These range from support for more than one sequence type in a project – so you can access the same assets to create SD, HD and Web versions of a sequence – to the ability to apply effects to multiple clips at once, and capability to import PSDs with video and blend modes.ĭespite the improvements, Premiere Pro just isn’t as quick to use as Final Cut Pro. While Speech Search is a useful tool, it’s the grand procession of under-the-hood and minor changes that will make the most different to many users. Support for files from Red cameras is due soon, but the mooted beta is not downloadable from the Red site yet. For most media files, it’s just a less convenient version of the Mac OS X Finder or Windows Explorer – especially as you need to undock it to make it large enough to be usable – but for non-tape formats including AVCHD, P2, and XDCAM HD and EX, it lets you see their metadata and is actually useful. The British setting had little problem with regional accents, but was sometimes stumped by unclear diction.Īdobe has also attempted to make working with media on your computer easier by adding the Media Browser panel, which provides a Windows Explorer-style area split into directory tree and directory contents area. For English speakers, there are UK, US, Canadian and Australian language options.
You can search across multiple clips – another great timesaver – and the quality of the transcription is impressive. If, for example, you want to find the part of an interview when the subject talked about the economy in the middle of an hour-long piece, you place your clip in the Source panel, open the Metadata window, type ‘economy’ into the search box, click on the highlighted word, and the scrubber will move to that point in your source. It contains no grammar or pauses and is largely unintelligible if you try to read it, but it provides a quick way to find parts of a long video clip (or a voiceover). Speech Search scans dialogue within footage and transcribes the words to create a searchable list. The new feature in Premiere Pro CS4 that has drawn the most attention is Speech Search, which is currently unique to Adobe’s tools (so will almost certainly appear in Final Cut Pro 7 and Media Composer 4). This is particularly so as it faces strong competition from Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid’s Media Composer. Beyond being available for the Mac once more, the last version of Premiere Pro was low on new features – so more than any other CS4 product, it’s due an upgrade.
0 kommentar(er)
