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[Jason Levine]
[Karl Soule]
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Hi there, thanks for tuning in.
You know, recently we've seen a huge explosion and debate
about video editing software.
With the new release of Final Cut Pro X,
we've actually been contacted a lot lately about people interested
in evaluating Premiere Pro as a new tool to enhance their workflows.
And we actually have a whole series of tools available,
both on the Adobe site and third party sites that can help you
in that task of evaluating Premiere Pro.
If you haven't looked at Premiere Pro recently, with the advent
of Premiere Pro CS5.5 we've really targeted Premiere Pro as a tool
that involves open workflows, works with many other applications,
has different ways of getting your projects in and out of Premiere Pro,
whether they're Adobe tools like After Effects or whether you need to
transition to other applications using open formats,
tools like AAF files, OMF files and Apple XML files.
We have many different ways of taking projects in and out of Premiere Pro.
Some of the resources that are available to you, to start with,
we do actually have a switcher site.
This is a website that's part of adobe.com that's actually geared towards people
who are trying to research about Premiere Pro CS5.5.
Why switch? How difficult is it to actually make the switch?
So, there's a lot of really good information here as far as testimonials,
resources, different tutorials that can help you out.
Now, one of the great things is we do actually have a fully featured trial version
of Premiere Pro CS5.5 available.
This is a 30-day trial version.
It includes all of the native codecs, so whether you're working with DSLR footage,
red footage, footage from Panasonic P2 cameras, XDCAM cameras,
all of the native file formats are supported with this new trial version,
and we also have a trial version of Production Premium.
Now, this is obviously a bigger download, but this includes other applications
such as Adobe After Effects, and if you're really interested in seeing
how some of those open workflows work where you can take clips
and take parts of your project from your Premiere Pro timeline
and send them right over to After Effects, definitely downloading the
Production Premium trial will give you that added functionality.
So again, these are fully featured trial versions.
You can download them directly from the website.
We also offer a trial DVD set available at a nominal fee.
Now, if you're doing the switch over, we actually have a set of videos.
This is something that we put together back when Premiere Pro CS5.5 was launched,
but all the information in these videos is still very relevant for somebody
going through and making the switch over from Final Cut Pro to Premiere Pro.
I'm on camera in these along with Kevin Monahan.
Kevin Monahan is an Adobe employee now, but in a past life
he was a Final Cut Pro trainer and helped found one of the early
West Coast Final Cut Pro user groups here in San Francisco.
So, these videos are really helpful.
They're designed to walk you through the basics,
get through the idea of working with keyboard shortcuts,
basic editing functionality and understanding some of the subtle differences
that you may run into, some of the challenges of switching over.
They are different tools.
They operate similarly, but there are some fundamental differences to be aware of,
and these videos kind of touch on that.
Now, one really quickly I just wanted to touch on.
If you go through and you download the trial version and you get into Premiere Pro,
if you're coming from a Final Cut background, the number one thing that can help you
get up to speed quickly on Premiere Pro is the fact that within Premiere Pro
we can choose keyboard shortcuts and in one quick step
we can actually switch over from the Premiere Pro keyboard shortcuts
to the Final Cut Pro 7 keyboard commands.
These are enhanced for CS5.5, so if you're not aware of this,
if you haven't done this and you are a pro editer, rely heavily on keyboard commands,
we recently did a film festival where everything was cut on Premiere.
Most of the people were actually starting from a professionally trained Final Cut background,
and this was the number one thing they said just made it so easy
for them to make the transition over to Premiere Pro,
keeping the existing keyboard shortcuts from Final Cut.
Now, some other resources that we have available to you,
if you get down into the switcher website here, you're going to find that there are
various PDF files that actually will walk you through some of the common
reasons for switching over as well as how to make the switch.
So, don't just look at the beginning of this.
There are quick start guides on how to get started in the application,
so a lot of free training provided right on this switcher website.
If you're looking for resources to get some questions answered,
definitely check out and follow Adobe Premiere on Twitter.
The Twitter team that works with this, they are very proactive.
They do contact users that have questions.
They provide resources, provide links to users.
So, if you're on Twitter and you're not following Adobe Premiere Pro now,
highly, highly recommend that you do so because it's definitely
a really good place to get your questions answered.
Now, there are other sites that I would also recommend
if you're looking into this switch over.
Don't just take our word for it.
There are a lot of third party places out there.
Rich Harrington's blog is a good resource for finding information.
Rich is a long time Final Cut user who also uses Premiere Pro.
He's got a great book on using Premiere Pro and learning Premiere Pro
from an experienced editing background.
Good recommendation, this book just came out just a little while ago.
So, highly, highly recommended.
It covers Premiere Pro CS5.5.
It's that new, so highly recommended.
Vincent Laforet is actually working on the idea of adding Premiere Pro
and Production Premium to his existing Final Cut Pro 7 workflows,
and he's taking advantage of the fact that the XML interchange format
allows for round-tripping between Premiere and Final Cut.
It's a great way to kind of share assets and move back and forth between the two.
So, if you're not familiar with Vince's site, again, recommended to check this out.
He's actually working on a series of videos that kind of talk about that
round-tripping functionality and some of his experiences
working with Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro 7.
Another resource I would also recommend, there's a gentleman who works
for Adobe named Todd Kopriva.
Todd has a blog site called Premiere Pro Work Area,
and this, again, if you're looking for technical answers to questions,
if you want to find out the latest, Todd always has really good links
on his blog site.
He goes through and answers a lot of questions.
When CS5.5 came out, there was a lot of questions about how do you use
existing plug-ins with Premiere Pro.
He's got a great blog entry about you have to move them, move the files around.
He's got all the details on his site, a lot of good information
on Todd's site for finding all this stuff.
Now, if you'd just like to find out more about Adobe's vision
for our pro video tools, we are trying to be very open and honest with customers
and kind of give them an idea as to where we're headed with our pro video tools.
We've always been committed to making professional level applications,
whether that's for design, web, or video,
and Jim Guerard, our vice president and general manager,
recently put together a video talking about the shifts in the industry today
and talking about some of where we're headed and what our main areas of focus
in the pro apps are, so this can give you kind of an idea as to what the future
of Adobe video tools are moving forward.
So, hopefully, these resources will help you in evaluating Premiere Pro.
I hope you'll see that we are very much committed to the professional video
environment, providing a tool that works in many different types of workflows
and has the openness necessary to fit into any workflow
with any type of tools that you may be using today.
Thanks for watching.
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