboard-like view of the status of multiple background renders, so you can see progress at a glance as you continue working in Adobe Premiere Pro and Encore. The new interface includes three sections—the Queue pane, the Current Encode pane, and the Watch Folders pane—that can be independently open or closed. Progress bars in both the Queue and Current Encode panes let you monitor encoding as it takes place.}

Fast, flexible roundtrip audio post-production workflows with Adobe Audition (available separately)
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 offers tight integration with Adobe Audition CS5.5 (now on Mac OS and Windows), the audio editing and sweetening solution designed for video professionals, available separately or as part of Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium (see sidebar on page 6). Using the new Edit In Adobe Audition command, you can send individual clips, entire sequences, or just the selected work area—complete with a reference video—directly to Audition for audio editing and sweetening.

When you send a sequence to Audition, it opens as a multitrack audio project. When youve finished editing your audio tracks, the Export To Adobe Premiere Pro command in Audition lets you quickly send the multitrack file back to Adobe Premiere Pro. Open Media Framework (OMF) support in Adobe Premiere Pro and Audition makes it possible to export high-quality audio projects to Avid ProTools, making collaboration with audio editors, remixers, and sound designers more efficient.

Streamlined workflow thanks to direct integration with Adobe Story
In Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, you can speed your editing workflow by importing your Adobe Story scripts, complete with metadata, directly into Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 without having to first go through Adobe OnLocation. The Speech Analysis area of the Metadata panel in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 contains a new pane called Embedded Adobe Story Script. Being able to see the embedded script in this manner makes it easier to compare the speech analysis results with the actual written script, and align them automatically.

^{Embedded Adobe Story scripts are displayed in the Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 Metadata panel, making it easy to tell which clips have a script attached to them.}

Closed-captioning support
Closed-captioning requirements are expanding, both because of new regulations and because the service benefits viewers. As demand for captioned content grows to include both on-air and online content, broadcasters and content producers are looking for new ways to streamline the process and maximize their investments in having captions created. With support for 608 and 708 closed captions through the SCC and MCC file formats, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 now offers the ability to sync closed captions to video sequences and display closed-captioning data in these file formats. This enables you to confirm that the captioning data is accurate and properly synced to the sequence. In addition, captions are visible in the Program Monitor during scrubbing, bypassing the need to run a closed-caption track through a television set for decoding before it can be viewed.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 converts 608 closed-captioning data to 708 closed-captioning data, and vice versa. A new software development kit (SDK) makes the closed captioning data available to both Adobe and various Adobe partners for display and export over FireWire, SDI, HD-SDI, and other third-party hardware options.

Expanded native support for RED digital cinema workflows
Building on the fully native RED R3D format support offered in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, the RED R3D Source Settings dialog box has been redesigned, and offers intuitive controls to those who work regularly with RED media. In addition to the ability to save and load the latest versions of RMD—as well as the ability to create custom presets—you can now pick a white point and use either a histogram or a five-point curves interface to adjust red, green, blue, RGB, or Luma values for a clip. You can choose which Color Science version is used, and FLUTs, Lift, Gamma, and Gain settings are all supported. In addition, you can now apply the same source settings to multiple selected RED clips simultaneously.

^{You can view and edit color settings and metadata in RED footage.}

Enhanced native support for Canon XF video
Building on its industry-leading native file-based format support, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 offers enhanced native support for Canon XF footage. Now you can preview XF footage in the Project panel, view and edit camera metadata in the Metadata panel, and take advantage of metadata throughout your pre- and post-production workflows.

The Media Browser panel in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 lets you navigate to and select XF files, which can now be displayed as video clips instead of files and folders. Because Adobe Premiere Pro supports the XF format natively, the files import immediately, without transcoding or rewrapping, preserving the pristine quality of the original source footage along with all of the valuable metadata associated with the clips.

In addition, the Media Browser now treats spanned clips from Canon XF video cameras as a single asset. When dragged from the Media Browser panel into the Project panel, spanned clips are displayed as one file, preventing clutter.

Timesaving collaboration and improved open workflows
Reviewing works in progress typically involves uploading files to an FTP site, sending email notifications to let the appropriate parties know they can download the files, and then scheduling meetings to get feedback. Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 provided a powerful way to conduct reviews thanks to integration with Adobe CS Review*†, making it easier for clients and teammates to review and make frame-accurate comments on works in progress.

Integration with Adobe CS Review enables:

• Clients and teammates to take part in reviewing video sequences using just a web browser and easy-to-use annotation tools
• Reviewers to make frame-accurate comments that visually correlate to the Adobe Premiere Pro timeline.
• You to hold fewer real-time meetings by reducing confusion over which frames comments pertain to.

A new dialog box in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 lets you use preset export settings that are optimized for CS Review to quickly encode your sequence or clips, and then send them to CS Review. Because the encoding is handled by Adobe Media Encoder (a separate 64-bit application included with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5), transcoding takes places in the background so you can continue editing without delay.

You can also encode just the Adobe Premiere Pro sequence work area, which can be easily defined using new Set In Point and Set Out Point buttons. High, medium, and low bitrate settings provide control over encoding quality, while the estimated size of the output file is displayed, allowing you to tailor your output so it matches the available bandwidth and type of network connection that your teammates or clients are using.

When CS Review is combined with roundtrip workflows to bring in Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid NLE sequences the process of gathering client and team feedback on works in progress is further simplified.

Enhanced roundtrip editing with Apple Final Cut Pro
Improved roundtrip editing capabilities with Apple Final Cut Pro make it easier to collaborate on projects in which teammates, clients, or other production facilities utilize a variety of editing and post-production software tools. For example, when you import and export project files between Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 and Final Cut Pro, you can adjust the volume on Stereo As Mono clips, and adjust the scaling of a clip when its pixel aspect ratio (PAR) is different from that of the sequence. Additionally, you can export clips that have been modified by the 3-Way Color-Corrector, retaining approximate settings, which helps to eliminate guesswork associated with manually re-creating color-correction results that previously did not transfer with the media asset.

^{The new export settings dialog box in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 provides visual feedback and convenient presets for tailoring encoding for output to Adobe CS Review, a CS Live online service.
Integration with Adobe CS Review streamlines the review and approval process.}

System Requirements

Mac OS

• Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
• Mac OS X v10.5.8 or v10.6.3; Mac OS X v10.6.3 required for GPU-accelerated performance
• 2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended)
• 10GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)
• 7200 RPM hard drive for editing compressed video formats; RAID 0 for uncompressed
• 1280x900 display with OpenGL 2.0–compatible graphics card
• Adobe-certified GPU card for GPU–accelerated performance.
• Core Audio–compatible sound card
• DVD-ROM drive compatible with dual-layer DVDs (SuperDrive for burning DVDs; external Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray Disc media)
• QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for QuickTime features
• Adobe Flash Player 10 software required to play back DVD projects exported as SWF files
• Broadband Internet connection required for online services and to validate Subscription Edition (if applicable) on an ongoing basis